The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-09-06

A NETTING Of the bondholders of the
Oregonian Railway Company was held
the other day at the Office Of the company,
Dundee, Scotland. at which by unanimous
vote the sale Of the railroad to c. p.
Huntington for f1S0,000 was approved.
The company had lost at the rate Of GOO
weekly and desired to consummate the
sale as rapidly as possible.
The collapse Of the Magdeburg sugar
syndicate has seriously affected the sugar
refineries at Stettin. The Hamburg au.
thorities have ordered an investigation to
discover why the proper officials had not
controlled the brokers' trading.
The resignation of the ruler Of CASH
mere has been accepted by the Viceroy
of India and the country has been placed
under a native council
MRS MAVERICK will shortly be removed
to the convict prison at Wokiug, in Surrey.
Her friends can visit her there once every
two months
The dockyards strike at London par.
TALLY ended on the 18th by the wharfers
granting concessions to the men.
NJ. THESE, Boulangist member OF the
Chamber of Deputies, has been ar
rested for resisting the police at q Bou.
langist meeting.
The steamer City of Paris has again
broken the record, beating her own best
time from Queenstown by three hours and
forty-nine minutes. Her actual time from
Queenstown to Sandy Hook lightship was
five days, nineteen hours and eighteen
minutes. Among the passengers were
Russell Harrison, Andrew Carnegie, John
A. Kasson and Joseph Medill, of the Chi
cago Tribune.
A DISASTROUS storm, accompanied by
floods, has ragged at Dakayama, Japan.
The H. C. Frick Coke Company has pur-
chased the Schoonmaker Company's plant
of 1900 ovens, 5000 acres of land and
twenty-five cars.
The village of Tscherlach, in St Gall,
Switzerland, was destroyed recently by
the fall of q portion of Mount Rulbisberg.
The villagers escaped.
The Brazilian Government has nego.
tiated with the banks OF Rio de Janeiro q
loan of So 600, 0o0 at per cent per an.
mum.
On August the Rush captured the
British sealing schooner Lily of VAN
sea. In all there have been fourteen seal.
ers boarded by the Rush and warned out
of the Behring sea besides six captured.
The Government of Paraguay has ac-
copied the invitation of the United States
to attend the congress of American States
in Washington in October.
A CROWDED meeting of Protestants was
held at Belfast recently to protest against
Mr.. Balfour's latest proposal to endow a
Catholic unworthy in Ireland.
A SERIES of typhoons unprecedented in
their fury and destructiveness, have swept
over Japan and part of China. The dam
age to property is incalculable, and the
lowest estimate of the loss of life by
drowning places 1t at 5000.
THE Comte de Paris has issued an cleo.
toral manifesto. He declares that his oh.
ject is to snatch power from the hands of
an oppressive faction. He counsels union
of the Conservatives and tolerance of the
Boulangists, whose programme Of revi-
sion, he says, will release France from
servitude and restore religious peace.
CHAKIR PAsHA, the Governor of Crete,
has issued a proclamation announcing
that the Turks have occupied the whole
island for the purpose of restoring order.
and that any person guilty of resisting
the Turkish authority will be severely
punished.
proceedings against the authors of the re.
cent Anarchist manifesto.
MRS. MAVERICK has been placed in the
infirmary of the prison at Woking, Eng,
because of i'll health.
The new Hamburg American steamer
Columbia recently concluded the fastest
trip on record from the Needles to Sandy
Hook, her time being days, Is hours and
20 minutes. This beats her previous rec
ord, the best, of days, q hours and %
minutes.
FIVE persons were killed i'm the City of
Mexico the other day by the falling of the
wall of a private residence.
EXCITEMENT was reported prevailing
among Americans resident in China be-
cause of the influence brought to bear up
on the Emperor to have all Americans ex-
PEELED in retaliation for the Scott Exclu-
sion bill.
The British Parliament has been pro-
rogued to November 16.
A DISPATCH from Shanghai says: Ten.
ders have been received for the construc-
ton of the first section of the railroad
from Chinkiang to Pekin. 1t is estimated
that the rails and plant will cost $40, 1000, =
600.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended August 90 numbered
211, compared with 206 the previous week
and 226 the corresponding week of last
year.
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