The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-12-12

Six business houses in Coatecook,
Quebec, have been destroyed by fire.
Loss $40. 600.
An English war vessel has gone to
the New Hebrides to punish the natives
| for an act of cannibalism, two men, an
English trader and his son, having been
killed and eaten on one of the islands.
A DEADLY blizzard was reported in
Eastern Russia Thirty Kirghese were
frozen to death while crossing the
steppes
THE question of admitting women into
the Methodist Church conferences has
been decided favorably.
BERLIN medical writers recount the
results that have been attained by the
use of the Koch lymph in cases of tuber-
culosis and lupus, but state that from
the results of Prof Koch's experiments
in the direction of a cure for other dis
eases he is not able to secure immunity
from diphtheria and tetanus.
JOHN ARCHIBALD, an old recluse of
Hull, Que, was burned to death in his
hut
THE Irish land purchase bill passed
its second reading in the British House
of Commons by a vote of PCS to 1870.
The long overdue Anchor line steam
ship Ethiopia, from New York to Glas-
gov, has been found. Her shaft was
broken, and she had to proceed under
sail
LORD SALISBURY challenges Mr.. Glad
stone to relate all the facts in the Ha-
warden interview with Mr.. ParnelL
A SCHOONER with all hands was re-
Gently lost in the Bay of Fundy, near
Corvallis
The trial of Mrs Nellie Pearcy at
London, charged with having in October
last murdered a woman named Mrs.
Hobbs, the wife of her lover, ended in
verdict of guilty of murder in the
first degree and the prisoner was sem
fenced to death.
PARNELL can not marry Mrs O'Shea
until the Captain chooses to enter mo-
ton in court for absolute divorce.
The Gar has decreed that no sem
tence of death shall be executed with
out his express sanction. The order
was due to the killing of young Perlof,
of Moscow, for crime of which he was
innocent
LORD THOMAS FRANCIS FREEMANTLE
CoTTEsLEE, twice First Lord of the
Treasury of Great Britain and once
Chief Secretary for Ireland, died in
London aged o.
HEINRICH BERGHAUJ, the eminent
German geographer is dead. He was 90
years old.
RUSSELL, SEYBoID & Co., wholesale
dry goods dealers of Ottawa, Ont,
are in financial difficulties. Their liza
bilities are $780, O0
ONE Of the inoculated patients of
Prof Koch died recently in terrible
agony.
THE Bank of England has reduced its
rate of discount from six to five per cent
Rio DE JANEIRo is considerably agi-
tated over the wrecking of the Tribuua
newspaper office by officers of the Gov.
eminent
SIX pauper women were burned to
death by a fire at the workhouse at New
castle-on-Tyne, England
THE country's mortgage indebted
ness amounts to $3.50, 000, 900.
Mr. WALSH, chairman of the Kildy-
sart Union, Ireland, and staunch sup
porter of Parnell, has been arrested on
the charge Of intimidation.
Mr. BALFoUR's Irish relief bill, in
which he asks vote of e5. 600 to pro-
vide seed potatoes for distressed farm
ers in Ireland, has passed the commit
tee stage in the British House of Com
mons.
EMIN PASTA has arrived safely at
Victoria Nyanza after having been en-
gagged in several fights with the Arab
slave dealers. in all of which the Eu-
ropeans were victorious
The Gar is displeased with his Min
lister Of War, party Of the name Of
Vannovski
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report for
the seven days ended December num-
bered 312, compared with 90 the pre-
vious week and 316 the corresponding
week of last year. Money continued
stringent
HoN. SIR JOHN WALTER HUDDLEsToN,
Justice of the Queens Bench division
of the English High Court of Justice, is
dead. He was born in 1917.
MRS PEEL, wife of Right Hon. Arthur
Peel, Speaker of the British House Of
Commons, is dead.