The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-12
GENERAL.

GENERAL.
The German government is consider
ing the advisibility of adopting meas
ures to restrict the use of explosives by
miners.
Ex-VICE PRESIDENT LEVI p MORTON.
now in Paris, has completely recovered
from the effects of the surgical opera.
/ tion performed recently on his left foot.
A DETACHMENT of marines has left
Kiel for the scene of the German trou.
BILE in the Cameroons.
GREAT distress prevails in the dis
! trict of La Puglia, southern Italy, and
disturbances are feared.
THE municipal authorities of St
! Petersburg propose to hold an inter
national exhibition there in 1903, upon
the 200th anniversary of the foundation
of the city, in 1908, by Peter the Great.
THE Louisville. Evansville & St
Louis, otherwise known as the "Air"
line, has passed into the hands of re.
ceivers
The Iron Trade Review says: The
close of 1898 recorded the lowest prices
for iron and steel in the history of the
trade. There has been a disposition tc
think that the coming of 1894 would
arrest the downward tendency, but evi.
dences are to the contrary.
THE barracks of the Sophie regiment
at Smolensk, Russia, have been burned,
and several soldiers were terribly in
jured through jumping from windows.
THE report current in Montevideo
that President Peixoto was negotiating
with United States Minister Thompson
looking to the Intervention of the
United States fleet at Rio in accom-
plishing a settlement of Brazilian diff
culties was denied by officials of the
state and navy department at Wash
ington.
WHILE the emperor of China was in
his winter quarters bandits attacked
the castle and secured a quantity of
valuables. They also kidnapped several
imperial officers
WRECKAGE from a Norwegian vessel,
inscribed "Christiana," has been
washed ashore at Ramsgate. The gen.
eral opinion is that the vessel has been
lost with all hands
HARRY KENNEDY, the noted song
writer and ventriloquist, is dead
THE Victoria hospital, at London,
was burned recently and the patients
were saved with great difficulty. The
building was greatly damaged.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended January showed an average
decrease of 25.S compared with the cor
responding week of last year. In New
York the decrease was SOL; outside,
299.
A STARTLING report has reached Lon
don that French force in Senegambia
had killed Capt. Landy and twenty-siX
soldiers of British West India regi-
ment.
HERR GLoEss. of Dresden. has been
sentenced to ten days imprisonment
and to pay a fine of 100 marks for pub
fishing a cartoon entitled bismarck in
Berlin" The action was brought by
Chancellor Caprivi
Mr.. GLADSTONE will leave London
for Biarritz on January 30, where he
will be the guest of his friend, Mr..
Armistead.
MAITRE LABoRI, a distinguished ad.
vocate, has consented to act as counsel
for August Valiant. the anarchist
THE British admiralty has resolved
to build four first-class battle ships of
similar design to the Magnificent and
Majestic at a cost of 81, O0O. 900 each.
The manager of the anarchist paper,
La Revolte, has been arrested in Paris.
The police found important documents
on the prisoners person.
IT is feared that the existence of the
triple alliance is menaced by the tax
riots in Sicily which, report says, are
being fomented by the French.
ADM. DA CANA claims to be confident
of the speedy success of the brazilian
revolutionists.
A TELEGRAM has been received from
DIR. Jameson saying the natives con-
tinue to come to Bulwayo, Matabele-
land, Africa, announcing they are
tired of fighting and want peace.
HERR MoRTIsMANHEIM, connected
with the American trade, has donated
to the Jewish society in Berlin the sum
of 500, 600 marks with which to build
hospital.
THE scenery depot and contents OF
the Paris opera, on the Rue Richer,
was completely destroyed by fire
which ligated up the whole city. The
damage is estimated at !, ZOO, 600 francs.
THE LATEST.
MCKINLEY was reinaugurated COVER
nor of Ohio at Columbus on the Sth. His
address avoided politics.
A CANADIAN steamer reports every
thing quiet at Honolulu.
THE senate had hot debate on the
Sth over Hawaiian matters A quorum
showed up in the house and the Wilson
tariff bill was introduced and debated.
A SERIOUS fire broke out in the casino
at the worlds fair, Chicago, on the