The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-21
GENERAL.

GENERAL.
TIE American vessel Ossipee has gone
| to Port au Prince to investigate the re-
ports of Hippolyte's success.
REUTERS telegram from Berlin de.
clares that the cable report from New
York circulated in London alleging that
Secretary Blaine will not sign the draft
| of the Samoan treaty because Germany
claims indemnity for the massacre in Sa.
moa Is pure invention.
The army of Montenegro is to be re.
organized and put in readiness for service
| at the shortest notice.
MINISTERIAL riots occurred at Brussels,
| Ghent and Liege recently. Many of the
rioters were wounded in conflicts with the
police.
THE anti.Jesuits' convention met at To.
ronto, Ont, on the 18th with about 800
delegates present from Ontario. Princi.
| pal Gavin was chairman.
Mr. GLADSTONE denies the correctness
of Henry Clews' assertion in Thirty
Years in Wall Street" that the British
Cabinet considered the recognition Of the
Southern Confederacy. The only time
| the matter came up was when Louis Ma.
poreon suggested joint Intervention to
Lord Palmerston. Napoleon's PROPOSE.
ton was unqualifiedly rejected.
]. & H. TAYLOR, dealers in railway and
engineering supplies, Montreal, Can, have
assigned with S135, 900 liabilities.
By the burning of Luchow in China ten
thousand persons are said to have lost
their lives.
A DISASTROUS collision occurred near
Armagh, Ireland, on the morning of the
10Th to a Methodist Sunday school excur-
sion train, causing the loss Of y lives and
the injury of 100
A MESSAGE received in London on the
18th indicated that the explorer Stanley
had rejoined Emin Pasha.
LORD A. P. CECIL, of England. was
drowned the other day near Adolphstown,
Cam, while fishing.
IT is reported in London that members
of the Clan-na-Gaei committee who
signed the majority report finding DR..
Cronin guilty of treason to the organiza-
ton and sentencing him to be removed are
James j. Rogers, Brooklyn, N. Y; p. o.
O'Brien, Pittston, Pa; Christopher f.
Byrnes, Saxonville. Mass; John D..
Mcmahon, Rome, N. Y.
THE cabmen of Paris followed up their
strike with a riot on the 18th.
The Lord Provost of Edin burgh has de.
clined to officiate at the comforting of the
freedom of the city to Mr. Parnell in July.
News has been received of the death
from fever Of N. Goudry, inspector of the
Congo Free State on the river Congo He
was one of the ablest officers of the Gov
eminent and his loss is q serious one to
the State.
RUSSIA, Germany and Austria have adj
vised Switzerland to deal more severely
with Anarchists and Socialists.
SOME unknown person threw a missile
at Mr.. Gladstone while he was travelling
in Cornwall recently. 1t missed its mark.
THERE was a report current on the 18th
that Hippolyte had totally defeated Legi-
time in Hayti and had captured Port au
Price. Legitime had sought the Ameri.
can Consul for protection.
The Canadian order of Odd Fellows ha
voted down a motion to admit colored me
to full membership.
A PLUG tobacco trust is the latest scheme
reported.
The strike of seamen is reported to have
extended to Antwerp
The crew of the Russian schooner David
has been landed at Southampton, England.
The schooner was sunk by a collision with
the North German LLOYD steamer Trave.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) for the
seven days ended June Is numbered 80,
compared with 225 the previous week and
2S2 the corresponding week of last year.
AT public meeting in Cork. Ireland, to
express sympathy for the sufferers of the
Conemaugh valley, after some warm
hearted speeches had been made, a sub
scription was opened and in a few minutes
81 $50 was contributed
THE Samoan agreement was signed by
the three powers at Berlin on the 18th. The
contents were not published
The short session of the Mexican Con-
gress adjourned on the 18th to meet again
September 10.