The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-06-08
GENERAL.

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May 90 said that business was paralyzed
owing to the rise in the gold premium
and the falling off in exports. Gen.
Roca, in an interview, attributed the
rise of the gold premium to the bad
state of trade which, he said, was the
result of the drought and the low
prices of produce.
ALL the chefs at the imperial court
of st. Petersburg have been dismissed
owing to the fears that they would at.
tempt to poison the food provided fol
the imperial family.
SENIOR DoN CLAUDIO VIcUNA, who wa,
elected to succeed Balmaceda as presi-
dent of Chilli. has been sentenced by
the court in Santiago to fifteen years
exile.
AT Vancouver, b. c., the Frazer river
has become a raging torrent. Whole
villages on the banks of the stream
were floating and eight lives were
known to have been lost. At Morris
steamers sail right across where farms
used to be. The damage done to the
Canadian Pacific railroad is very seri.
Gus. Every farmer and rancher at
Hatztic prairie is ruined. The Salmon
Arm bridge has collapsed.
PARTICULARS of the loss, with all
hands. of the American fishing schooner
Robert j. Edwards on Sable island JAN
uary 12 last came to hand on the 3Oth.
The report says the schooner was never
seen after striking.
FIVE people have lost their lives by
drowning at Smiths Falls, Ont. Alex
Lindsay took Mrs. Ingram, neighbors
wife. and his brothers three children,
sail. When a little distance out the
boat capsized and all were drowned.
The bodies were recovered soon after.
PRINCE AUGUSTUS of SaXe-Coburg-
Gotha was married on the 3Oth at Wen
ma to his cousin, the Archduchess Car
oline immaculate, of the Tuscan branch
of the Hapsburgs-Lor
THE town of Viggianello, Italy, was
shaken by an earthquake on the 30th.
A number of houses were destroyed,
but so far as has been learned nobody
was killed. The people are camped in
the fields.
Miss FRANCES WILLARD has an
nounced that owing to the financial
stress in the United States she will re-
turn to the National Women's Chris
tian Temperance union the last two
years salary which she has received as
president of that organization.
Two bombs exploded almost stimuli
taneously outside the windows of the
Italian minister of finance at Rome on
the 3Oth. The damage done to the
buildings was small The explosion
caused great alarm, and a big crowd
of people soon collected.
THE communists of Paris have de-
cided to repeat the demonstration of
the 27th in the cemetery of Pere La
Chaise every week until they shall no
longer be molested by the police.
IT is now rumored that Germany paid
Turpin 4,O0O,O 900 francs for the new en-
gine of warfare. which he is said to
have invented and which has caused so
much excitement.
THE insurgents of San Salvador
learning of the approach of govern
ment troops, removed the rails from
the track on steep grade several
leagues from Santa Ana. The train
bearing the government troops rushed
along at high rate of speed and eight
cars were telescoped. Two hundred
men were killed and 122 wounded.
President Ezeta had a narrow escape.
THE failures for the week ended June
l were 1S3 in the United States, against
23S last year, and 81 in Canada, against
81 last year.
ST. JOHN, n. B.. suffered from serious
fires on the Sd, the total loss amount
ing to S2S3, 1000.