The Iola register., 1886-01-08

FIRE in London the other day destroyed
the cooperative wholesale society's estab
lishment and caused loss of 100000.
THE Pope was reported about to issue an
energetic protest to the French Govern
ment because of the alleged prosecutions OF
priests and the church in France.
The Spanish Government is said to be re-
luctant to grant England's request to be
allowed to establish coaling station in the
Caroline Islands.
An Orange mob recently attacked two OF
the released Riverhead (Newfoundland)
prisoners and fatally wounded them. There
was great excitement in Harbor Grace and
crowds were occupying the streets and
riot was anticipated.
THE Archbishop Of Canterbury has i'm
parted to the Bishops Of the Church Of Eng
land a scheme for church reform. Lord
Salisbury will approve the measure if the
Bishops approve it after considering it in
private sittings.
The Cork Steam Packet Company has
declared a dividend of 21s per cent, which
the directors stated was all that was war
ranted by the profits of the company dur
ing the past year. At the end of 1884 the
company paid dividend of five per cent.
The difference in the profits of the two
years is due to the boycotting of the line
by the cattle dealers.
THE shipping of New Brunswick has
fallen OF the past year 10000 tons. The
tonnage of vessels registered ut st. John is
the lowest since 1871. Thirty st. John YES
sells, valued at 10000, have been lost dur
ing the year and only twenty vessels added.
With two or three exceptions all the ship
vessels in the province are idle.
Mrs. GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA died at
Melbourne, Australia, recently.
THE King of Mombesa, Central Africa,
has seized Bishop Harrington, who has been
engaged in missionary services, and will
probably put him to death. No reason IS
given for the Kings action.
PAsTEUR has undertaken, at his own cost,
to cure eleven persons, bitten by mad
wolf in a village in Western Russia.
THE st. Petersburg Journal says that the
negative result of the Balkan conference
will prevent Russia from joining another
conference.
HERR KRUpP has united with an influen-
tial London syndicate in issuing a London
loan of e35, 600 to provide China with
armaments and railways.
The Walt Whitman fund in London
amounts to Els. Among the subscribers
are Rossetti, Louis Stevenson, Francis
Darwin, Mr.. Dowden ami Henry James.
1T is stated in Constantinople that Rus
sia insists that Turkey shall fulfill the
article in the Berlin treaty providing for
the execution of religious reforms in Ar
menia.
T. ID. SULLIVAN, the new Lord Mayor of
Dublin, was formally installed in office on
the 1st with much ceremony. The popu-
lace was very enthusiastic and turned out
en- masse in honor of the event. An i'm
mense procession, composed of artisans
and laborers, carrying green banners and
bearing other emblems of green color, WAS
one of the features of the days celebra-
ton.
The fighting recently near Mier, Mexico,
proves to have been n battle between a
large band of smugglers and customs guards
in which one smuggler was killed and sew
eral wounded. Customs officers captured a
valuable lot of silks, laces and velvets.
A WIDE breach between NJ. Brisson and
President Grevy is reported existing. 1t is
rumored that the former has written to the
latter refusing t0 lend himself any longer
to a combination, the object of which is to
impose on him lasting discredit.
THE Pope has converted his personal pres
ents of many years into money and dona-
ted the proceeds, 10000, to the College Of
the Propaganda.
THE Pope has conferred upon Prince Bis
marck the decoration of the Order of
Christ. Baron Schlazer, the Prussian Min
lister to the Vatican, has been similarly
decorated. Emperor William has conferred
upon Cardinal q. Jacobini the decoration
of the Black Eagle and upon Monsignors
Galimberti and Mocenia, of the Pope's Off
cial household. the decoration of the Red
Eagle in recognition of their valuable servi-
ces in connection with the settlement of the
Carolines dispute.
THE Canadian customs authorities having
learned that Chicago merchants were ship
ping large quantities of pork in barrels
made in Joliet ull.) prison to lumbermen
at Ottawa, special agents were sent to Chi
cago, who warned the parties against q
continuance of the practice and informed
them that any further shipments would be
confscated. es products of American prison
labor were not permitted to enter Canada.
DAVID BRowN, charged with completely
in the SheehGn murders, has been acquitted
at the Munster QrelantO assizes.
THE LATEST
FR.D FISHER, a young man of twenty
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longing to his employer, August Bern
hauer, wholesale clothier, of Now York.
He was brought from Canada, where ho
was found hiding
TWENTY-FIVE Poles were excommuni-
Gated from st. Prokop's Church, Cleve-
land, o., recently. They threatened a dis
turbance, but were ovcrawed by the police.
SIXTY cases of typhoid fever were re-