The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-14

An alleged Irridentist has been arrested
at Trieste on suspicion Of intention to
assassinate the Emperor Of Austria during
his stay at the castle of Miramah.
MAIL advices from the west coast OF
Africa are that rumor has reached Bonny
from the Upper Niger that Henry NJ. STAN
ley is proceeding at the back of the Great
Oil river under the British flag and that
natives are friendly.
The Cologne Gazette declares that the
diplomatic relations between Russia and
Persia threaten to become strained almost
to the point of breaking, owing TO the as.
cendancy Of England in Persia, from .
military standpoint Is well as CONNER.
cially.
THE blockade Of East African ports has
been officially gazetted In Germany.
The Commercial Bank of Odessa has or.
dered twelve gunboats for the Montenegrin
Government.
THE Workmen's Congress at Chatelet,
Belgium, has decided upon an immediate
and general strike of the GOLFERS.
The report comes from Berlin that an
agreement has been made between the
German and the English steel manufact-
urers by which they have formed a COM
pact to avoid competition in their respect
i've territories.
LORD CHURCHILL's resolution adverse
to the Egyptian policy Of the Salisbury
Government was rejected in the British
House of Commons on the 4th by 231 to
lS9. The Government came near being
defeated, runners being sent out to fetch
in supporters.
OFFICIAL returns from all the States,
excepting Colorado, give Cleveland plu-
rality of 110,904. In Colorado Harrison's
plurality was estimated at 2,64S. Cleve-
land thus bad plurality of the popular
vote of IS, 261.
By the fall of q wall of a building re.
Gently burned in Hamilton, Ont, the other
day three workmen were fatally injured
and twelve more or less hurt.
A DISPATCH from Paris says that the
split in the ranks of the Boulangist party
threatens to become serious.
The proposed clearing house plan to
govern Western railroads is reported to be
dead.
A NUMBER of men who were on a strike
in Belgium exploded dynamite cartridges
in the vicinity of the houses of obnoxious
employers the other night, but no one was
injured. At several places the strikers
paraded the streets bearing French flags,
which they cheered heartily.
PRINCE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS claimant
to the throne Of Servia, is dying IN Aus
tria.
THE Porte has signed convention with
the Seligmans, the American bankers,
providing for the junction of the Turkish
and Greek railways. 1t rejected for pOlit-
ical reasons the English, German and
French tenders to carry out this project.
THE steamer Haytien Republic has been
released.
THE German war ship Garcia has cap
tured slave dhow off the coast of Zanzi-
bar.
The Ashbourne Irish Land Purchase
bill has passed its third reading in the
British House of Lords.
THREE men named Fournia, father, son
and nephew, left Gsspe, Que, the other
day in small boat for their homes on
Dartmouth river. Next morning their
dead bodies were found in the boat. which
was full of water. Death resulted from
exhaustion and exposure.
RIoTs have occurred at Rennes France,
among the workmen. Troops were sent to
quell disturbances.
BY the wrecking of the British steamer
Hartlepool at Egersund, Norway, recently
seventeen of her crew were lost.
Don DOMINGO OLIVIA, criminal judge for
the district of La Cathedral, Havana,
Cuba, recently received an Internal ma
chine in the shape of writing desk. In
trying to open it his wife was seriously
wounded by the explosion which followed.
THE Russian railway officials have been
ordered to observe the same ceremony to-
ward ex-Queen Natalie, of Servia, as is
shown Grand Duchess.
THE Portuguese Government announces
blockade of the Portuguese coast in East
Africa.
THE King of Portugal was attacked with
a congestive chill recently and was seri-
ously i'll.
MICHAEL DIVERS house, about three
miles from Blythe, Ont, was burned the
other morning and Mrs. Dwyer, her
daughter and three grandchildren were
burned to death.
THE Boletin. the organ of the postal au-
thorities of Mexico, brings serious charges
against the American postal authorities,
accusing them of negligence and careless
ness and sending mails on long routes.
A REPORT was current on the 9Th that
Jay Gould had obtained controlling in
terest in the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe.
The report was discredited at Boston, but
considerable speculation prevailed about
it in New York and Chicago.