The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-11-01
GENERAL.

GENERAL.
RIcHHLIEU DEvoY dropped from . bal.
loon at Wolverhampton, England, 70.
Gently, making the wonderful perform.
auce of ascending 1900 feet and success.
fully dropping from that great height
holding to parachute.
The Grand Duke Nicholas Of Russia,
uncle Of the Gear, is dying from q cancer
Gus trouble of the ear.
THE Jesuit missionaries have been ex.
PEELED from Uny amyembe, Zanzibar, and
their mission destroyed.
The miners Of Belgium have demanded
20 per cent increase in wages, with q
strike as the alternative.
EIGKr tenants are threatened with
eviction at Falcarragh. County Donegal,
Ireland.
CHARLES BRADLAuGH the English rad.
ical and free thinker. was reported crit.
ically sick on the 22d.
The office Of general manager Of the
Union Pacific has been abolished.
THE German Reichstag was opened on
the 22d.
The Government bonds supposed to
have been stolen in the City Of Mexico
have turnee up all right
IT is stated that Kossuth will be natu.
rallied as an Italian.
Mr.. GLADSTONE addressed q large
gathering at Southport, England. recently.
He was sanguine of Liberal success, but
did not outline any fresh policy.
COUNT OKuMA. Minister of Foreign AT.
fairs, Japan, upon whose life an attempt
was made a few days ago was more Sc.
riously wounded than was at first sup.
posed. The wound, which was in the leg.
assumed such state that amputation was
necessary.
IT is stated at Shanghai that the coll
lapse Of the railway scheme is due to
French insistence upon the enforcement
of an article in an old treaty emitting
France to supply the personnel and ma
terial for any Chinese railway.
AN alliance is reported between the Chi.
cago & Northwestern and the Union Pa
cific systems. The c. & N. is under cen.
troll of the Vanderblts, and the report
gave rise TO considerable speculation.
THE King of the Netherlands will abdi.
cate the title of King of Luxembourg in
favor of the Duke of Nassau
FoUR persons were burned to death by
the Turning of the steamer Quinto in the
bay of Quinto, Canada
RELIABLE news has been received by
Captain w issman concerning Emin Pasha
and Henry NJ. Stanley, Signor Casati and
six Englishmen. They are all expected to
arrive at Mwapwa at the latter part of
November. Captain Wissman also says
that he defeated force of insurgents
near Somwe and killed seventy of them.
ADMIRAL GILLIs reports from Monte-
video that yellow fever is spreading in
Brazil and is likely to give serious trouble
during the coming summer.
AN explosion of dynamite in Montreal
Can, the other morning. caused one death
and the serious injury Of five other per-
sons
The Russian Government has offered
prizes of 9 600 francs and large gold and
several silver medals for the best essays
on the part John Howard took in prison
reforms, to be delivered at the fourth in.
ternational prison congress in Russia next
year.
LORD DERBY. in a speech at Liverpool,
Endorsed Mr.. Glads,one's foreign policy.
He deprecated alliances and said England
had no business to assist Germany in
keeping conquered provinces.
THE Parnell Commission recommended
OF Lon don on the Gath.
ADvICEs from Belle Isle and Labrador
show continued restitution.
EARTHQUAKE shocks were felt over
large part of Mexico the other day, but no
damage was done.
THE traders and manufacturers of En-
gland are up in arms against the unjust
charges of the railroads and the high
handed treatment accorded shippers.
A CONSERVATIVE defeated the Home
Rule candidate at Brighton, England. he
vote was :. 1872 to l. 625.
MISS WINNIE DAVIS, daughter Of the
ex.Confederats President, will spend the
winter in Europe
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) for the
seven days ended October "a numbered,
including Canada. 225. compared with 25i
the corresponding week OF last year.
THE negroes concerned in the fatal riot.
ing on Navassa island, West Indies, have
been landed at Baltimore and jailed
JAY GOULD thinks that the combination
of railroads, as often mooted, is not at
present feasible.
A BATTLE is reported to have taken place
on the island OF Savaii between the forces
Of Malietoa and Tamasese. Which party
won was not known.
forgeries were known to be forgeries by
Mr.. Houston, secretary of the Loyal and
Patriotic Union, before they were pub.
lished in the London Times.
THE Japanese Cabinet has resigned.
THE LATEST.
VIRGINIA Independent Republicans have
nominated John F. Lewis, of Rockingham,
for Governor.
GEORGE A. HALEY. Of Newark, n. j.,
has declined the appointment of Cherokee
Commissioner.
The position of the French is said to be
critical in Madagascar.
AN Anglo American newspaper Is
shortly to be established in the City OF
Mexico.
MISSIONER, the French painter, has
been decorated with the Grand Cross Of
the Legion of Honor.