The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1878-02-21
Foreign News.

George CruikshAnk, the celebrated English
artlA and caIlcAiurist il dead
Grccst has declared MAJ against Turkey, sud
the government has ordered En army of 1000
men 10 GROSS tho frontier aud ooanpy ThrssAly
Rpris aud Maecdasiia, IA order 10 proTrni
uaANsAerts Of Christians IN those provinces.
The peace preliminAries aud arnlistiee have
been signed ~ AdiiAaoplc, and ths EAstarn
war ls practically az al end the Grand Duke
Nicholas having ordered a suspension OF hos
uhJlo.. Ehe peace conditions arc follows;
The erection uf Bulgaria Into principality 4
MAI indemnity or territory Ia compensation
the independence Of E0umAniA, scrviA aud
Moute nrsro. With An inorrAs5 ~ territory for
each reforms Ia Bosnia aud Herzegovina
an Interior understanding between the sultan
and the esar rugArding the DArdAnelles the
evacuation of the DADub.au fouEusses and
ErtorouEl.
The British consul At Shanghai tolegrAphs
that g.u0n, 600 people ara now rrpoFted desti-
tlte la Northern China The foreign Foh0f
committee appeals % England snd Ameriua for
aid.
A dispatch from Shanghai. China. announces
that asylum fug women aud childrvn IA the
city IL ntn-I,in, hAs been burnoA aud that
moro than =. O0J persons are said 20 have per
.nhcd tu the Gre
Tea persons wrru snifooAt1d OF trAlnplcd 10
death during the excitement caused by false
alarm Of hrc At a circus in CALAIS. France.
The Greeks carried the town Of Domoco,
containing = garrison Of = 600 Turks. NJ the
poin; OF tho bAyunot, loalAg 81 men. Five
Turkish mou-of-war have started for u41 Greek
aroA-t
A new ministry has been formed In Turkey
and the Office 0i the grand yizior has been Abol-
!shod.
woman dred tpicc Al the Prrfcci of S.
Petersburg while he was giving the usual
audience for the reception OF petitions, danger
uusly Wuuuding him. The suad-be-AssAssin
WAs arrested, bU, refused tu diyulge the motive
" heract.
A largo number Of business failures hAyu
taken place rcccHuy ia Montreal
The Emperor William. in his speech =, the
opening u the German parliament. expressed
Ahopc forspevdy and durable peace ia Europe.
During a revolt in CostARioa, Central Amer
ga, q band % insurgents eBtercd GrcytouR
and carried oh 500 stAud Of arms
Intense excitement wAs created IN London
by the announcement that the Russians peTr
about o. creepy CoustAntinople noSwithstAnd-
ing toe ATmistiou. and crowds thrungud the
street,, Staging God save the Queen and
making demonstrations IN favor 81 the gov
crumvut The popular fecliog was in'ensly
hostile Co Russia and the windows Uf the tusn
house of Mr.. Gladstuae and Of tise Eaily Aetns
the house ~ commons the governments rc-a
quest FOR a supplemental crudr grantud,
an amendment iui1ppositlon o. the same having
been Withdrawn.
The rope % Home died ia that city on the
eth, after long illncss. The following - .
sketch % his life PoPc PlaE IA-SiiuVAnnl
Maria MAstAi Ferrctti-wAs born " = notls
family Al Siaigaghs, near AncpnA, oa May lS,
1922. He yisitcd South Amcftca On = religions
IN ssion ia is23 In iSl7 he was made Arch
bishop Of Spoieto, and he attained the dignity
OF Cardinal IN 1870, In Junc. Is46 he vas
vleCt,d bv AcclAumnou the successor ~ Pope
Gregory NN1. After the fTuach revolution of
is4S. the ilalia liberals demanded greater
CONCESSIONS than The Pope willing 20 grant
After several violent demonstrations on the
part 81 the Roman population. iio Mono cs-
captd to GactA u Disguise in November, lsfS
A rcpnbhc vas organized st Rome in 1899. but
Was snbvcrtcd by Preach army, which took
Pope Dur4ng the war ~ AnslgiA against the
French and SaTdIniazz In is5g the people OF
the EomAgnA aud the legations royolied
against the Pope, and the PApl States
were annexed 30 the EnEdola 81 Victor En-
manuel In January fSa1, the Pope issued an
AnAthcma against those who abctied the invA-
eion of his dominions. This Eas probably
aimed az Ntpoleon III. Rome was declared
the capital of the new kingdom of Italy In
1860. Sinro that date the question of the
Popc's temporal power has remained In aus
pcnsc. 81 one Of the great problems OF Euro
pcan diplomacy. About the 10th Of December,
1850. the French army left Rome. Tho Pope
protested against the abolition ~ hts temporal
power. but he rcuuificd Ia Rome. He con
vnktu bv an cncyciical letter an Hcumonical
Coluch, which met 81 Rome tn December
1869. 10 define the dogma OF papal infallihihty,
which, after n long deliborauon. vas finally
promulgated in July. 1870. From that time 20
his death the Pope led comparatively un-
cvrntful life Al tho Vatican.