The Iola register., 1889-12-20

| CHARLES STEWART PARNELL's
health was such that he was not able
to speak at Nottingham, Eng, as had
been arranged.
Rev. SAM SMALL has applied for
ordination in the Protestant Episcopal
Church.
THE election of General Boulanger
to the Chamber Of Deputies has been
invalidated.
The Russian influenza has made its
appearance in London, two cases being
under treatment by an eminent ply.
sician.
THE Houston & Texas Central has
become the gulf outlet for the Fort
Worth & Denver.
FIFTEEN thousand seals have been
killed in the Gulf of st. Lawrence dur
ing the past few days.
THREE renowned German artists
have been commissioned to paint a pam
Drama of Stanley's and Emin's adven-
lures for the American Worlds Fair.
The Hotel Suiss, Amsterdam, was
destroyed by fire the other night. The
guests all escaped.
The son of Minister Lincoln, reported
very sick, has greatly improved.
The National League magnates have
commenced legal proceedings against
the Brotherhood ball players.
THERE are efforts in France to scare
up boom for General Boulanger.
MCDONALD, the alleged candy
poisoner, of st. Johns. N. B., has been
proven insane.
EX-CONsUL SEwELL is to be reap
pointed Consul at Api, Samoa.
GENERAL SICKLEs' daughter, by his
second wife, elOped recently with a
bartender.
THERE is rumor that Silcott, the
defaulter, is on his way to Chill.
BOMBAY dispatches say there will be
no famine in the Madras presidency.
Rain has fallen and supplies have gone
from the north.
IT is reported from Rio de Janeiro
that the jewels of the Empress Of
Brazil have been stolen. They were
exceedingly valuable.
EMIN PAsHA is pronounced by his
physicians to be much better and in ex-
cellent spirits. He, however, requires
constant attention from his physicians.
THE Bell Telephone Company has
declared dividend of So per share,
payable January Is.
THE natives of Swasiland, South
Africa, have agreed to permit trium-
viratc of two Englishmen and one
Transvaal Dutchman to govern their
country.
ROBERT BROWNING, the poet, died
at Venice, Italy, on the 18th. He was
born in London in 1872, and started a
new school of thought, many cities in
America and Europe having branch So
cieties.
EDWARD BRADLEY, whose writings
as ''Cuthbert Bede" have gained him
worldwide celebrity, died in England
recently.
THE threatened strike of the coal
porters employed by the London gas
companies has BEEN ayerted by arhitra-
ton.
ALL the printers in Berne, Switzer-
land, have struck for higher wages.
Several papers were unable to issue
their usual editions.
OWING to the scarcity of farm labor
ers in Germany, the project of import
ing Chinese farm hands has been re-
ceived with great favor.
ENGLISH newspapers, without ex-
ception, print extended obituary no
tices of the poet Browning, bestcwing
upon his achievements a measure of
praise which they as unanimously
withheld from him during his life.
They agree that lie possessed and dis
played high degree of genius, but are
inclined to the belief that much of
what passed for admiration Of his
works was really affectation.
GREAT excitement has been caused
in high circles in Berlin by the arrest of
a woman occupying an exalted position
in society on the charge of being pro-
cureSS.
LIE CARoN, the spy and informer, is
shortly to publish a book relating his
personal adventures and experiences, in
which enterprise he is understood to be
backed by several men prominent in
the leadership of the English Conserva-
tive party.