The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-02-03
GENERAL.

THERE is a crisis in the Portuguese
cabinet.
IT is denied that Robert Louis Steven
son is dying of consumption in Samoa.
Col. THOMAS OCHILTREE will leave
England soon for home.
THE London Fun has been compelled
to apologize in court for slanderous
article published against Grace Haw-
thorne, the actress.
A RUSSIAN generals wife eloped with
a nihilist, who was detailed for that
purpose, but they were both decoyed
back to Russia and arrested. The gen.
eral, on meeting his wife, thrust his
sword through her heart
ACTs to remove the Roman Catholic
festivals of the Immaculate Conception,
St Peter and St. Paul and Corpus
Christi from the list of statutory holi-
days in Quebec Canada, have been
passed by the Quebec legislature.
The cardinal archbishop of Lyons
France. is dead
The republican factions of Spain have
formed coalition with the object of
ovcrthrowing the monarchy.
BRITISH underwriters of Halifax, \.
S. are greatly alarmed over steps being
taken to overthrow the insurance COM
bine.
IL defense of the Panama directors,
Maitre Barbour argues that in the issue
of lottery bonds they only followed the
example of the chamber of deputies,
An attempt to rescue the men I'M
prisoned in the Foreschritt mine, Bo-
hernia. has been abandoned, as it is GER
tain that fire damp has killed them.
THE United States cruiser Newark
has arrived at Naples from Cadiz She
will receive the Vatican exhibit on
board and bring it to this country for
exhibition at the worlds fair.
The Big -Four Railway Co. is retrench-
ing at all points.
The Pacific coast lumber trust has
gone to pieces
OWING to a heavy cut in freight rates
by the Pacific Mail, the new Spanish
American Steamship Line has an
nounced that it will discontinue its
steamers between San Francisco and
Central American points,
THE final effort to settle the great
English cotton lockout has failed and
the conference has been abandoned.
QUEEN REGENT CHRISTINA, of Spain,
will DE represented at the worlds fair
by Infanta Eulalia.
A DISPATCH from st. Petersburg states
that the position of Baron Mohrenheim,
Russian ambassador to France, is re-
garded as seriously shaken by the Pam
anna matter, and it is believed that he
will soon be recalled.
Gov.-GEN STANLEY in his message to
the Canadian parliament entered at
length into the canal dispute.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended January % showed an average
| increase of L.. compared with the cor
responding week of last year. In New
York the increase was Ill.
An explosion in coal mine at TOl1Od,
near Cram, Hungary, imprisoned about
$50 men, all of whom were thought to
! be dead. The bodies of those nearest
| the shaft were recovered.
A FIERCE fight is raging in the coffin
trust over Il proposed reduction of price.
THE French government again tri-
umphed in a vote in the chamber of
deputies over the Boulangists and roy
alists.
The Spanish government is under
stood not to be disposed to grant the
request of the United States that mis-
sionaries be roadmitted to the Caroline
islands, and be protected in the dis
charge of their evangelical work.
THE Rothschilds syndicate has Dor
rowed $40, 600, 900 in gold in the United
States for the use of Austria to aid her
currency reform.