The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-06-17
GENERAT.

GENERAL.
Two shocks of earthquake were fell,
recently at Canosa, a town in the prov.
ince of Bari, thirteen miles southwest
of Barletta, Italy. The shocks were
felt at Rome, though not severely.
A HOUSE in the Austrian Alps has been
destroyed by lightning and eight per-
sons killed.
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
which has been noticeable for some
time past, is now greatly increased in
violence. Large quantities of lava are
issuing from the crater and flowing
down through the Atria Cavallo ravine
The other day an earthquake shock was
felt in the town of San Sevoo The
motion was undulatory. For a time the
residents were panic stricken, but upon
seeing that no damage had been done
and that the disturbance had ceased,
order was quickly restored.
The North German Gazette. of Berlin,
referring to Chancellor Won Caprivi's
letter deprecating the project to hold
an international exhibition in Berlin
in 1896. urgently appeals to Germans to
see that German industry shall be
worthily represented at the Chicago
exhibition.
The Knights of Industry have ap-
pointed committee to visit the demo-
cratic and peoples national conventions
at Chicago and Omaha respectively and
present its platform for adoption and
also ask that planlls for eight hours
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their platforms.
PRINCE EDEsCALCHI, of Italy, recent
ly received letter signed by the
Group of Death" of the dynamiters,
ordering him, under pain of being
blown to pieces, to bury the sum of
100000 lire at Il certain indicated spot
in the suburbs. The prince notified
the police of Rome and number of Of
ticers watched the place where the
money was to be buried and succeeded
in arresting two well known anarchists
while they were digging up the ground.
THE Austrian social democratic con-
gress has made report on the Birken-
berg mine disaster, in which it is al
legged that the immense loss of life in
the mine was due to the officials driving
the miners back from the shafts when
they were trying to escape just after
the first fire broke out. These officials,
the report declares told the men there
was no danger, and persisted in their
refusal to allow the men egress from
the mine
AT Potchinslli, Russia, in the govern
ment of Mini NovgorOde and 120 miles
southeast of the town of that name. a
fire destroyed 80 houses. The popula-
ton of the town is only about 1000 and
the destruction of so many dwellings
has caused much misery. Many of the
occupants of the houses lost everything
they possessed and are dependent upon
charity for their food.
THE Russian papers all hope that the
meeting of kaiser and ear at Kiel will
silence the German war party.
THE failure of the Oriental bank in
London is said to be in no way COM
parable with the crash of Barring Bros.
& Co, as the suspension had been to a
large extent discounted.
THE drouth in Cuba continues to be
highly favorable to grinding operations,
but considerable interferes with labor
in the fields, the tender cane suffering
severely from lack of proper care. The
drouth has ruined pasturage on the
cattle breeding farms and growers have
heavy losses. 1t is re-
ported that 10000 cattle have died from
want of food and water
A HIGH official in the public works de- |
partment at Quebec, Can, is missing |
1t is said he is implicated in the Nor |
rell fOrgeries. He is thought to have
gone over the border.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, of Germany, has |
to Potsdam from kiel.
MINISTER 7. J. COOLIDGE, in a car |
riage sent for him by President Carnot, |
of France, and surrounded BY cavalry. |
proceeded to the executive palace and |
was received by the president and cabi-
net
IN the celebration of the tooth an
niversary of the discovery of America
by Columbus. a grand Italo-American
exhibition will be opened in Genoa, |
Italy, on July by the king and queen |
in the presence of the representatives
from the states of North and South |
America accredited to the Quirinal, the |
principal officers of state and many
civil and military dignitaries.