The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-09-12

A DAUGHTER of General Barrundia,
| who was shot on an American vessel,
recently attempted the life of the
American Minister, Mr.. Miner at the
City of Guatemala. The Minister saved
his life by interposing thick book be-
tween himself and the bullet as the girl
fred. She bitterly reproached him for
the death of her father.
THE leading importers of Havana,
Cuba, have formed league against the
encroachment of custom house officials.
THE strike on the Panama railroad
continues. The strikers will not allow
work to be done by outsiders The
telegraph wires were cut several times
and attempts were made to tear up the
rails.
THE President of Venezuela has just
issued decree furnishing several edit
ors of newspapers who have been adj
judged as having libelled him and other
public functionaries
THE experiment of transmitting opera
music from the opera house to the
Urania Theater by telephone proved a
complete success.
An international temperance congress
has been opened at Christiana, Norway.
The delegates, who come from nearly all
parts of the world, numbered several
hundred.
THE Porte has authorized the found
ing of Russian school in Constantine
pie.
MINISTER MINERS friends are urg-
ing him to abandon Guatemala il he
would save his life. The followers of
General Barrundia threaten to kill him
on sight The failure of the attempt
of Barrundia's daughter to shoot Miz-
ner seems only to have whetted their
appetite for what they call revenge.
MORTON MCMICHAEL is the new presi-
dent of the American Bankers Associa-
ton.
WHILE number of persons were on a
bridge watching the floods at Prague,
Austria, the structure gave way and
thirty were drowned.
ALL the consulates the cathedral and
most of the public buildings at Salonica
have been destroyed by fire. Twelve
hundred houses were in ruins.
THE International Agricultural Con-
gress at Vienna, has passed resolutions
in favor of the formation of central
European customs league and the
adoption of standard of value of the
states comprising the league.
THE Liverpool seamen and firemen
have decided to combat the just organ
lied ship owners fedora ton, and trial
of strength with the gigantic union Of
capitalists may soon be looked for.
ENGLAND has prohibited the importa-
ton of rags from Spain on account of
cholera
SOME of the largest firms of the coun-
try have come to an understanding con-
corning the method of dealing in concert
| with strikers No factory will employ
any one who has left another factory
on strike.
THE rise of the Elbe river flooded the
royal castle at Billnitz and the court has
been transferred to Strehlen.
THE Pope is preparing an encyclical
on the labor question.
A NEGRO named Smith is in London
with claims to the throne of Yoraba in
Africa, from which he says he was dis
possessed by the British.
HoN. ANTHONY J. MUNDELLA, NJ. p.
speaking at Sheffield, England, declared
that the Mckinley bill was an insane
measure, but it would be absurd to re-
taliate by taxing food imports, especial
| ly when there was prospect of fam
| inc in Ireland.
The people of Montreal are greatly
pleased at the prospect of reciprocity
treaty with the United States
The duel between MN. Rochefort and
Tribeaud was prevented by the Belgian
authorities.
THE State line steamer State of
Indiana had stormy time crossing the
Atlantic on her last trip.
THE annual report of the Lake Shore
6 Michigan Southern shows net earn
ings from operation of 81, 223, AT.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report for
the seven days ended September num-
bered 20S. compared with 1s9 the previ-
Gus week and 20i the corresponding
week of lastyear Speculative markets
were lower, but trade outlook was good.
REPORTS of very destructive fires still
continue to come from Hungary. The
latest dispatch says that Szalnok and
several other Hungarian villages have
been burned