The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-01-25

THE damage done BY the earthquake O
December 30 in Costa Rica was estimate,
| at s., 600 900.
THE majority Of the royalists have dc
cided 10 vote for General Boulanger in tn
coming election in Paris.
The Temps Of Paris says that Londo.
nrm has offered the General of the Car
thusian monks of La Grande Chartreus
$4,000, 900 for a monopoly Of the manu-
facture and sale of the famous Chartreus
liquor. The General of the order is dis
posed to reject the proposal.
HENRY WOLFF, the Dutch aeronaut, as
cended in q balloon at Antwerp recently
accompanied by Lieutenant Daniel. The
balloon was driven out to SEQ and it wa
feared both were drowned.
The annual boat race between Cam
bridge and Oxford Universities, England
will take place March 30.
IT is stated in st. Petersburg that Rus
STA will build three large men. of. war dur,
ing the present year.
A GRAND scheme for conveying the sew.
age OF Paris to a tract of land in the De.
partment Of Seine.et- Disc, for sub,equen,
use as a fertilizer. has been approved By
the French Senate.
THE Bankruptcy bill has passed the
French Senate. The measure has espe.
cial interest at the present time because i,
enables the Panama Canal Company te
convert the old organization into a new
concern.
The German Emperor has ordered the
dismissal Of all the French cooks employee
In n M ha -
Germana
partially on the 18th. The thermometer
was % degrees In the shade and there was
no ice on the river.
MMR. lima DI MURsKA, the singer, died
at Munich on the 18th in extreme poverty.
Her daughter, who was heart-broken at
the loss of her mother, committed suicide
by taking poison.
RETURNS from the English County Coun.
Gil elections show q majority for the Lib
erals.
DR.. FRIEDBERG has resigned the office Of
Prussian Minister of Justice because of the
publication of the Geffecken indictment.
The British steamer Amor went aground
the other day in the Chesapeake bay near
the entrance to the Craighill channel. She
was bound out.
HENRY WOLFF, the Dutch aeronaut who
assembled in a balloon from Antwerp re.
Gently and was driven out to sea, was
alive by a vessel two days after
ward. His companion, Lieutenant Daniel,
was drowned before the vessel was able to
reach him.
ONE OF the messengers sent from Suakim
to Khartoum early in November brings
back letter from a European which says
that Lupton Bey died on May 8. 1t was
reported that the equatorial provinces had
yielded to the Mahdi. Nothing was known
Of Emin Pasha- Slatin Bey and the other
Europeans were well.
The British bark Siebel which left New
York June Is last for Rangoon, Asia, has
been given up for lost. She had twenty
men.
THOUSANDS of Germans are applying
FOR permission to accompany Lieutenant
expedition to East Africa, but
he proposes to take but few whites.
The work Of laying the new cable be-
tween Coatzacoalcoas Mex, and Calves
ton, Tex, was begun on the 18th by the
Faraday.
THx Japanese Government has abolished
he export duty on drugs, woven goods,
timber, cereals, spirits, beasts and fuel.
A MADRID correspondent says that the
Spanish Government Is trying to set of
Spanish claims for damages sustained in
he war of secession in the United States
against the Mora compensation claim.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
'even days ended January II, numbered
80. compared with 3Sl the previous week
md 3l4 the corresponding week Of last
rear.
TwENTY-F Five miners were killed BY an
explosion Of fire-damp in the Hyde colliery
lear Manchester, Eng, recently.
THOMAS A. STEVENS, who proposes to 90
nto Central Africa in search Of Henry M.
stanley, left London for Zanzibar on the
Sth.
A YOUNG woman and man from Lyons,
rance, were found dead in a room at a
lotel at Monte Carlo the other day. In a
etter to a friend they said they had suf-
cred losses at the gaming tables and in-
ended to commit suicide together.
In the recent election for the Govan di-
ision of Glasgow, Scotland, the Glad
tonian candidate defeated the Unionist,
eversing the preceding election, when the
ate Mr.. Pearce was elected.
A BRUSH trust has been formed which
ontrols with but few exceptions the out
ut Of all the prisons of the country en-
aged in that line of goods.
The elections for the new county coun.
lis in London recently showed a good
majority for the Liberals and Radicals.