The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-06-02
THE duke of Montemart, France, IL

THE duke of Montemart, France, Il
dead.
Ir is reported that Prince Gustave
Adolphe, of Hohenlohe, since 1868 car
dinal priest, will resign his offices at
the vatican and return to Germany to
live.
THE Austrian cabinet has ordered the
criminal prosecution of four young
Czechs most conspicuous in the fight in
the Bohemian diet on May II.
THE two months drought in France
is estimated to have destroyed 81, 100000
francs worth of crops. The greatest
damage was done on the green crop.
RECENT floods have devastated large
districts in Roumania. Whole villages
have been submerged. Three large
railway bridges and fifteen smaller
ones have been destroyed.
CZERNowITZ. a town of Austria situ-
ated near the river Pruth. has been Wis.,
tied by a disastrous flood. Five per-
sons are known to have been drowned,
and numbers are rendered homeless by
the calamity.
Two French delegates to the interna-
tional mining conference at Brussels
were expelled because it was said they
assisted in expelling Belgian miners
from France.
NEARLY 100 houses have been burned
in the village of Strang, near Bruenn,
Austria. But four houses in the village
are still standing. Many persons were
injured by the falling of the church
| tower.
Will. firing a salute on board the
British man-of-war Mersey, in honor of
Queen Victorias 74th birthday. the
breech of cannon was blown off and
one of the men working the gun killed.
THE officers and crew of the Brazilian
warship Almirante Borroso, which was
wrecked near Ras Ghereb, have been
landed at Port Said. Only one marine
was drowned.
THE earnings of the Wabash for tie
third week in May of this year were
s237. .956.61, against s213, ,sS9.1S for the
corresponding week of last year, an in
crease of s24. 4.O574S. This is a good COM
parative showing for light season.
THE Russians have sent 1,G00 troops
to the Murghabi fort in the Pamirs.
Notwithstanding pacific assurances,
more Russian troops will be moved
through the Oxus valley during the
coming summer.
THERE is a rate cutting on the sly be
tween the New Orleans Freight Traffic
association and the Western Traffic as
sociation.
CLEARING house returns fer the week
ended May % showed an average de-
crease of 9.3 compared with the CORE
spending week last year. In New
York the decrease was 149.
THE country from the Rocky mount
aims to the Mississippi river was thor
oughly soaked by the heavy rains OF
the 25th and Goth. Unfortunately one
Or two lives were lost.
The Mercantile Financial Trustees &
Agency Co., of Melbourne, has sus
pended payment. The nominal capita
of the concern exceeds $4,000. 600, anc
the British deposits amount to $1,000,
OO0
THE centrist party, the leading op
ponent of the German army bill, i:
split into factions, which will insure
government success at the coming elec
ton.
DUN's weekly review of trade say
that retail and jobbing business ha'
improved materially during the pas
week.
Pore LEO. in giving an audience t.
Vicomte Vogue, affirmed in more forci
BILE language than ever his views il
favor of the French republic and o
democratic institutions.
AFTER June bonds of the Russian
government will be liable to duty
whether exported from or imported
into that country.
OWING to the excitement attending
the elections for the reichstag, the up
, per house of the Prussian landtag i
, likely to postpone beyond the presen
session the enactment OF the tax re
forms proposed.
The Austro- Hungarian military
: budget shows an increase of over 81,
: COO, coo. The government explains tina
the increase is rendered Necessary by
the pace set by other powers in expend
itures upon their armies.
> THE sensation in the markets recent
ly was the sudden jump in the price o
pork, which the clique had cornere
f and was manipulating as it pleased