The Iola register., 1889-06-07

MINISTER ROBERT I. LINCOLN and wife
! were received by the Prince and Princess
Of Wales at the Marlborough House, Lon.
don, on the 9th.
THE discovery of plots against the life
of the Gear are of almost daily occur.
renee. The Russian police have discov.
cred numerous societies with ramifications
| all over the continent whose sole purpose
| seems to be the murder of the Russian
Emperor.
THE seditious priests of Guanajuato,
| Mexico, will be expelled and not shot, a.
reported.
The Canadian Government does not an.
ticipate trouble with the United States
over the jurisdiction Of Alaska waters.
CARDINAL GIBBONS has expressed him.
self as decidedly opposed to prohibition
but in favor of high license
A REPORT that the assembly Of Crete
had voted in favor of the annexation of
the island of Greece is officially denied.
THE report that the British fleet has
been ordered to the Behring sea was q
canard.
The Belgian Chamber of Representa-.
tives has voted confidence--1S to 32-in
favor Of the ministry.
IT was recently rumored that the Mexi.
can Congress, in secret session, was dis
cu.sing the question of ceding Lower
California to the United States. 1t was
believed, however, that the rumor was
merely a stratagem of the Conservatives.
MANY lives were lost and an enormous
amount of property destroyed by a ter.
rife hurricane which prevailed for four
days on the Australian coast
Ten thousand people have been rendered
homeless by a terrible confiagation at Yo.
kato. Japan.
The London Jockey Club has warned
Lord James Douglass off the Newmarket
course for deiaulting in bets.
A BANQUET in honor of Mr.. Ryan. the
United States Minister, was given in the
City of Mexico on the 30th. Minister
Ryan responded to the toast The Presi-
dent of the United States" HIS speech
was vigorously applauded.
The action of the Chicago Burlington &
Northern in reducing freight rates to the
basis of SO cents a hundred pounds from
Chicago to st. Paul on traffic originating
east of Chicago will be met by all the
other St Paul lines except the Rock
Island.
In the British House of Commons Sir
James Ferguson Parliamentary Secretary
to the Home Office. denied the reports
from Victoria, British Columbia, that three
men .of-war in the Pacific had been or
dered to proceed to the Behring sea to pro-
tect British sealing vessels from inter-
ference by American men .of-war.
DECORATION day was duly observed on
the 3Oth. The occasion was seized upon
by politicians, somewhat more than usual,
to elaborate their principles. The prn-
cipal features were visits to Grants tomb
at New York and the Sheridan monument
at Washington. In the South. Confeder-
ate and Federal graves were decor ated
alike. President Harrison attended the
parade at New York.
One hundred arrests have been made at
Belgrade in connection with the recent
riot.
PRINCE ALoIs SCHwARzENBURa and q
Lieutenant of hussars fought a duel near
Vienna recently. The former was mortal.
ly wounded.
A HEAVY storm of rain and hail visited
Huajutla, Mexico on the 30th. The town
was inundated and almost entirely de-
stroyed. Many lives were lost. The de.
struction of cattle and other property was
immense.
VIzITELLI, the we'll known bookseller Of
London. has been sentenced to three
months imprisonment for publishing
z ,la's novels.
SEVERE storms have caused great dam
age in France and China Many lives
have been lost
LORD SALISBURY, replying to a deputa-
ton in favor of q bi-metallic standard
of currency, said he did not think n
parliamentary decree would settle the
question but the opinion of the people,
founded on business interests, mus decide
it. He hoped that the coming congress at
Paris would be really an international
one. The final decision would depend on
how far the nations would CO. operate.
TIE manager and assistant Of the Bally.
mena estates Ureand) were assassinated
recently in the public road. Ballymena is
twenty miles north of Belfas: in a strongly
Protestant community.
A MESSAGE has been received in London
from General Hippolyte. the insurgent
leader in Hayti, saying that he has de.
feated Presi lent Lsgitime, captured Port
au Prince and procla med himself Provis.
ional President.
THERE was a cave-in at the Beverly Hill
mines, at Han.ey, England, recently, en-.
tombing 100 miners
THE Rock Island has given notice that
it would meet the rates of the Chicago,
Burlington & Northern between Chicago
and st. Paul.