The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-12-09
GENERAL.
A TRIANGULAR football league is

prODa Oll1ty.
THE chiefs of the Jesuit, Augustine
and Franciscan orders in the Philippine
islands have sent joint dispatch to
the Spanish government threatening to
leave the islands unless Senior Despu-
jols, the viceroy. is recalled.
THE London Times says the jew per.
secutions in Russia have the personal
sanction of the ear.
DISORDERS occurred in the recent mu-
nicipal elections in the Argentine re-
public. At Bolivar several policemen
were reported shot.
The Spanish agricultural committee
is again discussing means for putting
an end to the ravages of phylloxera in
Spanish vineyards.
THE Mexican ministers have rendered
their designations.
EVERYTHING is quiet in Samoa.
LAST weeks cholera record for the
whole of Holland showed sixteen deaths
JAMES KNOTT, of Newcastle-on-Tyne,
England, has determined to put on a
regular line of steamships between
Charleston, S. c., and Mediterranean
| ports.
THE report of the commission ap-
pointed by the Ontario government to
investigate the subject of dehorning
cattle with a view to determining
whether the practice is humane, rec
ommends that the practice be permitted.
A CABINET crisis is reported in Spain,
caused by the resignation of the min
lister of the interior.
A JAPANESE war vessel was sunk by
collision with British steamer Tho
crew of 275 men were drowned. The
passengers of the British steamer were
transferred to the Empress of Japan.
SPAIN denies that two descendants of
Columbus are inmates of poorhouse at
Cadiz
A BANDERILLENA, or female bull-fight-
er, created a sensation in the tourns-
ments at Piedras Negras, Mexico, by
her great agility.
OWING to United States quarantine
regulations a big batch of Swedish inn
migrants who had arrived at Halifax
were turned back on the American tor-
der, being refused admission to the
states.
WREcKAGE floating on the west coast
of Scotland indicated the wreck of a
large German steamer bound to New
York.
The pope has refused assent to the
marriage of Prince Ferdinand of Bull
garia to the daughter of the ex-dul1e of
Parma.
MAJ.-GEN. SIR GEORGE STEWART
WHITE has been appointed commanders
in-chief of the British forces of India
IN vote taken at u mass meeting at
Montreal as to the annexation of Cana
da to the United States g92 voted for
union and 1,6l4 for national independ-
ence.
THE London Times says that the
great Siberian railroad scheme is badly
managed and is making slow progress.
GEN. DoDDs has withdrawn his troops
from Abomey with the exception of
seven companies. The remainder have
been stationed in the port towns of Da-
honey.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended December showed an average
increase of 3.3 compared with the corre-
spending week of last year. In New
1OTh the increase was - =.
THE monetary conference at Brussels
rejected Alfred de Rothschild's propos-
ais.
CHOLERA has reappeared at several
Paris suburbs.
THE church of st. Michael. one of the
finest in Vienna, was destroyed by fire
1t was originally erected in the Roman
aS0ue Stvla in 1o1Q-O1
BURGLARIEs at Berlin are credited to
American cracksmen belonging to the
Raymond gang.
RATES from Puget sound east have
been slashed by the five great lines
leading therefrom.
A NEW labor organization, comprising
railroad men not now in any organiza-
ton, has been formed.
THE Russian government has assigned
the sum of 100000 to be expended in
supplies for the peasants in the famine
stricken province.
THE proposition to restrict immigra-
ton to this country for one year is not |
looked upon favOrablv by the agents of
the steamship companies.
GLADSTONE and Labouchere have eff |
fected reconciliation.
THE latest