The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-09

TIE Catholic Bishops OF Belgium have
sent an address of encouragement to the
Pope.
DR.. Wow ScHLoEssKR, the Prussian rep
resentative at the Vatican, has asked to
be relieved from that post.
TIE International Peace Arbitration So
ciety met at Paris on the 31st. Many dep.
uties from the English House Of Commons
were present. It was resolved to organ
ize an international congress to meet in
1889, representing America, England,
France and other countries favorable to it.
AFTER the reception of the news that the
presence of Lord Sackville was distasteful
to the President, it was announced in
London that urgent private business
necessitated Lord Sackville's departure
from Washington.
THE Dublin Express, the leading Irish
| Conservative paper, has come out for
peasant proprietorship for Irish estates
| particularly those now in control Of the
| courts.
SoUDANEsE rebels attacked Suakim re.
Gently and burned the zareba about the
| water fort, but were repulsed by heavy
fire from the ships and fort.
EFFORTS are being made by the Quebec
| authorities to induce the French Cana
| dams who have left for the United States
| to return to their old homes.
VIzITELLI, D prominent bookseller of
London, has been fined 500 by an English
court for publishing immoral works Of
Emile lola.
A cABLEGRAM from Port au Prince an.
nounces the capture by the Haytian man.
of-war Toussaint L. Overture. of the Brit
ish schooner Alta, which left New York
| about October 10 with q heavy cargo Of
arms and ammunition, clearing for Ant
werp.
ALL search for the three robbers who
held up the Mexican Central train near
San Jose proved futile. 1t was thought the
robbers got about $4,000.
NJ. LIE GRAND, Minister OF Commerce.
has informed the French Cabinet that the
expenses of exhibitors in the Exposition
of 1889 will be less than they were in the
Exposition of 1878. The Eiffel tower, built
in connection with the Exposition will be
finished in January.
MUNICIPAL elections were held in Biz.
mingham, Eng, on the LIST. Returns from
nine wards show the election of seven
Unionists and two Gladstonians.
IT is stated that the mobiles in the eau
casus contemplate an emeute at the first
opportunity, and that the official accounts
of the Cars reception on his tour were
not true.
THE Manitoba Legislature has been
called to meet to consider the railroad
situation.
THE Chinese Exclusion bill is causing
much suffering to Chinese who are de-
tanned at the British Columbia boundary
line while on their way back to the United
States after visiting China.
II. p. STONE has been appointed second
vice-president of the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy system. E. P. Ridley succeeds
Mr.. Stone as general manager of the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy east of the Mis-
souri, river. The changes took effect on
the 1st
THE condition of the King of the Neither
lands has grown worse, and is declared to
be critical
A DISPATCH from st. Paul de Loanda
says that the first section of the Trans
African railway from st. Paul de Loanda
to Ambaca has been inaugurated.
The demonstration of university stu
dents at Berlin in honor of Drs. Bergman
and Gerhardt was held on the Cd. The
medical students absented themselves,
and only 200 of the others out of total of
5000 took part in the procession.
NEWS has been received lately of
the Stanley expedition in Africa. The
expedition had suffered considerably while
crossing a morass. Forty men were
drowned while crossing great river flow
ing east and west. One white man had
died.
THE imprisoned whalers in the Arctic
sea are reported all safe, timely gale
having dispersed the ice.
THE FremdenblGtt, of Vienna, says the
Vatican fully approves the Emperor's
censure of Bishop Strossmayer, whose
letter to Mgr. Rampolla, Papal Secretary
of State, has not removed the painful i'm
preston experienced by the Vatican re-
garding the pan Slavist message which
the Bishop sent to Kieff.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended November l numbered
2I5, as compared with 254 the previous
week and 245 the corresponding week last
year.
DURING a torchlight procession at Bel
grade recently stones were thrown at the
Austrian Legation and several windows
were broken. A number of arrests were
made. The authorities made apologies to
the Austrian Minister for the outrage.
THE steam barge Sampson and the
schooner Zach Chandler have not been
heard from since the recent storm in
Saginaw bay.