The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-01-20

JOHN HUNTINGTON. the Cleveland mil.
ionaire, died at London recently from
inflammation of the lungs.
THE whisky trust has adopted the
Takamine process of distillation
INFORMATION brought down from
Alaska by passengers on the steamship
Danube says that natives cut off the
heads of three whites and an Indian
near Cape Berry and then stuck them
upon poles and danced around in re.
voting savagery.
GEORGE j. GOULD has been elected
president of the International & Great
Northern.
THE Venezuela supreme court has an
nulled the concessions under which
President Palacio gave a French syndi-
cate monopoly in the Guayana, ORR
noco and Rio Negras districts.
THE French authorities have decided
to surrender c. Hill Wells, the patent
swindler, to the English government.
Wells is the man recently referred TO
by the London Truth as the biggest
swindler living.
1T is reported that Count Munster,
German ambassador to Paris, will be
summoned to Berlin to report on the
| situation in Paris.
Mr.. GLADSTONE has returned to En-
| gland from the south of France.
NJ. DE FREYCINET. the powerful eX-
minister of France, is under surveil-
lance for completely in the Panama
frauds.
a SPINNING mil, at Osaka, Japan, was
burned December % with a loss OF 125
lives. Most of the victims were young
girls. Two mills and twenty-seven
houses in the vicinity of the mills
caught fire from sparks and were de-
stroyed.
A MOVEMENT is on foot to form a syn
dictate of the thirty eight Alaska salmon
canneries with $1,000. 900 capital.
CLERGYMEN will have to pay full fare
in the future when they ride on the NJ,
X. & T.
THE delegates of the British Miners
federation, i'll session at birmingham.
have adopted resolution asking par
Lament to pass bill making eight
HourS legal gay Work.
The Hamburg health officers report
1879 deaths from cholera in 1892 and
20, 323 deaths from all causes. The
births numbered 29.999.
The municipal authorities of South
ampton. England, have appointed a
committee to formulate plan for the
celebration of the arrival of the first
ADM. GUERARDI's United States
squadron arrived at Montevideo, CRU
quay. and anchored in the outer roads.
Salutes We're exchanged and Adm.
Gherardi visited the president of the
republic
The circulation of the Hispano-
Americana, a Spanish daily newspaper
published at FL Paso, Tex, has been
stopped in Mexico
DICK BURGE, the English pugilist, IL
was said, would return home. being
unable to arrange a fight with McAu-
life
EXCITEMENT increased in France over
charges that President Carnot was inn
plicaUed in the Panama scandal The
accusations, however, had but a slender
basis
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended January II showed an average
decrease of 81 compared with the COR
responding week of last year In New
York the decrease was IL9
A STORY from China says that robbers
set fire to 4 wooden shed where the
people were witnessing celebration
and /, 500 were burned and trampled to
death.
THE celebrated stallion OrmOnde,
which was recently sold to Mr. William
Mcdonald, of San Francisco, who, it is
said, paid $50, 900 for him, arrived at
Southampton recently from Buenos
Ayres, where he had been for some
time past
A BILL to legalize cremation has been
reported in the Hessian chamber.
The emigrants who left German ports
for the United States in 1892 numbered
los, $50.
AFTER n lengthy discussion in the
cabinet the government of the Argeu-
tine republic has issued a decree for
formal armed intervention to maintain
Gov. Ruiz in the province of Corrientes
PEOPLE at Winnipeg, Man, are hold
ing lawn parties with the mercury in
the thermometer at sixty-four degrees
below the freezing point