The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-18

GENERAL.
| FIRE destroyed large business bloch
in Cologne, Germany. recently, involv
| ing loss of a million marks Three
! firemen were killed and several other.
seriously injured.
THE editor of the Berlin Army Jour
nal has been sentenced to one months
imprisonment for wearing decoration
to which he was not entitled
The London Board of Trade returns
for June show that the imports in
creased ST., 500, 900 and the exports in
creased s15, 1000, 600 over June of last
year.
THE officers of the National Educa
tional Association for the ensuing yea
are as follows: President, DR.. Peabody
vice-president A. j. Kickoff, of New
York; secretary and treasurer, d. s
Kiehle, of Minnesota; executive com
mittee, C. C. Rounds of New Hampshire
Joseph Baldwin, of Texas, Lille j
Martin of California and Henry NJ
James of Nebraska.
The threatened strike of the Londor
policemen ended in collapse.
DURING the launching of a sailing
vessel at Osaka, Japan, sixty person,
were drowned. A large number of per
sons were on board and sudden rusf
to one side caused the vessel to capsize
CHOLERA is becoming epidemic in Ton
quin, twenty-five to thirty persons dy
ing from it daily. No whites have beer
attacked.
ADvIcEs from China bring news Of the
burning of steamer on the Yangtze
river which resulted in about twenty
natives being burned to death Of
drowned.
WHEN the steamer Gaelic left Yoke
hama the rumor was prevalent that
Russia had seized an island off the
coast Of Corea.
The International Baseball League
is dead.
THE present session of the British
Parliament is not expected to close be.
fore September, and there is no hkeli.
hood of an autumn session.
GENERAL WoLsELEY deprecates any
trouble between the United States and
England over the Behring sea or other
questions.
OVER 700 persons were killed by a
cyclone which ravaged Muscat Arabia.
THE Bluff Point Hotel on Lake Cham
plain was not destroyed in the recent
storm as first reported. The steam
yacht Nellie was lost however, with
three lives.
The postmen's strike in London
fizzled in somewhat the same manner
as the policemen's strike.
CHARLES KENDALL ADAMS, president
of Cornell University, was married in
London recently to Mrs. Mary Mathews
Barnes, widow of the late A. s. Barnes,
the we'll known book publisher of New
York.
THE Paris Soir declares that General
Boulanger has asked the French Gov
eminent to grant him pardon.
THE recent disaster by fire at Fort de
France, Martinique, inflicted loss of
So, 600, 900. Fully three-fourths of the
place was destroyed.
By an explosion of fireworks at Brunn,
Austria, man and his wife and two
children were killed.
w. III. SMITH, Conservative leader in
the British House of Commons, denies
that he intends to retire and accept a
peerage.
A SPARK from workingman's pipe
started fire in Wassiljervo, Russia, in
which S29 dwellings were burned, and
Seven nersonS neriShed
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended July 10 numbered
1877, compared with 1879 the previous
week, and 209 the corresponding week
of last year.
PARNELL made speech in the Brit
ish House of Commons on the 18th re-
markable for its moderation and depre-
eating to large extent the "plan of
campaign" The speech excited much
comment
EXPLORER STANLEY was taken sick
with an attack of gastritis on the eve of
his marriage to Miss Tenant.
ADvIcEs from St Johns. n. F., say
that there have been 2,671 cases of diph-
liberia and 500 deaths since the outbreak
of the epidemic. The disease is now
under control.
AT Dartmouth, n. s., recently about
700 persons were precipitated into the
water by the sinking of the front end of
a bridge. By desperate efforts all but
seven or eight were rescued