The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-04-10
GENERAL.

THE mercantile failures for the quarter
ended with March, as reported by r. G.
DUN & Co., numbered 3,65S, which, a.
compared with the corresponding quarter
of last year, shows an increase of 362 fail
ures, or about II per cent. The liabilities
footed up SAG, 1S1 ,951, as against SAC, 1876, 9IS
the corresponding period of last year, an
increase of nearly S6,OOO,OOO.
1T was reported on the 31st that Osman
Digna had evacuated Tamai as well as
Hasheen.
ApvICEs from the Northwest dated the
31st, stated that the Stony Indians had
killed several men and had burned the
Hudson Bay Company's storehouses.
THE new French Cabinet is headed by
De Freycinet as Minister of Foreign AZ
fairs. 1t was rumored that the Annamese
had revolted against the French.
THE recent elections in Chilli resulted in
a victory for the Liberals.
The British steamer Orestes, from Liver
pool to Penang, collided with and sunk a
Chinese steamer recently. Seventy per-
sons were drowned.
ANUMBER of tenants were to have been
evicted in Donegal, Ireland, recently, but
the Sheriff and fifty policemen were COM
PEELED to desist, owing to the determined
attitude of the priest and people.
THE whole line of the Central Pacific and
its branches north of Goshen have been
leased for term of ninety-nin years to
the Southern Pacific Company. the same
corporation which recently leased the line
of the "Sunset" route between San Fran
cisco and New Orleans.
A DISPATCH received on the 1st stated
that the insurgents had burned Aspinwall.
A COLLISION occurred with the Paris
police at an Anarchist meeting in the
Place de POpera. Forty arrests were
made and order was finally restored.
POLISH papers state that at a recent ban
quot at Odessa the Russian officers ordered
to join the Circassian regiments responded
with enthusiasm to the toast, "The coming
war with England"
THE Indians, Oh the LIST, vacated Battle
ford, in the British Northwest, going in
westerly direction. The settlers felt con-
siderably relieved.
BIsMARCK's birthday was celebrated at
Berlin in a "blaze of enthusiasm" In re-
Spouse to congratulations Bismarck espe-
ciaIly lauded the German army whose skill,
courage and fidelity had made the great
ness of the German Empire possible.
THE coinage of the United States Mint
during March aggregated 1920, 492, of
which 81 800, 200 were silver dollars.
EXLoRD CHANCELLOR CAIRNS, of Eng
land, died on the I'd.
THE President, on the Cd, withdrew the
nom tior IF Alaxondor II O., ho
Minister to Russia.
FURTHER disorders occurred in the
French Chambers, on the I'd, during a
motion for impeachment of the ministers.
The motion was rejected.
1T was reported that Ben Davis, a Lon
don solicitor, had failed. His liabilities
were placed at 81 100000. 1t was stated he
had fed to Spain.
EVERYTHING is complete ruin at Colon,
Central America. After the rebels were
defeated they fired the city, only three
houses being left standing.
EARL DUFFERIN obtained from the Ameer
formal treaty recognizing the rights of
England to lay out and fortify the north
western frontier of Afghanistan.
THE Chinese Embassy at Berlin thought
recently the change of ministry at Paris
would induce the Chinese Government to
renew serious negotiations for peace be-
tween France and China.
THE failures for the week ended April ,
were the smallest chronicled in any week
since 1885 commenced. In the United
States, 1877: Canada, ga total of 23l, as
against pa last week. Assignments were
noticeably light in New York.
De FREYCINET was experiencing great
difficulty in forming Cabinet. President
Grevy insisted that he should form one
and politicians were urged to sink their
differences for the good of France.
the English half breeds in the British
Northwest refused to ally themselves with
Riel, but on the contrary joined the whites
for the purpose of suppressing the rebel
lion.
THORNTON & MAwBY's hosiery factory,
at Leicester, England. was destroyed by
fire recently. Loss, 100000.
BARRIos was reported to have lost / 800
men by his recent defeat in Salvador.
His unpopularity was also said to be in
creasing.
lanai was captured by Graham on the
morning of the Sd. The resistance was
only feeble. The British lost one killed
and six wounded. The place was burned.