The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-23

Tax trunk lines have announced an open
cut between New York and the West on
all classes of freight, and reduced rates
nearly one-half. The cause OF the trouble
and the originator were not definitely
known, but it was credited to the Wander
bilt lines.
THE Canadian Government has let the
contract for the construction OF q canal at
Sault Ste. Marie for s., 1000
A REPORT was in circulation in Vienna
on the 18th that an attempt had been
made to assassinate Prince Ferdinand, the
ruler Of Bulgaria
The castle of Libenwerda, near Halle,
Saxony, has been burned to the ground.
The castle physician, his wife and child
and two servants were burned to death.
JASPER DOUGLAS PYNE, member Of Par
lament for West Waterford, fell over.
board the other night from one OF the
steamers running between Holyhead and
Dublin and was drowned.
The French committee OF revision Of the
Constitution Of that country has adopted
q resolution favoring the abolition Of the
Senate and Presidency.
MESSENGERS who have arrived at Wady
Halfa report that the mysterious White
Pasha in the Behr ell Gael district had
fought a great battle and killed many
dervishes.
By an explosion in . mine in Belgium
recently thirty-two miners were killed.
Three escaped alive but badly injured.
EXPORTS of the principal articles Of pro-
visions during October past aggregated in
value 861l, 706, against 81, 059, 546 in Octo-
Der, 1887.
A WARRANT has been issued in Canada
for the extradition Of De Baum, the New
York forger.
The great German ironclad Kaiser with
Prince Henry of Prussia on board went
aground in the harbor Of Copenhagen on
the 18th. The Prince was taken ashore in
King Christians yacht.
The British steamer Black Watch
foundered between Naples and Odessa
November G. The fate of the crew was
unknown.
AN Irish bailiff named Lynch has been
shot and killed by moonlighters near Xii.
barry.
THE Tagus, Douro and Ligo rivers in
Portugal have overflown their banks and
done much damage.
A ZANZIBAR correspondent says the
Southern mail brings news that the ports
are filled with insurgents and that the
anti German feeling is undated. The
burning of Minengani Tunghi is con.
firmed. The Governor Of Mozambique is
prevented from returning to his capital by
hostile chief of the Zambesi.
Miss FRANCIS E. WILLARD denies that
the National Woman's Christian Temper.
ance Union requires its members to favor
the Prohibition party. The members are
left free as to political affiliations.
DUKE MACMILLAN, of Bavaria, was
stricken with apoplexy q few days ago
and is dead. He was eighty years Of age.
The Mexican National Railroad Com.
pany has refused to receive Mexican Ma.
tional Bank notes.
EFFORTS to unite the federal and pro.
gressive republicans of Spain have failed.
The body Of the late Bishop Seghers, OF
Alaska, has been brought to Victoria, B.
e.. by the United States man-of-war
Thetis.
CLAIMS for over SO. 0OO, 900 against the
Mexican Government and in favor OF the
estate of the late Charles Butterfield have
been presented by ex.United States
Minister John Foster.
The people of Denmark celebrated the
twenty fifth anniversary of the accession
of King Christian on the 18th.
THE firearm factory at Chatelle Rault,
France, where the Lebel rifles were being
made, has been destroyed by fire; loss,
81, OOO, 900 francs.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended November Is numbered
237, compared with 226 the previous week
and 225 the corresponding week last year.
VIOLENT gales on the 18th caused numer-
Gus wrecks on the west coast Of Great
Britain. Among the vessels which met
with disaster was the Norwegian bark
Hypatia, but no lives were lost.
PORTUGAL has decided to send vessels to
aid Great Britain and Germany to break
up the East African slave trade.
THE coasting steamer Vonvairo, which
left Clutch, India, November 6 with sou
natives on board, was reported overdue
and it was feared she had foundered in q
recent storm.
THE strike of the brakemen on the Louis
Vile, New Albany & Chicago railway has
been compromised, the men getting in.
creased wages.
A HEAVY shock Of earthquake was ex.
perienced at Guayaquil on the 10th. Thou.
sands fed from their houses.
A RECENT letter from Port au Prince
says that seven American vessels are un.
der detention there. Anarchy prevailed
all over Hayti, and the necessity for men.
of-war to protect the foreign residents was
urgent
THE LATEST.