The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-10-05

ACCORDING to a story which is Great
ing a great sensation in France the
Due d'Orleans, the supposed son of the
Comte de Paris, is not really his son,
but the child of an Italian jailer sub
atituted secretly for the daughter born
to the wife of the comte.
GEN. A. M. WEST, who was on the
greenback ticket for vice president
with Gen. Butler in 1884. died at Holly
Springs, Miss, on the 30th, aged 76
years.
A SPECIAL dispatch on the Goth from
Shanghai says: The Chinese army at
Wi Ju, on the Value river, which is op-
posing the advance of the main Jap
anese army in Corea, has mutinied.
The men are throwing away their
arms because they have no ammuni-
ton, being cut off from their base of
supplies. The Chinese defenses have
completely collapsed, and are now only
farce. There is a panic in Peking,
and the very name Japanese inspires
terror everywhere. China is perfectly
helpless.
A DISPATCH from Pittsburgh, Pa, of
the Goth said that every tin-plate fac
tory in the country would shut down
at night and there was no indication
as to when they would be again put in
operation. There was a wide differ
ence between manufacturers and work.
men on the subject of wages.
AT Chaska, 90 miles south of Mime
apolis, Mimi, Louis ID. Sharf and his
family of five children, while going
home from the fair on the 29th, drove
upon the ferry to cross the river. 1t
being dark, he drove too far and the
pole knocked. down the apron, and the
team and family drove overheard into
the river Sharf saved himself, but his
wife and five children and team were
drowned.
THE standing of the clubs in the Ma
tional league at the close of the season
on the 3Oth was as follows: Baltimore,
.695; New York, .667; Boston, .629;
Philadelphia, $50: Brooklyn, .533;
Cleveland, .527; Pittsburgh. 500; Chi
cago, .432; st. Louis, .424: Cincinnati,
.419; Washington, .341: Louisville, .2S0.
The steamer Ohio collided with the
schooner Ironton 10 miles north of
Presque Isle. Mich. on the Goth, and
sank inside of half an hour. The crew
of sixteen took to the boats and were
picked up by the schooner Moonlight.
The Ironton sank soon afterwards.
Two of her crew We're picked up by the
steamer Charles Hebard. The remain
der of the crew are not accounted for
as yet. The Ohio was a propeller of
s51 net tons, valued at S3s,0O0. The
Ironton was barge OF 742 tons net,
valued at $4,000.
JIM HALL, the pugilist. has issued a
challenge to fight any man in the world,
Corbett barred. Hall expresses pref
erence for fight with Fitzsimmons.
JACOB ZAHNp, well known con-
tractor from Chicago, who erected sew
eral of the big worlds fair buildings,
and who afterward went to San
Francisco and secured contracts for
Midwinter fair buildings, committed
suicide in a lodging house there re-
Gently. He turned on the gas and was
smothered. He was known to have
been respondent on account of finan-
cial losses resulting from his contracts.
JUDGE MCADAMs. of the New York
superior court, has confirmed the
referees report awarding Kuehne Bev-
eridge Coghlan an absolute divorce
from Actor Charles Coghlan. There
was no provision for alimony in the
decree and no alimony was asked.
A DISPATCH from Atlanta, Ga, of the
2Sth stated: "If Mr.. Corbett will say
he does not want to meet Fitzsimmons,
1 won't bother him any more, but 1
will claim the heavyweight champion
ship of the world and walk off with it.
See" This was the response of Robert
Fitzsimmons, champion middleweight,
to James j. Corbett's statement sent
out by the press recently.
AT Yokohama it was said that the de-
lay in Japanese military movements
was to allow time for the completion
of a great plan for the invasion of
China, but the Japanese were deaf to
all appeals for information. Advices
from Toxic of the 25th stated that
second army of 10000 men had sailed
from hiroshima, and in Washington
official circles that was regarded as
the first advance on the Chinese capital,
Pekin.
A RECENT dispatch from Shanghai re-
ported that the japanese have succeed
ed in entering the Chinese province of
Manchuria and were advancing upon
the capital, Mukden.