The American citizen. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1888-1909, 1889-02-15

THE recent number of the London Con.
temporary Review containing the UNI
signed article entitled ''The Bismarck Dy-
nasty" is now allowed to be circulated in
Germany.
Mr.. KILBRIDE, member of Parliament
for South Kerry, Ireland, has been sem
fenced to three months imprisonment
without hard labor for breach of the
Crimes act.
The armory of the Downpatrick Jail in
Ireland was entered by unknown parties
the other night and though soldiers and
police were an guard, anumber of carbines
were carried of.
A MASS meeting was held ia Hyde park,
London, on the 10th, denouncing the Gov
ernment's Irish coercive policy and the
Imprisonment and ill-treatment of Editor
O'Brien. In a newspaper letter Mr.. Bal
four denied that O'Brien had been ILL
treated.
The Theater Royal at Aldershot En-
gland, was burned to the ground the other
night A performance was in progress
when the fire broke out and the audience
| became panic-stricken and made a rush
| for the door. Many persons were hurt
but no one fatally.
| PROF VIRCHOW has accepted the prest-
dency of the famous Berlin Medical So
| ciety for the study of internal complaints.
DOZENS of trains are reported showed up
| in all parts of Canada as the result of tie
recent blizzard. Travellers have suffered
considerably.
The railway employees of Wisconsin are
arranging to form political organization
to vote for men in sympathy with rail-
way corporations.
AN attache Of the British Admiralty
has been dismissed for crOokedness in
divulging terms of contract. He was
caught by an electric wire while abstract
ing documents.
Tom ALLEN, a colored seaman. has beer
arrested in Swansea, Wales, for the muir
der of a Mr.. Kent, the landlord of the
Gloucester Hotel. Allen confessed. HI
had broken into the house for purposes o.
robbery, the murder following desperate
struggle.
THE value of the plumber secured by thu
mob in the recent riot at Rome is estl
mated at G75,0)0. The Government posses
ses evidence that the Anarchist leader
fomented the agitation.
CLEARING house returns for the weel
ended February 8 showed an average in
crease of 29.1 compared with the CORE
spending week of last year. In New Y or
the increase was 1916.
A STORM of exceptional severity was re
ported raging throughout Holland. Th
rivers are greatly swollen and Rotterdam
Dordrecht, Schiedam, Swolle and Kampe
are inundated. Many shipwrecks wit
great loss of life is reported.
THERE was a general tendency to ad
} vance on the London Stock Exchane
{ during the week ended February 9. Amer
lean railroad securities were affected b
t the desire to sell in New York whenever
. rise was reported in London. The Cont
. mental bourses were quiet with busine
1 | limited. Panama canal shares continue
to fall
}, EIGHT wUrkmen were killed near Hall
Q Germany, recently by a passing train.
J.. THE Berlin correspondent of the Londc
b Chronicle says that Mr.. PendletOn, I'll
r American Minister to Germany, will pr
side at the coming Samoan conference.
}, REAR ADMIRAL CHANDLER, commando
Q the Asiatic station, died at Hong Kong
It the 10th from an attack of apoplexy. I
Is was born in New York August %, 1929.
. The mutlated remains of woman we
y found in trunk at Dundee, Scotland, T
Gently. Her husband was arrested and
y | the body was mutilated i'll Jack the H
N per" style and the man was from Whit
20 chapel and subject to Unconscious murd
l. mania, it was thought the notorious tie
was at last captured.
n The recent riots in Rome are charged
Of French agitators. some of whom were a
le rested.
9. DHULEEP SINGH has sent to India pre-
ID lamation inviting the people to subscri
the sum of 1000 900 with the Object
n throwing off the English yoke.
THE Gear Of Russia has purchased t
or large estates in the Crimea and will
q. tablish an imperial residence there.