The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-03-24
GENERAL.

GENERAL.
THE agricultural congress at the CITY
of Mexico vigorously denounced certain
railroads. which it claimed violated the
laws of the country.
Two cotton warehouses at Bootle.
England. belonging to the Deene Co.
were burned, the loss involved being
about $780,
THE Russian steamer Peter der
Crosse has been sunk in the English
channel in n collision with the German
steamer Preussen; no lives were lost.
OFFICIALS of the White Star line ad.
mitted that there is no longer any
ground for hope that the Naronic will
ever reach port
IT is said there is likely to be serious
trouble between the pope and the Cath
olics of France if an Italian primate is
named for Africa.
CHANCELLOR Won CAPRIvI refused to
accept any compromise on the army
bill, and it will probably be defeated in
the committee.
THE people of the Chinese town of
Fan tn surprised and massacred the
crews of two pirate vessels, from whose
depredations they had suffered
THE London Russo-Jewish commit
tee has been making energetic efforts
to boycott Russian securities with some
degree of success
THE Transatlantic steamer Sarnia
has been several days overdue, and
grave fears for her safety are enter
tanned.
CANADIAN flour dealers report that
American flour is getting in notwith-
standing the duty OF 80 cents per bar
rel 1t is said the shippers have prac-
ticed fraud on the customs officers,
sending in low grade of flour as feed
and after admission selling it as low
grade flour.
THE marquis of Salisbury, ex-premier
of Great Britain, is suffering from an
attack of influenza.
The horses of Col. North will not be
the only English thoroughbreds in
America this season. The duke of Beau
fort will have several good horses in
America this year.
THE American female baseball club,
composed of nine young women, and
Joseph Brucllner, the manager of the
team, have brought suit for damages
against the Spanish government. Man
ager Bruckner tells a story of rough
treatment at the hands of Cuban mob,
in which he and the girls barely es-
capped with their lives.
LORD DUNRAvEN declines to express
himself definitely on the cabled copy of
the American conditions of the cup
race until he has received eX-Commo-
dore Smiths letter. Lord Dunraven
will race the Valllyrie against the Eng
lish yachts before starting for America
JULES FRANCOIS CAMILLE FERRY, the
celebrated French statesman, recently
elected president of the senate, died
very suddenly on the nth.
THE German army bill has been with
drawn from the reichstag.
THE Canadian parliament rejected
McCarthy's proposal for reform of the
tariff
A sNOwsLIDE on the Rocky Mountain
division of the Canadian Pacific carried
away the tracks and snow sheds and
buried twelve men, of whom two were
taken out dead.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended March 16 showed an average
increase of .. 1 compared with the cor
responding week of last year. There
was no increase in New York.
MANY Cinnamon are now complying
with the registration law.
THE Canadian Pacific railway has
been authorized to increase its stock.
HENRY S. IVES and his interests have
secured control of the Cleveland, Akron
& Columbus road.
S. II. II. CLARK has resigned as presi-
dent of the Union Pacific and will be
elected president of the Missouri Pa
cific
DURING February the French imports
decreased 81, 9OS, 900 francs, and the eX-
ports increased 5,374,OOO, as compared
with February last year
THE lower house of the Prussiau diet
has passed to third reading a bill to
reform the present complicated system
of elections in Prussia.
The steamship Tacoma arrived at
Victoria, b. c., flying the yellow flag;
smallpox had broken out among the
Chinese passengers.
SIR WILLIAM WEDDERBURN, liberal,
has been elected to parliament from the
Banffshire, Scotland, district.