The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-05-19
TIE British ship Earl of sbaf.esburv

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has been wrecked off 'Ceylon. The
captain and five of the crew were
drowned.
THE break in the ice in the St. Law
renee, Chambley and Richelieu rivers
has caused foods in many of the low
lying districts of the province.
REV. THOMAS STURGEON will sail
from Auckland, NewZealand, for San
Francisco, May 20. He will pass sew
eral days in Chicago and will assist
Moody and Sankey in their evangelical
work during the worlds fair.
THE long drought in Austria has
ended.
QUEEN VICTORIA took part in the open
ing of the Imperial institute at London
and it was semi-officially announced
that it was her last public appearance.
LORD WILLIAM PAULET is dead. He
was a field marshal in the British army
and distinguished himself in the Crime
an war.
ARcHDUKE EUGENE of Hungary was
thrown from his horse and badly hurt
His injuries are not regarded fatal.
THE General Electric Co. has issued
statement saying that it was not
about to reorganize or be reorganized
and that it was sound financially.
A DISPATCH from Cuba announces
that the captain-general has raised the
state of siege in eastern Cuba in view
of the present peaceful aspect in that
part of the island.
The Austrian government has not
replied to the application for an
exequateur made on behalf of Max
Judd, of St. Louis, appointed by Presi-
dent Cleveland consul-general at Vien-
ma.
THE cholera is increasing in Tobolslx,
the western government of Siberia, and
a group of medical students who We're
completing their curriculum at st.
Petersburg have been dispatched to re-
inforce the Siberian physicians.
The Grecian ministry headed by NJ.
Tricoupis has resigned, owing to the
failure to negotiate loan for the re-
lief of the present embarrassed condi-
tion of Greek finances
THE Hungarian prime minister an
nounces that the cabinet will not re-
sign, in spite of the action of the house
of magnates in voting mo confidence"
on the church question.
THE Italian grain crops are said to be
ruined.
A POLICEMAN and four members of a
drunken mob were killed in collision
at Durango. Mex.
The number of Cinnamon complying
with the registration law was $500
about per cent.
THE pneumatic gun system with
which the cruiser Vesuvius is equipped
is to be reported a failure.
ENGLAND's side of the Behring sea
controversy is now being heard by the
court at Paris Sir Charles Russell be-
gan the argument.
THE drought of the last few weeks
has caused a great loss of farm and
garden products in the south of En-
gland. Grain, vegetables and fruit
crops are whitening throughout wide
strips of country.
THE annual budget, presented to the
Spanish cortes, shows an actual sur
plus of 259, ,461 pesetas. Such start
ling novelty in national finances is the
cause of much jubilation.
5. L. X. PRIME, of crop report fame,
in an interview, says the financial con-
dition of the farmers of the west and
southwest is of the best.
RUSSELL SAGE has sued He nry S. Ives,
the Napoleon of finance" for s27.44O
balance on n promissory note for $780,,
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THE United States coast survey
steamer was reported aground in the
st. Lawrence.
THE great sewing machine trust has
died in its incipiency. After the gen.
eral details had been arranged and the
combination of five companies had been
believed assured the Domestic people
suddenly announced that they did not
care to consolidate.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended May IL showed an average in
crease of 100 compared with the corre-
spending week of last year. In New
York the increase was 1873.
EARTHQUAKES continue to occur al
most daily in Sicily. Near Palermo,
Trapani and the island of Ustica. off
the Sicilian coast, were shaken violent
ly. Many buildings were injured and
are likely to fall should the shocks be
repeated.