The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-09-08
GENERAL.

FURTHER discouraging news concern
ing the Peary expedition comes from
Labrador. According to the last report,
Peary was at Davis inlet on August :,
and on the 5th had reached Main. There
he tried again to purchase dogs, but
failed because he refused to pay the
prices asked.
A SWARM of locusts has passed over
| Tunis; Africa, the immense proportions
of which can be realized when it is
known that the sun was obscured dur
ing the progress of their fight
| FRENCH customs officials have discov-
cred that large quantities of corn and
grits have been imported as grain re-
fuse and bone dust, thus defrauding
the government out of large sums in
duties.
AN epidemic of cholera has been
raging at Nantes, France, during the
past two weeks. AS many as twenty
five new cases have been reported in
one day and go per cent. of the persons
attacked have died.
I WAGES on the Big Four are to be cut
THE British steamship Justin, which
sailed from New York August 13, has
arrived at Barbados. She passed
through series of terrific storms. Her
second mate, boatswain and four men
were washed from her decks by the
waves and lost
SIXTY thousand coal miners returned
to work in south Wales on the 31st
This caused the strike to collapse.
THERE has been considerable excite
ment of one kind or another in Hawaii.
1t is thought a protectorate of the
United States virtually exists.
THERE is trouble on the Mexican
boundary which is likely to assume a
serious aspect. hinging as it does on a
boundary dispute between the United
States and Mexico. A party of Next
cans has seized on a flock of sheep,
grazing on land cut off from the Amer
lean side by the action of the river, and
in dispute as TO ownership.
THE Pesth Lloyd reports that a
change is imminent in the Bavarian
constitution which will involve the pro-
claiming of Prince Luitpold rs king of
Bavaria.
THE India council offered council
bills to tine amount of 40 lacs No ten
der was accepted because none was
higher than 147Sd. The market under
stands that the India council is not to
sell below fraction over I'D.
Mr. GLADSTONE has announced that
the government had determined at the
close of the home rule debate to adj
journ parliament until November, for
the purpose of then proceeding with
business.
| ANTI-TAN riots were reported about
Raus and Tarragona, Spain.
MATAAFA, eX-king of Samoa. has
been sent into exile.
| REPORTS from Picking state that dis
astrous floods have occurred in North
China. Many people are homeless.
The city of Picking is under water, in
some places ten feet deep. Part of the
city wall fell. crushing a number of
houses and killing the inha bitants.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended August 81 showed an average
decrease of 81 compared with the cor
responding week last year. In New
York the decrease was S4.1.
THE third reading of the Irish home
rule bill passed the commons on the
morning of the I'd by 301 to 267.
| A HOTEL in Samlbach. in the Wur-
temburg Black forest, was burned re-
Gently. Sixty young women were in
the house when the fire broke out.
Most of them escaped, but number
lost their lives.
GENDARMEs suppressed disturbances
at Bilbao, Spain. Eight or ten rioters
We're wounded and twenty arrested