The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-02-17
GENERAL


armes eventually attacked them and q
hot fight followed, in which fifteen con-
scripts were wounded and three killed.
THE Rio Grande Western and the
Union Pacific have restored rates from
common points of each line to the east
NINE politicians and ex-officials of
Italy have been charged with corrup-
ton in connection with the bank
scandals
THIRTY-sEyEN seamen were drowned
by the wreck of British ship off Cape
Villano, Spain.
TROUBLE along the Rio Grande do Sui
border in Brazil has broken out again.
A correspondent at Artegas telegraphs
that the government police arrested
and disarmed 100 federals who were
about to make raid.
THE Colombian warship la Popa,
has arrived at Colon with thirty-two
political exiles who have been expelled
from Bogota on account of their partic-
ipation in the recent riots
A LETTER has been published from
Queen Liliuokalani's minister of the
interior which puts the acts of the Ha-
waiian revolutionists, and Minister
Stevens with them, in bad light.
IT was reported that another grave
crisis existed in France and that the
ministry had resolved to resign.
The king and queen of Greece have
been visiting the earthquake wrecked
island of Zante.
FIRE caused a panic in a Leipsic
restaurant recently and eight people
We're crushed to death.
FERDINAND and Charles de Lesseps
and the other Panama defendants bave
been sentenced to 5000 francs fine and
five years imprisonment. The sentence
on the aged Ferdinand de Lesseps
caused profound sensation.
On February 1 Minister Stevens, in
the name of the United States, raised
the stars and stripes over Hawaii and
assumed control of the country pend
ing negotiations.
The International Navigation Co., or
american line" (formeriy the Inman
line), has signed a contract with the
Cramps for the construction of two
great and swift steamships, which are
to be faster than either the City of
Paris or the City of New York.
THE Rio Grande frontier of Brazil is
alive with bandits and the Brazilian
police are powerless to deal with them.
A body of Castilistas were routed at
Cerro Largo by federal cavalry.
THERE is general fear, and railroads
are getting ready accordingly, that the
opening of the worlds fair next May
will witness the Inauguration of 4 gem
eral strike.
SEVERAL lightly built houses in Cam
polieto. province of CampobassO, Italy,
collapsed during high wind Thirteen
persons were killed and fourteen were
injured.
JAMES Il. KEENE alleges that the con-
tinued heavy exports of gold are due
to arrangements of foreign syndicates-
FRENCH and in fact all European
newspapers condemned the sentence
passed upon Ferdinand de Lesseps as
being altogether too severe.
IT seems that Judge Gresham will be
Cleveland's secretary of state.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended February showed an average
decrease of Q compared with the cor
responding week of last year. In New
York the decrease was 143.
THE civil tribunal at Paris. France,
rules that South Dakota divorces are
not valid.
THE Ecuadorian coffee and cocoa
crops are failures and the press OF that
country is calling for subscriptions to
aid the starvi agriculturists.
JUsTICE HARLAN. of the United States
supreme court, and Rev s d. Harlan
listened to Mr.. Gladstone's remarks at
the meeting of the house of commons,
and dined mt the commons with Right
Hon. James Bryce, chancellor Of the
ducy of Lancaster.
Bush fires are doing great damage in
many parts of Victoria, Australia.
Crops and homesteads have been de-
stroyed. Twenty-Five houses have been
burned at Hastings, near Napier, New
Zealand.
The National Military institute at
Bogota, United States of Colombia, has
been suppressed. The students are
suspected of revolutionary sentiments.