The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-06-10
EIGHT European governments have
accepted the invitation to participate in

EIGHT European governments have
accepted the invitation to participate in
a monetary convention.
THE steamship Miranda, which ar
rived from Central American ports, re-
in the town of Puerto Cortez, Honduras.
AN accident occurred at the famous
Birkenberg silver mine near Prizbram,
in Bohemia. Five hundred men were
working in the mine and all but forty
succeeded in making their escape. The
timbers used in supporting the roof of
the mine caught fire and the escape of
the men working there was cut off.
The twelfth annual report of direct
ors of the Chicago Rock Island & Paci-
fic railroad for the fiscal year ended
March 81, 1892, showed that the total
gross earnings were SIS, ,OT5, against
ST, 453,634 for the previous fiscal year,
an increase of 81, PIG, AL. Operating ex-
penses and taxes amounted to SIS, l41,-
Csc, an increase of $685. 53, while the
net earnings were IS, 553, obs, an increase
of S4S3,1 ITO. The net receipts of land
sold were SO, 600, and the interest re-
ceived from the Chicago, Kansas &
Nebraska railway was $50, 200, making
the net income 1906, 2O9 The surplus
for the year was s54S, 1857.
THE mail train from Agram to Brod,
Austria, was struck by cyclone
while at the Nowska station. The ter
rible force of the wind is shown by the
fact that two of the carriages compos-
ing the train were lifted bodily into the
air and hurled down an embankment,
causing the greatest CONSERVATION
among the passengers Other carriages
were knocked over by the violence of
the storm and were badly smashed
Twenty of the persons on the train were
badly injured, some of them fatally.
A CONSERVATIVE estimate Of the
amount of damage caused by the loss
from high waters from Kansas City to
New Orleans will reach the enormous
sum of $50, OOO,OOO
ACTISG Gov. JERMISGHAM's letter to
the lord mayor of London appealing
for help for the sufferers in Mauritius
says that over 10000 people are home
less and that 5000 houses in Port Louis
are in ruins Rose Hill, after Port
Louis, suffered the worst Three hun
bred people were killed there. 1t took
six days to bury the 600 victims in Port
Louis.
THE bishops of the Methodist Episco-
pal church have decided to make the
following changes of residence: Bishop
Ninde leaves Topeka and will reside at
Detroit; Bishop Mallalieu goes from
New Orleans to Buffalo; Bishop Fowler
from San Francisco to Minneapolis;
Bishop Vincent from Buffalo to Topeka,
Kan, and Bishop Fitzgerald from Min
neapolis to New Orleans Bishop Good
sell will be at Fort Worth, Tex, for a
time and then go to San Francisco.
Pope LEO NH has determined to
send an important exhibit from the
Vatican to the Columbian exposition
IN fistic encounter in London Jack
Slavin, of Australia, brother of Frank
Slavin, who was defeated by Peter
Jackson, worsted in the nineteenth
round Con Riordan, an American boxer
well known on the Pacific coast.
MERCANTILE agencies report that coll
lections throughout the country are i'm
proving.
AN important battle has been fought
on the prairies near Valencia, Venezuela,
in the defeat of Palacio's
forces. There was terrific fighting all
along the line, and the rout OF the gov
eminent troops was complete. The
town of Maturin, in the state of Ber-
mudez, is in the hands of the rebels.
On the other hand Los Tabios has been
retaken by the government. Ex-Presi-
dent Rojas Paul has come out openly in
favor of the rebellion.
AN anarchist named Drouet who had
been arrested in Paris for connection
with a dynamite conspiracy has dis
closed the hiding place of quantity of
dynamite which had been stolen by an
from one of the government
arsenal officers. went to the place indi-
Gated and unearthed i'll dynamite car
tridges, sixty-six decorators and TWEEN
ty-seven fuses.
THERE have been over 5000 deaths
from cholera in Calcutta
THE strike Of the Toronto brickmak-
ers has been terminated after lasting
two months
KEEPER BUCK, of Dannemora prison,
who has been on trial for assisting
OBrien to escape, has been found guilty.