The Iola register., 1889-09-20

TIE Western Union directors have do.
clared the regular quarterly dividend Of
N per cent The statement of the quar-.
ter ending September 30 estimates the net
revenue at 81. $50. 900 the largest for years,
and leaves a surplus after paying divi.
dends of $462, AIS.
The King of Holland proposes to bestow
on the Emperor Of Germany the grand
cross of the Dutch military order Of Will
liam.
TIE Earl Of Zetland. who has been ap.
pointed Viceroy Of Ireland, will take the
oath of office at Dublin Castle on October
/. The new Viceroy will make his state
entry into Dublin December L
Mr. VAN HAss, a director of the Otto.
man Bank, Constantinople. committed
suicide recently. The bank was not af.
fected SO far as known.
The Inman line steamship City of Paris
on its last trip out made the run in days
hours and minutes breaking the east
bound record.
CHOLERA 10 reported at Athens. Greeca
1t was estimated on the 11th that fifty
lives were lost by the tidal waves and
storms. The coast from Maine to Mary.
land was strewn with wreckage.
CAPTAIN WIssMAN has offered a reward
Of 1900 for the head of Bushire, the
African chief This was done in conse-
quence Of Bushire's threat to destroy the
mission in the interior.
CAPTAIN IRA PAINE. the celebrated
American marksman, died in Paris re.
Gently.
STANLEY was reported marching to the
African coast with Mombassa as his OBJ
jective point.
A WELL known but eccentric London
surgeon was suspected as the author of
some of the Whitechapel murders. Ger
tain remarkable resemblances to his work
have been noticed by other surgeons ex-
amining the mutilated bodies.
THERE are rumors from various quarters
that a large number of Nihilists have re.
Gently arrived in Denmark. In conse-
quence of these reports the authorities are
taking extraordinary precautions for the
prote ction Of the Car during his visit to
Copenhagen, as it is feared that an at.
tempt upon his life is intended.
THE municipal authorities of Liverpool,
England. warned by Antwerp's expe-
rience, have voted S15O,O00 for the con-
struction of petroleum storage depots at
isolated points.
The big chemical works at Wandsworth,
England, were destroyed by fire the other
day and one fireman lost his life. The
works were valued at 100000.
The Bell Telephone Company has in
creased its capital stock from $40. 00O, 900
to Sl2, 500. 600.
The directors of the Missouri Pacific
railway have declared the usual quarterly
dividend of one per cent
NEGOTIATIONS are said to be on foot for
a new agreement between England and
Germany regarding East Africa.
RUMoRs of a formal alliance between
Russia and France are officially declared
unfounded in st. Petersburg.
A wHIRLwIND at Lulu Island, B. c., the
other day desolated the whole country
through which it passed, uprooting gi-
gantic trees and leaving the thickly
wooded surface bare.
SEARLE, the champion sculler, has
challenged Gaudaur to row at London for
$2, 500 side.
A FIRE broke out in the cotton stored in
the hold of the steamship Britannia on
her last trip to Queenstown. After con-
siderable trouble the fire was extin.
guished.
n. FERRY's organ states that Germany
is about to place an army corps on the
Belgian frontier and reinforce the troops
in Alsace- Lorraine. The Autorite pub.
fishes a report that NJ. De Freycinct,
French Minister of War. intends to double
the strength of the army corps stationed
at Nancy.
WILLIAM P. SHAW, general manager OF
the Columbus, Hooking Valley & Toledo
railroad has resigned. He is a nephew OF
the recently deposed President John w.
Shaw.
The official report concerning the wheat
crop of France shows that I, 160, 90 hectares
were sown this year against 6, 1S9, 144
hectares last year. It is estimated that the
yield will be Ill AGO, ,2lS hectolitres against
9S, 740, 72S hectolitres in 1888
The steamer Rothesay recently sank
the tug Moira near BrocSville, Ont, and
two lives were lost
CAPTAIN WIssMAN's police have de-
stroyed the town of kondutchi, between
Bag-moyo and Dar-es-Salaam. Captain
Wissman wished to punish the inhabit-
ants of the place for having supplied the
insurgents with arms.
A SIBERIAN explorer has left Pekin with
the intention of penetrating Thibet. He
is accompanied by a Chinese escort. His
route will be along the great wall of China
to Ian Chow and Lake Kokonova.
Two hundred and fifty-six nominally
Boulangist candidates were nominated for
election to the French Chamber Of Depu.
ties.
THE American brewers have projected
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