The Iola register., 1886-01-01

0ENERAI.
A DieIAIcH from Toulpn says that ths
French guboat Chamois, bound for Ton.
quin, had foundered in Toulon roads. Nc
further information was given.
A CONSPIRACY TO establish Republican
Government in Spain has been discovered
in Saragossa. The details were withhold.
FEARS are entertained that the British
bark Norshead, which sailed from Sydney,
New South Wales, August %, for Portland,
Ore, has been lost.
TIE priests in the Roman Catholic Dio.
cese Of Montreal have received . letter
from Bishop Fabre forbidding them to
NEEDLE with politics in any way. The
Riel agitation was the cause Of the Bishops
sction.
REPORTS from Minister Cox, from his
post in Turkey, represent him as pleased
with his new home, with no idea of return.
ing before his term expires.
FIFTY cases of cholera were reported 70
Gently in Venice and adjacent towns.
A DISPATCH from Rome of the ed TO
ported the Pope as looking very fatigued
and unwell.
RECENT advices from Belgrade say that
there are signs of q revolt in the Servian
army, and that it is rumored there that
Horvatovitch has ordered the execution Of
sixty soldiers who were..implicated In plot
against the Government.
The experiment of Irish cattle dealers Of
chartering steamers to run in opposition
to the boycotted steam packet line has re-
suited in the complete surrender of the
boycotted company.
THE Government of the Argentine Re.
public recently gave the Papal Legate his
passports. He was accused Of interfering
in public education and instigating sort
of ecclesiastical boycotting against Clara
Armstrong, an American school teacher.
The Pope has written a letter on relig.
ious education, opposing secular schools.
SMALL-Pox continues to mako fearful
ravages in the insane asylum at Tongue
Point, near Montreal.
A TERRIBLE explosion occurred in the
Ferndale coal mine at Pontypridd, Wales,
on the 2Sd. Over seven hundred men were
in the mine at the time. At least fifty were
killed and scores wounded and missing.
THE Mayor of Venice, Italy, has sent out
a circular in which he declares that the
stories of cholera are much exaggerated.
MICHAEL DAvITT, in recent interview
concerning home rule, said: ''The alleged
proposals Of Gladstone, recently published,
are a good basis for a settlement of the
Irish question:
THE Pail Mall Gazette says: The state
ments about a French protectorate over
Madagascar and war indemnity are nom
sense. The draft of the treaty does not
mention protectorate. while the so-called
indemnity is intended to reimburse Euro
peans whose property has been damaged
by war, and not a penny of it will enter the
French treasury.
THE French Chamber of Deputies has
adopted the Tonquin credit by a vote of 2s4
to go. 1t was rumored that owing to the
closeness Of the vote the Cabinet had re.
signed
The Manchester-Congo Railway Com
pany has been granted franchise to con-
struct a railway from the upper to the
lower Congo region in Africa.
TIE Montreal Board of Health has per-
emptorily ordered the lady superior of the
mates vaccineted at once. There We're
eighteen cases in the asylum.
IT was reported that King John, Of
Abyssinia, is engaged in the occupation of
Massowah and is preparing to make war
upon the Italicns.
HERR APPoNYI, the loader of the Hunga-
rian opposition, meditates a tour through
Germany with Count Karolyi to advocate
Central European customs union.
IT was stated in Paris that Admiral Gati-
ber. minister of Marine and Colonies, has
rendered his resignation because President
Brisson announced his intention to create
a colonial ministry.
A LARGE detachment of Bulgarian troops
returned to Sofia on the 25th on holiday
furlough pending the truce between Bulga-
ria and Servia. There was a great demon
stration of the people in honor of their
arrival. Triumphal arches spanned the ap-
proaches to the city and the roads were
lined with the rejoicing populace.
Two men were drowned near Elbrook,
II. S., recently by tie capsizing of their
dory.
WILLIAM SHEEHAN, convicted of having;
murdered his mother, brother and sister in
October, 1877, at Cork, Ireland has made a
full confession of the crime. He alleges
that he was led to commit the murder by
the persis:ency of his mother in demanding
e3O dowry from farmer Browne before sh..
would consent to her son marrying Miss
Browne.