Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-05-25
FOREIGN.

A great fire in Bremen, Germany, on
the night of the 18th, destroyed five ware
houses.
A recently attempted prize fight between
Mace and Coburn, in Canada, was broken
up by the Canadian authorities before any
blows had been exchanged. A large
crowd was in attendance
Lemuel Lyon, United States Consul at
Yokohama. died there, of softening of the
brain, on April 6.
A Paris dispatch of the 14th announces
the death of Auber, the musical composer,
at the age of 80.
A Versailles dispatch of the 18th says
the bombardment continued, and several
breaches had already been made in the
enceinte of Paris. The Anteuil gate was
entirely destroyed.
A special from Paris on the evening of
the 18th says Dombrowski had issued
orders that all officers refusing to obey the
command of their superiors should be
shot. A grand procession of women
marched through the streets of the city,
on the 18th, headed by buglers, drum
mers and flags, to the Hotel de Vile,
where they demanded arms. A proclama-
ton was issued for the organization of
battalion of women Immediately, for the
purpose of stimulating the courage of the
men. 1t had been ordered that all
cowardly males should be led to prison
by women. The women battalions were
to march against the Versailles troops.
A Toronto, Ont, dispatch of the 18th
says the government press there gave a
rather equivocal support to the treaty of
Washington, while the opposition papers
were very decided in their expressions of
disapproval, holding that to grant to citi-
zens of the United States the right to fish
in Canadian waters may make it unneces-
sary for the American Government to
adopt policy of reciprocity in Nova
Scotia and New Brunswick.
The Assembly at Versailles, on the 10th,
voted the urgency of motion for re-
building the residence of Theirs in Paris
at the public expense.
A Homestead bill has passed the Cana
dian Assembly. One clause protects debt
ors arriving in Canada for five years
against creditors.
The Column Vendome in Paris was de-
molished by the insurgents on the after
noon and evening of the 10th. Large
crowds were present, and the work of
| destruction was carried on accompanied by
music and shouting ON the part of the
populace. The column fell in three
pieces.
Snow fell in Scotland and the north of
England on the 18th, and it was thought
the crops had sustained injury.
A Paris special of the 18th to the New
York World says Marshal Mcmahon had
called upon the German army to aid him,
and the German engineers were throwing
bridge over the Seine to facilitate the
passage of the Versailles and German
armies. The decisive attack would come
from the east, and the Germans and French
would act together.
Six hundred persons, mostly women, are
reported to have been killed in Paris, on
the night of the 18th, by an explosion neal
Avenue de Trocadero.
A Versailles dispatch of the evening Of
the 18th says the Assembly had adopted
the entire treaty signed at Frankfort be
tween France and Germany.
All special dispatches to London Journals
OF the 18th concur in representing that q
reign of terror prevailed in Paris. Many
eminent citizens were daily imprisoned
and the lives of those held as hostages
were despaired Of Twenty-one member
| OF the Commune no longer attended it,