The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-14

Altoona and Greek, Metz, strasburg and
Mullhouse; in Alsace-Lorraine, returned
several French representatives, which
caused great rejoicing among the French
Inhabitants. The feature of the elections
was the vast increase of the Social-Demo-
cratic vote in Berlin and other cities,
which will double its strength in the COM
ing Parliament. The election showed the
failure of the repression measures, and will
render the Governments majority small.
The st. Petersburg Jews tried to have a
ball on Sir Moses Montefore's birthday, but
were prevented by the police, on the ground
that it would lead to anti-Semitic riots.
The official invitations have set the date
of the Berlin Conference for November 12.
England France and Germany have already
agreed upon the leading topics for discus
sion.
The Chinese fleet at Formosa will be
heavily reinforced before long. The EN-
press lately offered one-half of her jewels
for the defense of her Empire against the
French invasion.
A MILLIONAIRE of Cologne lately prom.
ised to make the German tenor, Goethe. his
sole heir if he would sing in Cologne dur
ing the millionaire's lifetime.
HERR BJoRN BJoRNsoN, a son Of the
noted Norwegian poet, lately made sem
sation in Christiana by his performance of
Richard Ill.
NINE. CoLoMBIER has made 100000
francs out of her "Sarah Barnum" book.
GENERAL WoLsELEY has officially an
a. L al,
holic rations to the troops of the Nile expe-
dition, believing that for a good, steady
march there's nothing like rum.
THE Pail Mall Gazette on November is
sued special illustrated edition contain
ing portraits of Messrs. Blaine and Cleve-
land, and large amount of information
regarding the election in the United States.
1t sold like hot cakes. There was never be-
fore so much interest and excitement in
London over any foreign election. Betting
was very active.
The corporation of the city of Dublin
lately decided to change the name of Sack
vile street to O'Connell street. The trades
people on the street were greatly irritated
at the change.
BY premature explosion of gunpowder
at Bedford Station, Ont, not long ago, John
McCrimmon was killed, and Alpheus
Brown had his jaw broken in two places,
an eye put out and his hands fearfully
mangled.
The most severe storms ever known
along the st. Lawrence River recently Wis.,
tied point near Quebec, Can. The loss
by high tide was estimated at nearly $780,,
600.
The Russian Government lately forbade
the use of the names of members of the I'm
perial family by any but first-class steam
ers, it being held to be an ofrense against
the Emperor to call dirty cargo boat
Alexander Ill. The chief of the st. Peters,
burg police also ordered the proprietors of
all hotels, restaurants and tea-houses to
remove the portraits of the Emperor and
other members of the Imperial family from
their public rooms, because their customers
do not always show the proper respect to
the representatives of the Imperial features
by taking off their hats Immediately on en-
tering and leaving the premises.
HERR RUNNER, Chief of the Swiss Fed
eral Bureau of Statistics, has reckoned
how many people there are likely to be in
Europe at the end of the twentieth century.
Excluding Russia, Spain, Portugal and
UNDERGRADUATES from which he has not
been able to procure trustworthy returns
whereupon to base his calculations-he
found that in A. d. 1000 the remainder of
Europe will possess q population of 565,-
sol ,141: the United States will have co.,
OOO,0 inhabitants.
PRINCE CROSBY, who was supposed to be
more than one hundred and four years of
age, died recently at Fishkill, Conn. He
was formerly the slave of Enoch Crosby,
who figured as Harvey Birch in Cooper's
novel, THE Spy"
A RECENT agrarian murder is said to have
occurred a. the well known Irish town of
Doom.
HENRY FAwCETT, the British Postmaster
General, died recently. He entered politi-
cal life as Radical, and became a Moder-
ate Liberal. He was one of the ablest writ
ers on political economy of his time. His
death created a vacancy in the British
Cabinet and the British Parliament.
1T was lately reported that Bismarck had
entered into secret treaty with France for
the purpose of controlling the Congo ter
ritory in Africa. 1t was also rumored that
Lord Granville, the British Foreign Secre-
tary, had asked for an explanation, and
had felt rather huffy toward The Count.