The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-15

A COMPANY has been formed At 44mster-
dam, having for its object the draining Of
the waters Of the Zuyder Zee.
TIE diplomatic corps of La Libertad
were notified on December IL that San Sal
vador had broken of all diplomatic rela-
lions with Nicaragua.
TIE British ship Adolphus was wrecked
on the Shears just outside of the Delaware
Breakwater the other day. The loss was
$1,000 Captain Lewis and his crew es-
capped.
NEWS was recently received in Montreal
Of the drowning of j. B. Guinpct, his only
son and his two brothers-in-law. all of
Riviere des Prairies, while crossing the
ice on a small lake in the northern part
of the Argenteuil country.
De FREYCINET has concluded to form
q new French cabinet and is now engaged
in the task of selecting members. The
programme adopted by De Freyciret is the
result of his conference with Clemenceau,
in which he secured tho support of the
Radicals.
THE letters of Victor Emanuel to the
were sent to King Humbert recently, after
the death of the Countess. They contained
the freest judgments of the late King on
the private and public life of the Italian
and other European statesmen. King Hum
bert ordered that all the letters be burned.
ADvICEs from Warsaw say that forty
persons have been arrested there on \
charge of being implicated in Nihilistic
conspiracies. An unsuccessful attempt
was made recently to murder two police
spies. The majority of the alleged con-
spirators are Russians and are of good
social rank.
MICHAEL DAvITr has promised to visit
Wales in February for the purpose of assist
ing in an agrarian agitation and aiding in
the formation of Welsh Land League.
THE ironmasters of Lancashire have noti-
fed their employees of a proposed reduction
in wages.
The British bark Mabel, Captain Jones,
from Demarara for Bristol, is believed to
have foundered with all on board in the
Bristol Channel.
IT is stated that Servia, acting at the in
stigation of Austria, will refuse to discuss
the basis of a return to a status quo ante
and the non-payment of war indemnity
by Servia.
THE Mexican Government officially de-
MES through its orgen that it is consider
ing a proposition for loan from Ameri-
can houses for $1,000, Geo to be repaid by
granting said houses 10 per cent. on GUS
toms goods sent into tine country by them.
AN official dispatch from Tonquin says:
During the latter part of December the
rebels destroyed Catholic mission houses
and killed the French missionary and SEQ
native Christions. A column of French
troops were sent in pursuit of the rebels.
On November 90 six Of the crew of the
whaling schooner Mary E. Simmons were
separated from their vessel by being toned
in the wake of whale, which they had
harpooned, and after three days exposure,
without food or water, were picked up by a
passing vessel and taken to Pernambuco.
They arrived at New York January6
THE work of widening the Suez Canal is
delayed owing to the refusal Of the Egyp-
tian Government to sanction modification
of the treaty SO as to allow interest on the
proposed loan of eS ,OCO, 600 to be paid out of
the loan itself instead of from the receipts
of the canal, as stipulated by the treaty.
THE returns issued by the London Board
of Trade show that during the month of
December the imports decreased, as COM
pared with that month last year, 81 $50, 3S3.
and the exports decreased eSS5, 6s5, as COM
pared with December of 1854.
THE Australian harvest is over Ninety
thousand tons of wheat will be available
for export.
THE new French Cabinet is as follows:
President of the Council and Minister of
Foreign Affairs, De Freycinet; Minister Of
the Interior, Sarrien; Minister of COM
MERGE, Lockroy; Minister of Finance,
Sadi-Carnot; Minister of Public Instruc-
ton, Goblet: Minister of Justice, De Male;
Minister of Agriculture, De Vile: Min-
lister of War, General Bouiarger; Minister
of the Marine and the Colonies, Auber;
Minister of Public Works, Barhant; Min
lister OF Ports and Telegraphs. Granet.
THERE were 900 failures in tie United
States reported to Bradstreet's during TIE
week ended January Z, against 291 in the
preceding week and AS, 345, 3i2 and i52 in
the corresponding weeks of 1882, respec-
lively. About s. per cent. were those Of
small traders, whose capital was less than
5000.
The opening of the American exhibition
in London has been postponed TO May,
1857.
THE schooner Swallow. was wrecked at
Fleetwood, Eng, the Other day and I'll Oh
beard drowned.
THE --LATEST.
THE clearing house rc.urns for week