The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-05-06
GENERAL.

admitted having caused dynamite ex.
plosions and was sentenced by the Judge
to penal servitude for life.
JUDGE GRESHAM, it is reported, will
be asked to accept the peoples party
nomination for president
The Belgian government is drafting
measures to suppress anarchy. String.
ent laws regulating the use of dynamite
are being adopted.
THE Panama canal enterprise is
threatened with total collapse.
The police of Berlin made another
raid upon the lodgings occupied bv an
archists. They succeeded in capturing
twenty persons and in seizing quanti-
ty of the usual literature.
a PANIC occurred in Catholic church
in Josephstadt, Austria, recently, and
in the wild rush to escape from the
building number of persons were il
| jured. While high mass was being
celebrated the veil worn by a recently
confirmed girl came in contact with a
| lighted taper and in an instant it was in
blaze. Some one cried fire, and panic
ensued. Women and children rushed
from the doors shrieking at the top of
their voices. The jam was fearful and
many of the women and children
tainted. Others had their clothing torn
from them and many were trampled
upon. In the mean time one of the
priests sprang over the altar rail and
grasping the burning veil tore it from
the girl before she had suffered much
injury.
THE annual report of the Union Pa
cific railway Co., submitted to the stock
holders at the annual meeting shows
for the year 1891: Gross earnings, S19,-
6S7, ,73s, as against $40, 43s, POS in 1890.
The surplus earnings were S7,S46, Al,
against s7,274,759 the previous year.
Proceeds from other sources make the
total income $40, ,521. Deducting
total charges, a balance of 81, $40, 800 is
shown, which is an increase of S23, ,69S
over last year.
THE project of NJ. Brinet, manager of
Vignaux's academy at Paris, for an in
ternational contest between Schaefer.
Ives and Slosson and the most promi-
nent French professional billiardists
has fallen through.
WILLIAM AsTOR. the multi-millionaire,
of New York, died in Paris the other
day of pleurisy and heart disease SUPER
induced by the scandal in which his
daughter, Mrs. J. Coleman Drayton,
figured.
THERE has been great excitement in
Paris over the verdict in the case of
Ravachol, the anarchist
Mr.. LYLE, counsel for the murderer,
Deening, has made another application
for further postponement of the trial.
THE Ottawa house of commons re-
fused to put binding twine on the free
list.
The verdict of the jury in the Rava-
chol case at Paris has occasioned much
surprise. but it is the general consensus
of opinion that the ''extenuating cir
cumstances" part of the verdict was due
entirely to the fear of the jurors that if
the prisoner was condemned to death
they would fall victims to anarchist
vengeance.
THE European press highly censures
the Paris jury for the verdict in the
Ravachol case.
THE Melbourne, Australia. Standard
says that Deening has confessed to his
lawyer and the doctors who examined
him that he committed the majority of
Jack the Ripper" crimes in the White
chapel district of London.
NINE. NoRDIcA, the singer, has been
badly hurt by being thrown from car
riage in London.
THERE was strong suspicion among
the officers of the German army sta
toned at Halle that men were being
approached by socialists with a view to
weakening their allegiance to the gov
ernment and an unexpected search was
made of the barracks. The result verified
the suspicious, for in the mems quarters
there were discovered number of So
cialistic manuscripts setting forth the
wrongs under which the soldier labors
and calling upon them to join the social
lists in effecting a reformation of the
body polite.
IN the house of commons Mr.. Clark's
motion in favor of local government for
Great Britain and Ireland was rejected
by 4 vote of "a to 81.
a RECENT fire at Toxic, Japan, de.
stroyed 5000 houses.