The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-17

A NUMBER of Armenians have been
killed and crops destroyed at Alashgend.
A general massacre was feared
The French Cabinet has charged NJ
Roche. Minister of Commerce, to frame
a bill to be introduced in the Chamber
OF Deputies, fixing q maximum tariff
upon exports into France and giving the
Government power to make concessions
to those countries whose governments
In their tariff laws favor French prod.
ucts.
THE corn porters of the Allan and
Wilson-Hill steamship lines at London
have struck because of statements made
by the lines managers concerning their
Sinking of work.
TIE London Times says there is no
reason to quarrel with the United States
over the Mckinley bill, but the less said
about friendliness and kinship between
the two countries the better. The ar
ticle urges Canada to adopt free trade.
IMPORTATION of Dutch cattle into En-
gland has been prohibited, owing to the
prevalence Of disease among the cattle
of the Netherlands. The trade was a
small one compared with the American,
but had averaged about $40, 900 per week.
The New York, Lake Erie & Western
railway has issued circular, in which
they positively refused the demands Of
their employees.
DIR. ROBERT SAcAsA has been reelected
President of Nicaragua for another term
of four years.
Two men-of-war have reinforced the
British squadron at Mozambique. The
commander of the feet says that as
soon as the Stein gunboats are fitted to-
gether he will proceed up the Zambezi
river.
The Italian committee of the Chicago
Worlds Exhibition has been dissolved.
The reason given is that few Italian
houses care to send displays to America
in the face of the high duties imposed
by the Mckinley tariff.
PULLSIAN's vestibule patent has been
upheld.
THE Canadian schooner Finland has
arrived at Victoria, B. c., with 1851
sealskins worth $4,000.
AT the close of the service in the ca
thedral of Koumkapec, Turkey, an Ar
menian in the congregation fired two
shots at the arch-priest Neither of
the bullets took effect The man
escaped.
PRICES of glassware have been adj
vanced five per cent
In Mexico recently, seventy miles
from Mazatlan ten men were blown to
pieces by an explosion at the Rosario
gold mine.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has arrived home
from his Austrian trip
A DISPATCH from the Congo State says
that the authorities intend to issue
decree imposing new taxes, principally
on merchandise, between Matadi and
Stanley pool.
Mr. GLADSTONE has been giving his
opinion of the new United States tariff
laws He says: 1.-THE Tariff act is, as
you will suppose, in my eyes deplor-
able error, attended with severe and
cruel consequences to innocent persons.
shall certainly desire to find an oppor.
tunity of offering remarks upon it in
Midlothian"
RUSSIA will begin the construction of
the Trans-Siberian railway at once.
Government officials will have complete
control
THE British Government denies that
fever prevails to an alarming extent
among the grenadier guards row in
Bermuda
THE Vatican is greatly displeased at
the proceedings of the Catholic congress
in Saragossa, which have prejudiced the
interests of the Church by their vic.
lence. The i'll advised action of the
congress is attributed to Carlist in
trigueS
NINE. BONNET, in whose possession
were found plans of the defenses of
Nancy, has been convicted of being a
German spy. She was sentenced to five
years Imprisonment and then to pay q
fine of 5000 francs .
DILLON and OBrien, the Irish Nation
alists, forfeited their bail at Tipperary
and suddenly disappeared. 1t was
thought they had taken passage for
America
THE striking London corn porters of
the Allan Steamship Company have re-
sumed work on the company's terms
SLAvIN and McAuliffe, the pugilists
have been committed for trial by the
London magistrates