The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-05-23

- GENERAL.
A DISPATCH to the London Times
says that the removal of Prince Bis
marck decided the Czar to reverse his
policy of an alliance with France and to
revert to the policy of forming an alli-
ance with Germany. !
A CONTRACT has been signed between
the German Government and the East
African Steamship Company, which will
receive 900, 900 marks annually for a line
of steamers from Hamburg to Delagoa
bay.
An official report states that the gen.
eral condition of winter rye and wheat
in European Russia is good. In many
districts, notably the Eastern provinces,
Poland, Livonia, Courland and South
west Russia, the condition is very good.
A QUANTITY of balistite, the new ex-
plosive, exploded recently at the factory
atAviglina, fourteen miles west of Turin,
Italy. Fourteen persons were instantly
killed and many others injured, some of
them fatally.
MAJOR WIssMANN bonn barded Lindi
May 10 and captured the town.
A PARTY of Albanians attacked
and plundered Montenegrin provis-
ion train which was on its way from
Trek to Cettinje. A woman who was
passenger on this train was killed and
several other persons were wounded.
The Montenegrins were greatly excited.
MINING riots are reported in Portugal
and Spain. The whole province of
Biscay has been placed under martial
law.
The Austrian Agricultural Exhibition
opened at Vienna on the 14th, the EN-
peror presiding. France and Germany
were we'll represented.
THE Parnellites snatched a victory in
the House of Commons on the 14th, the
second reading of the Irish Agricultural
Laborers' bill being agreed to without
division. The Governments usual sup
port was absent when the measure was
sprung.
THE ocean steamship Partisan ran
full into an iceberg in fog off New
but was not seriously in
jured. A panic was narrowly averted.
A PLAGUE of locusts is devastating
trans-Caucasia. A quarter of a million
of acres of agricultural land at Tifis,
and Baku have been raw
aged by this insect.
THE striking miners at Bilbao, Spain,
iudulged in another riot on the 18th.
THERE was 4 small outbreak against
the brazilian Provisional Government
at Porto Allegro recently. 1t was sup
pressed after number of persons had
been wounded.
THE case against James Campbell,
president of the Window Glass Union,
for importing English workmen in vio-
lation of the Alien Contract law resulted
in an acauittal.
The Irish tenants defense fund has
reached EGO, 600 and has been closed.
County Cork people subscribed eS,O
THE Independence Beige denounces
Terrell for his action in the
Anti-Slavery Conference as tending to
increase slavery in Africa.
A, BERLIN dispatch says that France
and Germany have agreed in order to
avoid disputes on the frontier to strip a |
wide space of ground on either side of
the boundary line and place at frequent
intervals large stones marking the line
Of delimitation conspicuously.
The Berlin Tageblatt says it is sig
nificant fact that visits of foreign news
paper writers and other recognized WIS., |
tors to Friederichsrue have been very
frequent of late.
On the river Oder, near Ratisbon, ST. |
Iesia, ferryboat loaded with passen-
gers was crossing, when it suddenly |
,apsized and thirty-six of the people |
we're drowned before assistance could |
each them. All the passengers were |
children who were returning home from
/ confirmation service.
IT is said that Henry NJ. Stanley is
engaged to Miss Dorothy Tenant. a
Joung English artist.
ToMsKI, in Western Siberia, has been
Utmost destroyed by flood and fire.
CUBA is troubled with drought.
THE French Board of Trade returns
or April show an increase in imports of
more than a million dollars and an in
:rease in exports of more than four
BUSINESS failures Dun's report for
he seven days ended May Is numbered
IL, compared with 200 the previous
week. The failures for the correspond
ng week of last year were 242.