The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-03-21
GENER AT.

Sl9NOR bIANCHERI, preS10ent OF the
italian Chamber Of Deputies, has an
nounced his resignation because of .
difference with Premier Crispi. A Cab
met crisis was expected. The Chamber
refused to accept the resignation.
HENRY GEORGE was given q banquet
by the Single Tax League at Sidney, N.
S. W., on the 10th. His remarks were
received with much enthusiasm.
ANOTHER colliery calamity occurred in
Wales on the 10th. 1t was estimated
that $50 lives were lost
THE municipal government of Lisbon
has been dissolved and commission
appointed to have control until reforms
are arranged.
In battle between Apaches and Mex
leans in Sonora, Mexico, March 4, one
Indian and one Mexican were killed.
NEARLY all the wire nail factories in
the East have closed for time in order
to force independent factories to join
the combine.
THE National Bank and the Bank Of
Brazil have been authorized by the Bra
lillian Government to issue $4,000, 600
milreis in paper each.
The editor of La Tordo of Havana,
has been thrown into prison for CRITICS.
ing the Spanish administration and pre-
ferring annexation to the United States.
The British House of Commons re-
jected the Irish Land Tenure bill by 231
to 179.
THE Pope has chosen design for his
<av ho <~f 20 - I,
a figure of himself leaning on a Sc
pulchral urn, and colossal statues of re-
ligion and justice on either side. '9.f
The Vatican will not be represented
at the Berlin labor congress.
An Anglo-Roman Catholic bank is to
be established in London with branches
in other cities The MARQUIS of Butte
will be president.
THE influenza is raging with great
violence throughout the State of
Hidalgo, Mexico. .s.. r..
MUCH suffering and many deaths Of
cattle are reported in the Canadian
Northwest. The snow was deep and the
animals were starving.
Two thousand grain porters of Liver
pool, Eng, have struck for higher
wages.
THE sale of the Burlington & North
ern, it is thought, will have quieting
effect on the rate troubles.
IT is stated that the Russian Govern
ment will attempt in April to lift two
English steamers which were sunk off
Balaklava during the Crimean war. 1t
is believed that in one of the vessels is
a chest containing $4,000.
The Rio Grande railway recently had
$50 snow shovelers at work opening the
snow blockade across the San Juan
range at Cumbres, on the east side of the
divide. The snow was reported sixty
feet above the top of the telegraph poles
and for miles on each side it was from
twenty-five to forty-tive feet deep.
MAJoR-GENERAL SIR HOWARD C.
ELPHINsToNE, comptroller and treasurer
of the Duke of Connaught's household,
was washed overheard from the steamer
Tangario near Teneriffe recently and
drowned.
THE British Government, in reply to a
question by a member of Parliament,
states that it has no power to approach
the Russian Government on behalf of
the Siberian exiles
AN epidemic resembling influenza is
creating havoc in India
The sessions of the international Ia
Dor conference will be held in the large
hall of Prince Bismarck College, where
the congress of 1878 was held. Baron
Won Berlepsch, Prussian Minister of
Commerce, will open the proceedings.
In the British House of Commons Sir
James Ferguson, Under Foreign Secre-
tary, responding to question as to the
position of the Behring sea negotia-
lions, declined to say any thing until
he should be able to communicate to
the House such information as might be
impaired without detriment.
THE Tirard Ministry of France has
resigned over an adverse vote in the
Senate.
The miners of Great Britain propose
to strike Tor an increase in wages.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended March Is num-
bered 252, compared with 260 the previ-
GUS week and pol the corresponding
week of last year.
TWENTY thousand men employed as
engineers in Northeast England have
strike for shorter hours.