The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-06-04

TORONTO, Ont, was in the hands of .
mob ON the night Of the 18th. The street
car strikers and sympathizers overturned
cars and assaulted conductors and drivers.
The Gar of Russia returned to st. Pc
tersburg on the 18th from Livadia.
PREMIER GLADSTONE called meeting of
his supporters for the 9th to consider
what steps to take in event of the probable
defeat of his home rule measure.
A PARTY of Mexicans struck the Indians
| about eight miles from Pantano, Ariz.. the
other night and killed one. The remainder
fed to the mountains.
ADfNAMITE factory at Valencia, Spain,
was destroyed recently by an explo.ion
which killed twelve men.
THUNDER storms have been raging in
Germany for three days. Many persons
and hundreds of cattle have been killed,
and damage to the extent of about s20O,e0
has been done to vineyards in the Rhine
valley.
THE race for the English Derby was won
by the Duke of Wcstminster's bay colt Or
monde
Iris reported in London that the Princess
Louise, Oldest daughter of the Prince of
Wales, will be married to Prince Oscar Of
Sweden.
MRS. LOUIS REL, widow Of the dead
rebel. died at her home at st. Vital, Man.,
on the 25th, after an illness of two months.
THE Porte declares that there was no
foundation for the report that a conspiracy
at Sofia existed for the assassination Of
Prince Alexander and Prime Minister
Karavalof.
VIDAL has resigned the Presidency of the
Republic Of Uruguay. General Maxine
Santo, present Vice President, has been APP
pointed to succeed him.
The Lower House of the Prussian Diet
has voted the sum of II 600, 900 marks for the
construction of canals to connect Dortmond
with the River Ems. and Mittel, on the
River Oder, with the River Spree, ut a point
near Berlin.
The Armours have a contract with the
French Government for 100000 pounds of
canned beef.
THE funeral of the late Prof. Leopold Won
Ranke took place at Berlin on the Goth.
Among those who attended the service
were the Crown Prince Frederick William,
the Prince of Saxe-Meiningen. several Gen
erals of the army, Ministers Won Puttka-
mer and Won Gossler, the members of the
municipal government, students from Rer
lin and other universities and many distin-
guished scientists and artists.
THE technical commission which recently
inspected the Panama canal, unanimously
affirmed that there will be no difficulty in
constructing the canal without locks.
THE Greek naval reserves have been dis
hn,rA a1 Fri 4. Al
Chamber of Deputies, said the powers had
made no move in the direction of raising
the blockade.
THE French Budget Committee has de-
cided by vote of II to Q to throw out the
public worship estimates. Mr.. Yuyot,
Radical. declared the committee had not
power to pronounce upon the separation
of Church and State. He also introduced
u motion in the Chamber of Deputies to
place the public worship funds at the dis
posal of the communes with the option Of
applying them to other purposes.
THE meeting of Gladstone's supporters
ut London on the eth was well attended.
Gladstone adopted a conc;liatory attitude
and promised notifications of the Home
Rule bill.
A REPORT from Sicily says: The lava at
Mount IEtna is advancing toward Pecolosi
at the rate of 40 inches hourly, and is now
within one kilometre of the town. The add
jacent country is also menaced and the in
habitants are flying from their homes. All
the streams and waterways i'm the district
have dried up and a water famine prevails.
THE British ship William Law went
ashore at West Scntary, n. s., recently,
and was a total wreck. Two seamen were
drowned. The loss was $4,000.
The Royal Electric Light Works of Mont
real were burned, recently. The loss was
$4,000
FORMAL charges of corruption have been
preferred in the Canadian Parliament
against DR.. Cameron, a member of that
body.
TIE Reading Railroad Coal and Iron
Company's statement for April shows de-
crease of gross earnings, S2522, 3G6; increase
of expenses, S215,G4l: decrease of net eaIn-
ings, SiG1 ,4O7, as compared with 1855.
BUSINESS failures for the seven DAYS end
cd May q numbered: For the United
States, l55: Canada, %: total, lS2; COM
pared with lG1 the week previous.
A STEAMER of the line of the Sarnia Trans
portation Company struck and stranded on
Green Island shoal, Off Mississuaga. Mich,
recently. The passengers were landed at
Bruce mines.