The Iola register., 1890-11-07

PATRIcE BoUcIcAULT. oldest daughter
of the late Dion Boucicault the actor
and author, died in London recently.
THIRTY more Armenians have been
arrested in Constantinople for conspir-
ing against the Turkish Government
The Brazilian Government has or
dered the conversion of the five per
cent Government bonds into four per
cents, payable in gold. .
PRESIDENT CABLE, of the Rock Island
road, states that the building of an ex-
tension of the Rock Island to Salt Lake
City was among the events of construc-
tion likely to soon occur. He admitted
that this was what prompted his recent
visit to New York City.
ADMIRAL FREMANTLE, of the British
South African squadron, has captured
Vitu and burned the town to the ground
Only three men were wounded on the
British side in the attack upon Vitu.
FURTHER advices from Zanzibar state
that the Sultan of Vitu made no serious
resistance to the reduction of his cap
ital by the British, but retreated with
his forces to the interior The English
force was not large enough to spare an
effective garrison, and after burning the
town the marines returned to the Boa
dicea.
A NEW company to colonize South and
Southwest Africa, Morocco and Tripoli
has been formed at Berlin. 1t hopes to
divert the stream of emigration from
America.
ACCORDING to a dispatch from St
Petersburg. the Procurator of the Holy
Synod, M. Pobiedonostzeff, had advised
the Car to Danish all foreign mission
aries from Russia and to suppress for
eign worship, except in the Baltic pro-
vinces, where the Lutheran religion is
to be barely tolerated.
GENERAL GRoEs has issued an order
to the police commanding. rigid adher-
ence to the letter of the anti-Jewish
law, and saying that they must compel
the families of Jews expelled from Rus
sia or transferred from one part of it to
another to accompany them.
1T is denied by the Two Republics
that Mexico has placed a prohibitive
duty on cattle.
THE anti-Semitic party in the Hun
garian Diet has been dissolved after an
existence of ten years
IT is stated that the m0dus Cirendi
which Portugal has proposed to England
opens up the Zambesi to all nations,
while England agrees to make no treaty
with native chiefs in the Portuguese
sphere until the delimitation of the
frontiers is settled.
HERBERT WARD, the traveller, declares
that Barttelot was not addicted to the
practices limited at by Stanley.
OWING to the new Tariff law of the
United States 1000 weavers have been
thrown out of work in Silesia
AN epidemic fever prevails in Kill
larney. Ireland, attributed to eating
diseased potatoes.
IT is stated that since the accession
of the Gar Alexander in 1881, gro, 900
Jews have been expelled from Russia.
ELEVEN German life boatsmen were
drowned off the coast of Germany while
trying to rescue the crew of British
vessel.
THE Vossiche Zeitung confirms the
report from Warsaw that while num-
Der of persons were leaving Russia,
their intention being to emigrate to
Brazil, they were fired upon by the
Russian frontier guard at Slupcha. Only
four men lost their lives.
The Spanish steamer Viszcaya was in
collision with the schooner Hargreaves
soon after leaving New York for Havana.
A shocking loss of life was the result,
both vessels sinking About twenty
out of one hundred persons only were
saved.
THE Pope's recent encyclical to the
Italian Bishops concludes with assert
ing that two governments are impossi-
BILE at Rome and that authority must be
given back to the Pope if the world de-
sired his influence over Roman Cath
olics.
FRED MUNDEE, aged 1S, was blown
from a wharf at st. Johns, n. B. Fred
Young, aged II, tried to rescue him,
but both were drowned.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended October 80 num-
bered 21S, compared with 225 the previ-
Gus week and 261 the corresponding
week of last year.
HERR JOHANN NUssBAUM, the cele-
brated German surgeon and oculist
died in Munich recently.