The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-21
GENERAr.

collision in the Black Sea have been
beached near Constantinople, both being
badly damaged
UNEXPECTED enthusiasm for the Russian
loan prevailed in France. Offers were
three or four times in excess of the amount
wanted.
ALL the treasury officials at Madrid have
been imprisoned, pending an inquiry into
the robbery of $4,000 from the Govern
ment deposit bank in that city.
PANAMA canal shares were reported
panicky in Paris. Various schemes were
suggested to prevent collapse. De
Lesseps wished to make the project an in
ternational one, in which England and
America would be invited to participate.
The new shell fred by the great Italian
hundred-ton gun far exceeds in destruc-
tiveness any ever before used.
THE leading Catholics of Belgium have
passed resolutions deploring the position
Of the Pope in Rome and calling for con-
gress of the powers to restore the temporal
power of the Pontiff.
The American favorites of the King of
Wurtemburg soon expect to be restored TO
power by change in the Wurtemburg
Ministry.
BY the sinking of the Connecticut
schooner, Sis Church, off Cape Charles the
other night three of the crew were lost.
IT is asserted at st. Petersburg that an
American syndicate with capital of so, =
10000, has been formed to construct a
railway in Siberia, and that several former
and present American diplomatic and con-
sular agents are interested in the UNDER
taking.
THE Canadian Government proposes in
1890 to reform the banking system SO as to
conform to the American style as regards
circulation.
IT was said the presidency of the Balti-
more & Ohio would be given to Charles F.
Meyer, the Garrett party being again in
control.
A LONDON dispatch of the 14th said that
the Panama Canal Company was in serious
financial embarrassment.
JOHN BRIGHT, the noted English states.
man was reported much improved on the
18th.
THE recent conference of the Bi-Metallic
League at London has resolved to en-
deavor to secure a return to the bi-metallic
system prevailing prior to 1879.
A RECENT London telegram said that
Persia had waived her objections TO the
Meshed, and that the Gar would send a
Consul there at once.
A DEPUTATIoN representing the Canada
Pork Packers Association waited on the
Minister of Customs at Ottawa, Ont, on
the 18th. They wanted the Government to
adopt measures to prevent the importation
of American adulterated lard. They also
sought to have the duty on American
pork fixed at two cents per pound for
barrel pork.
IT has been officially stated that the
Pope does not intend to leave Rome, nor
had he thought of taking such a step.
KILRAIN has accepted John L. Sulli.
vans challenge for fight to finish for
SO, 900 side, the fight to come Off within
six months or not at all.
The business failures for the seven days
ended December IA number 1903, as COM
pared with sos last week and 232 the week
previous. For the corresponding week of
last year the figures were 2SS.
ALBEcK's wooden mandatory at Leu
munster, Germany, was burned to the
ground recently. Fifteen persons were
killed and ten others sustained fatal in
juries.
IT was rumored at London recently that
Stanley. the great explorer, was prisoner
of the Mahdi, together with Emin Pasha,
and that England must give up Suakim to
secure their release.
IT was reported recently that the Can
adams were not at all pleased with Con-
gresham Butterworth's bill for the an
nexation of Canada and that they regarded
it as the greatest rot ever propounded by
a statesman.
r. G. Dun & Co.'s review of trade for
the week ended the 18th stated that the
prospects of business were very bright
and on a sound basis, with very little
speculation anywhere.