The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-05-18
GENERAL.

AN earthquake IN Nenezuela de-
stroyed the cities of Egido and Merida
and several villages The loss of life
is said to be heavy.
STRIKING miners made an attack up
on detachment of gendarmes guard.
ing a colliery in Polish Ostrau and the
gendarmes fired upon them, killing
nine and wounding twenty.
ADvICEs from St Petersburg say
that the Russian police have discov-
cred vast nihilist conspiracy. 1t is
added that 100 people have already
been arrested.
A SUPPOSED anarchist outrage, result
ing in loss of life, was committed in Al
giers. A hotel owned by a man named
Torti was blown up; one person was
killed and three people were injured
by the explosion.
OFF Pelee island the Canadian revenue
cutter Petrol captured two American
vessels, the Visitor and LIE Roy Brooks,
and forty men from Cincinnati, Day
ton, Springfield and Decatur, Ill, who
were fishing for black bass The ves-
sells were dismantled, placed in charge
of an armed crew and towed to Am
herstburg, Can. The men were after
wards released.
In Hull, England. the Kingston mills,
large cotton spinning company, has
failed. The unsecured liabilities are
estimated at $780, 600.
JOHN WILLIAMSON, wife and five chill
dren partooll of salmon for supper from
can opened some days previously.
They ali fell into convulsions almost
Immediately afterwards. The two
youngest children died in frightful
agony. The others of the family are
in a precarious condition.
EX-PREsIDENT CACEREs has been re-
elected president of Peru.
A GREAT scare was caused by infor-
nation that the rebel party in Samoa
was in the brush about miles from
Apia and was about to attack the town.
The natives made immediate prepara-
tions to resist, while the foreigners ar
ranged to board the ships in the har-
bor Both British and German war
| vessels got ready and had armed par
ties prepared to land and it is believed
that their presence will be effective in
DlOOuSllCu III biO
LATE news from Hawaii stated that
a number of prominent royalists had
set June l as restoration day. That
they expected to be fully armed by
that time and, if no help was received
from the United States, they intended
to make an attack on the provisional
government
THE Hungarian house of magnates
has rejected the civil marriage bill by
a majority of 21. A ministerial crisis
is anticipated as the result of the re-
lection of this popular measure.
A BOMB was exploded in the residence
of Pierre Mason, a hat manufacturer,
in Paris, France. Nobody was injured
but considerable damage was done to
windows in the neighborhood.
The failures for the week ended Nav
Il were 206 in the United States, against
PSI last year, and A. in Canada, against
% last year.
A DISPATCH from st. Petersburg says:
Arrests have been made on a large
scale as the result of the discovery of
an organization with widespread con-
nections called "The Friends of Polit-
ical Liberty" Hundreds of persons are
supposed to have been arrested and
among them are a number of promi-
nent officials.
A DISPATCH from Buenos Ayres says
commerce is paralyzed from the low
price of products and the high gold
premium.
SENATOR WoLCoTT Coli has sailed
for Europe on account of i'll health.
CHOLERA has appeared on the Rus
sian frontier. Within the last six
weeks there have been upwards of
eighty cases and fifty deaths
THE British armored cruiser Galatea
was firing salute on the Firth of
Forth, Scotland, to the German squad
ron which had arrived there, when one
of the guns exploded, blowing one
mans head off and another mans arm
and injuring two other sailors
An official account of the recent fight
between the Brazilian government
forces and the insurgents in the state
of Rio Grande do Sui states that the
government forces were victorious.
Several encounters have occurred with
in a comparatively short time, in all of
which the government troops defeated
the insurgents.