The Iola register., 1889-08-16

The report Of pugilist Jake Kilrain's ar.
rest at Fort Monroe. Va, has been denied.
| CARDINAL WILLIAM MAssIA died ct
| Naples recently.
TIE Greek Government has sent to the
! Powers Q circular note demanding that
| they intervene to restore order in Crete.
Otherwise. the note says, Greece must
take action to protect her subjects on the
island against the Turks
CONTRARY to frst reports. which seemed
| to show the triumph Of Chief Mayes and
the Downings in the Cherokee election,
| later Developments Is showed that Mayes was
| Overwhelmingly defeated and that the
next Council will be composed almost
solidly Of Nationals, who are in almost
every respect opposed to the present Chief
An artillery company at Yarmouth, N.
| g., recently in cleaning out ball which
had been wedged in the breech of a can.
| non, discharged it damaging several
buildings and killing John Connor, a
| workman.
AN Italian torpedo boat and Russian
| corvette have arrived at Gambia, Crete.
EXTENSIVE forgeries Of GOO franc notes
have been discovered ut Toulouse, France.
| The forging has been going on for six
months and the notes have been extern
| sively circulated. A number of persons
| have been arrested. A large railway con-
| tractor who is implicated in the forgeries
has escaped.
MRS. MAVERICK, charged with poison.
| ing her husband at Liverpool. England,
| was found guilty and sentenced to death.
The prisoners confined IN Fort San Juan
De Ulloa at Vera Cruz, Mexico. recently
revolted against the officials. The troops
| on duty at the fort shot twenty of the
prisoners and qgelled the uprising.
The steamship Montreal, of the Do.
minion line, from Montreal to Liverpool,
| was wrecked recently on Belle isle. The
passengers and crew were saved.
ALL The inhabitants, numbering forty,
| Of small village in the Kursk province,
Russia, are under arrest for burning the
entire village to obtain the insurance
| monev.
A. FRANK, owner of the schooner Black
Diamond, recently seized for illegal seal
| ing. proposes to prosecute q claim against
the United States Government for the seiz-
ure.
Two mines of mercury and one of anti
mony have been discovered in Cuba, but
| are not being worked for lack of capital.
PETROLEUM has been discovered in Ia
| basco, Mexico. and valuable coal deposits
| in the State Of Guerrero.
The American Consul at Ottawa, Ont +,
| has again drawn the attention of the Do
miniou Government to a discrepancy in
the customs tariff as regards the importa-
ton of certain articles of forest products,
| which, lie believed, should not exist
The trial of Gen eral Boulanger COM
| menced in the High Court of the French
Senate on the Sth.
HARRINGTON. Home Ruler, made an at.
tempt to assault Mr.. Balfour in the Brit
| ish House of Commons recently. Much
uproar occurred before the excited mem-
ber was suppressed
| The wreck of the steamer Montreal in
| the straits of Belle Isle was due to an ice.
| berg, which forced the steamer aground.
OWING to the small supply of raw sugar
obtainable the great re finery at Greenock,
| Scotland. has been shut down.
NJ. SPULLER, French Minister of Foreign
Affairs, in reply to a communication from
NJ. Delyaunis, the Greek Minister to Paris,
SAYS the insurrection in Crete will un-
doubtedly give rise to a grave question.
| The French Government he says, will
give the matter Sucn attentlOn as IL ue'
| serves.
LEGITIME's Government has delivered
to the United States Minister $500 as
compensation for the seizure and deten.
tlon of the steamer Ozama at Hayti. The
money is on board of the kearsarge with
view to safe keeping and at the request Of
| the Minister. and it is subject to orders Of
the State Department
| BLoNpIN, the daring tight rope per.
former, has accepted a wager of Ga, 600 tc
walk on a cable stretched from the Eiffel
tower to the dome Of the main exhibition
| in less than five minutes.
| On the oath of July, Admiral Gherardi,
in command of the Kearsarge. at Port au-
Prince, participated in the celebration Of
the birthday of the Queen Of Spain with a
Spanish cruiser, and fired a national salute
| of twenty-ou guns at noon.
LETTERS received from Crete tell of the
terrible condition of affairs on that island.
Massacres have been renewed and several
| villages have been burned.
| ADMIRAL. KIMBERLY reports great dis
| tress among the natives of Samoa, which
he has partially relieved with ship stores
The Chinese are swarming in by every
Hong Kong steamer bound for Mexico.
No less than sixty came a week ago. all
destined for Mazatlan and Panama They
have no difficulty in crossing the frontier.
A GIGANTIC syndicate having in view
| the control of the sugar markets OF the