The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-03-17

! Miss MAY MCCLELLAN, daughter o.
the late Gen. Mcclellan, has been mar
ried at Paris to Paul Desprez, an at
tache of the French legation at Wash
| ington.
TROOPS fired into a mob during al
election at Sierra di Faco. Sicily, kill
ing two men and wounding quite G
number.
The Cuban elections resulted in g
victory for the conservative party.
TwENTY-sEvEN French sailors were
drowned by the wreck of a dispatch
boat
The anti-Semite feeling in Germany
is steadily growing stronger.
GEN. MoMPLAYIER has been arrested
by the Jamaica authorities for having
organized a filibustering expedition
against Hayti
A HURRICANE at Tamatave, on the
east coast of Madagascar, caused loss
of hundreds of lives.
EX-SECRETARY FOSTER and Sir Charles
Upper met at London and informally
discussed the Behring sea case.
THE question of whether married
priests shall be allowed to officiate in
this country is arousing a controversy
in Catholic circles.
A STEAMER has arrived from Hamburg
with a cargo of the German govern
ment exhibit for the worlds fair.
FIVE more ex-ofiiclals of France have
been put on trial for Panama canal
frauds.
FROM many parts of both coasts in
coming ships report terrible stories of
storm and shipwreclz, with loss of life
and many thrilling rescues.
THE sugar trust will pay cash 10 per
cent. dividend on common stock. and
put the stock on a u per cent. basis.
Two dynamite bombs were discovered
in the house of Sig. Brini. minister of
foreign affairs, at Rome. Another bomb
was found in front of local prison.
The government of Brazil has seized
six cars of arms destined for the revolt
ers who are besieging Santa Ana The
cargo of the schooner Carmelita has
also fallen into the hands of the gov
ernment troops
THE White Star steamer Naronic has
now been out nearly month and still
there are no tidings from her.
ADvICEs from East Africa state that
the German troops have won an impor-
tant victory over the hostile natives at
Uaninguinka. The German loss in
cluded Sergeant Ettel and ten native
soldiers killed and Lieut. Bothmere
wounded
In the Panama trials at Paris NJ. Bal.
hut created a sensation by breaking
down and confessing his guilt
THE board of censors of the Chinese
empire have demanded the death OF
Houng Tchun, q member of the council
of foreign affairs for treason in negd-
tiating the Pamir treaty with Russia.
THE Irish National federation met at
Dublin and Thomas Sexton made an
earnest appeal for home rule.
GEN. MANUEL GONZALES, ex-president
of Mexico, is suffering from danger
Gus attack of illness and his death is
expected at any time.
THE Canadian Pacific is building
new road to give it detour south from
the Canadian border in North Dakota
and so avoid snow.
- A DIVIDEND of 50 per share has been
declared by the Bell Telephone Co.,
payable April 10.
AT meeting of the stockholders of
the Edison Electric Illuminating Co. it
was voted to increase the capital stock
from 81, 900, 900 to $4,000. 900.
The empress of Austria has decided
not to visit the Chicago worlds fair.
LATE news from the revolution in
Honduras is that everything now fav-
ors the government
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended March showed an average IN
crease 30 compared with the cores
ponding week of last year. In New
York there was decrease of 80.
JAMES r KEENE says there was not
word of truth in the story that he
was trying to corner May wheat
THE king of the Belgians is a strong
advocate of the referendum and man
hood suffrage.
The Glace Bay Mining Co, of Nova
Scotia, has received the first payment
of $780, goo from the Whitney coal SYM
dicate.
THE pope is soon to issue letter to
the French episcopacy urging the for
nation of party of republican Catho-
lies in the chamber of deputies