The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-08
GENERAL.

A NEW bridge over the river Leven
near Leslie, county Fife, Scotland; col
lapsed. A number of the workmen
were carried down and five drowned.
SIR WILLIAM AITKES, the noted sur
geon and professor of pathology, died
recently in London.
THE British parliament has been dis
solved and writs for a new election
issued.
THE Parnellite executive committee
of Great Britain, while regretting Mr..
Gladstone's reticence, has issued for
NAL address advising Irish electors to
support Gladstone's candidates on the
ground that Mr.. Gladstone will then
have no excuse to withhold the details
of his home rule scheme.
AN accident happened to the captive
balloon at the Crystal palace, London,
by which it burst at a height of 100
feet A Capt Dale was killed and the
three other occupants were terribly in
jured.
THE earl of Drogheda is dead.
Col. T. e. TRoTTER, of the Twenty
fourth infantry, is dead.
THE Colima volcano has broken out
again, and the inhabitants of that
region are in terror.
THE action of the German govern
ment in abandoning its attitude of re-
serve toward Prince Bismarck, as evil
deneed by the threats made in the Off
cial North German Gazette, has caused
a decided sensation throughout the en-
pire.
PROCEEDINGS have been instituted to
annual the charter of the Mercantile
Telegraph Co.
GEN. BRANDALA, commanding the
troops operating against the Indians
who revolted in the state of Sonora,
Mexico, reports that the Indians have
been subjected and have been corralled
in the mountains.
The Independence Beige says that
since the betrothal of Crown Prince
Ferdinand of Roumania to Princess
Marie of Edinburgh Mile. Helen Va
resco, whose love affair with the crown
prince caused such disturbance in Rou-
manian politics short time ago, sends
to Princess Marie every two or three
days a love letter written by the crown
prince during their courtship.
THE Norwegian cabinet has resigned.
FRANK EDMoNDs, of the coast survey,
is missing. He started to climb Mount
Corners, in the high Sierras.
STATISTICS of Germany's foreign
trade for May shows large increase of
exports over the same month in 1891.
The exports for the first five months of
this year show an increase of 100000
tons over the exports for the CORE
spending period in 1891.
FOURTEEN Cinnamon have been sem
fenced to state prison, after which
they are to be returned to China, for
trying to enter the United States.
SIX lives were lost and hundreds of
houses inundated by recent flood at
Matanzas, Cuba.
THE sugar crop of Cuba is expected
to aggregate 5000 tons-1OO, 600 more
tons than the crop of last year.
REPORTS of election rows come from
various parts of Ireland. During a
fight arising from the burning in effigy
of Healy and O'Brien, Parnellite was
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Mr.. John Dillon and Mr. Daniel Gritty
were pelted with stale eggs, cabbages
and stones.
A sEALERs' supply steamer has been
seized outside of Behring sea, causing
much excitement at Victoria, 3. c.
THE Inman steamer City of Chicago
went ashore inside the old head of
Kinsale, Ireland.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended June 80 showed an average de-
crease of OF compared with last year.
In New York the decrease was 1919.
OWING to the Chinese exclusion law
HON Bot, wealthy Chinese merchant,
is unable to land his wife, whom he but
recently married in China. Bot says
that he met the girl in Marysville, Cal,
five years ago and they became be-
trothed. Her parents took her to China
for proper education. A few months
ago they We're welded. He came back
with his wife and her young sister.
THE Rome correspondent of the Lon
don Standard says: 1t is officially de-
MED that cholera has made its appear
ance in Brindisi. The government has
issued a circular of instructions regard
ing precautions to be taken in the event
of the epidemic invading Italy.