The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-07-07

THE Santa Fe has published circu-
lar vigorously calling for reduction of
rates to the worlds fair.
BY an explosion of molten iron in
| foundry in Saxony six men were in
stantly killed
A ApIsPATcH from Singapore says that
the natives in Southern AMMAN have
risen against the French and that rein
| forcements have been sent to the French
troops in that region.
SIR LOTHIAN NICHOLSON, governor of
Gibraltar, is dead.
SILVER went down another penny at
London on the 2Sth.
CHOLERA advices from Mecca show
that there were 999 deaths from the
disease in that city on the Goth. This
is the largest number yet reported dur
ing the present epidemic.
BEGINNING July l, the Milwaukee &
Northern will be operated by the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul and will
be known as its Lake Superior division.
The officers of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul will be in charge.
FRIENDS of silver stoutly maintain
that the present condition of things,
instead of hurting silver, will, in the
end, be benefit to it.
SENATOR SrANFoRD's death has left
four important vacancies in the South
ern Pacific system.
RECENT reports received by the ma
rine hospital service from the cholera
infected ports of Russia indicate that
the disease is perceptibly diminishing.
DETAILS have been received of the
engagement between Chinese and
French in Tonquin. The Chinese were
finally repulsed, losing $50.
The sealing catch in the north Pa
cific this season is fully as large as the
previous year The catch OF twenty
nine vessels so far heard from is -, 800
seals
PRINCESS BISMARCK is dangerously i'll
at her home at Freidericksruhe.
SIR DAVID BARBOUR, financial men,
ber of the India council, said that in
his opinion Ceylon and Mauritius would
be compelled soon to follow the exam
pie of India and close their mints to the
1rec coinage OF silver.
The passenger steamer Gothic, built
for the White Star Steamship Co, by
Harland & Wolf, of Belfast, has been
successfully launched. She will sail in
the Atlantic service of the company in
the autumn, but will ultimately be
placed in the New Zealand traffic.
The pope has given his consent to
the proposal that Maestro Mustafa, di-
rector of the Sistine chapel, and the
members of the choir should visit Chi
cago and sing there during the prog
ress of the exposition.
THE semi-annual statement of the new
railroad lines built in the United States,
compiled by the Railroad Gazette, gives
the total new mileage added to the
railroad systems of this country for the
first half of 1898 as SS4 miles. This to-
tai is nearly 500 less than the new
track built in the first half of 1892.
CANADA is seeking closer trade with
Australia.
The duke of Saxe-Meiningen has
given $4,000 marks from his private
purse for the relief of peasants from
the distress caused by the drought.
THE German opera artist Stagno and
his secretary have been arrested on the
charge of forging the name of a corre-
spondent to bogus dispatch.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended June 90 showed an average de-
crease of "A compared with the cores
pooling week of last year. In New
York the decrease was so.
IT is said privately that Adm. Tryon
was the cause of the sinking of his ship,
having signaled TO the Camperdown to
| turn in too narrow waters.
A. ]. DRExEI. the Philadelphia bank
er and philanthropist, died recently at
Carlsbad, Germany.
THE report that the republic of Mex
leo intends to stop the free coinage of
silver has been authoritatively denied.
ALL the glass plants in the country
have closed down. as is customary with
them, until September l.
IRON manufacturers and iron workers
have at last agreed upon n scale of
wages upon compromise basis.
THE British house of commons. by
vote of 3OS to 30, supported Gladstones
resolution to expedite the home rule
| bill.
A DISPATCH from Mecca states that
$50 deaths from cholera occurred IN
that city on the 2Sth.