The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-29

F. THE mail service between Australia
and San Francisco is expected to cease
in November. va q
The London Daily News learns that
the situation in Armenia Is daily be.
coming more deplorable. A wholesale
massacre Of Christians has occurred at
Moosh and similar outrages are report
ed from other places.
A vIRULENr case of Asiatic cholera
has appeared in London. The patient
was Robert Leigh, seaman just landed
by the steamer Argyll from Calcutta
ADvIcEs from Uruguay state that the
Minister of Finance insists upon re-
signing and that the other Ministers
will follow his example. The balance
sheet of the National Bank shows that
$50, 600, 600 has been lost
ARTHUR DAY, who is in Jail at We'll
land, Ont, on the charge of having MUIR
dered his wife by pushing her over the
Niagara falls embankment, says she
fell over as she was picking gooseber-
ries There are no bushes anywhere
near the spot where the woman went to
her death.
CoNsUL-GENERAL FRYE, of Halifax.
has gone to Souris, Prince Edward
island, to investigate the circumstances
connected with the seizure of the Glou-
cester schooner Willie Irwin. This yes-
sci was recently seized by Collector
Foley by reason Of refusing to proceed
to sea when ordered.
! ADvICEs from Bnenos Ayres state that
there are grave fears there of fresh
revolution. A number of officers of the
army have been dismissed. The Gov
ernor of Cordova has resigned and the
Provincial Bank is closed.
DURING forced march of Bavarian
regiment from Eibelstadt to Markbreit
40 men fell from sunstroke. Three of
them died and seventeen were dying.
THE potato disease is spreading with
alarming rspidity in the southern por-
ton of County Down, Ireland. In all
parts of Armagh the blight has assumed
serious proportions #ti
A SMALL sloop owned by John Hart
man, of Irondale, Wash, has been
seized by British Columbia authorities
on suspicion of being used for SNUG
CLING. r-a .r. r..a. .,,..'aZt- .l.H
Dr. PETERS, the African explorer, has
arrived at Wildbad, Wurtemburg. He
will GO to Berlin.
AN exhibition of Roman art ID to be
held in the City of Mexico from 1892 to
1896. The1talian Government will back
the scheme. "' 81.
A TOOL called q track jack was the
IF hn ha
Colony road. The man working it was
unaware of the approach of the Inflated
train.
A DISPATCH from Erzeroum to the
London Daily News says the Turkish
Government is supplying the Kurds
with Martini rifles. The Christians
have cut the telegraph wires Four
Armenians who, had made themselves
Objectionable to the authorities were
strangled in prison.
The Thousand Island Park Hotel, St
Lawrence river, burned recently. Loss,
$3.50, 900.
OsMAN DIGNA is reported to have APP
peared at Tokar Upper Egypt, at the
head of a formidable army of dervishes.
AT Conway, Wales, a. boat containing
eight persons was swamped in the river
and all it's occupants were drowned.
The Tilbury (EnglandD dockmen's
strike has ended in a victory for the
men.
AUSTRALIAN employers are combining
against the organized working men.
The potato blight is still spreading in
West Ireland. One death has occurred
from eating diseased potatoes
THE Duchy of Syria, Austria, was
visited by hurricane recently. Much
damage was done. At Gratz, the cap
ital, the buildings in which the National
Exhibition was being held were COM
pletely wrecked. '.. ..'
ELEVEN thousand five hundred miners
were on strike in Belgium on the 22d.
CHOLERA is spreading in Valencia and
Toledo. There are several suspicious
cases in Madrid .r..-. off,. .-......
BUSINESS failures Dun's report for
the seven days ended August 81 num-
bered 1872, compared with 1877 the previ-
Gus week and 206 the corresponding
week Of last year. General business
was good, Notwithstanding the pressure
in money at New York.
IN the canton of Vaud, Switzerland,
recently, a cyclone occasioned great
damage and the loss of $50 lives.
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