The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-07-26
GENERAL.

The International Socialist Congress
| was opened in Paris on the 18th with 1888
French and 1s9 foreign delegates. Of the
latter 50 were Germans, and included
eleven members of the German Reichstag.
The Pail Mall Gazette says that Wis.,
count Dunloe. aged twenty, the heir of the
Earl of Clancardy, has been married to
Belle Benton, music hall artist
The proposed International salt trust
will have capital of $40 0o0O 900.
INF ship Premier from Santos has ar
lived at Saguenay, in the Gulf of st. Law
renee, with yellow fever on board.
The counsel for Parnell have withdrawn
from Judge Hannen's Commission.
The body of fearfully mutilated wom-
an was found in Castle alley. White
chapel. London. on the 10th, evidently the
work of Jack the Ripper"
SIX THOUSAND lives have been reported
lost by further floods in China.
GENERAL BouLANGER has been inter-
viewed concerning the Indictment found
against him in Paris. He declares that
the statements made in the Indictment
are tissue of falsehoods.
HOUSES were violently shaken and
much damage done on the isle of Arran
and the mainland of Scotland on the 18th.
THE first seven clauses Of the Grace
British bondholders' contract with Peru
have been approved by the Chamber of
Deputies of that country and the accept.
ance of the entire contract is now thought
10 be assured.
A CRANK recently shot at the Emperor
of Brazil at Rio de Janeiro without effect.
THE demands of the engineers of the
Pittsburgh & Western railroad Tor an ad-
vance in wages were acceded to and the
threatened str Ike was abandoned.
In the British Hou e of Commons Mr..
Gladstone agreed to compromise the mat
ter of award to the royal family. under
the terms of which the Prince of Wales is
TO be allowed f40,0 year as substi-
lutte for all the claims of his children.
The anniversary o: the death of ex-
President Juarez was celebrated through
out Mexico on the 18th by imposing dem
constructions of the Liberal party. In the
capital there was an immense procession
and considerable excitement among the
people. A bitter factional feeling pre-
vailed and yeils, Death to Conservatism"
and death to the clergy" were heard
everywhere. There was no serious dis
order.
The Egyptian Government has notified
the French Government that the latter's
refusal to accept the conversion scheme
will cost Egypt Goo 0)0 yearly.
Two hundred houses were destroyed by
fire at Constantinople the other day.
THL Irish team won the Echo challenge
shield at Wimbledon with a score of $50;
the English, 1.6S4; Scotch, 1.626.
The Iumor that Jay Gould was prepar-
ing to buy the Chicago & Alton was de-
clared to be a Wall street fake.
RUMoRs Were prevalent in Europe that
the widow of the late Emperor William
of Germany had joined the Catholic
Church.
The Cologne Gazette publishes a dis
patch from St Petersburg stating that the
Car has expressed the intention of meet.
ing Emperor William on the German
frontier. The Car is averse to going to
Berlin.
NJ. RoUvIER, the French Minister of
Finance has dismissed five treasurers
general collectors of inland revenue)
for being active members Of the Boulang-
.rist party.
Mrs. JOHN A. LOGAN returned from Eu-
rope recently on the steamer Trave.
The Tory candidate was elected in
Mary Iebone, London, on the 18th. receive
ing s,oaV NOtes 10 his Ol'ponchh -.VSV
CHAIRMAN WALKER, of the Interstate
Commerce Railway Association, has is
sued a new decision restoring rates on
bullion and ore from Pueblo and Denver
to Missouri river points to the former basis
of 81 and 81 respectively.
Mr.. PARNELL addressed sc, 900 of his fol-
lowers at Edinburgh, on the 18th, and was
received with great enthus assn.
lao. 4.
was arrested in the Whitechapel district
on the morning of the Goth. H. had just
killed a woman and had the knife on his
person with which he had committed the
deed.
BUSINESS failures QDun's report) for the
seven days ended July Is numbered 203,
compared with 205 the previous week aud
a2S the corresponding week last year,
THE LATEST.
ELLIS JACOBS, colored. of Washington,