The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-11-04
GENERAL.

| large majority Tor the government
The Panama Railroad Co and the
Pacific Mail Steamship Co. have disa-
greed and the railroad company is en-
deavoring to hire steamers to bring il
business.
A NORTH of England paper announces
the discovery of a new and cheap pro
cess of producing caustic soda, chlorine
and other chemicals direct from brine
by electricity.
IT is stated that the Inman line will
inaugurate the new service between
Southampton, England, and New York
March next The first vessel to be
dispatched from Southampton will be
the City of Paris.
HARRY VANE MILBANK, the chappic
and duelist connected with the Cole
man Drayton- Borrowe scandal, died re-
Gently in Switzerland.
IT is stated on good authority that
the prince of Wales and his son, the
duke of York, will visit the Chicago Co
lumbar exhibition.
PLEURo-PNEUMoNIA has been discov-
cred in Canadian cattle landed at Dun
Hurona and Monks Eaton.
PRESIDENT DIAz, of Mexico, has ap-
pointed Antonio Mier, Gen. Mona and
Joaquin Casasus as delegates to the
Brussels monetary conference.
A NEW device is a switch protector,
in which the switchman must lock him.
self in a box before he can throw a
switch and let himself out only when
the switch is closed.
RUSSIA has demanded of Belgium that
all passports issued by that country to
intending visitors to Russia state the
religion of the bearer. The demand is
aimed at the Jews.
THE Hawaiian cabinet was ouSted
October Il on vote of want of conf
dence by the legislature
brick" POMERoY has announced that
he will vote for Harrison.
KING GEORGE of Greece celebrated his
silver wedding on the 27th.
THE Argentine government will sup
press the revolt against the local gov
eminent of Santiago del Estero.
A REVOLUTION in Hayti is pending.
The Moorish government and the
Anghara tribesmen have ended their
little war and peace has been declared.
LABOUCHERE, in London Truth, says if
he were an American he would be a
protectionist
THE banks fishing schooner f. II.
Phillips, of Newfoundland, with four
teen men on board, is believed to have
been lost.
THE Anchor line steamer Roumania
went down off the Portuguese coast
during the recent fearful storm. All
the passengers and crew, numbering
113, were drowned except nine.
EMILIO CASTELAR,, the eloquent eX-
prime minister of Spain, will be asked
to deliver an Grafton at the opening of
the worlds fair.
CLEARING house returns for the week
decrease of O.S compared with the cor
responding week of last year. In New
York the decrease was ~.
SIX thousand miners struck at Broken
Hill, New South Wales. Scenes were
similar to those at Homestead
THE two great parties will be almost
equally balanced in the Fifty-third con-
gress, according to a statistician, with
the peoples and Farmers Alliance
members holding balance of power.
DURING the gale off Ireland the
schooner Annie went on the rocks OF
the County Down and her six sailors
persisted.
SEVERAL Europeans having been seen
in the Dahomey army, Col Dodds, the
French commander, has offered a re-
ward of $500 for each one captured.
News comes from Rio Grande do Sui,
Brazil, of a conflict between the civil
guard and n regiment of engineers sta
toned at Porto Allegro.
IT looks as though baseball salaries
would be lower next year.
A RUMoR is current at Apia that the
British government will annex Samoa
or at least declare a protectorate,
though heretofore it was generally I'M
derstood that when King George, of
Tonga, died England would take that
island and Germany Samoa.
THE court of queens bench at Dublin
has issued a writ of execution against
William O'Brien for $4,000, the amount
of a Judgment against him in 4 libel
suit.