The Iola register., 1890-05-09
GENERAL.

A BILL has been introduced in the
Spanish Cortes to prohibit the working
of boys under ten and girls under twelve
and TO fix the hours of labor for all chill
dren.
CAPTAIN SCHMIDT, who sold the plans
of the Russian Notifications at Cron.
stadt, was shot secretly in the fortress
of SITS. Peter and Paul.
TWELVE Anarchists were arrested in
Paris the other day. Among them were
the Marquis De Mores, his secretary, M.
Mondac, and NJ. Provost, secretary oi
the Hair Dressers' Union.
The Mexican Chamber of Deputies
has passed the bill granting an indef.
mite number of terms to Presidents, il
elected.
CANADIAN farmers have made success
full experiments with sugar beets, and
this year large area will be planted.
A LETTER from St Petersburg says
the Gar was afraid to pass May day in
of his sudden return to st. Petersburg.
An intimation had reached the imperial
ears that the day might be made memor-
able in way terrible to the Car, and
it was thought best to be intrenched at
st. Petersburgh. ....
SIR FRANCIS DE WINToN has definitely
accepted the Governorship of the British
East Africa Company.
An expedition under Mr.. Jackson, an
officer of the British East Africa Com
pany, has arrived at Uganda and con-
cluded treaties with Mwanga and other
chiefs, placing Uganda exclusively un-
der British influence. 49,.
A FIGHT with rifles between union and
non-union fishermen on the Columbia
river resulted in one man being killed
and two seriously wounded.
De MoREs, arrested in Paris recently,
is said to be implicated in an Orleanist
plot and not in an Anarchist uprising.
An insurrection has broken out in
Paraguay. Several persons have been
killed and many wounded.
THERE was conflict with the police
in an eight-hour demonstration at The
Hague on the S0th. ...
THE Irish Land Purchase bill passed
the House of Commons on its second
reading by 34s to 26S.
Two little girls were struck by an ex-
press train while playing on the railroad
track at Norwood, Ont. One was killed
and the other fatally injured.
EXCITED French workingmen on the
Place de la Concorde, Paris, were
charged by squadron of cavalry on the
1st. Several were wounded and many
were arrested.
DURING the labor demonstration at
Pesth, Hungary, on the 1st riot oc-
CURED at the rolling mills. The mob
was charged by the military and several
persons received bayonet stabs. .
The forebodings concerning labor
demonstrations of the 1st of May were
quite unnecessary. In the United States
carpenters struck in a few cities and
peaceable demonstrations took place,
the most notable being the one at Chi
cago. ...... .....
HERR BARNAY, the German tragedian,
celebrated his jubilee on the I'd.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) for
the seven days ended May / numbered
211, compared with 21S the previous
week and 214 the corresponding week of
last year.
STANLEY will retain his American cit
izenship. A change might possibly viii
ate the copyright of his books in this
country.
A coMMIssARY of police accompanied
by number of gendarmes went to the
house of a Russian Jew in Sofia, Bull
garia, to search for seditious documents.
The Jew resisted, and procuring re-
volver shot and killed the commissary.
THE theft of the jewels of the Duchess
of Edinburgh is stated to be an ire
parable loss.
An Israelite named Solomon is charged
with robbing the Bank of Bengal of
$3.50, 900.