The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-07-27

at Tampa and M0natee, Fla.
0KNERAI.
A GERMAN merchant has been secretly
tried and condemned to fifteen months
imprisonment at Vienna for making in.
sulting remarks about the Dowager En-.
press Victoria.
THE New Zealand Government has pro-
posed q new tariff bill slightly increasing
the ad valorem duties on goods principally
imported from the United States and dim.
inishing the large free list Of such goods
now existing. Among the articles affected
arc: Provisions, drug goods, leather goods,
dried, salted or packed fish, oysters, vege.
tables, w,oodenware, patent medicines,
earthenware, carriages and wagons.
A REVOLUTION is reported In Venezuela
with DR.. Juan p. r. Paul leading the vic.
torious forces.
CALvIHS. BRIcH has been selected chair.
man Of tho Democratic National Campaign
Committee.
ADvIcEs from Shanghai say that after
an enormous sacrifice Of money and labor,
all efforts to close the breach in the banks
Of the Hoanx Ho river proved futile.
CANADA at present has NO murderers IN.
der sentence Of death. Tho fact is almost
without precedent.
A VOLCANIC eruption has occurred at.
Makmats, Japan, by which 400 persons
were killed and 1000 injured.
FROM May to July, ASA Chinese landed
in British Columbia, on their way to tho
United States, provided with fraudulent
return certificates.
An American, who gave the name Of
Miller and claimed to be the son of .
United States Judge and part owner Of
the steam yacht Electra, passed =, 600
worth of bogus checks in Halifax, N. g.,
recently and decamped with two girls who
were deserted at st. John.
The Earl Of Erne has been elected grand
master of Orangemen throughout the
world.
IT is reported that the North German
steamship Fulda run down a fishing
schooner on the banks of Newfoundland on
her last trip from Europe. Twenty lives
were thought to have been lost, attempts
at rescue being frustrated by the dense fog
which prevailed at the time.
THE Ironmasters' Association is reported
to have fallen to pieces, the combination
being disrupted by breaches of faith in
signing the Amalgamated scale.
The Emperor of Germany and the Car
of Russia met at Cronstadt ON the 18th.
IT is reported that all the members of the
Holy Synod Of Servia except two opposed
the granting Of King Milan's petition for
q divorce from Queen Natalie.
GENERAL BOULANGER is making rapid
progress towards recovery. Friends who
have made speeches in Ardeche in behalf
of Boulanger have been received with
great hostility. When NJ. Laguerre at
tempted to address q meeting, his voice
was drowned with groans and Kisses.
THE shooting contest for the Elcho shield
at Wimbledon resulted In favor of the
Irish team. The score was as follows:
Ireland, 1852 points; England, 1852; Scot
land, 1858.
THE tercentenary Of the destruction Of
the Spanish armada was observed at
Plymouth, England, on the 18th.
BY an explosion of petroleum on the
Spanish steamer Asturiano at Rouen re-
Gently eight sailors lost their lives.
TWENTY lives were lost by the wreck Of
the Star of Greece near Adelaide, South
Australia, recently.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended July 10 numbered for
the United States, PA; Canada, IA; total
22S, as compared with 24O the previous
week and LIZ the corresponding week Of
last year.
IT is reported that the Shinwanis have
killed sixty men sent with an envoy from
the Afghan commander n-chief.
FATHER GILLIGAN, who was imprisoned
at Limerick, Ireland, for an offense under
the Crimes act, was released recently and
was met by large crowd.
THE perpetual closing Of saloons in all
parts of Ireland on Sunday has been rec
commended by a special committee of the
British House of Commons.