The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-05

CoNNERcIAL depression at Stockholm
Sweden, has reached crisis. The number
Of failures II steadily increasing. The
gravity Of the situation has not been paral-
leled Stree the panic of 1857.
The Union line steamer Corinth was run
into and sunk by the British frigate Fire
brand, between Kobe, Japan, and Singa-
pore. No lives were lost
The Dominion Government has settled
the Hudson's Bay Company rebellion losses
for 8, 5OO, 600.
Rev. HUGH SrowELL Brown, the cele-
brated English Baptist preacher, is dead.
He was sixty three years old
A LETTER from Guatemala SAYS: "Poli-
tics are still boiling. Many arrests have
been made and offenders are being locked
up every day. There is no telling when the
thing will stop. It is rumored that Mrs.
Barrios widow Of General Barrios) has
given 1900 toward the disturbing move.
ment. There have been two vessels off the
coast Of Honduras with men and arms sail
ing under the Costa Rican flag"
THE employees of the Adriatic railway
have struck for higher wages. The Popelo
Romano declares that the strike is due to
Socialist propaganda.
SEVEN thousand Tyne and Wear CEng.)
ship builders who have been on a strike
have resumed work at a slight reduction Of
wages.
The memoirs ofthe notorious Cora Paasl,
queen Of the demi monde, are aboyt to be
issued in Paris. She claims that her father
was AIR. Crouch, author of kathleen Ma
vOurneen." She fled from home at the age
of fourteen and commenced her career in
Paris. She had as successive lovers the de-
ceased Crown Prince of Holland, the Dukes
Of MOrney, Gramont and Caderousse, and
other aristocrsts, whose names are thinly
disguised under pseudonyms in letters to
her now published in the memoirs
NJ. WALTON, president of the agricultural
group in the French Chamber, called upon
NJ. Lockroy, Minister of Commerce, and
urged him to continue the prohibition of
the importation of the American hog pro-
ducts. NJ. Lockroy replied, that before
submitting the subject to the Chamber of
Deputies, he woald wait for the hygienic
committees report, which would decide
the question of the alleged presence of
trichin@ in American pork
THE Dublin Board of Guardians has
adopted a resolution declaring that only
home rule, land reform and the stopping of
evictions will satisfy the majority of the
Irish people.
AT Zoschen, a village in Saxony, a piece
of land twenty acres in area, on which
there were several houses, suddenly sub
sided, leaving a large lake. Three men
were drowned. Most of the dwellers in the
houses were absent at the time
THE Queens Proctor has decided to inter-
vene in the Dixie case
THE English House Of Commons. by a
vote of 200 to &C, agreed to grant of 81 200
for medals for the Canadian volunteers who
suppressed the Riel rebellion. The vote
was opposed by Irish Nationalist.
FREIGHT cutting commenced in the trans
railroad war on the Goth. the
cut being about GO per cent. The passen-
ger rate from San Francisco to New York
was put down to $50; to Chicago it was
s35
THE British Government has approved
Lord Dufferin's request that strong expe-
dtiOn be sent against the Shans. The
British commissioners in Burmah are au-
thorized to secure the submission of the
chiefs either by bribing or by fighting
them.
EXCITEMENT was intense in the French
Chamber of Deputies recently when a
strange man excitedly drew revolver
and threw paper toward NJ. Clemenceau.
The stranger was Immediately arrested,
when he said he was an old soldier and
redress for his grievances.
In recent interview with General
Crook, Geronimo, the Apache chief, re-
fused to surrender Internationally and de-
parted for the mountains. 1t was reported
that Geronimo had ninety bucks with him.
THE total value of merchandise and gold
and silver exported from the United States
during January last amounted to So, 9s59,-
5G?, against sSO.5325S4 in January, 1885.
The total value of imports for January last
was si7,39S, 400, against So, 2a1, III in Janu-
airy. 1885.
r. g. DUNN & Co. report business failures
for week ended February 90 as follows:
United States, 214; Canada. "a; total, 24S;
against $50 last week and 275 the week pre-
vious. More than half of the failures oc-
Cured in the West and South.
A FATHER POINT, Quebec, dispatch of the
eth says: The worst snow storm in
twelve years is now raging. twenty-five
inches of snow has fallen in twenty-four
hours, and the snow is ten feet deep in
places.