The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-05-14

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a 0snMAH Wise grower has produced -
excellent quality Of wine from The yield Of
vineyard Occupying large tract Of land
near Cairo, and his success has stimulated
the Egyptian Government 70 give every
encouragement to grape culture in Lower
Egypt
LOUIS WAN, notorious Canadian crimi.
nal, recently escaped from the penitentiary
ct Montreal.
TINE president Of the British Sugar Re
nners' Association recently expressed bis
conviction that the recent sudden activity
in English trade was only temporary, and
entirely due to the fact that the strikes In
America had lessenedscompetition.
TIE United States Consul at Smyrna has
informed the Department of State that
foreigners will not be allowed to enter the
Ottoman Empire unless supplied with .
passport by q diplomatic or consular rop-
resentative of the Government, the fee OF
which Is fixed at twenty piasters.
OwINa to tho information received at
Havana that q loan has been contracted
for Cuba, Spanish gold bonds have de-
clined.
GLADSTONE arrived in London on the 4th
and received an ovation from the people.
the French Government is vigorously
protesting against the Vatican's appoint
ing nuncio at Pekin as tending to inter-
fere with Frances secular rights in China.
QUEEN VICTORIA opened the Indian and
Colonial Exhibition at London on the 4th.
The Spanish Government has decided to
renew negotiations for treaty of commerce
with the United States with view to inn
proving the trade and revenue of Cuba.
MANDALAY was captured by the Burmah
rebels on tho 9Th. Four thousand houses
were burned.
BERLIN private kilograms from st. Peters
burg and Odessa give startling accounts Of
the progress made by the Nihilists. Whole
sale arrests have been made within a week
at Alushta, Novo Tchcrkask and Odessa.
So grave are the police reports that the
Gar has been advised not to delay his re-
turn to st. Petersburg. Orders have been
given to the Court at Livadia to hold itself
in readiness to start northward at ten
hours notice.
THE Bank of England's rate of discount
has been advanced to 3 per cent.
IT is officially announced that cholera has
appeared in Venice and Vicenza. Several
cases and some deaths are reported in these
places daily.
The Scottish Amicable Life Assurance
Company has ceased to lend money on
Irish land, the future tenure of which is
now in suspense.
IT was officially announced in Rome re-
Gently that the Archbishops of Baltimore.
Quebec, Rennes and Rheims would be Gre
ated Cardinals.
MORMON missionaries are reported busy
in Switzerland seeking to induce girls to
emigrate to Utah.
THE officials of the French New Hebrides
Company on Espiritu Santo island in the
South Pacific have been massacred by ma
tives from Port Stanley.
THE business failures during the seven
days ended May numbered for the United
States, 167; for Canada, %, total of l92,
as compared with a total Of 2O7 the week
previous.
News has been received of the murder of
q number of Hungarian peasants by q
gang Of gypsies, who afterward robbed
the persons and promises of their victims.
Two or three American fishing schooners
have appeared in the basin at Digby, N. s.,
within the past day or two for the purpose
of buying bait. Another American fishing
vessel has boon captured for violating the
Canadian fishing laws.
the foreign ministers left Greece on the
9TH. The efforts to prevent Greece from
Turkey had apparently failed,
and war appeared inevitable.
By collision between the British steam
er Martello and the cutter Ida, Off the Liz
ard Point lighthouse. England, the sailing
vessel was sunk and one person drowned.
HENRI RoCuEroRr and NJ. Partalise
fought q blood;ess duel in Paris recently.
Four shots were exchanged.
IT is officially denied that General Wolse-
ley declared that if home rule was granted
to Ireland he would resign his command
for the purpose of leading an army in u
ster to resist the new Irish Government.
AN Irish home rule meeting was held at
the Academy of Music, New York, on the
7th, Governor Hill presiding.
A RECENT Liverpool grain circular says
that wheat has been very steady and in
most markets rather dearer for foreign and
one shilling higher for English, while the
cargoes of coast on passage for shipment
arc firm. Wheat was dull with only small
business, and prices were generally Id low
or. Flour was inactive and corn slow, and
prices declined I'd.
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