The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-04-06

Nh. GOscHRN has introduced his budget
into the British House Of Commons. The
showing was IN excellent one, the surplus
being el0, 00O, 000 the greatest since 1874 A
penny was to be taken on the income tax
and the duty on wine increased.
President CARNoT, acting on the unani-
nous advice Of the officers who conducted
the court-martial, has signed q decree
placing General Boulanger on the retired
list Of the army. The proposal had pre-
viously been considered by the Council OF
Ministers.
TIE house occupied by Thomas Ball,
storekeeper and postmaster at Orillia, Ont.
was burned the other night. His children,
aged one, three and I'VE, lost their lives.
TIE crops In three extensive fields DO
longing to three estates in Cuba have been
destroyed by fire.
A MEETING of the British Liberal leaders
to discuss the Local Government bill de-
cided that the main features OF the meas
ure were satisfactory, and it was deter
mined to hasten its second reading and
push it to the committee stage by every
possible means.
DIR. ZABLUDOsKY has common ced to adj
minister course of massage treatment to
the Emperor OF Germany. The doctors are
Of the opinion that another loosening Of
cartilage is imminent.
The damage by the floods in Germany is
estimated at e5O,OOO,OO0. The towns Of
Bortsenburg, Domitz and Damenberg are
still flooded. Twenty-nine lives have been
lost and 10000 cattle have persisted, while
3O,009 persons have been made homeless
in the valley of the vistula.
TIE Dublin Mail says that the London
police have taken special precautions in
consequence Of their having learned Of q
projected plot to murder Mr.. Balfour.
ADv1CEs from China are that the crisis In
Honan is past, but that the distress Of the
people Is appalling, two million persons be-
ing utterly destitute. The nearest towns
are invaded by hordes Of naked and starv-
ing refugees from the flooded districts,
who, like swarms Of locusts, are devouring
every thing.
THE Russian Government has prohibited
operations by the American Bible Society
in the Baltic provinces. 1t is probable that
the Government will ultimately expel all
representatives of British and American
Bible societies.
A MOB Of women in Constantinople re-
Gently sought to obtain the arrears Of PEN
sions due their husbands from the Govern
ment and besieged the Office of the Minis
ter of Finance, who had to be secreted to
escape the fury Of the women. The mob
killed q woman who was advising them to
make their demands quietly.
AN extension of the Burlington strike
was reported probable on the 2Sth. Al st.
Joseph, Mo-, q switchman was killed by
the alleged incompetency of one of the
new engineers. The local switchmen
thereupon struck, notifying the manage
ment that they would only switch for
Brotherhood engineers and making de-
mand for the redress of other grievances.
A carload of Knights of Labor swltchmen
was reported to have left Pittsburgh, Pa,
for Chicago to take the places Of the
strikers.
AT the Wicklow Nreland) assizes re.
Gently, the mOcnlighters, Daniel Hayes and
Daniel Moriarty, were found guilty Of the
murder Of Farmer Fltzmaurice in County
Kerry in January last and were sentenced
to be hanged.
CHARLES E. Cross, president, and SAM
uel Z. White, cashier, Of the Bank of Raj
eigh, N. c., have been arrested at Toronto,
Ont, on information telegraphed from Raj
cigh charging them with forgery. Inside
the lining of Cross coat was found 81. 459
and in Whites sl5.255 OF this amount
$500 was in unsigned currency bills.
DETECTIVE FAHEY, Of Montreal, has been
sentenced to fourteen years IN the pcniten-
tiary for robbing the Grand Trunk railway
Offices.
MR GILHooLY, who, on March 10, was
sentenced under the Irish Grimes act to
two months imprisonment, has been SEN
fenced to an additional term of two weeks
for assaulting Inspector Hayes.
BUSINESS failures Dun's repori) for
seven days ended March 90, numbered for
the United States, 179; Canada, 40; total.
22l; compared with 243 the previous week
and 223 for the corresponding week last
year.
KING JOHN. Of Abyssinia, on the Both,
proposed terms Of peace to General San
Mariana, Commander-in in Chief of the Italian
forces.
ANOTHER Ministerial crisis was reported
in France on the Both caused by the defeat
Of the Government in motion for the
revision OF the constitution. The motion
was really a Boulanger question. The
Ministers Immediately resigned. and it was
reported President Carnot had requested
NJ. Floquet to form Cabinet. The vote
was 26S to 2S7
A POWDER magazine in the fortress on
the island of Santa Maura, Greece, ex-
ploded recently causing q fire in the for
trcss. The loss of life was not known. The
inhabitants Of the island deserted their
homes.
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AT Hetherarus, Hungary, 40 houses
have been burned and 7OOpersons rendered
homeless. Two lives were lost in the