The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-03-10

GENERAL.
GREAT suffering exists in Oldham,
England, owing to the long struggle
between the master cotton spinners and
the operatives The number out of
employment there is $4,000.
BY a sudden rise of the Danube the
inhabitants of Gergely, Hungary, were
driven from their homes and scores of
them drowned in the floods.
THE Brazilian government has or
dered 20, 600 small caliber rifles and S.
900, 600 cartridges from the Lowe Small
Arms Manufacturing Co, of Berlin.
NINE GREW, widow of Jules Grevy,
formerly president of France. died on
the lst
PRINCESS KAIULANA, of Hawaii, has
arrived in this country. She will plead
her cause before President Cleveland
Hon. HENRY F. SHERMAN. of Cleve-
land, O., died on board the steamer
Lain, while en- route for Europe.
ALBERT GRIGNARD, of Ottawa, Cam
ada, has sold to a syndicate of New
Workers his invention, to be used in
connection with lithographing, for ST.
600, O00
The Silver King mining group, of
British Columbia, has been sold TO a
Scotch syndicate for sl,sOO,OOO.
w. X. OWEN. promoter of the Topolo-
bampo company operative cOlony
scheme. in letter to n friend. states
that all differences between the leaders
of the colony are now settled.
The Mexican tariffs on horses, dogs,
cloths, tobacco, soap, perfume, liquors,
drugs, seeds, cotton and lace have been
officially reduced
ALEXANDER T. SHEPHERD. once
known as BOSS Shepherd" of WASH
ington, is reported to have made rich
strike of gold and silver in his mines in
the state of chihuahua, Mexico
The French chamber of deputies
voted urgency to a motion made by NJ.
Boissey that newspapers be held re-
sponsible for financial advertisements
published by them. The vote was
overwhelmingly in favor of declaring
urgency, standing 335 for the motion to
only 81 against it.
A BATTLE took place between oyster
dredgers and a Virginia police schooner
in Taugier sound, Chesapeake bay. 1t
was reported that the schooner was
driven off.
PRESIDENT HTPPoLYTE, of Hayti, has
resolved to make tour of the country
with strong body of troops in order
to quell the incipient revolution.
THE German government will send
Al. al - l,a
naval review.
RIoT and bloodshed resulted from an
attempt to impose additional market
taxes on the people of Szoboszlo, Hum
gary.
HONDURAS has experienced another
revolution.
THE Yale crew has commenced train
ing.
IT is reported on good authority that
J. Waldo, vice president and traffic
manager of the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas, has resigned, and that the va
cancy has been rendered Maj. H. a.
Morrill,, of the Frisco
A STRANGE epidemic has killed many
persons in Lorette and Ste. Anne, Nam
itoba.
A SEWING machine trust is forming.
A PROMINENT Brazilian financier. who
is making a tour of Chilli, says that Ar
gentina is fomenting the revolution in
Rio Grande. She is supplying the fed
erals with arms and is trying to pick a
fuss with Brazil, in hopes of acquiring
territory He thinks that Chilli may
ultimately be involved.
CHIEF WEIssERT, of the
G. A. r., has issued a general order
relative to the proper observance of
| Memorial day.
r. G. Dun & Co. take a hopeful view
of the business situation.
The pope celebrated the anniversary
of his coronation with pomp and splen-
dor on the Sd.
The federalists are defeating the
government on the Rio Grande do Sui,
| in Brazil
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended March showed an average iu-
crease l. 3 compared with the cores
ponding week of last year. IN New
| York the increase was 12.1.
ENGLISH capitalists, it is said, have
bought Antelope island, 81, 900 acres, in
the Great Salt lake, which they will
turn into game preserve.
THE Louisville, Evansville e St Louis
road will be bonded for SIS, 000,0 900.