The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-08-26

SIX sailors of the schooner Robert
Lewis arrived at Victoria, B. c., report
to the United States consul there chat
they We're kidnapped by members of the
Sailors union at Port Gamble and
shipped on the Robert Lewis against
their will.
THE international FIRE brigade con-
gress is in session at Havre.
A FRENCH accountant, filing an inn
portant government position, has been
arrested for dealing in forged stamps.
SICILIAN brigands killed captive
wine merchant, whom they were hold
ing for ransom, when they were pur-
sued by gendarmes
CANADA's sheep trade with Great
Britain has been failure this season.
THE annual report of the English
customs receipts show that the revenue
from tobacco for the past financial year
has been the biggest on record. The
chief increase is in the use of the dry
western tobacco from America.
THE daily price currents show an
enormous shrinkage in the price of
cotton.
The sultan of Morocco has promised
amnesty to all the rebelling Arabs if
they will deliver dead or alive their
leader. Hannah.
STORM has added to the horrors of
cholera at Mini Novgorod, the hospital
being crushed and many patients killed
ELEVEN men were burned to death in
a fire in lodging house at Tredegar,
Wales.
A DECREE is about to be promulgated,
removing all restrictions on the exporta-
ton of cereals from the Russian empire.
THE duke of Manchester, VIGOROUSLY
known at one time as Lord Vaudeville,
died on the 18th.
ORDERS have been issued in Germany
declaring that inasmuch as examina-
ton proves that American bacon con-
tains trichine such imports must not
be placed upon sale unless examined by
the authorities.
THE British parliament has been pro-
rogued until December 4.
THE four-masted ship Ashland, from
the Cape of Good Hope for Newcastle,
Australia, is supposed to have gone
down with all on board. She had a
crew of thirty-three men and is six
weeks overdue.
THE southern part of Wales has been
severely shaken by five shocks of earth
quake.
GOVERNMENT authorities of Greece
have refused to send a vessel to Genoa
to participate in the Columbus fetes.
EMPEROR WILLIAM reviewed the Ger
man troops with the mercury marking
% degrees in the shade. lie made a de-
NAL of rumOrs of an approaching war.
CHINESE are being Struggled into the
United States over the Mexican frontier
in large numbers.
4 STEAMER plying upon the Volga
and its tributaries was wrecked at
during heavy storm.
Many of the passengers and crew
jumped overheard and attempted to
reach the shore by swimming, but thirty
were drowned
THE house of DR.. Bartlett, an Amer
lean missionary, was burned by fanatics
in Asia Minor and the lives of the in
mates threatened. The minister at
Constantinople was ordered to demand
and two cruisers were or
dered to the vicinity.
JOHN JAFFERAY, of the birmingham
Post, and Edward Lawson, of the Lon
don Telegraph, have been created bar
onets.
CLEARING house returns for the week |
ended August 10 showed an average in |
crease of O.5 compared with the CORE
spending week of last year In New |
York there was decrease of SIS.
The Canadian Pacific has obtained |
of the new line which is be- |
ing built along the Canadian side of the !
Niagara river.
CAPT. ANDREW who started across the |
July 20, was sighted August 5, |!
by vessel which has arrived at Corun- |
ma. Spain.
THE intense heat has caused several |
fires to start in Switzerland. \ village |
and forest have burned.
PRESIDENT DGAZ has declared forfeit |
ed the government contract with |
Pritchcr for the improvement of the !
harbor OF Codtsecoalcos. The contract |
Or failed to deposit the guarantee re-
CURED.
THREE French officers and a lady have
been arrested as spies at Myslowitz,
Silesia