The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-06-17
PROSPECTS OF PEACE
A Report That the Good Offices of
Austria Have Been Sought.
RUSSIA MIGHT MAKE 0yERTURES.
American Government Said to Have he
come More Al proachable on the subject
of Intervention-A Crisis in Madrid
movements OF the Csrlists.

WASHINGTON, June 11.-Reports from
Madrid that Spain, through the min
lister of foreign affairs, Count Almo-
dovar del Rio, had taken formal steps
toward securing peace have not been
made apparent by any action in Wash
ington up to this time. There has
been no proposition for peace or for
an armistice, nor has there even been
an entering wedge of inquiry as to
now such a proposition would be &C
cepted. The Madrid reports stated
that the Spanish ambassador to Aus
tria had been instructed to seek
the good offices of Austria in bring
ing forward a peace proposition. But
If this be true the Austrian minister
Mr. Won HenRelmuller, has not con-
veyed to the state department any in
dications that Austria is ready to act
At the same time, prospects of peace
continue to be discussed in diplomatic
circles, and IL is known that at least
one of the great powers of Europe
stands ready to act as peace mediator
in case the United States will make a
suggestion that such a movement
would not meet with disfavor.
RUSSIA MIGHT MAKE ovERTUREs.
VIENNA, June 1.-THE government
has declined to initiate mediation be-
tween the United States and Spain, as
it wishes to avoid the appearance of
making Intervention seem only a dy-
nastic action in the interest of the
queen regent which might perhaps
give fatal offense Nevertheless a de-
cided opinion is held that the time for
Intervention is very nearly at hand,
although hesita ton to take the first
step is evident everywhere. The prob
ability Is that Russia win take the in
itiative within one or two days. 1t is
known that the American government
has become more approachable on the
subject of Intervention. With regard
to the Philippines no doubt exists in
official minds in Vienna that the is
lands cannot remain in the hands of
America. The insurgents there re-
iect all foreign control, and moreover,
it is scarcely conceivable that America
could provide sufficient force to en-
able her to take full possession of so
extensive a group of islands The
probability is that the powers will
find way out of the difficulty by re-
establishing a sort of protectorate,
which perhaps England might under
take.
CRISIS IN MADRID.
LONDON, June 1.-The Vienna cor
respondent of the London Daily Tele-
graph says:
Authentic reports have been received here
that the situation in Madrid rs advancing with
the greatest rapidity There is no doubt that
q crisis exists Spain will entreat the inter-
vention OF the powers almost Immediately;
and confidential inquiries in this sense have
already been made here A rumor circulated
here this evening that q revolution had broken
out in Madrid is not confirmed; but very no.
ticeable is the movement Of the Carlists, whom
Don Carlos has summoned to conference al
Brussels 1t is said by those who are in the
encourage OF the pretender that some great &C.
ton is on the eve of being taken
The weekly papers in their review OF
the week as bearing upon the Hispano-
American situation, regard its events
as a distinct step toward Americas
| triumnh