The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-03-11

RALPH Il CHANDLER, formerly CASH
Ter of the Lake Shore & Michigan
Southern Railway Co. at Detroit, Mich,
has been arrested in Juarez, Mexico,
on the charge of embezzling $1,000.
INFORMATION from st. Johns, New
| foundland, gives the details of shock
ing disaster in Newfoundland by which
at least forty lives were lost Two
hundred and twenty men went out
sealing in boats from Trinity bay.
While they were on the lookout for
seals the thermometer fell to zero and
terrific snow storm came on.
AT a meeting of 1000 socialists in
Berlin on the I'd the speakers de-
nounced the charge that socialists
originated and took part in the recent
riots in that city.
The crisis of the fight between Penn
sylvauia and Alabama in iron produc-
ton is felt to have arrived. The mar
ket has gone to pieces and Birmingham
furnaces have over 100, 600 tons in their
yards.
Two attempts to assassinate Presi-
dent Barrillas, of Guatemala, are said
to have been made recently. A reign
of terror is reported.
THE National league of base ball
clubs adopted national agreement on
the End, and made several changes in
rules
THE estimated gross earnings of the
entire system of the Rock Island for
the month of February are 81, S2l, 43S,
an increase as compared with those of
the corresponding month last year of
S29S, 566.
OWING to starvation. crime has in
creased greatly in Vienna. Extra
precautions are being taken by the
people. In Arana, Hungary, many
have died from starvation.
OSCAR RosENTHAL and other holders
of certificates of the American preserv-
ing company, which is said to control
the trade in canned fruits and jellies,
have brought suit against the company.
claiming that they invested in it not
knowing its character, that they were
promised dividends which have never
materialized and that the company is
monopoly in restraint of trade and
therefore void.
THE national baseball league con-
cluded its work on the Sd and adj
journed. The double championship
season idea was adopted.
THE heavy indemnity asked by the
Baltimore's sailors has caused n de-
preston in Chilli Ministerial changes
heve added to it.
AT the opening of the French cham
Der of deputies on the Sd, NJ. Loubel,
the new premier, made a speech defn-
ing his policy and was accorded vote
of confidence.
THE vatican, desiring to reform
church music with the view of eliminat-
ing the profane element the congrega-
ton of rites has addressed circular to
the principal musicians and composers
of Europe aud America soliciting their
views on the subject.
JAMES MCLEAN, inspector of forests
for New South Wales, proposes to lay
before congress n proposition for the
eradication of certain kinds of insect
pests.
HUNDREDS of atarving unemployed
workmeu of Dantzic, Germany, looted
bakeries and butcher shops on the 4th.
The police had hard fight to quell the
disorder.
SPANISH anarchists badly wrecked
church in Valencia on the Sd French
anarchists tried to blow up police bar
racks in suburb of Paris.
THE condition of the poor in Vienna
is said to be pitiful.
The searching parties sent out by
the government from various parts of
Trinity bay to search for the missing
seal hunters returned on the 4th. No
tidiugs of the missing men could be
learned, and it was believed that they
had persisted.
THERE were violent snow storms in
Venice aud Trieste on the 4th. IN the
latter city the snow was nearly two
feet deep and the roads were blocked
in consequence. The mountains fall
of snow was much greater and the
ground was covered to depth of four
feet.
THE action of the king of Greece in
summarily dismissing from Office the
entire Delyannis ministry has caused
much comment and some dissatisfac-
ton throughout the country and as a
result the king has received a number
of menacing letters.