Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1895 — Death for Using Explosives. [ARTICLE]

Death for Using Explosives.

It Is little known, even among the Frenchmen, that the anti-anarchism law ptissed in France in 1892 imposes capita! punishment for the deposit with criminal intent of • explosives in any public or private place, even when no explosion results. The sobriquet, “Father of His Country,” was first applied to Marius, the Roman officer who, B. C. 102 and 101, won signal victories over the northern basbarians. Marius declined the honor, but the name was afterward given to Cicero, then to several more or less worthy Roman emperors, and finally to Washington.