The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-09-05

TIE city Of Perugia, Italy. and the
surrounding country have been visited
by tornado Four churches In the
| city were blown down and many houses
| we're wrecked. A large number Of per-
sons were injured. The commune Of
Citerna was devastated by the storm
COUNT VILLANovA, accompanied by .
guide and porters, recently started to
make the ascent of Mont Blanc. Moth
ing has been heard of the party since
and 1t is feared all have persisted.
Four thousand cases of smallpox are
reported at Pernambuco.
THE price of flour in England has adj
vanced four shillings and sixpence in
the past month.
JAMES w. PARKER, of Burlington,
Kan, who has been before the courts at
St Thomas Ont, for the past two
months, his extradition having been
asked on charge of forgery, has been
committed for extradition. BE has fif.
teen days in which to further appeal,
and it is likely he will again take the
case to the Toronto courts
FIFTEEN hundred acres Of forest land
in Croatia Austria. have been burned
over by incendiary fires.
BARON WIssMAN in pamphlet de-
clares that English and Scotch mission
aries in East Africa have been acting
as agents for England against Germany
and Portugal
A DISPATCH from Sydney. N. S. W.,
says that great excitement prevails
among the strikers at Newcastle and
that troops have been dispatched to
that town in anticipation of trouble. A
special force OF constables has been
enrolled at Sydney to take the place Of
the military that have been sent to
Newcastle.
A DUEL was fought near Belfort,
France, between Lieutenants Millot and
Barutik. Lieutenant Millot received a
severe slash on the arm. Several large
blood vessels were opened and the
wound will probably prove fatal.
THE Adriatic has been swept by
storm. Many vessels and their crews
were lost .-----
THE situation in the Argentine Re-
public is reported to be improving daily,
confidence in the Government being re-
stored.
THE Senate of the Argentine Repub-
lie has adopted general amnesty law.
AN expedition, comprising infantry,
cavalry and artillery, has started from
Calonda, Benguela, to punish the King
of Bibeland for outrages on Portuguese
subjects. ....
A NUMBER of boys were playing on
the field near Hemmerstein, Prussia,
formerly used for military maneuvers,
when they found some cartridges and
thrust them into bonfire to hear them
explode. A frightful series of explo-
sions occurred and seven of the boys
were so badly injured by the flying
fragments that they died soon after
ward.
THE revenue cutter Rush is at st.
Paul's island, Behring sea. She is not
making any seizures, but is simply Or
dering the sealers out of Behring sea
under threat of seizure. In every such
case the sealers have left
THE President of Salvador has
thanked Spain for it's efforts to restore
peace in Central America.
PRESIDENT BARRILLAs has ratified the
treaty of peace with Salvador.
LYONS, France, is to have a Worlds
Fair in 1892
HUNDREDS of families of Russian
Jews are preparing to emigrate to Pales-
tine to escape further persecution.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report for
the seven days ended August % num-
bered 1S9. compared with 1872 the previ-
Gus week and eli the corresponding
week of last year. Business was re-
ported good, though money continued
tight.
BARRUNDIA, the Guatemalan revolu-
ZIONIST who was on board an American
steamer, was killed recently by officers
Captain Pitts, the commander, said he
would give up the refugee, upon which
Barrundia opened fire with his revolver
on the officers and was in turn shot dead.
BOMBS have been exploded in the city
of Trieste, Austria. A boy who tried to
extinguish burning fuse was killed.
FIFTEEN Cinnamon have arrived by
steamer at Victoria, B. c., from San
Francisco, where they have been re-
fused landing. They say they will
work their way across the sound into
Washington and thence south to their
original destination in San Francisco