The Iola register., 1890-04-04

BIZ the burning Of house in Santiago
Cuba. two women and one girl perished-
The Conservatives won victory in the
Ayr district Of Scotland by electing Mr..
Somerwell to the place formerly filled
by Liberal
The International Baseball League
will consist Of only six clubs this year.
IT is reported that the Gar will short
~ abolish constitutional government in
Finland, SO as to make the Province
conform to the rest of the Empire.
ACTING upon the advice Of Michael
Davitt the dock men of Liverpool met
their employers and agreed upon terms.
THE annual boat race between Oxford
and Cambridge took place on the
Thames at London on the 26th and was
won by Oxford with lead of one length.
Cambridge had been the favorite and
for three miles of the distance led OK
ford.
A QUEER suicide at Algiers was that
of Jules Renaud, young French artist,
who has been following Amelie Rives-
Chanler, the authoress, in fit of in
sane passion for her on reading ''Quick
or the Dead"
The difficulty between Turkey and
Great Britain arising from the tfiring
upon British vessel by the garrison at
Fort Fac has been satisfactorily ar
ranged. The Porte has apologized to
Great Britain for the outrage, and will
punish those who were responsible for it.
WHILE dancing at the passenger
agents ball in the City of Mexico, Mrs.
Michaelis, wife of the Mexican Central
general passenger agent, fell and broke
an ankle.
THE Emperor has permitted Prince
Bismarck to retain the title of Prince,
with the title of Duke of Lauenburg as
a second distinction. The Prince will
be still addressed as Serene Highness.
THE Missouri Pacific railway directors
have declared quarterly dividend Of
one per cent
AUSTRIA proposes to spend 1000, 900
forins at once for supply of smokeless
powder.
THE Cunard Steamship Company has
declared a dividend of per cent. as
against one of per cent last year.
JAY GOULD and party were recently in
the City of Mexico, and report has it that
he was figuring on transMexican line.
THE Santa Fe has officially refused to
prorate with Eastern lines at the Mis-
souri, river on business destined to
points on the line of the Sc nta Fe or its
connections.
The garrison of Rio Janeiro recently
became disaffected and was ordered to
the south. The troops refused to go
and the Government cancelled the order.
There was much discomfort throughout
the city.
The university and the College Of
Husbandry at Moscow have been closed
by the Russian Government on account
of the recent disorders among the stu
dents Six hundred students attending
the institutions have been arrested.
The disorders at the college were due to
the arbitrary action of the director, who
prohibited the circulation among the
students of the ''Kreutzer Sonata"
work of Count Tolstoi, the social re-
former.
A CABLEGRAM has been received
from st. Thomas, San Domingo, stating
that political revolution had broken
out and that battle had been fought
in st. Thomas. 1t also says that the
trouble which was at first thought to be
insignificant has spread over the entire
island.
THE general passenger agents of the
Western roads have adopted an agree
ment for the reorganszation of the West
ern States Passenger Association.
J. w. PARKER, of Burlington, Kan,
charged with forgery, has been remand
ed at London, Ont, at the request of his
counsel, who desired to present evidence
in his defense.
AT the anti-slavery conference at
Brussels the English delegates pro-
posed the prohibition of the sale of al
cohol in the interior of Africa. All the
delegates except the German members
supported the proposal.
LA LIBERTE, of Paris, discussing the
Mckinley bill, now before Congress, ex-
pressed the opinion that tariff war
with America must follow the adoption
of the measure.
UP to the evening of the 2Sth no news
had been received of the steamer City of
Paris, overdue at Queenstown. The
anxiety caused by her delay was in
creaSing.