The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-05-04
GENERAL.

THE marriage of the czarewitch and
Princess Alix, of Hesse, will take place
August s.
A SENSATIONAL double tragedy is re-
ported from the Dos Cabezas mining
camp, Mexico. Jack Redding and
David Harper, wealthy and prominent
mining men, met and quarreled over a
business matter, which they agreed to
settle with their revolvers Both men
fired at the same instant and both were
shot dead in their tracks. They had
been partners for a number of years,
and until their fatal quarrel had al
ways been fast friends.
THE Spanish sanitary inspector sent to
Lisbon to inquire into the epidemic rag
ing there declares that the outbreak is
one of true Asiatic cholera
ALL efforts for a peaceful settle
ment of the Great Northern Pacific
strike were declared off on the Goth,
and the company and the American
Railway union have begun to test their
strength. The result, when the road
begins to run its trains with new men,
will be war to the knife.
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ably rejecting the opinion of the Ger
man government, advises the United
States to leave the protectorate of the
Samoan islands to Germany, under a
treaty giving the United States a coal
ing station. The same paper adds that
under no consideration could Germany
withdraw from the position which she
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FAILURES for the week ended April
% were $50 in the United States,
against 215 last year; in Canada &c
against % last year.
ALL the Brazilian insurgents, includ-
ing Da CANA. who were detained on
board of the Portuguese warships, have
succeeded in escaping.
THE strikes of the miners, iron work
ers and others in Russian Poland con-
tinue to spread and are accompanied
by great disorders. Fatal encounters
have occurred between the troops and
strikers at several places.
THE 1000 strikers in Vienna will be
joined by 10000 men from the building
trades, who have demanded higher
wages. Socialists have combined to
make a great demonstration on the
Prater on May day. This will be at
tended by the strikers and violence is
feared.
WHILE sixteen Golfers were descend
ing a shaft leading to mine at Bots
du Lac, in the Mons, Belgium, district,
the cable broke, precipitating the
whole party to the ground. Thirteen
of the miners were killed and the re-
naming three severely injured.
THE Dutch ministry has resigned,
owing to the defeat of the government
at the recent elections.
WITH a silver pick President Diaz
has finished the opening, from end to
end, of the seven-mile tunnel out of
the valley of Mexico. The tunnel and
canal, which it is hoped will at last
successfully drain the valley and thus
remove all danger to the City of Next
co from inundation, have been in course
of construction for many years and
when finished will have cost nearly
$40, 600, coo.
The north polar expedition under
the command of Walter Wellman has
arrived at Tromsoe, Norway, en- route
for the island of Spitzbergen and the
far north.
The Bavarian government, with the
double view to prevent adulteration
and to bring profit to the Bavarian
treasury, has opened an extensive
drinking saloon in Munich. This has
greatly incensed the retail dealers in
Munich.