The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-10-13

THE Missouri, Kansas & Texas road
is putting on new style of heavy pas
senger locomotives
ALDACE T. WALKER has resigned his
Office as chairman of the joint commit
tee of the Central Traffic and Trunk
lines.
The remains of Prof. Richard A.
Proctor, the eminent astronomer, have
been transferred from an obscure grave
to resting place befitting his worth.
FOREIGN warships have prevented
further bombardment of Rio de Janeiro
OwING to the advance of the Matabale
Impis, near Cape Town, Africa, Col.
Jamison has resolved to attack them
Colonial troops will start Immediately
from forts Victoria and Charter.
| CAPT. PORTER, of the steam whaler
Newport, after revising his calculations,
has become convinced he did not reach
as far north as 81 degrees, and that the
Greely expedition still holds the record.
He, however, is satisfied that he went
further north than any whaler has
gone.
SPAIN and Morocco have commenced
hostilities, Spain being determined to
avenge the defeat of troops engaged in
erecting a fort in alleged territory of
Morocco.
IT is declared that the French gov
ernment asked a syndicate of Paris
bankers to take $1,000, 900 per cents,
| on which certain sum was to be ad-
vanced, and the proposition was as
sented to.
AT a meeting of the Amnesty associ-
alton in Dublin it was resolved to ap-
peal to all Irishmen in England to pool
their voting and other powers in order
to procure the release of the Irish pris-
| onerS.
| A SENSATIONAL suit has been brought
against NJ. V. Cannon, president of the
| Irish National league.
| INFANTRY barracks in the province
of Smolensk, Russia, burned recently.
Forty-three soldiers lost their lives
STRIKING miners have been rioting at
Charleroi, Belgium.
THE first of the series of contests for
the America cup was abandoned under
the time limit when the British yacht
Valkyrie was a mile ahead of the
American yacht Vigilant Lack of
wind was the cause.
THE Iron Trade Review SAYS the iron
market is summed up in the statement
that while there is very little if any
more business going on than at the
same time last week there were more
producers in operation anxious to get
what there is.
THE British steamer City Camp, from
st. Johns, was off the coast of Cork,
waterlogged. having encountered a
terrible storm September 2G Her
cabins were filed with water. and all
on board had been living on the poop
deck of the vessel ever since.
KIssINGEN dispatch says Prince
Bismarck is decidedly better
SEVERAL hundred colonists were
killed during an attack on Santa Fe,
Argentine.
THE United States ship bennington
has arrived at Gibraltar from Cadiz.
RETURNS from the various viticult-
ural societies of France show that the
wine crop of the country for the year
amounted to SO, 0O0, 600 hectolitres.
PALLAs, the Spanish anarchist who
attempted to assassinate Gen. Campos,
was shot at Barcelona by soldiers.
CLEARING house returns for the
week ended October showed an aver
age decrease of 30.1 compared with the
corresponding week of last year. In
New York the decrease was 80. S; out.
side. 273.
POLICE of Prague have discovered a
Czech plot to assassinate several high
officials of the government of Bohemia.
The conspirators belong to secret So
ciety called 0nladina. The leader of
the conspiracy escaped to Paris.
THE president of Venezuela has re-
signed and has been succeeded by Vice
President Alvarez.
THE Russian government has ordered
two more cruisers and four torpedo
boats to increase the Black sea feet.
THE Paris Temps says that Prince
Augustus, of Saxe-Coburg-G Gotha, a
grandson of the late Dom Pedro, en-
peror of Brazil, has embarked for Bra
zil.
ANARCHIST LIE CUYER, alias La Garde,
who escaped to England in January,
was arrested in Paris recently. A
quantity of chemicals was found in his
lodgings and they will be analysed.