The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-01

lost their lives during the recent storms.
The Princess Waldemar and the wife OF
the premier started national subscrip-
ton for the relief of the families of the
| fishermen.
ADM SEYMOUR says the condition oi
the British navy is most serious
DURING the recent English gales the
lifeboat crews at the various stations
on the coast responded to sixty signals
for assistance They saved at least 2OC
persons from drowning. The work OF
the life savers is meeting with the high
est praise on all sides
| THE annual report of the Great
Northern road for the year ended June
30, 1898, shows an increase of s34O.1SO
in net earnings and of sl59, 722 in the
surplus fund.
E. ELLERY ANDERSON, one of the
Union Pacific receivers. says that Rus
sell Sage has deliberately retarded the
receivers work, and charges Mr.. Sage
with a desire to further his own inter
ests at the expense of the company.
1T is proposed to entirely reorganize
the Union Pacific railway. +. p. Nor
gan, whose firm fioated the $40, 600, 600
of collateral trust notes two years ago,
is said to be in harmony with the pur-
pose.
Mr.. AND Mrs GLADSTONE and Earl
Spencer first lord of the admiralty. ac-
companied by Countess Spencer, have
been on a visit to Queen Victoria at
Windsor castle.
IT is reported from South Africa that
King Lobengula has been captured.
THE rebel ironclad Javary is reported
to have been sunk at Rio de Janeiro by
a shot from the forts.
BRITISH military circles are agitated
over assertions that British soldiers are
inadequately clothed. Two soldiers
perished in the recent gale while cross
ing hill to their barracks.
THERE has been no actual disturb
ance of the peace in Samoa, but the
natives are far from quiet. Fear alone,
apparently, prevents new outbreak.
THE steamer Miowerra, which has
been ashore at Honolulu since October
2, has been foated She was but
slightly damaged, although fifty-one
days on the reef
THE Egyptian budget for 1894 shows
a surplus of 500, 900 Egyptian pounds.
1t proposed to further reduce the tax
by 10000 Egyptian pounds.
THE police of Lubbock, Germany. are
inquiring into the death of rich New
Yorker named Nicholas Plohn. Mr.
Plohn's body has been found in the
forest near Lubbock and it is evident
that he has been murdered.
COUNT PoTOCKI, the Russian imperial
cup bearer, is dead.
An anarchist bomb has been ex-
ploded in the machinery of factory in
the village of Piefenbach, near Cab
lonz, Bavaria. Considera BILE damage
was done to the machinery, but nobody
was injured.
ARRESTS of anarchists continue to be
made throughout Spain. An important
arrest, the police think, was made at
Barcelona in the person of a woman,
Teresa Claramunt- Fifteen thousand
infiammatory pamphlets and books
were seized in her rooms
A MOVEMENT is on foot among the
bondholders of the Kansas Pacific to
secure the removal of Russell Sage as
trustee and to appoint two new trust
ees. Since Jay Gould's death Mr.. Sage
has been the sole trustee.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended November % showed an average
decrease of 1873 compared with the cor
responding week of last year. In New
York the decrease was 11.2; outside, ST..
THE crisis over the bank scandals in
Italy has caused the retirement of the
ministry.
JOHN MORLEY. chief secretary of Ire
land, is confined to his home by chills
THE sultan of Morocco's brother has
assured Gen. Marcias that he will an
swer for the complete submission of
the Arabs.
MIR. GLADSTONE says the government
has no present intention of providing a
residence in Ireland for the duke of
York
THE Austrian government has re-
solved to make a large increase in the
Austrian artillery forces and forty-two
new regiments will be added.
FRENCH alarmists are much excited
because of the reported intention of
Germany to establish vast intrenched
camp at Malmedy, near the frontier of
Belgium