The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-12-26

THE threatened strike of the Is, 900
cotton mills operatives OF Bolton, En-
gland, has been averted, the employers
conceding an advance in wages
Mr. GLADSTONE is suffering from a
cold and is confined to his house at
Hawarden.
THE Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Company has obtained control Of the
Kentucky Central
CHARLES f. MAYER has been uuani-
mously reelected president of the Balti.
more & Ohio.
A HOUSE in the native quarter of Bonn
bay containing 100 inmates collapsed
the other day. Thirty persons were
killed and many injured
The returns issued by the French
Board of Trade show that during the
month of November the imports de-
creased 6,972, 600 francs and the ex-
ports decreased 81, 1876, 900 francs, as
compared with the corresponding month
last year.
THE London newspapers denounce the
criminal folly by which Parnell almost
lost his eyesight at Castle Conner
AT Haurnou. in Hainault Belgium,
while cage loaded with workmen was
descending into mine the rope snapped,
precipitating the cage to the bottom of
the colliery. Eighteen miners were
killed
CARDINAL GIBBONS has written to the
Jewish Exponent a letter denouncing
Russia for that country's treatment of
the Jews.
In the international championship
skating contest at Amsterdam, Joseph
Donoghue, of Newberg, n. Y, won the
three mile race for the amateur cham
pionship of Holland. He covered the
distance in nine minutes and seventeen
seconds
ADoLPH BELoT, the French dramatist
and author, is dead.
GUERRERO, the Jack the Ripper" of
Mexico, has been convicted of eight
murders and fourteen criminal assaults,
for which he was sentenced to death.
THE coEsort of Emperor William of
Germany has given birth to a son.
THE west-bound Halifax express went
through St. Joseph bridge near Lewis,
Que, recently. Five passengers were
killed and number wounded All the
train went through except the engine
and baggage car.
The Royal Hotel at Margate, England,
burned recently. There were many
exciting escapes.
ARTHUR DAY, the wife murderer, has
been executed at Welland, Ont He
was from Rochester, n. Y, and pushed
his wife over the bank at the whirlpool
at Niagara Falls on the Canadian side
July IL last
The population of Vienna is esti-
mated at 1915. 626 by the addition of
territory.
GENERAL MANAGER EARRING, of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul railway,
says that he has succeeded in reaching
a settlement of the demands made by
trainmen on his road for an increase of
wages. Concessions were granted on
both sides.
THE London Times says that the Ar
gentine Government is inclined to &C.
cept the London proposals for the con-
version of the cedullas by the issue of
$3.50, 600, 900 worth of five pr j.. cent gold
bonds, not bearing interest till April,
1894.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report for
the seven days ended December IS
numbered 4O4. compared with 374 the
previous week and $40 the correspond
ing week of last year. q.
RUSSIA has increased her duty on
agricultural machinery four per cent
BARON WIssMANN has recalled Emin
Pasha from the African interior for dis
obeying orders 1t was thought, how
ever that Emin would continue his
march to Wadelai.
THE police prevented fight between
the opposing factions at Johnstown,
ireland, on the 10th.
PROF. Koch states that his lymph
will be sent to hospitals only.
IT is said the Gar will not receive the
memorial on behalf of the Jews adopted
by the Guildhall meeting in London.
FIVE coal beavers were drowned at
Halifax, n. s., ,by section of wharf
giving way.
DR. PETIT has produced before the
Society of Practical Medicine, at Paris,
specimens of a lymph invented by him.
self which, he states. will produce re-
suits in tuberculosis identical with those
produced by DR.. Koch's lymph.