The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-05-12

1HE LOQOOn Times says Jnere Is no
objection at Vienna to Max Judd,
American consul-general.
NJ. MICHAEL EPHRUssI has given $780,
600 to the poor of Paris in rather
Frenchy way. He was, it is said. inn
PEELED to do so by Viscomte Breteuil or
fight duel until one of them died. for
having given advice that resulted dis
astrously in Russian grain speculations-
The Hoangho in China has orerAowed
its banks, deluging 100 villages. Many
of the people were drowned.
THE whole of Sicily has been shaken
by an earthquake. Telegraph commu-
nication with the island was partly in
terrupted. 1t was feared that great
damage to property and some loss of
life was caused.
THE Madrid newspapers advise urgent
efforts to put down the revolt in Cuba
and demands that the last remnant of
the Spanish colonial empire in America
must be kept at any cost.
THE African explorer, Oswald, is dead
in England. lie was a companion of
David Livingston during the latter's
explorations in Africa.
THE Cuban revolution came to a sud-
den end, Sartorius, the leader of the re-
volt, having surrendered to the Spanish
authorities.
THE British steamship Khiva, loaded
with Mohammedan pilgrims, was re-
ported to have burned off the Arabian
coast with an appalling loss of life.
JAMES W. TAYLOR, American consul
at Winnipeg, Man, is dead
IN a recent snowstorm in the govern
ment of Smolensk, Russia, twelve men
and many cattle We're frozen to death.
The governor of the province of
Buenos Ayres proposes settling the for
eign debt by ceding to bondholders the
La Plata port works, worth S7,0O0,0O0,
the remainder of the debt Isl, COO, ,000)
to be paid by new issue of bonds.
PRAYERS are being offered in Russia
for fine weather.
THE boundary dispute between Chilli
and Argentine has finally been settled.
DOMINGO CANA, the new minister
from Chilli to the United States, will
sail for New York early in June.
News from Bolivia says the Indians
are sacling the frontier villages.
The board of directors of the Bank
of England has advanced the rate of
discount to 3 per cent. from 219 per cent.
DREYFUs, of Paris, is said to be a
heavy operator in the Chicago wheat
pit.
CHOLERA is making terrible ravages
in Malacca, 200 cases being reported
daily Numerous deaths have oc-
Cured.
A BOYCOTT by the religious Organiza-
tions of the country is threatened
against the worlds fair if the gates are
opened on Sunday.
IT has been decided that the meeting
of the international monetary confer
ence at Brussels snail be postponed un-
til some time in November.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended May showed an average in
crease of 1.3 compared with the corre-
spending week OF last year. In New
York the increase was 9.3.
THE Turkish porte announces the ar
rest of two Armenian teachers who
were employed in the Marsovan col
lege. 1t is charged that the disturb
ances that recently occurred in several
of the villages were due to the machi-
nations of these teachers.
DIR. CHARLES TANNER, the noted Irish
leader and member of parliament for
Middle Cork, is critically i'll in London.
COLD and frost have rendered neces-
sary much replanting of the cotton
crop.
THE town of Kowal, in Poland, about
eighty miles south of Warsaw. has been
visited by destructive conhagration.
The big infrmary and asylum were
burned. No less than eighty persons
perished and 800 families were made
homeless.
THE Italian chamber of deputies has
commenced the debate on the naval
estimates. which the commission on the
subject proposes TO increase from 3d.
700.O .OO0 lire to los, 900. 900 lire.
THE executive committee OF the
Order of Railway Telegraphers are eX-
amining the books and accounts of the
grand officers. There are charges that
the grand chief has recklessly squan-
eered the money of the order 1t is
stated that between $4,000 and $4,000
was spent in the Burlington, Cedar
Rapids & Northern and Rock Island
strikes