The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01

On the reassembling Of the Texas Elect.
oral College severe criticisms were made
on the action Of Senator Ingalls, in reject.
ing the first returns sent to Washington
because Of alleged informality. The 70.
turns, however, were amended and for.
warded.
buildings at Athens. Tenn. were destroyed
BY fre recently. Loss $4,000.
CAPTAIN WIssMAN, the agent Of the Ger
man Government in East Africa, will also
act as Consul. General at Zanzibar.
AT st Patrick's Church, Montreal, re-
Gently, Father Dowd condemned the Cath
Ole Order Of Foresters of Illinois, and
cautioned the members of his congrega-
ton to have nothing to do with the order.
The Earl of Lucan has offered his ten
ants in the County Mayo, Ireland, re-
lease from all arrears of rent if they pay
one years back rent.
BERLIN students belonging to the Anti.
Jewish Association had q demonstration
on the 22d.
A MESSENGER from Khartoum says that
$1,000 of the Mahdi's followers left there
i'm December last for q final attack upon
Egypt
ADvIcEs from West Africa say that
eleven native policemen headed by Brit
ish officer in conflict with q party Of
war boys at Sulyma, killed 131 of the
enemy with Maxim gun and the rest Of
the party fed in dismay.
WILLIAM Ross. collector of the port of
Halifax, N. s., has resigned because he
exceeded his authority in transmitting q
shipment OF fish to Boston contrary to the
claims Of Canada.
The remains of lima di Murska, the
prilna donna, have been cremated at
Gotha, Germany.
TIE Spanish Government has issued q
decree granting amnesty to all press and
political offenders, including the soldiers
who took part in the rising in Madrid N
1886.
A SENSATION has been created through
out Holland by pamphlet by Tindal en-.
titled, 1.-THE Netherlands in Danger" The
author condemns the country's defensive
organization on both land and sea, and
regards the S7,500,0yo spent yearly a.
wasted.
The Czarina of Russia Is affected with q
kind of palsy which began at the Borki
railroad wreck and has been steadily
growing worse.
THE anniversary of the Polish emeute of
1863 was observed in Poland on the 23d
with numerous banquets at which hopes
for the future freedom of Poland were ex.
pressed.
A TELEGRAM from Stornoway, in the
Hebrides. on the northwest coast Of Scot
land says the derelict American schooner,
W. L. White, abandoned of Delaware bay
March 10 last during the great blizzard
had gone ashore. The crew had been
rescued at the time Of the blizzard and the
abandoned vessel had been drifting ever
since.
The Lord Mayor of London gave a BAN
quet on the oath in honor of Mr.. Phelps,
the United States Minister. There were
80 guests, including Lord Roseberry,
Lord Salisbury, Lord Coleridge, Sir James
Ferguson and many other literary and
scientific celebrities.
The trial of William O'Brien COM
menced at Carrick- on SUR, Ireland, on the
oath. O'Brien made start for the door
during the proceedings, when a riot fol-
lowed. O'Brien's supporters carried him
through the town in triumph. Many per-
sons were injured and q warrant was
issued for O'Brien's arrest.
The Pullman Palace Car Company has
absorbed the Union Palace Car Company,
which had absorbed the Wagner Company.
The only other palace car company beside
the Pullman Is the Wagner, which runs on
the Vanderbilt lines.
The Norwegian bark, ALI, Captain
Bach, which sailed from Demerara Oc-
tober 81, for Philadelphia with a cargo Of
sugar, has been given up as lost
A FAMILY by the name of Rudolph, con-
sisting of six persons, have been suffocated
by gas from n defective stove in Saxony.
THE correspondents of the Figaro and
Rationale Of Paris have been expelled from
Germany.
DISTURBANCES were reported at Culebra
on the Panama canal following a reduce
ton of wages by one of the contractors.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended January "a numbered
342, compared with 3S7 the previous week
and s69 the CORE spending week of last
year.
THE principal cashier of the National
Bank Agency at Bologna Italy, has alb
seconded. having embszsled SlS0,000.
The Canadian Government has issued
orders to all the collectors OF customs to
suspend the issuing of further licenses to
fishermen under the modus vivendi.
AN English missionary named Brooks
and sixteen of his followers have been
murdered near Sedani by members Of
the coast tribes and natives of Zanzibar.
THE LATEST.
BUSINESS on the London Exchange was
fairly active for the week ended January
20. American railroad securities continued
depressed. The German Bourses We're
quiet, with prices fraction better. The
Paris Bourse was fat, due to the election.
The momentous election in Paris on the
9th went in favor of General Boulanger.
He defeated the Government candidate by
plurality of 81 $50. 4 Cabinet crisis fol-
lowed and r,upb a1 ne