The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


to land in the United States.
SENATOR CULLoM will be a candidate
for senator before the next legislative
assembly of Illinois.
COMMISSIONER RHODES arrived at Pa
lapye Christmas and announced that
the Matabeles were entirely subju-
gated, and that King Lobengula does
not intend to return to Bulwayo.
ACCORDING to mail advices from the
Congo the tribes along the upper Welle.
under the command of the sultan of
Samio, have defeated the Soudanese
Mahdists, driving them toward the
upper Nile
PAUL SCHWARTZ, proprietor of the
American metallurgical works at PhG-
nixville, Pa, died recently. He was
the only living holder of the chemical
secret for making cheap high grade
steel and the secret died with him
THE subcommittee of the senate COM
mittee on foreign relations organized
at Washington on the 27th for an in
quiry into the Hawaii complications
PRINCE BISMARCK is reported to be
suffering from his old complaint of
lilC oil III anu iiio NOhNibiOh
is said to be complicated by indiges-
ton.
DISPATCHES from Mellilla say that
Muley Araaf has delivered the princi-
pal leaders in the Riff revolt to Gen.
Campos, of Spain, who sent them
aboard the cruiser Isla de Luzon for
transport to Tangier, to enable the
sultan to punish them.
CHARLES MERIvAL, dean of Ely, is
dead The earl of Derby used to say
that Dean Merival's Transcript of
Homer's laid" was one of the finest
things in the English language.
MICHAEL DAvITT denies knowing
ANYTHING about the murder of Dr.
| Cronin.
In regard to the reported seizure of
the Gilbert islands by the British, the
colonial office says the whole group
was formally annexed by Great Britain
in June, 1892. and that they have been
in Great Britain's possession ever since.
GEN. WILLIAM A. QUARLEs. a leading
member of the Clarksville, Tenn, bar,
and an ex-confederate brigadier-gen-
eral, died in Logan county, KY, re-
Gently, aged 6s.
Mr. GLADsToNE's saith birthday an
niversary was observed on the Goth.
TIMOTHY HARRINGTON has been APP
pointed editor of United Ireland, sue
ceeding Mr. Leamy.
THE president has returned to Wash
ington from his hunting trip.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE New York 4 New England rail-
way has passed into the hands of re-
ceivers
In London. Paris and Berlin Italian
bonds have been depressed, owing to
rumors that several large Italian banks
are unable to carry over their holdings
The Erlanger syndicate, of London,
England, has at last purchased the
| Cherokee bonds
THE Fiske Gold Mining & Milling
Co.'S property, located at Blackhawk,
Col, has been sold to an English syn
dicate for s5OO.Oo0.
By an explosion of tank in the
soap factory of Proctor & Gamble, at
Ivorydale, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ed
ward Marquart, au employe, and
Stephen Reynolds, visitor, were in
stantly killed.
THE South Haven, Mich, stove works
and foundry, William Mckay propri-
etor. has closed down indefinitely, ow-
ing to lack of orders.
| WHAT seems to have been an attempt
to burn the western part of Lima, O.,
was made the other night Several
dwellings were set on fire simultane
ously and consumed.
| JUDGE MCGEE, of the superior court
at Council Bluffs, Ia, declared the
charter of the Omaha & Council Bluffs
Motor Co. forfeited.
Four miners were drowned in the
Symonds-Kaye gold mine, ten miles
from Halifax, n. S. A blast broke
down the wall and let in the water
THE British steamer Cornhill collided
off Gibraltar with the British steamer
Douglass Hill. The Cornhill sank, but
her crew was saved.
VERY bad news comes from Rio de
Janeiro. 1t is is announced that the
unfortunate city which has for months
past been suffering from the ravages
of war is now a victim to yellow fever
in the worst form
IN Southampton, England, while a
cylinder was being sunk at the wharf
to be used by the American line of
steamships it exploded and caused the
death of several workmen.
PUGILIsT MITCHELL was arrested at
Jacksonville. Fla, to prevent his fight
ing. He was committed for trial and
at once applied for a writ of habeas
corpus.
HILLsBoRo, Tex, has met with a seri-
Gus calamity by fire. 1t started in
Rosenbaum's dry goods store. The
loss was S275,000.
The jury in the Anna Wagner poison
ing case in indianapolis, Ind, has re-
turned a verdict of not guilty.
employees of the Electric Street Rail-
way Co, in Peoria, H., have been noti-
fed that they will be expected to
, work fifteen hours instead of twelve,
without increase of pay.
OFFICIALS of the Northern Pacific
are charged with wrecking the road.
CHRIS EVANS, the noted bandit part.
ner of Sontag, has escaped from Jail al
Fresno Cal
ANDREW COATES. commander of the
state sailors and soldiers home al
Monte Vista, Col, is very siok man
with little hope of recovery. Maj
, Coates gained an enviable record in the
war. He volunteered from New Yorl
state, and for years after hostilitie.
ceased was prominent in the council:
, of Tammany.
A MOTION has been made in the
chancery court to sell the Memphi.
Appeal by the trustees