The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-04-28


FIRE broke out in the famous Hohen-
zollern palace and did great damage
before it could be subdued.
FIVE British warships. headed by the
big armored cruiser Blake, sailed into
Hampton Roads on the 18th and Joined
the other vessels there.
THE pope has ordered that prayers
for rain be offered by Catholics through
out Italy. Rain has not fallen for two
months.
THE dOwager duchess of Sutherland
has been committed to an English
prison for contempt in burning a court
document.
THE Belgian chamber of representa-
tives has granted universal suffrage,
which it is believed will put an end to
the labor troubles.
RIoTs of workingmen at Bucharest,
Roumania, are reported.
THE lord mayor of Dublin, accom-
ponied by the high sheriff, appeared at
the bar of the British house of COM
mons and presented a petition urging
the passage of the bill TO establish
home rule in Ireland.
SCORPIONS have become so numerous
in Durango. Mex.. that rewards are
offered for their destruction.
Mrs. MAVERICK, who poisoned her
husband in England, tried to commit
suicide in Woking prison by stabbing
herself with a knife.
4 PROPOSITION for a compromise on
home rule, excluding the counties of
Ulster from its provisions, has been
submitted by the radicals.
THE United States legation at Con-
stantinople has made an investigation
into the outrages upon Christians by
Mohammedans and reports Turkeys 3
action as partly justifable.
THE Canadian Pacific has announced
a onefare-round-trip rate to the worlds
fair.
THE Argentine government has made
through the Barings an offer to the
Rothschild committee to pay $T.500.G0
annually with resumption of payments
of full interest after five years as set
tlement OF the foreign debt.
MEXICAN troops are reported to have
been defeated by the rebels in western
\. p. RUDoLPHE, the French billiard
ist, is dead.
ANOTHER earthquake occurred at
Zante on the 18TH. Enormous waves
broke over the water front. The Brit
ish warship Infexible had arrived with
food and tents
PRINCE FERDINAND, of Bulgaria. was
welded or the 20th to Princess Marie
Louise, the daughter of the duke of
Parma. Italy.
IT Is said that Il threat of King Leo
pold caused the Belgian Deputies to ac-
cept the NysScn suffrage bill. The bill
confers the right to vote upon all male
citizens who have reached the age of
- years.
The British ship Cowanburn. bound
for San Francisco. from New South
Wales. is supposed to be lost. Her crew
of twenty-eight men are also supposed
to have shared the same fate.
TIE Woonsocket company has been
received ins the rubber trust. There
is now only one company Outside-the
Boston Rubber Co.
TIE earl of Derby is suffering from
an attack of heart disease.
THE Irish home rule bill passed its
second reading in the British house
of commons on the 2lst by vote of SAT
to 39i-a strictly party vote.
THE weeks flour output was smaller,
with lower prices ruling.
TIE Columbus caravels arrived at
Hampton Roads on the 21st.
The Austrian government has OBJ
| iected to Max Judd as consul-general
at Vienna, not because of his being a
jew but because he was formerly an
Austrian subject.
| CLEARING house returns for the week
ended April 20 showed an average il
crease OF 1S.6 compared with the CORE
spending week of last year. In New
| York the increase was 20.G.
THE wisest railway managers are
alarmed at the decrease of railway
rates Taxes and the cost of labor
are increasing. while rates are going
down" says Vice President Brooks, OF
the Pennsylvania.