The Iola register., 1890-08-15

TIE captain Of the schooner Macheco,
OF New Orleans, and four other persons
were drowned at Livingston, Guate-
mala, while en- route to the schooner in
sail boat. A squall sprung up
ARTILLERY from Victoria, b. G., has
been sent to the mines at Wellington to
assist the special police in controlling
the striking miners.
PELLIGBINI has assumed the Presi-
dency of the Argentine Republic.
The worlds cremation conference in
Paris has telegraphed the Emperor Of
Germany to espouse the cause of crema-
tion.
THE Greek Patriarch for Turkey has
resigned as protest against the Porte's
disregard of the Greek Church.
A RAILWAY train was blown from the
track near Pilson, Bohemia, recently.
The cars rolled down an embankment
into marsh. The stoker and several
passengers were killed and nearly
eighty passengers were injured. Most
of the passengers on the train were
emigrants who were bound for the
United States
CHINESE soldiers and peasants have
destroyed the railroad to Peking on the
ground that it caused the recent flood.
THE vicinity of Montreal, Can, was
swept by a storm on the evening of the
5th.
GUATEMALAN revolutionists to the
number of 8. 600. under Generals Estan-
islas Sandoval Maxine Cerena and AL
fonso 1rungaray were defeated by
Guatemalan regulars under General
Pedro Barrillas, brother of the Presi-
dent.
The agreement between France and
England in regard to Zanzibar has been
signed.
ACCORDING to the report of the French
liquidators of the Panama Canal Com
pany the expenditures have been l, 3d.
600, 900 francs, while the assets are
16, 600. 600 francs
EYRAUD, the French murderer, re-
Gently attempted to strangle himself in
prison at Paris.
The coal mine owners of South Wales
have combined to oppose the demands
of the miners.
THE Moffat College building on Isle
Perrot, ten miles from Montreal, was
destroyed by fire recently. Loss heavy.
All the students escaped.
The gross earnings of the Missouri
Pacific railroad show an increase for
the fourth week in July of S195, 437 and
of 81, 553, 900 for the seven months ended
July 81, as compared with the corre-
spending period of last year.
A DEATH from cholera has occurred
at Madrid.
A PORTION of the army service corps
attached to the garrison at Chatham,
mutinied recently. They al
legged that their sergeants were impos-
ing vexatious and needless duties upon
them without authority from their su-
perior officers. Twenty were arrested
and placed in prison.
IT is reported that Italy is to be al
lowed slice of Africa by the consent
of England and Germany
TRAINMEN on the New York Central
deserted their posts at preconcerted
on the night of the Sth. Great
was caused to the travel
ing public, trains being stalled at all
of places. The strike was oc-
casioned by dismissals for alleged in
sufficient reasons.
The strike of the railway employees of
Wales has been settled.
A NUMBER of villages in Hungary have
been destroyed by fires, which have
also devastated large section of coun-
try. Immense stores of corn and other
grain have been burned and terrible
destitution prevails among the homeless
inhabitants. At Borosbociard woman
and six children were burned to death.
THE cholera shows no signs of abate-
ment at Jeddah. There are 10 cases of
the worst type of the disease in that
city. The authorities have forbidden
pilgrims who have been to Mecca to
embark at Jeddah.
THE press of France almost unani-
nously approves the agreement with
England with regard to Africa.
THE French Chamber of Deputies
will be asked at it's next session to
the construction of Transsa-
haran railway in Africa.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended August num-
bered 20S. compared with 1s9 the previ-
ous week and 201 the corresponding
week of last year.