The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-03-02

TEE West Claire tenants in ireland hsve
secured from 80 to 30 per cent reduction In
rents - result Of the plan Of campaign.
TIE shipbuilders Of the Clyde in Scot
land regard the prospects for their trade
~ exceedingly gloomy.
TIE Cunard and other steamship COM
panies are arranging to run extra steamers
on their routes. It 10 expected that there
will b large increase In Irish immi9rs-
ton this year.
News from Philippopolis says that regi-
mcnt has been ordered from Slivno to
Bourgas and 1t il expected that part OF the
Philippopolis garrison will also be ordered
there. It II believed that Bourgss and
varna will be fortified.
TEE Irish Exchequer Court has set aside
the sentence OF two months imprisonment
passed by the criminal court in the case Of
Mr.. Walsh, editor Of the Wexford People.
on the ground Of irregular publication Of
the notices forbidding meetings Of sup
pressed branches Of the National League.
MEXICAN troops had . skirmish with
Yaqui Indians in the Bucaled mountains
recently. Ten Indians were killed. The
Mexicans lost two.
TEE Burlington railroad has refused to
grant the demand Of the engineers for Q
change in the system Of wages to the mile
age system, and the officials Of the COM
pany declare they will adhere to the pres
emit plan. The Wabash and Alton roads
have agreed to the new scale Of wages,
with slight notifications.
Mr.. PHELPS, the American Minister, had
q long interview on the 22d with Lord Sal
isbury on the subject Of the Fisheries
treaty. the text Of which was before them.
Lord Salisbury expressed approval of the
substance and form Of the document.
GENERAL BoULANGER will issue protest
against the use of his name for election
purposes. His friends assert that the
nomination of General Boulanger for the
French Chamber Of Deputies is a reaction.
ary maneuver intended to discredit him.
TIE annual report of the Chicago & Al.
ton for 1857 has been issued. 1t shows
gross earnings, &S.94l, 1856; operating ex.
penses, $500, ZOE; net earnings. 1861, 1873.
IT has been decided to form a club Of
English and American students in Berlin.
PRINCE LOUIS, second son Of the Grand
Duke of Baden and grandson of the EN-
peror of Germany, died on the 23d, aged
twenty-five.
The plan Of campaign victory near
Loughrea, Ireland, was celebrated with
bonfires. Sir Henry Bourke has granted
twenty-five per cent. reduction to his ten
ants, pays the legal cost, relnstates evicted
tenants and pays the cost Of their mainten-
ance since eviction.
FATHER KENNEDY and eight farmers have
been convicted and sentenced to two
months Imprisonment for attending meet
ing of suppressed branch Of the National
League at Newmarket.
FIFTEEN hundred weavers went on a
strike recently at Flers, in the department
of Arne, France, formed in procession and
marched through the streets singing the
"Carmagnole.' When the factory was
reached stones were thrown at the win
dows and most of them were smashed.
Gendarmes quelled the riot and dispersed
the crowd.
THE Italian troops at Massowah have ad.
vanced to Ghyda and found it evacuated
by the Abyss inian troops.
THE Dominion Parliament was opened at
Ottawa, Ont, on the 23d. The Governor.
General commended the new Fishery
treaty to the favorable consideration Of the
members.
THE British Liberal Unionists gained an
unexpected victory in the Parliamentary
election in the West Riding OF Yorkshire
recently, returning their candidate in a
Liberals place.
PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON has resigned his
commission in the Italian army.
MADRID newspapers state that the Duke
Of Montpensier has notified the Govern.
ment that he will return to Spain at the
end of the present week, notwithstanding
Prime Minister Sagasta's warning.
THE chief Government measure to come
before the Canadian Parliament this SEES
sion IS railway act similar to the United
States Commerce law.
A GRAND tie-up on the Burlington system
was expected on the 25th, owing to the re-
fusal of the company to agree to the de.
mands of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) for the
seven DAYS ended February %, numbered
for the United States, 231; Canada, 80;
total, 27O, as compared with 273 the pre-.
vious week and $50 the corresponding week
Of last year.
IT is reported that syndicate Of French,
Belgian and Dutch bankers has advanced
to Russia the sum Of $4,000 600, refusing
to grant a larger loan unless the Bulgarian
question is settled peacefully.
JUSTICE DENNY, Of the Queens Bench
division, Ipswich, Eng. in the case of u
poacher who had severely wounded q
gamekeeper, held that the gamekeeper had
no right to arrest and hunt poachers as he
would wild beasts. Tho jury acquitted the
poacher on the ground OF self-defense.
THE IATEST
CLEARING house returns for week ended
February - showed an average decrease
Of 4.6 compared with the corresponding
week Of last year. In New York the de-
crease was SIS.
ANOTHER disastrous fire visited Buffalo,
n. Y, on the morning Of the 36th, breaking
ont in the five-story building, AZ and ~
Exchange street. Loss, ssol,0OO; one-third
insured.
The seventy-two hour-twelve hours q
day-bicycie race closed at Philadelphia on
the 18th. The closing scores were: Ding