The Iola register., 1889-01-04

effective for rifles than any previously
used, makes no smoke and is not damaged
| by water.
SIGNoR MANcINI, formerly Italian Min.
| lister of Foreign Affairs, died recently, aged
| seventy three.
IT is stated that Henry ]. Page general
| agent of the Cincinnati, Indianapolis. St
Louis e. Chicago Railroad Company, the
.Big Four" will resign and 60 to
Chicago as traffic manager of the West
ern Indiana L Belt Line railway.
The British steamer Storm Queen has
foundered in the Bay of Biscay. Her cap
tain and five other persons were drowned.
A NUMBER of Soudan dervishes have
arrived in Constantinople on a secret mis-
sion.
GENERAL LoRIs MELIKoFF, the famous
Russian officer, died recently, aged sixty
| four.
CHRISTMAS, 1885, will be long remembered
in the United States for its many disasters
In addition to the burning of the steamer
John H. Hanna at Plaquemine, La, by
which thirty lives were lost, the Left
Ericsson steamer was burned near Seattle,
Wash. T., with loss of seven lives,
three skaters lost their lives at Lake Viii
lage, N. H., six pleasure seekers were
drowned in the bay of San
Francisco, the freight steamer Silver Star
was sunk off Bar Harbor. N. H., two train
| men were killed in a wreck on the Midland
road at Lime creek, Col, the Olympic
| Theater at Ashland, Wis, was burned,
| Charles Stacker perished in tenement
| house fire at New York, seven young boys
were badly burned while firing a toy cam
non at Augusta, Ca, half million dollars
| was consumed in a fire at Cincinnati and
three firemen were injured, and Marble
| head, Mass, was almost entirely destroy.
I ed by terrible conflagration. In addi-
ton, there was quite list of minor fatai-
ties and disasters.
The second official inquiry into the cir
cumstances of the late alleged accident to
| the Cars train at Borkia, has resulted in
ascribing the disaster to crime and not to
accident.
BRUSSELS has been thrown into a fer
| ment of excitement by the reception by
| prominent people of cards and kilograms
announcing the advent in the quaint old
city of the famous slack the Ripper" of
Whitecbapel notoriety. King Leopold.
the project of police and the court minis
| ters are among the recipients of this mys-
| terious beings delicate attentions.
ALFRED VANCE. a noted London music
hall singer, was seized the other night with
an attack of heart disease while on the
| stage, and died in few minutes. He was
singing at the time the latest concert hall
song, entitled, "Are You Guilty?"
GLADSTONE decided not to visit Rome.
The Bulgarian budget shows deficit Of
Il, 2,OO), 900 francs.
MESSRS. SHEEHY and Finnucane, Ma.
tionalist members of the British Parlia-
ment, have been summoned to answer to
the charge of melting tenants to adopt in
timidation.
THE Lord Mayor of London will give q
farewell banquet in honor of United
States Minister and Mrs. Phelps January
"a.
A FALSE alarm of fire i'm the Berliner
Theater, Berlin, the other night, caused a
| temporary panic, but no one was injured.
JUDGE LAMBERT TREE, the new United
States Minister to Russia, arrived in st.
Petersburg on the 9th.
SEVERAL shocks of earthquake were felt
on the 9th in Eastern and Southeastern
Spain.
The American brigantine Josefa was
fined "A, 900 by the Spanish authorities at
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corn starch being missing which were
marked on the manifest. The owners have
made complaint to Secretary Bayard, on
the ground that the fine was outrageous
for a trivial mistake.
PRINCE kARAGKoRGEvITCH is dead. He
| leaves a fortune to his brother, the pre-.
tender of the Servian throne.
FINE cod fishing grounds have been dis.
covered off Queen Charlotte's islands,
British America
CHARLES SHAw-LEFEBRE, Viscount Ev-
ersley, died recently, aged ninety-four
years. He was for many years a promi-
nent British statesman.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended December 81 numbered
299 compared with 81 the previous week
and 263 the corresponding week last year.
THE fast trial trips OF the new dynamite
cruiser Vesuvius in Delaware bay were
pronounced a success.
A SHELL burst in a powder magazine at
Messina, Sicily, the other morning, killing
sixteen soldiers and injuring many others.
PRADo, the murderer of Marie Aguetant,
was guilotined at Paris on the morning Of
the 2Sth. He refused to confess and died
protesting his innocence. He had been a
companion of Pranzini, guillotined some
time ago for a similar offense.