The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-01-30
NEWS or rue WEEK.

AOt OuCtt0o
Eight hundred thousand more women
than men in England.
The losses by the food at Maryssille,
CAL, foot up $465,675.
Nevada approves and disapproves the
action of the President.
Utah will yield 100000 worth of
precious metals this year.
Twenty foreign nations have agreed to
take part in the Centennial.
General Mcdonald, the English nov
elist is in very poor health.
California had another earthquake At
four o'clock Saturday morning.
Snow FIVE feet deep is reported from
the central provinces of France.
Prot. Swing is writing theological
serial romance in Chicago paper.
Quincy has harvested one hundred
thousand tons of fine ice this season.
The losses by fire in New England
the past year amount to $40, 1885.
Four sohooners were blown ashore at
North Beach, Cal, on the 9th inst.
One hundred and forty-eight sisters of
charity have been expelled from Mexico.
Gov. Hardin of Missouri, delivered
his inaugural to the Legislature in per-
son.
Both Houses of Congress sustain the
President in his position on Louisiana
affairs.
Work is to be commenced at once on
q narrow gauge railroad from Salt Lake
10 Ogden.
Mr.. Howard Chalien, of Philadelphia,
is about to issue Bunyan's Pilgrim for
ten cents.
Eureka, Nevada, has shipped 16, $780,
600 pounds of crude bullion within the
past twelve months.
The New York Tribune acknowledges
the receipt of $9,114 for the Kansas
and Nebraska sufferers.
The editress of the Newbern Journal
worries because some of the young men
go East and get married.
There are $50, 900 girls in the schools
presided over by nuns Of the Roman
Catholic Church in the United States.
BIG. Culfield was elected to Congress
in the first Illinois district, with little
opposition to fill the unexpired term of
John B. Rice, deceased.
In the Indiana penitentiary there are
322 cOnvicts who can read and write, and
90 who cannot. Education alone will
not keep men from crime.
Five members of the Committee on
election opposed the resolution to ex-
clude delegate Cannon because of his
religious views on polygamy.
The subscriptions to the Agassiz Me-
mortal Fund thus far amount to Sc, 1922
"A. New York has contributed 81, 1867
and Massachusetts,, $2,555.07.
Young Fred. Seward is attracting
much attention in the New York Legis-
lature by his speeches, which are deliv-
cred with finished grace of manner.
The King of the Belgians has offered a
prize of $1,000 for the best work on
history, commerce or ART, by native
author, to be competed for every four
years.
Horace Birney leading lawyer in
Philadelphia. the only graduate of Harv-
ard College during the eighteenth centu'
ry now living, has just attaided his 95th
birth day.
LONDON, Jan. 27.-The low lying
streets of Paris are submerged by an
overflow of the Seine. The steamboats,
have stopped running, being unable to
pass under the bridges.
San Francisco has papers in German,
Danish, French. Italian, Spaniard and
Chinese tongues, and there are Greeks
enough in the city and its neighborhood
to support paper Of their own.
At the late Franklin Institute in Phil
adelphia there were weighed Il, $40 men,
aggregating 2,314, $50 pounds; IL, 49,
women, aggregating 2,249,S70; making
the average weight of each man l49s
pounds and of each woman 129 pounds.
LONDON, Jan. 27.-Forty thousand
troops are massed around TOffala for the
attack upon the main Carlist position at
the Puerta LaReyne pass commanding
the road to Pampeluna. King Alfonso
will participate in the operations OF his
troops.
The case which has been for some time
on trial in johnson county Mo-, of the
Indian heirs of VIM. Gilliss for the recov'
cry of the Gilliss or Tro0st estate, in
Kansas City, has been decided in favor
of the heirs of Gilliss by his Indian wife
Francis Boyer and Jim Charley. jr. The
estate is valued at some $500, 900.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-An examina
ton of the cellar ofthe navy department
building shows that an arrangement had
been made yesterday to burn the build
ings. Trains of rope and waste papel
were laid on the floor, connecting will
piles of chips, shavings and broken W
kindling wood. 1t is believed the firt
Monday was the work of an incendiary
Detectives are at work on the case.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. ga convention fol
the discussion of the relations of oul
government and civil institutions to
christianity, was held here to-day. A
large attendance and nearly four hun
dred members were enrolled. J. G
Wells, of ILL.,, was elected president; D
McAllister, of N. Y. secretary. A lonl
series Of resolutions were adopted, the
main points of which is the requiring o
an explicit acknowledgement in the fed
eral constitution of its relations to Goo
as the author, its existence to Christ q
its ruler, aud the Bible as its supreme