The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-05-11
GENERAL.

GENERAL
SOME time ago Luis Z. Torres, gen.
eral of the northern and western de-
partments of Mexico, started with 500
picked troops to subdue the Yaqui
Indians The report has just come
that his force was ambushed and de-
feated by the Indians and 200 at least
killed and wounded.
THE disease classed as cholera has
reached Fundao, near the Spanish
frontier
A SHARP shock of earthquake was
felt throughout the district of Cardiff,
Wales. on the I'd. The disturbance
was so severe that crockery and furni-
ture in many houses were overturned.
Forty miners in the Pnety Fridd dis
teict were so alarmed by the shock
that they fled in terror from the mines
Little or no damage was done any
where.
In Belgrade it was reported that
King Alexander will go abroad for sew
eral months, and that his father,
ex-King Milan, will act as regent
A FIRE on the grounds of the arsenal
at Mourillon the other night destroyed
the great saw mills connected with the
arsenal, causing a loss of 81, 300, 000
At one time the shipyards were threat
ened.
The international bimetallic confer
ence, under the auspices of the BIZ
metallic league, was called to order in
the Egyptian hall of the Mansion
@I. 1.,.1
mayor presiding.
A TERRIFIC boiler explosion occurred
in the Waltz rendering factory at Ham,
merbrook, near Hamburg, killing five
men and fatally injuring several The
building was demolished and the dead
and wounded were buried in the debris
A sANGUINARY encounter between
workingmen and gems d'armes is re-
ported from Ziedlitz, Bohemia, the
trouble growing out of the May day
celebration of the former. One work.
man was killed and number injured
on both side.
ACCORDING toreports from the hydro
graphic office 162S derelicts have been
seen in the Atlantic ocean in the past
seven years.
AN employee of the British embassy
at Paris, of the name of Vallaume, ha5
beaten the cycling record for six hours,
having covered in that time the dis
tance of III miles and !, 1,O22 yards
THE Sd was the last day for registra-
amendments thereto 1t is learned
there has been a general compliance
with the law in all parts of the coun-
try.
In Iiege thirteen anarchists have
been arrested for connection with the
explosion of dynamite at the residence
of DIR. Benson, in the Rue de la Paix.
DIR. Benson is terribly wounded. There
are several deep holes in his chest and
his leg is broken. 1t is feared that he
cannot recover.
THE failures for the week ended May
were 233 in the United states, against
216 last year. and 35 in Canada, against
% last year
THE carpet, upholstery and cabinet
stores of Arnott & Co. Qimited), of
Dublin, were destroyed by fire the other
night. Three hundred employees, who
were sleeping on the premises, succeed
ed in escaping. The loss was estimated
at 1000, 0OO
A LATE San Salvador dispatch said
that battle had taken place between
the government troops and the revolt
ers in Santa Ana, in which Gen. An
tonic Ezeta, commanding the govern
ment forces, was victorious.
STEPHANI, a town in Volhynia, Rus
sia, was destroyed by fire. Five thou
sand persons were rendered homeless.
KING LEOPOLD, of Belgium. opened
the world S exhibition at Antwerp with
appropriate ceremonies on the 5th.
THE steamship La Touraine lately
made the voyage from New York to
Queenstown in five days and sixteen
hours, the shortest on record.
: An official notice has been issued at
Rome, Italy, saying that owing to the
economic crisis in the United States
numbers of willing workmen have been
rendered idle, and everywhere Italians
have to struggle for work against
American workmen, and it warns Ital-
ians not to think for the present Of
emigrating to America, and especially
warns such of those as do go to that
country to avoid Maryland, Delaware
and Pennsylvania.