The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-11
COMMISSIONER KEncnns, Of the North |

COMMISSIONER KERcnER, Of the North
west mounted police of Manitoba, has
been accused Of brutality. tyranny and
oppression in the Canadian Parliament
An investigation is likely.
In consequence Of the meat famine in
Berlin purveyors are urging the Bundles
rath to repeal the law against the i'm
portation of foreign meat The restau-
rants have raised the price of meat 20
per cent
THE Northern Pacific railway direct
ors have ratified the formal lease of
the Wisconsin Central railroad.
DIVERS have found that large hole
was pounded by the broken machinery
in the bottom of the steamship City of
Paris. The vessel has been pumped
out
THE Nihilist suicide who left letter
in which he stated that he had plotted
against the Cars life, was a naval of.
ficer who belonged to an aristocratic
family.
A RECENT dispatch from St Peters
burg to the London Daily Telegraph
says the Gar has been attacked by a
sudden illness
THE seventy-fifth birthday of Prince
Bismarck was celebrated with much en-
thusiasm in Germany on the LIST.
The Gar and Prince Bismarck have ex-
changed friendly letters in which hopes
of prolonged peace are prominent feat
ures.
THE new White Star steamer Ma jestic
started on its maiden voyage across the
Atlantic from Liverpool on the I'd.
The Dublin Express, Independent
Conservative, denounces Mr.. Balfour's
Land bill and says it imperils the inter
ests of the Irish Conservatives. The
Nation, Mr.. T. P. Sullivan's paper, says
that the bill is public bride to the
peasantry to purchase their peace. Its
failure is certain.
THE British expedition recently sent
out against the Somalis having failed
to accomplish its mission another expe-
dition has been started from Alden.
AGITATION was reported spreading in
three or four places of the Russian EN-
pire among the peasantry, notably in
Finland and Poland.
THE Berlin correspondent of the Lon
don Chronicle telegraphed on the I'd
that a partially successful attempt had
been made on the life of the Gar.
In the Ontario Legislature at Toronto,
Can, Mr.. Graham moved the passage of
resolution calling on the Canadian
Parliament to take steps looking to
closer trade relations with the United
States.
The treasurer of the Canton of Ticino,
Switzerland, has been arrested for en-
bezzling 1000, 900 francs.
THE report of rupture between Bull
garia and Servia is officially declared to
be untrue.
SIR FRANCIS De WINToN, president of
the British Emin Pasha relief COM
mittee, is bitterly indignant at Emin
Pasha's course in entering the service
of Germany and charges Emin with
absolute want of gratitude.
The British war ship Sultan has cap
tured off Zanzibar a dhow with twelve
enslaved Wangamwese porters aboard.
The Brazilian Bishops will shortly is
sue a pastoral refusing to consent to
the separation of the Church and State.
Dom PEDRO was reported unwelL
The Pacific mail steamship China has
lowered the record from San Francisco
to Hong Kong to twenty days.
THE Sultan of Turkey has ordered the
reopening of negotiations with England
for the withdrawal of British troops
from Egypt
EXPLOSIVES have been found in the
grounds of the Cars palace at Cats
china.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) for
the seven days eneed April numbered
2O6, compared with 243 the previous
week and 222 the corresponding week of
last year.
SEVERE hurricanes on the Pacific
during March caused many disasters on
the coast of the New Hebrides. Several
ships were wrecked at Labour. A vessel
grounded at Mallicello and five whites
and thirty natives were drowned, while
thirty others who reached the shore
were massacred by natives.
RUSSIA has notified Turkey that it
will enforce first lien on the proposed
new Turkish loan in order to secure the
arrears of the war indemnity.
IT was rumored on the 4th that the
OShea divorce case, in which Mr.. Par
nell was correspondent, had been finally
settled,