The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-09-26
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THE London, Standard says: "a nors
outrageous enactment than The Mea4
Inspector Law was never framed in q
civilized country. It is the more irri-
tating in conjunction with the Mckinley
bill. No foreign state can submit to
such threats without abject humilia-
ton"
terrible hurricane experienced by the
American ship Challenger in her recent
voyage across the Atlantic. Four others
had limbs broken.
AN explosion occurred in the Maybach
pit at Sanct Wendell, Rhenish Prussia,
by which twenty-five miners were killed.
The other men in the pit to the number
OF 325 were rescued.
The workmen's suffrage congress met
at Brussels on the 18th.
COUNT ToLsToI. Minister of the Inte-
rior, Russia, is seriously i'll.
THE sovereign grand lodge l. o. O. f.
has chosen the following officers for
the ensuing term: Grand sire, C M.
Busbee, of Raleigh, n. c.; deputy grand
sire, C L. 7. Campbell, of London, On
tario; grand secretary, T. A. Ross, of.
New Jersey; grand treasurer. Isaac R
Sheppard, of Pennsylvania.
The celebrated Alhambra, Granada,
Spain, was on fire on the 10th. Great
damage was done.
THE German ship Orient from England
for San Francisco arrived at Ancud.
Chilli with her cargo on fire. FF
The Brazilian elections resulted fa-,
vorably for the new order of things
ABOUT 1000 houses were destroyed
and thirty-six persons drowned by
floods in Fukushima prefecture, Japan,
August.
FIRE at San Jomachi, Japan, August
I destroyed 176 houses and four tele-
graph posts and caused the death of
seven persons
CHOLERA is prevalent in Shanghai and
also in the Northern districts Several
Europeans have succumbed to it.
THE Yellow river floods continue to
absorb attention in China In the prov
ince of Chi Lii 100000 people are
homeless. and the misery in Shantung
is almost as great
SENIOR RIBEIRo, Portuguese Minister
OF Foreign Affairs, has resigned because
of the opposition to the Anglo-Portu-
guese East African treaty.
THE Russian Government has de-
clined General Butterfeld's proposition
to build railway to Siberia.
THE fire at the ALEXANDRA was the
work of thieves The loss was $50, 600.
ANOTHER priest was shot and severely
wounded in the Armenian Cathedral at
Koumkapon, the assailant exclaiming:
This is what happens to informers.
THE Knights Of Labor have formally
declared the Central strike off.
In consequence of continued rioting
at Lisbon the Government has declared
a state of siege.
BELFAST linen merchants are rushing
in goods in advance of the Mckinley
Tariff bill
News from Yokohama states that
Lieutenant c. NJ. Turner, second officer
of marines, United States steamer
Omaha, committed suicide August 81.
FOURTEEN slaves escaped from a yes
sci at Cape Town, South Africa, recent
ly. The authorities refused to recapture
them.
JOHN DILLON and William O'Brien,
the Nationalist, were arrested in Ire
land on the 18th on charges of conspiracy
in the mo rent" campaign.
A FAMILY of eight persons in Press
burg, Hungary, died recently from eat
ing poisonous berries
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended September IS
numbered 190 compared with 1913 the
previous week and 1913 the corresponding
week of last year. Tightness in the
money market continued, but otherwise
there was no disturbing feature.
A TERRIBLE accident happened on the
Mexican railroad. Two trains going in
opposite directions ran into each other
at Rinconada and the cars were piled on
one another and completely wrecked
Ten persons were killed and several
others wounded
ADvICEs from Hiogo, Japan, state that
the mail steamer Musaschi Maru has
been lost off Cochin and that all of her
crew with the exception of one Japanese
were drowned.
THE Turkish man-of-war Ertogroul
foundered at sea and 500 of her crew
were drowned.