The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-05-26

UNION PACIFIC March statement,
whole system: Gross earnings. SO, ,217,-
417; decrease, $50, O,743; net, s91s, ,561; de-
crease, S116,6S7.
JOHN E. RIsLEY, the recently ap-
pointed United States minister to Dem
mark, has been sued for an accounting
of joint counsel fees earned in coniunc-
ton with the late Senator Mcdonald.
IN the Bohemian diet there was a col
lision between the Germans and Czechs
which ended in a scene of riot and dis
order.
THE wife of Prof. Koch, the cele-
brated bacteriologist, recently pro-
cured divorce from her husband, and
the professor has now been ordered by
the court to pay her one-fourth of his
income. 1t is announced that Prof
Koch will marry young actress, who
is at present playing at Barnay's thea
ter, Berlin.
A ALABoRER has died of Asiatic cholera
in suburb of Hamburg.
THE National Cordage Co. claims to
have many millions of assets over liza
bilities.
THE most important happenings in
Honolulu recently is the appointment
of Thurston to succeed j. Mott Smith
as minister to Washington.
THREE editors of Ell Democratic, a
newspaper suppressed in the City of
Mexico, have been sentenced to seven
months imprisonment. The foreman
also got five months and the proof
reader four. All were fined besides.
THE first tory amendment to the
home rule bill, which Mr.. Gladstone
approved, was accepted, making pro-
vision that the suprems power of the
imperial parliament remain undimin
ished by any proviso of the home rule
bill.
THE government of Queensland has
proclaimed holiday for one month in
the gold fields in order to enable mine
owners and others embarrassed as to
their business by the recent bank fail
ure to make new arrangements as to
their financial affairs.
THE Presbyterian board of missions
vigorously denounces the Geary act.
The Methodist Foreign Missionary So
ciety has decided to make final appeal
to the president.
THE Spanish steamer bearing the
Infanta Eulalie arrived at quarantine
on the 18th.
THE premier of South Australia re-
ports financial matters all right and
harvest prospects excellent.
AT the unveiling of the monument to
lV,11;ar, NJ EAo,.1,4., -
Germany insisted that the army bill
was of vital import.
MAJ. LIE CARoN, once a British gov
ernment spy among the Irish in Ameri-
ca, was reported dying.
A POWERFUL syndicate of German life
insurance companies has sent agents to
this country for the purpose of estab-
fishing agencies in the various large
cities.
THE French Annamite garrison at
Khong has been attacked by the Siam
ese forces, and many were killed on
both sides.
THE steamer Havana has been
wrecked in Burgo IN. F.) harbor: loss,
$40, 600; insurance, s33, 800. There was
no loss of life.
THE wife and male servant of farm
er named Conran, at Kiltegan, County
Wicklow, Ireland, have been murdered
by moonlighters.
THE Russian cruiser Vitiaz is total
loss on the coast of Corea. The report
states that all hands were saved.
AT Ilmenau, Saxe-Weimar, the boiler
of a locomotive exploded, killing five
persons instantly and injuring a num-
Der of others so seriously that eight of
them were dying.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended May is showed an average de-
crease of 1.2 compared with the corre-
spending week last year. In New
York the decrease was 6.4.
UNOFFICIAL advices from Nicaragua
say that the government and the revo-
lutionists have agreed upon an ar1nis-
tice.
THE plate glass trust is an assured
fact.
a CABINET council at Vienna decided
upon suppressing the anti-Semetic and
Czech eXceSSes.
MoSCHIcoURT. the Panama liquidator,
has commenced suit against II. Imbert,
the administrator of Baron Reinachs
fortune, to recover 9.0OO,O 900 francs,
which it is alleged Reinach received
from the company.