The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-01-02

THE Archbishop of York, England, is
seriously i'll and it is feared will not re-
cover. DIR. William Thompson is now
over 20, and has been an extremely busy
man, both in church and educational
work, and is an author.
IT is reported that many persons have
persisted in Russia owing to the extreme
cold. and that a party of thirty were
| frozen to death while crossing bleak
steppe.
EMPEROR WILLIAM states that the re-
port that he contemplated visit to
| Paris was incorrect.
THE theater at Portsmouth, England,
has been destroyed by fire.
DIPHTHERIA is scourging Croatia, Aus
tria.
THE Spanish Minister of Finance has
issued a decree declaring that Spain
must follow the protection movement of
America and Europe, and repeal por-
lions of the existing tariffs, and large
" increase the duties on horses, mules
and cattle. preserved and all salted
meats. flour and cereals.
IT is announced in Berlin that the de-
cree which was issued by Prince Bis
marck prohibiting the admission of Rus
sian and Polish laborers into Posen, is
shortly to be rescinded. The reason as
| signed for this action is the scarcity of
laborers in Posen.
A DISPATCH from Shanghai states that
the savage tribes of Formosa have again
broken out in rebellion against the
Chinese authority on the island and
gained advantages over the imperial
troops. A Chinese captain and soldiers
captured by the savages were after
ward found impaled and beheaded, near
the scene of their capture. The garri-
son on the island is being strengthened.
THE Powers, replying to the note of
Senator Bocaghe, Minister of Foreign
Affairs. in which he complained of the
action of the British South Africa Com
pany in Manicaland., expresses SYM
pathy and advises Portugal to avoid col
lision with the British Company.
THE Archbishop of York, England, is
dead.
RAILWAY strikers in Scotland are ac-
cused of attempting to wreck train
between Glasgow and Kilbride.
L
walton Army over Darkest England"
which, it appears, was not the concep-
ton or the writing of General Booth,
but was the scheme of his right hand
man. Commissioner Smith, who has re-
signed.
The steamer Curier from Heligoland
went aground near Helsinger, great
belt, Denmark. Six men were drowned.
The Observation-Disclosures tobacco
trust has fallen through and all the
property has been conveyed back to its
original owners. The capital stock of
the corporation was S5.OO0,O00.
THE Bureau of the American Repub-
lies has received a dispatch from the
Argentine Republic giving a brief sum-
mary of the commerce of that country
for the year ended June 80 last. Not
withstanding the revolution, the imports
for the year amounted to S175,975,000
and the exports to Sl59,627,OOO.
IN collision between freight trains
near st. Thomas. Ont, one man was
killed and several injured.
PADLEwsKI, the notorious Nihilist
murderer of Paris, is believed to be hid
ing in Bulgaria.
THREE locomotives have arrived at
Matadi, the terminus of the Congo rail
way.
The interference of the priests in tie
North Kilkenny election has greatly
disturbed English Nonconformist Lib
erals.
THE Canadian Customs Department
has imposed fine of $50 on the German
sealing schooner Adele, which was
seized at Victoria, b. c. The vessel was
charged with making false clearance.
HEINRICH SCHLIENIAN, the noted dis
coverer of ancient Troy, is dead, aged Gs.
THE great National Indian Congress
met in Calcutta on the Goth.
Two persons suffering from leprosy
have been inoculated at Madrid with
lymph according to the method of DR..
Koch. The doctors of the hospital
where the lepers are being treated re-
port that the patients have apparently
been rapidly improving since the new
remedy was applied.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended December 25 num-
bered 1888, compared with 4O4 the pre-
viors week and 2sS the corresponding
week of last year.