The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-26


consumed the large wholesale house of A.
NJ. Bruni & Bros. Loss, $60, 600; insurance,
$4,000.
GENERAL.
A NEW, exclusively American club is to
be organized in Paris.
LOUISE MICHEL, the notorious female an
archist of France, announces that she in
tends to make a tour of America.
THE French Chamber OF Deputies has
for the proposed Pasteur institution.
The Austro-Hungarian Minister Of War
has resolved to mass large forces of troops
on the southern frontiers in order to coun-
teract important military measures adopt
ed by Russia.
THE Canadian customs authorities at OF
tawa have seized q, 600 copies of Lord Bea-
consfield's "Endymion," published by Har.
per Bros, of New York, and sent into Can
ada for sale. 1t was understood that the
reason for the seizure was that Dawson
Bros, publishers of Montreal, had the copy
right of the work for the Dominion. The
books will be destroyed.
The committee which has had under con-
sideration Prince Bismarcks spirit measure
bill. and which had already rejected the
first clause, voted against the remaining
clauses of the bill, thus defeating the en-
tire measure.
ST. PATRICk's day was celebrated in Ire
land without disorder save in Londonderry,
where during row stones were used and
an inspector and constable injured.
THE treaty of peace between Servia and
Bulgaria has been ratified by the represen-
tatives of the Powers interested.
THE English House of Commons, 2O2 to
Ia, rejected q motion to pass the Scottish
Church Disestablishment bill to second
reading.
A BAND Of robbers recently created a
stampede Of oxen at Aulnay, in the Char
ante Inferieure, France, an Out of the-way
town. Three persons were trampled to
death and more than one hundred injured,
some fatally. The robbers got away with
about 5000 of booty.
THE man who was recently carried over
Niagara Falls is believed to be Gustave
Mercier, the absconding ledgerkeeper Of
the Banque Rationale in Montreal.
NJ. PAsTEUR has been decorated by King
Humbert of Italy.
THE English naval estimates have been
adopted by the House of Commons. They
are the largest since the Crimean war.
The Mikado of Japan has donated $500
to the Grant monument fund.
OFFICIAL kilograms from Zanzibar con-
firm the recent report of the putting to
death of Bishop Harrington by the King Of
Mombesa.
VIsCoUNT HINTON, of London, was sem
fenced to a years hard labor recently for
general financial worthlessness.
A DISPATCH from Italy, of the 18th, saws:
Two fatal cases of cholera are reported
from CANDIDA, two from Pelia and seven
from Padua.
UNEMPLOYED workingmen at Liege, Bel
GUM, recently attacked shops and cafes.
The gensdarmes finally succeeded in restor-
ing order, making many arrests.
THE National Zeit,mg and other German
papers contain similar articles to that
of the Post, attacking France. In Ger
man military and political circles it is
feared that De Freycinet will be powerless
to oppose the desire of partisans for re-
venge.
BUSINESS failures for the seven days
ended March 10 numbered: For the United
States, 100: Canada. So; total, 225, COM
pared with total of 239 the previous week.
THE LATEST.
CONFERENCE was held with the Missouri
Pacific officials by the Governors Of Kan
sas and Missouri at st. Louis on the after
noon OF the 2lst. The railroad was willing
to abide by the agreement of 1885, but with
conditions inimical to the Knights of La
Dor.
THE Senate was not in session on the
Goth. The House devoted its time to a sill
yer discussion.
TWENTY missionaries sailed from New
York on the Goth to join Bishop Taylor Of
the Methodist Church in Africa. They ex-
pect to travel 500 miles into the interior Of
Africa.
FIRE started recently in A. K. Robert
sons wholesale grocery store at Helena,
Ark, and before it was subdued nearly
$500, 200 worth of property was destroyed.
CLEARING house returns for week ended
March 20 showed an average increase of
400 over the corresponding week of last
year. In New York the increase was SCI.
MASKED men raided the roundhouse Of
the Texas Pacific at Denison, Tex, early ON
the morning Of the 21st. After capturing
the watchmen, the masked men proceeded
to kill all the engines. The damage was
considerable.
GERONIMO, the Apache chief, surrendered
to Lieutenant Maus on the Goth. Geronimo
had just been defeated by Mexican troops
and surrendered to Maus to escape Next
can vengeance.
CHARLES B. MATTHEwsoN, president of
the Norfolk National Bank, Norfolk, Neb,
has sbsconded to Canada. Matthewson
had previously occupied several important
public positions.
THE German schooner Rosalie, from Rio