The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-09

] II was stated recently that the Grecian
Government would submit measure pro
viding for compulsory loan, and for the
confscation of monastery lands. Reports
were current that the Government intended
to mobilize the National guards.
GERONIMO and the other Apache bucks
skipped away from Lieutenant Maus and
again took to the mountains. It was
thought they became scared on approach
ing the settlements. Lieutenant Maus fol-
lowed after them with the hope of inducing
them to come in.
BIZ an explosion of petroleum in q vessel
At Baku, Russia, the other day the entire
crew of thirteen persons persisted.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Japan Mai
writes that the King Of Corea issued an
edict, February 5, abolishing slavery in his
kingdom. It was estimated that over hall
/ the population Of Corea were slaves.
An illness of a suspicious nature has re-
Gently appeared in the mining regions
about Bilboa, Spain. 1t was supposed to
be cholera.
| ADvIcEs from st. Johns, N. s., state that
tie sealing steamer Resolute was wrecked
on Ireland rock, eastward of Fago island.
The vessel drove over the rocks and fOun-
dered twenty minutes after. The crew OF
thirty-tive men escaped in the boats, ex.
cepting three harpooners, McGlaskin.
George and Phillips, who were supposed
to be lost.
| In the Culebra section of the Panama
canal recently 5000 kilogrammes of pow.
der exploded, killing ten men and seriously
wounding forty.
H. H. WEST and Jesse Ceilings. Liberal
members of the British Parliament for
Ipswich, Eng, have been unseated on
charges of illegal electioneering practices.
The masts of the Chas. s. Morse schooner
have been found and it is believed she is
the missing schooner that caused the Ore
| gcn disaster.
PRESIDENT GREW has signed q decree
raising the fund for the relief of the French
poor to S1,5OO,O00, making it larger than
ever before.
| DISPATCHES from AMMAN report fresh
massacres at the Catholic missions in the
province of Guang-Bing The number of
victims was said to be AZ.
A LARGE meeting of Belgian workingmen
was held at Client recently. Resolutions
were adopted advising moderation on the
part of the workingmen and calling for
social reforms. The total number Of arrests
made in Belgium in connection with the
labor riots was $50.
| EXPOSURES were made before the Rail
way Committee of the Canadian Parlia-
ment recently. involving James Beatty
and ID. b. Woodwork. members. The Gov
l eminent was possessed Of letters showing
that both the honorable gentlemen had
promised to divide the funds secured by
passing a certain railroad bill
| THE Reichstag by vote of 1G9 to 49, has
decided in favor of prolonging the anti
Socialist law in Germany.
| PARTICULARS regarding the fire in the
Nail building ut Toronto, Ont, point to in
cendiarism. The affair was being investi-
gated. 1t was stated that the loss to the
Telephone Company alone will be $4,000
and the total loss s7s5O0O to 100000.
| THE Archbishop of Paris has written q
letter to President Grevy, in which he ex-
presses grief at the Governments attacks
on religion, denies that the clergy are hos
tile to the State, and appeals to President
Grevy in behalf of Christianity to Judge
between the Government and the Church.
The Lieutenant Governor Of New Bruins
wick signed the act passed by the Legisla-
ture of the province comforting municipal
| suffrage on women who pay a certain
amount of taxes.
THE March public debt statement shows
| a reduction for the month of over S14, 900, :
OOO, and for the nine months of the current
fiscal year of S6s,OOO,OOO, against about
| S45, COO 900 for the same nine months of the
preceding year.
A RUSSIAN newspaper advocates Russian
military occupation of Bulgaria on basis
| similar to that on which Austria occupied
Bosnia.
| LEADING French papers take a gloomy
view of the situation in the East. Two
French iron clads have been ordered to he
placed in readiness for immediate dispatch
| to the Mediterranean.
The mercantile agency of r. G. Dun &,
| Co. reports business failures in the United
States for the first quarter of 1856, number
| 3,oOS, with liabilities little over $4,000
600: failures for the first three months of
1885 numbered 1868, with liabilities of
| sc, 100000.
A STRONG Governm ent force under Gem
erals Tell and Arbio. was attacked recently
near the river Daibar by the Uruguay rev.
olutiOnists, Arredondo and Castro. The
Government troops were defeated with q
loss of 400 men.