The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-05-03

A RECENT dispatch from Hong Kong
said that serious disturbances had
broken out on the island of Formosa.
On April 90 the Chinese soldiers killed
their general The governors body
guard attacked the mutinous soldiers
and thirty men were cut to pieces and
fifty wounded. The Chinese artillery
threatened to fire. on any vessel leav-
ing the island with treasure. The saw
ages were coming down from the hills
to attack the Chinese, and the position
of the whites on the island was crit
ical.
The japanese government, replying
to the Russian note that there were
various conditions in the treaty of
peace between Japan and China that
Russia could not allow to be put into
execution, has informed Russia that if
Japan yielded to the exactions of Rus
STA she would expose herself to revo-
luton. as the japanese were intoxicated
with their victories and would consent
to no concessions. Russia was deter
mined, however, to maintain her de-
mands
AT Long Island, N. Y, Capt. John
Brewer started for a wager of $50 to
kill ninety out of 100 birds at 80 yards
rise with so yards boundary, but made
a record of 100 straight kills
THE list of the fatalities caused by
the breaking of the great Bouzeey dyke
in France still increases. One hundred
and fifteen deaths have been reported,
but only fifty bodies have been recov-
cred. 1t was believed that the death
list would be greatly in excess of the
figures above given when all the dis
tricts are heard from. 1t was supposed
that many of the dead were swept into
isolated places, where it will be long
time before the bodies are found.
A DISPATCH on the 2sth reported that
near st. Johns. n. D., Just over the
Manitoba boundary, !, 500 Indians and
half breeds were on the warpath, and
that 700 women and children were in
tents on the prairies. Troops from
Fort Totten have been ordered to st.
Johns
ADIsPATCH from Toledo, O., says that
the little steamer Sadie Sheppard
foundered off Turtle light in Maumee
bay and five men went down with her.
A SPECIAL from Sevierville, Tenn,
said that Thomas Gibson, a well to do
farmer, was shot down in cold blood
by whitecaps. Sixty-three shots en-
tered his body. The whole country
was excited over the deed. Gibson had
received whitecap notice few days
ago but had not needed its warnings.
THE grand jury at Butte, Mont,
which investigated the disastrous
dynamite explosion of January Is, by
which fifty-eight men were killed, re-
fused to indict anyone on the ground
that they were unable to locate the
responsibility. Civil suits aggregsting
$3.50, 900 have been brought against the
two hardware companies
A DISPATCH from Pekin on the Goth
said that affairs there were in a critical
state. Some of the generals favored
continuance of the war. The ratifica-
ton of the treaty, consequently, was
uncertain, and if it was ratified 1t was
feared that there would be trouble with
the army.
Gov. MORTON granted a respite of
one week to DR.. Buchanan, the New
York wife poisoner.
A FOREST fire, covering square miles,
and consuming valuable timber, ragged
about miles east of Lakewood, n. j.,
on the cath.
Mr.. 0'GRADY has presented in the
New York house petition to congress
and a resolution favoring the annexa-
ton of Canada to the United States
The resolution was adopted.
AN elevator in a new building being
constructed at Cleveland, O., fell three
stories, a distance of 60 feet. Four
workmen were on the car and all were
more or less injured.
FIVE tons of nitro-glycerine at the
factory of the Ohio & Indiana Torpedo
Co., 9 miles west of Lima, O., exploded
on the cath The shock was felt for 20
miles. Over a thousand panes of glass,
including a number of large windows
in business blocks, were shivered.
Gov. TURNEY, of Tennessee, on the
oath, pardoned forty male and female
convicts upon the recommendation of
the prison board.
THE Russian government has sent q
note to japan intimating that there
were various conditions to the treaty
of peace between Japan and China that
she cannot allow to be pat into execu-
ton.