The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-10-04

MISS, ana the mail ana express Iiueu.
AT Walker Station, Ala, the other day
Deputy Sheriff King Vann was shot and
killed by . negro named John Steele,
whom he was trying to arrest The negro
was afterward captured by mob and his
body riddled by bullets, causing instant
death.
GENERAL.
THE mammoth publishing house Of Bel
ford, Clarke & Co., which has large es-
tablishment at Chicago and branches in
New York and San Francisco, has failed.
The assets are estimated at between 300.
600 and $500, 900 and the liabilities as at
least $780, 600
LERoUx, a noted French parachutist, in
descending from a balloon at Reval,
France, the other day fell into the sea
and was drowned
A MAN named Kemp was recovered from
the ruins caused by the Quebec landslide
after he had been imprisoned 10S hours.
He was alive and revived under treat.
ment
IT is reported that dynamite was ex.
ploded at the Peterhof station just pre-
vious to the Gar leaving for Copenhagen.
The station was wrecked and q signal
man was killed. Ft
The preliminary statement of earnings
and expenses Of the Union Pacific system
for August shows: Earnings $3,014, 1871
increase 1914. 23S; expenses 81, $50, $50, in.
crease S16,5O4; surplus 81, 433 GAG, increase
1927, 1856
The North German Gazette denied the
report that Prince Bismarck was unwelL
1t said that the Chancellor had com.
pletely recovered from his recent illness
and was fully able to attend to business.
The captain of the Spanish crew re.
Gently captured by Moors, has died from
the effects of the ill. treatment to which he
was subjected.
IT is reported that Christians in Crete
are being foeged and tortured and
women subjected to gross indignities. A
Greek gunboat has been dispatched to
Crete to put stop to outrages.
The men employed in ParnelPs quarry,
Ireland, threatened to strike recently be-
cause of an obnoxious foreman.
ELIZA Cook, the English poetess, died
on the 25th. She was born in 1873
The Canadian Minister of Customs has
ordered an inquiry into the smuggling Of
whisky into Canada, whole shiploads Of
American whisky being brought into Can
ada by the St Lawrence route.
WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS, the new
American Minister, has presented his Gre
dentials to the Emperor William OF Ger.
many.
By the collapse of an unfinished house
in Milan, Italy. five persons were killed
and twenty injured.
THE Temple of Heaven at Pekin, China,
containing the great throne of the sacred
dragon, has been destroyed by fire.
FIVE hundred men working on the Bay
de Chaleurs railway, in Canada, have
struck for several months back pay,
amounting to $4,000.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
week ending September %, number 1872
as compared with q total of 1873 last
week and 1893 the week previous. For the
corresponding week of last year the
figures were 90.
II was recently reported at Vienna
that the Russian Government intended to
raise large loan as a means Of obtaining
financial means to carry out its gigantic
plans in anticipation Of war. The money
will be devoted altogether to military and
naval purposes. At least $4,000. 600 are
to be expended in strengthening the navy.
A RECENT dispatch from London said
that the first consignment Of Chicago cat.
tie had arrived at Mains, and contracts
had been made for q portion Of 81, 600 head
more during October. The plan Of ship
ments to the interior cities in the Cont.
nent was no longer doubtful.
THE dock laborers at Rotterdam went
out on q strike recently and the cigar.
makers and other occupations Joined the
movement '-.