The Iola register., 1889-09-13

A DISPATCH from Berlin says: Dr.. Petsrc
has been recalled from East Africa. The
expedition for the relief Of Emin Bey has
been abspdone The Boersen Zeitung
reports that Dr.. Peters has retreated to
VItuland
THE Mexican Government has revised
article Of its customs tariff, wherein liv.
ing animals are made free Of duty, and
has imposed heavy duties on imported
cattle, swine, sheep. mules and goats, q
measure that can not fail to have a most
disastrous effect on the business of sup.
plying Mexico with meat from the United
States.
| The editor of the Paris Cocarde has
been sentenced to four months imprison.
ment and fined 500 francs for purloning
court documents.
The London police on the 4th fired upon
| a crowd of strikers who were molesting
some men at work One man was fatally
wounded.
Ar the Dundee (Scotland) Trades Union
Congress a report favoring eight hours
for days labor was rejected by a vote
of almost two to one.
HEAVY floods prevailed at Tetecala,
Mexico Several lives were lost. A large
bridge was also swept away. The food
at Tampico was increasing and people
were leaving their homes. Many of them
were destitute and hungry and an appeal
for help has been issued.
GENERAL BoULANoER has made public q
manifesto, in which he attacks his po.itic-
al enemies in bitter and vigorous terms.
He claims the right to q trial by court.
martial.
THE employees of the Santa Fe, who
were affected by the 10 per cent reduc.
ton last spring, have all along been look
ing for a restoration, until the recent
furry created by the resignation Of Presi-
dent Strong. 1t has been given out from
official sources that a restoration would
not be made, hut on the other hand that q
reduction OF from 10 to 25 per cent Is inn
minent.
AN explosion occurred in the ironstone
pit of the Maurice Wood colliery at Mid
lothian, Scotland, recently. Sixty miners
were imprisoned. Four dead bodies were
recovered and it was thought the others
were dead.
THE Government Of San Salvador Cen.
tral America, has obtained a loan of
$4,000 in London for the purpose of ex-
tending its railroad system.
The Regents of Servia have warned ex-
Queen Natalie not to attempt to establish
a residence in Belgrade even as private
person.
1T was rumored in Ottawa, Ont, that
the Behring sea dispute would be left by
the English Government for Canada and
the United States to settle.
The town of Tlacolula, in the State of
Hidalgo, Mex, has been entirely de-
stroyed by floods. The people in the
flooded districts are in great distress.
MISS JENNIE S. CHAMBERLAIN, second
daughter of Mr.. Chamberlain, of Cleve-
land, o., was married recently in st.
Georges Church, London, to Captain
Herbert Naylor Leyland.
THREE Frenchmen, accused of foment-
ing an anti-German agitation in Alsace-
Lorraine, have been expelled by the Ger
man authorities.
THREE sealers have arrived at Victoria,
B. C., with over 8. 500 sealskins on board.
Thew reported that they saw nothing of
the United States revenue steamer Rush.
TIE cotton spinners of Manchester,
Eng, have decided to work on half time
for a month.
GOLD has been discovered at Princess
Lodge. seven miles from Halifax n S.
with the famous Montague lea is at
Waverly, and pronounced to be very rich.
HUMPHREYS and Rierson islands in the
Pacific ocean have been taken possession
Of by British war ship.
A TERRIBLE explosion of dynamite oc-
CURED in a cartridge factory at Antwerp,
Belgium, on the Gsh, resulting in a shock
ing loss Of life and disastrous confagra-
tion. 1t was estimated that 800 persons
were killed AMI 1000 wounded.
BUSINESS failures CDun's reportl for the
seven days ended September numbered
POI, compared with 2l1 the previous week |
and 2ss4 the corresponding week Of last
year.
THE London dock companies on the 9th |
agreed to consider a proposal for the six |
penny rate to commence next January.
The strikers were advised to accept the |
and the trouble was probably |
ended.
ONLY fourteen OF the sixty imprisoned |
miners at Midlothian, Scotland, succeeded |
in escaping.
The British ship Winston, coal laden,
from Sidney to San Francisco, was
on Starbu.ck island about July II.
The captain and eight of the crew were
missing, the rest being rescued.
CAPTAIN WIssMANN, with 400 men, has
started for Mpwapwa to punish Bushir
FOR killing Officer Nielsen, of the East
Africa Company.