The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-12-10
GENERAL.

The Temps of Paris denies that the Gov.
eminent has received unsatisfactory ad
vices from Madagascar.
The Cxarewitch and CZarina of Russia
are going to Cannes, in the hope that the
health Of the Czarewitch will be benefited.
ADvIcEs from New Zealand state that q
company has been organized to construct
a Pacific cable to cost 100000 900 from
Brisbane, or some part of New South
Wales, to North Cape, New Zealand, 800
knots; to the Fiji islands, 1,24O knots; to
Tanning islands, 2,7OO knots; to the Sand
witch islands, 1850 knots; to Vancouver
island, 9, 80 knots; across the island and
Straits of Georgia to Vancouver City, on
the mainland, the terminus of the Cana
dian Pacific railway, 100 knots. An an.
nual subsidy of 100000 is expected to be
obtained from the colonial and imperial
governments jointly.
A DISPATCH from Hong Kong says that
the French steamer Saghalien, for Shang-
hal. from Marseilles, has been cut to the
waters edge by the Pacific mail steamer
City of Pekin.
The Spanish Cortes has unanimously
voted the extra credit of 81. OOO, 900 to i'm.
prove the navy. The principal part will
be devoted to the purchase of torpedo
boats and cruisers. The money is to be
raised by the sale of state forests and other
Government land.
The Property Defense Association of
Ireland is arranging a plan to compel ten
ants to pay rents held by tenants trustees.
The Superior of the Oblate Fathers at
Montreal has announced that no knights
of Labor will be allowed to partake Of the
sacrament.
PRESIDENT FITZGERALD, of the Irish Land
League, has issued an appeal for funds to
aid the fight against the British Govern
ment in ireland.
FRANCE and Mexico have concluded a
treaty of commerce.
The French Chamber Of Deputies has
passed the Madagascar credits by a vote OF
$50 to leo.
PIRATES have captured and killed the
French civil agent accompanying the Ton
quin frontier commission.
The Hungarian delegation finally passed
all the items OF the Imperial budget Oh the
3Oth and closed its session.
IT was believed in Belgium that the
thieves who stole the registered mali in
that country are hiding in England.
BARON SEEKENDORF, professor in the
Austrian College of Agriculture, commit.
ted suicide recently by shooting himself in
the mouth.
Lord Mayor of Dublin. O'Keefe, the sole.
itor, has been elected mayor of Limerick.
Both pledged themselves to refuse any
honor offered by the Queen during the
jubilee year.
THIRTY men were instantly killed by an
explosion in the Lemore colliery in Dur.
ham, Eng, on the Cd.
Six men were killed and thirteen seri.
ously injured by a cross sea which brooks
in the deck of the steamer Western Land,
seven days out from Antwerp and bound
for New York
IT was rumored on the I'd that the steam.
ship Chandernager, with 1000 French
troops on board, had foundered during
report was denied by the French Govern.
ment.
IT was reported in Berlin that the Stand.
ard Oil Company of America was trying
to secure control of the Russian Naphtha
works.
THE total nu mber of failures in the
United States reported to Bradstreet's for
week ended December 2 was s against 20a
the week previous. The total from Janu.
ary to date was 9,4OO against 1025S in
1885. Canada had 1,G79 failures this year
against 1,lS3 last year and l, 2291 in 1854
THE purchase of the Russian oil works
by the Standard Company Of America il
denied.