The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-12-05

IT is expected that Western freight
rates will be put up and become more
stable with Gould in control of SO many
roads
THE Erie railroad has come to an
agreement with its engineers and the
threatened trouble has been averted
SIDNEY DILLON has been elected pres
ident of the Union Pacific, vice Charles
F. Adams, resigned. The Gould trust
was in control of the line.
THE Car has ordered an investigation
of prison abuses at Tomsk, Siberia.
| Horrible treatment of female prisoners is
reported
An explosion occurred in a colliery
near Bolton, England, the other day.
Eight miners were killed.
The Dublin Express says that the
measures adopted by the Government
to relieve the distress in the western
part of Ireland arising from the failure
of the potato crop will be put into opera
ton before Christmas
ACCOUNTS received at Vienna of the
disasters incident to the storms in Bo-
hernia and Bavaria show that twenty
persons are known to have persisted
from cold and starvation in the Saale
valley alone.
VERDI is composing comic opera in
which Falstaff will be the central figure.
The financial situation in the Argen-
tine Republic is reported improved
MANY of the Parnellite members of
Parliament declare that they would be
glad to see the alliance with the Liber-
ais broken so that the Irish party could
resume a condition Of independence.
A LARGE unknown steamer was re-
ported at London to have gone down in
heavy gale off Dungeness
The river Shannon has overfowed it's
banks at Athlone, Ireland
LADY CoNNEMARA, daughter of Lord
Dalhousie, has obtained decree of di-
vorce from Lord Connemara, ex-Govern-
or of Madras, for adultery and cruelty.
The French Government will not al
low the importation into France of Prof.
Koch's lymph on the ground that the
importa ton of medicines, the compost
ton of which is not known, is illegal,
law prohibiting such importation being
in existence.
THE French public debt is 80 800, si3-
594 francs.
BUBEAR, of England, defeated Master
son, of Australia, in boat race at sgd
ney, N. S. w.
SIX sailors of the whaling bark Ocean
were recently lost in the Pacific A
mortally wounded whale struck the
chasing boat and the men were
drowned
A FEARFUL tide wrecked forty vessels
at Christiana, Norway, on the 9th.
Over 100 deaths were reported
THE agents of American dressed beef
dealers are showing great activity in
the establishment of shops in West
Cornwall, England, for the sale of
their frozen products, and the farmers
and small stock raisers of that region
are much alarmed by the movement
AUSTRIA has sounded the Govern
ments of England, Germany and Italy
on the subject Of the annexation of
Bosnia by the Austrian Empire.
THE iron beams supporting one of the
boilers of the United States steamer
Alert gave way recently and the re-
pairs of the vessel were corresponding
ly delayed.
DEPUTY SANAUD, managing director
of the Banque d'Etat of Paris, has abb
seconded with 1,OO0 600 francs subscribed
for loan.
PARNELL issued his manifesto to the
Irish people on the 2sth. The O'Shea
matter was ignored and defiance hurled
at the English Liberals The address
was intensely independent and it was
probable would divide the Irish party
as well as hopelessiy severing concerted
action with the Liberals.
A VIOLENT earthquake shock was
felt throughout the valley of the Dan
ube on the 2Sth. The people were
panic stricken, but little damage was
done.
KING KALAKAUA, of the Sandwich
islands will visit California shortly for
his health.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report for
the seven days ended November % num-
bered 249. as compared with 274 the
previous week and 249 the correspond
ing week of last year.
JAY GoULD's charges that Charles
Francis Adams used the Union Pacific
for the benefit of the Kansas City stock
yards is denied