The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-06-29
GENERAL.

THE American Institute or Hoineo-
pathy has decided to hold the next an
nual meeting at Newport, R. l., and
appointed all Rhode Island members
committee of arrangements
The sealer schooner Unga is lost and
all hands are drowned, is the an
nouncement made by private letter
from Japan. Like the Matthew Tur-
ner and the Mascot the vessel capsized
in typhoon and all hands were lost.
The Sophie Sutherland sighted the
overturned vessel off the Japan coast.
PRESIDENT DEBs, of the American
Railway union, said recently that steps
will soon be taken to form a triple alli-
ance between the Knights of Labor, A.
r. U. and the Farmers Alliance. The
triple alliance thus formed will control
about 1,5OO, 900 men. A convention un-
der the auspices of the Illinois State
Federation of Labor will be held at
Springfield, ILL.,, July 2, 3 and 4, and
then the proposed union will probably
be effected.
ADvICEs from Curitiba, state of Sac
Paulo. confirm the statement that the
Brazilian government forces shot the
insurgent prisoners who were captured
near Lorena in that state.
FIRE broke out at the Agnes cabinet
factory in London, Eng. The flames,
assisted by fierce wild, spread furi-
ously, and within an hour eight or ten
other factories were burning. Alto
gether twenty buildings were Quilted,
and many others were damaged by fire
and water. The estimated damage is
e2O0, 900.
J. Nj. TOWNSEND, president of the
Anti-Lynching league, has written
letter to Miss Frances Willard asking
her to retract or defend statements she
is alleged to have made regarding the
negro while in England, that she
thought lynching sometimes justi-
fable.
A CALL has been issued for the con-
vention of the Colored Voters league
of Pennsylvania, New York and West
Virginia to be held at New Castle, Pa,
on August s.
DISPATCHES received by the Spanish
government on the 21st from Mindiano,
one of the largest of the Philippine
islands, report that battle was fought
between Spanish troops and the Mus
sulman inhabitants of the islands, and
that the Spanish were victorious. One
hundred Mussulmans were killed. The
Spanish loss was only a few wounded.
The fighting still continued.
The German legation was wrecked
recently by an earthquake in Toxic,
Japan. The occupants escaped.
ARCHBISHOP TACHE, of st. Boniface,
the veteran northwest missionary,
died at Winnipeg, Man., on the 22d.
He was chiefly prominent in Canadian
northwest circles for active interest
taken in the Red river rebellion
troubles in 1s7O-71, and later in 1881.
He concluded the negotiations for the
settlement of the Riel rebellion.
THE Popes encyclical letter was is
sued on the odd. 1t was much re-
marked that the letter was addressed
to ''all princes and people" instead of,
as usual, to the archbishops and bish-
| ops.
THE failures for the week ended June
90 were PA in the United States, against
273 last year, and 25 in Canada, against
| ii last year.
PRESIDENT CARNoT. of France, was
assassinated on the night of the cath
at Lyons by an Italian anarchist
named Cesare Giovanni Santo, who
sprang upon the steps of the presi-
dents carriage while he was being
driven to the theater and stabbed him
near the heart, inflicting a wound
from which he died soon after. The
assassin was captured. The French
| people were wild with excitement and
attempted to wreak vengeance upon
Italians and bloody riots were antici-
| pated.
| AN immense meeting of socialists
was held in the Prater at Vienna on
the oath and slight conflict took place
with the police and several socialists
were arrested.
| AN awful mine horror occurred at
the Albion colliery, Wales, in which
$50 miners were killed.
LATE reports from Hong Kong,
China, said that the plague was still
making awful ravages. The authori-
ties attributed the outbreak to the filth
in the streets, which was piled there in