The Iola register., 1889-02-22

TWO more fruitless ballots for Unite d
States Senator were taken by the West
Virginia Legislature on the 10Th.
The Bank Of Bedford at Liberty, Va,
has suspended. Assets and liabilities un.
known.
The official trial Of the new gunboat
Yorktown was made in Delaware bay re-
Gently and was pronounced a success.
MONROE WILKERsoN, q colored murderer
condemned to be hanged at Scottsville,
KY, March - made a desperate attempt
to escape the other night but was recapt.
ured and chained to the Jail floor.
GENERAL.
The recent riots in Rome are charged to
French agitators. some of whom were ar
rested.
The Gear Of Russia has purchased two
large estates i'm the Crimea and will e:-
tablish an imperial residence there.
DHULEEP SINGH has sent to India proc
lamation inviting the people to subscribe
the psum of $4,000. 600 with the object of
throwing off the English yoke.
IT has lately been discovered that the
barbed wire patents are worthless, pat
ent having been granted to Louis Janin in
France, April 10, 1865 for the invention,
which is anterior TO the Glidden patents
granted in this country, and which, under
the law, makes them OF no value.
THE labor strike in the north of France
is extending. The Socialists are actively
at work among the laboring classes.
No credence is given in Calcutta to re-
ports that the Ameer of Afghanistan has
designs upon Russia He is simply paci-
flying the province. He will return to
Cabul in the spring and will spend the
summer at Candahar.
THE betrothal of Prince Leopold the son
Of the Red Prince, to Princess Sophie, sis.
ter Of the Emperor of Germany, is an
nounced.
THE trial Of DIR. King commenced at
Lambeth Palace on the 18th before the
Archbishop of Canterbury. DIR. King was
charged with Illegal ritualism.
MANY houses at Fleuvier, a village in
the canton Of Chatelet Switzerland, have
been demolished by landslides and the
people are panic-stricken.
THOUSANDS of unemployed men are
wandering along the Panama canal await.
ing the termination of the financial crisis.
De Lesseps' latest scheme is to issue new
bonds, subscription to open March / and
close March O.
In consequence of its defeat on a motion
to adjourn in a debate on the Constitution
revision question in the French Chamber
of Deputies on the 14th. the Floquet Min
istry resigned.
LATE advices from Samoa say there has
been no change in the situation. There
has been no fighting, and Tamasese and
Mataafa remain in their strongholds. The
British Consul has warned British subjects
not to supply natives with arms and to
maintain strict neutrality. The British war
ship Calliope has replaced the war ship
Royalist. The German and American
war ships remain stationary. Herr
Brandes, the leading partisan of Tama-
sese, has been recalled to Berlin.
ANOTHER tragedy was enacted at Lake
Stanberg, Bavaria, recently when two per-
sons drowned themselves in its waters.
Since the suicide of King Ludwig eleven
persons have drowned themselves in the
lake.
A LIVELY war on freight rates is brew.
ing among the Atlantic steamship lines.
The White Star Company has cut rates
from Europe fifty per cent. and the other
lines are ready to follow.
THE Chicago, Burlington & Quincy rail-
road directors have declared a dividend Of
one per cent.
The Washburn & Moen Barbed Wire
Company, which controls all the patents
in this country, claim that the Janen pat
ent in France does not cover the Glidden
patent.
ADvICEs from Shanghai state that the
famine in Anhui and Kanqsu was worse.
In one province 800 families were starving
and altogether several millions were suf-
fering from famine caused by drought two
years in succession.
Much comment has been caused in
Vienna by the news of the holding of
court ball at st. Petersburg. 1t is stated
that the Czarina tried to prevent it, but
that the Car insisted upon holding the
ball because of a similar action in Aus
tria during Russia's mourning period.
The Danish Embassy alone was invited to
the Russian ball.
THE committee appointed at the recent
meeting of the American Shipping and
Industrial League have presented to Gem
eral Harrison the resolutions adopted by
the league.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended February II numbered
80. compared with 303 the previous week
and 213 the corresponding week of last
year.
FROM the comments Of the European
press Floquet's fall created deep impress
sion in Berlin and Vienna.