The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-12-23
GENERAL.

way VI OnIuds JNcuIy-uVc HlleS IOHg
has been opened for traffic.
SIR JOHN BERNARD BURKE, author o
"Burke's Peerage," etc, died recent,
in Dublin.
TAUBENECK, the populist chairman
advises populists where they have the
balance of power in legislatures to in
sist on the election of their own candi
dates.
The Bell Telephone Co. has declared
regular dividend of So per share an,
an extra dividend of So per share.
LIPMAN & Co., jute merchants o
Dundee, Scotland, have failed. Thei
liabilities amounted to $3.50, O00 TIL,
jute trade was temporarily paralyzed.
FURTHER efforts are being made il
Mexico to abolish the shirt and drawers
costume of the lower male class
MEXICO is taking steps to build {
navy.
CRUSHED spiders are administered a.
a remedy for typhoid fever at San Luii
Potosi, Mexico.
FOREIGN stockholders have sent al
agent to America to try to secure con
troll of the Union Pacific.
MINISTERIAL affairs in France as
sumed an acute phase again over the
Panama scandals The new govern
ment was sustained by a bare majority
ID. w. CHRIsTY, an American, has beer
assassinated by unknown parties al
Yerbaris, near Durango Mexico.
Sir PRYCE-JoNEs, conservative mem
Der of parliament, has been unseated
for corrupt practices
Col. DAvIDoFF was murdered by un'
known assassins at Kieff, Russia.
AN aerolite weighing 10000 pounds
fell recently near Jiminez chihuahua,
Mexico 1t ripped open a rock as il
fell and disclosed rich vein of silver.
LIEUT. COUNT RENE DE SEGoNzAC, OF
the French army, has been placed on
the retired list in consequence of his
failure to give a satisfactory account OF
the death of Lieut. Paul Quiquerez, his
companion in an exploring expedition
on the Ivory coast
AN earthquake was reported al
Athens, Greece.
BESIDES the S35.OOO stolen in two
packages from Wells, Fargo & Co. in
amounts were also stolen, making an
aggregate of s135, 900. There is as yet
no clew
| EUGENE CRAMPON, who murdered two
men, was guillotined recently at Paris.
| He begged piteously for life.
THE emperor of China is preparing
to secure a modification of the Geary
act.
CHARLES DE LEssEPs and others con-
cerned in the Panama scandals have
been arrested in France. Excitement
was reported intense.
The Mexican government will soon
make pressing demands that the gov
ernment of the United States take de-
cisive steps to crush out the bands OF
revolutionists which infest the border.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended December ID showed an average
increase of 81 compared with the cor
responding week of last year. In New
York the increase was S.S. The large
shipments of gold caused some appre-
hension in trade.
The missing banker Post, of Tacoma,
Wash, has been tracked to steamship
en- route to Europe.
AUGUST SIMON LUCE, French histori-
an, is dead.
ALFRED BAECKER, of Remscheid, in
Rhenish Prussia, an imperial bank di-
rector, has been sentenced to three
years hard labor for forgery and em-
bezzlement.
NAPHTHA barges at Astrakhan, Rus
sia, caught fire recently owing to a
gale. Thirty barges were burned, the
crews precipitately abandoning their
charges.
The Bennington has left Gibralter
having in tow model of the caravel in
which Columbus discovered America
THE Grand Trunks new ocean steamer
line, and Canadian and English inter-
ests in American railroads, are attract
ing good deal of attention.
THE whisky trust has advanced alco-
hol ten cents gallon and added
another five cents to highwines. MAX
ing total advance of fifteen cents on
the latter.
THE Russian minister of finance an
nounces that the duty on cotton import
ed into Russia has been raised to 20
kopeclls per pood.