The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-07-06
GENERAL.

| BOOTHs lumber mill at Nichandre
Falls, Ont, has burned. Loss, $3.50, 200.
THE strike against handling Pull
man cars was extending all over the
country on the 9th. Eleven Chicago
roads were tied up. Not train moved
from California, only suburban trains
being run. An order was issued for a
general strike on the Santa Fe.
POLICE in cities in Italy have made a
large number of arrests in consequence
of the reported existence of an inter-
national anarchistic plot to blow up
public buildings and murder prominent
political personages.
THE list of those killed by the ex-
plosion of the Albion colliery in Wales
continues to swell, and the number is
now far ahead of the first estimates of
the fatalities. Thus far 26s bodies have
been brought to the surface. One hum
dred and twenty of the dead were
buried on the 27th. The funeral was
attended by 10000 colliers.
THE Scottish Chambers of Husbandry
have adopted resolution to the effect
that the present financial depression is
due to the monetary change of 1872.
and they have decided to petition par
lament in favor of bimetalism.
ABOUT thousand Italians who fled
after the assassination of President Car
not, fearing persecution, were camping
in the fields near Metz. Most of them
were without means and were suffering
many hardships.
A DANISH official of Godthaad in
Greenland, writes under date of Nav
80 that a whaler had reported that
Bjorjing and Kallstenius, the young
Swedish botanists, who set out in 1892
on voyage of discovery toward the
north pole in a forty-fve-ton vessel,
the crew of which only numbered five
men all told, had started in a small
open boat in an attempt to reach Lab
rador.
FAILURES for the week ended June 90
were PA in the United States, against
307 last year; in Canada 35, against 81
last year.
A DISPATCH from Shanghai says that
war between China and Japan is i'm
minent.
IT is now established that regular
plot, in which a number of people were
concerned, existed to assassinate the
French president. The final meeting
of the conspirators took place at Cette,
and Santo was chosen by lot to COM
nit the actual murder.
THE remains of the murdered Carnot,
late president of the French republic,
were laid to rest in the Pantheon at
Paris. an immense assemblage witness
ing the procession.
The Allan line steamer Scandinavia,
Capt. Gunsen, which has arrived at
Scotland, from Boston, re-
ports having been in collision with an
iceberg in midocean. A large hole was
knocked in the steamer feet above |
the water line and her bowsprit and |
figurehead were carried away.
THE new drilling ground for the |
Prussian guards, which is being formed |
between Spandau and Potsdam, will |
cost 1000, 600 marks.
ADvICEs have been received from the |
United States legation at Toxic, Japan. |
that the black plague or black death
prevails at Canton, China. and that all
vessels from several Chinese ports to |
Japan are quarantined under an i'm
oerial proclamation.
A LATE dispatch from Shanghai said
hat Japan had summoned the king Of
Corea to relinquish Chinese suzerainty,
TO declare his independence. to accept
Japanese protection and to dismiss the
Chinese resident. Japan has answered
she English and Russian pacific over
lures by sending 1900 more troops to
Seoul. The Japan troops in Corea now
number 5000. China has sent special
envoy to Seoul to confer with the Jap
anese minister.