The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-01-31
GENERAL.

GENERAL.
The German Government has granted
to Herr Schenck, an architect Of Frem-
waldo, a commission to begin immedi-
ately the canal intended to connect Ber-
lin with the Baltic sea.
THIRTY-NINE persons, chiefly Polish
and German nOblemen, have been BAN
ished from Russia.
INFLUENZA threatens the extinction
of the tribe of 500 Indians at st. Peters
reservation in the Canadian Northwest.
TWELVE bodies have been washed
ashore at bridgeport England. 1t is
surmised that they are part of the crew
of some ship that has foundered in the
recent gales.
AN English syndicate has arranged to
purchase seven lake steamers for $751;.
600. Others are to be bought later.
JOHN GORLEY and his three children
were burned to death recently in fire
at st. Johns, N. F.
FEARS were expressed in London on
the 21st for the National line steamer
Erin from New York.
The hunting schooner Rose was seized
by Russian vessel in the North Pacific
seas for poaching. A prize crew was put
on board. Later the schooner was
wrecked and twenty-three men were
drowned.
THE Cunarder Gallia, which reached
Queenstown, Ireland, on the e1st, re-
ported the toughest passage ever
known. The state rooms were flooded
by wild sea.
A wELL-KNOwN journalist of Vienna
named Palkowitz shot and killed Fraue-
lein Steereicher, an actress. the other
day, after which he committed suicide.
Jealousy was the cause of the tragedy.
BARON Won FRANKENsTEIN, one of the
leaders of the Clerical party in Germany,
is dead.
SOUTHWESTERN FRANCE has been de-
vastated by fearful hurricane, Tele-
graphic communication in that direction
was uninterrupted.
WRECKAGE belonging to the National
line steamship Erin has been observed
in the Atlantic, confirming the worst
fears. She had cargo of cattle and a
crew of sixty men.
THE report that the Bank of England
was about to use silver as security for
notes was declared in London to be a
canard.
MICHAEL DAvITT. in lecture at Cork,
Ireland, declared his steadfast loyalty
to Parnell.
The Mexican Government proposes to
tax Virginia tobacco heavily.
hoo ,.I ,f 90 nf
house at Cork, Ireland, has been officially
dissolved for adopting political resolu-
tons.
The Missouri Pacific has followed the
Chicago & Alton and the Wabash and
has made a livestock rate of ~ cents
from Missouri river and intermediate
points to st. Louis and East st. Louis.
proval of the Samoan treaty, claiming
that Germany had more than an equal
right of interference in the islands,
having more trade.
PORTUGAL has started q National de-
tense fund.
THE report that a resolution had
broken out in Costa Rica is denied by
the representatives of that country in
Washington. Cablegrams received late
ly from there say nothing in regard to
the supposed revolution.
4 REPORT has come to Zanzibar from
the interior that DR.. Peters had arrived
safe and well at Subaki.
REPORTS from Buenos Ayres state
that there have been large number of
failures there which footed up nearly
Sl0,OOO,O00. a panic prevails and gold
has reached 21S.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE called on Mr..
Gladstone at Hawarden on the oath and
spent the day with him.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report for
the seven days ended January % num-
bered 33S, compared with $50 the previ-
Gus week and 342 the corresponding week
of last year.
THE German Reichstag has refused to
reduce the tariff on coal.
In a duel between Edouard Roths-
child, son of Baron Alphonse Roths-
child. and the Marquis de Gouy in Paris
the other day, the Marquis was wounded.
THE British steamer Sandman had
terrible mishap on her recent trip from
Portland, Me-, to Liverpool. Heavy
seas smashed the funnel and the steam
gauge burst. Three of the crew were
killed.