The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-16

/ m Imports q England Decreased ksse.
90 IN March, and tie exports increased
R1203B.
Tm lower house Of the Prussian Landtas
has adopted the bin for expropriating the
land Of the Poles In Posen and oulonixine
the province with Germans.
ADvIcEs from the Philippine Islands stats
that February party of Mohammedau
fanatics attacked the mission house al
Fanatics, on the island Of Mindanao, and
burned Il, ~ well a. several other houses Of
the colony. A Spanish force was sent to
chastise them. when twelve were killed
and several wounded, the loss ON the
Spanish side being five wounded and one
killed.
| The Papal consistory set for April 20 has
been postponed until May.
| JUST after the train carrying the Gar
and Czarina to the Crimea passed Charkoff
four men, who acted in . suspicious man.
ner, were arrested on the railroad track at
that place. 1t was supposed that they had
been engaged in . plot to blow up the
train.
The Lmparcidl, Spanish newspaper, ad-
vocates the calling of a conference of the
Powers at Madrid for the purpose of de-
vising means to avert q conflict among tho
tribes Of Morocco and to prevent any in
reference in that country by the French,
which, the paper says, the attitude OF the
Arabs on the Algerian frontier renders
likely.
The Sanct Spiritus (Cuba) papers re-
port the capture by bandits Of Don Modesto
Cueller and Don Miguel Quintero, whe are
held for ransom. Five bandits raided the
sugar plantation of San Gabriel recently
and were met by civil guards. In the
skirmish that followed one of the bandits,
said to be the celebrated leader Barnuevo,
was killed.
Mr.. GLADSTONE introduced his scheme
for an Irish Parliament in the British House
Of Commons on the Sth. Mr.. Gladstone
was received with considerable enthusiasm
and made q mastery speech in defense Of
his project
PRINCE ALEXANDER has formally &C
cepted the five years. limitation on his
GOvernorship of Eastern Roumelia.
HOLDERS of title deeds Of the Panama
canal have petitioned the French Chamber
sue bonds to the amount of f25, 100000.
THE glass makers of Belgium have in
creased the price of window-glass crown
($1.o0) per 800 feet. The advance is gen.
eral, and is necessitated by the enormous
extra OUTLAWS needed to repair the glass
works destroyed or injured in all parts Of
the country during the recent strike.
A THIRD member of the party of wolf
bitten Russians who came to Paris to be
treated by NJ. Pasteur, has died. Like the
other two, he showed symptoms of hydro
phobia.
THE italian ministry resigned on the Sth.
1t was formed June 20, 1885, with Depretis
as president.
LOUISA HART, the notorious London pro-
curess, has been sentenced to five years.
penal servitude.
THE Russian ministry has approved of
project for pipe line from the Baku pc.
troleum fields to the Black sea ports
THE business failures during the seven
days ended April s, numbered for the
United States, 1s3; for Canada. ~; a total
of 215, as against total of PA the week
previous. The failures were light in every
section of the country except in the West
ern and Pacific States and in Canada.
THE Committee of the French Chamber of
Deputies on Customs Duties has voted in
favor of imposing a duty of 3 francs on for
eign maize, excepting such as is used in
making starch.
The Gladstone scheme for the govern
ment of Ireland occasioned various com
nents. Parnellites in the House Justify
,heered it as Gladstone unfolded it, but
many prominent Irishmen and European
statesmen thought it defective.
BURNS, the Socialist leader, in defending
himself and his colleagues during their
trial on the charge of having melted the
Trafalgar square riots, in London, said
hat the occasion demanded strong lam
,uage. He contended that if the language
ior which he and the other defendants
we're being tried was seditious ''then the
speech of Mr.. Gladstone in the House of
Commons when he proposed the disintegra-
ion of the empire, was also seditious."
A FATAL riot occurred at Giraud's silk |
Mills, Lyons, France, recently. A sub-pre
'ect and q number of gens-d'armes at
,empted to close up the chapel connected |
with the mills and an open fight ensued.
The populace, the greater portion of whom
we're women, used zones and sticks, and |
he soldiers used their firearms. One |
woman was shot dead and another |
The sub-prefect and three Of |
he gens-d' armes were wounded.