The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-11-20
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To-Day's Dispatches.
FOREIGN NEWS.



FLORENCE. Nov. 20.-Several arrests
have been made, and the authorities are
confident of securing the person who threw
the bomb into the ranks of the veterans,
Sunday last.
Another wounded person has died.
ROME, Nov, 20.-Passanante, the would
be assassin of King Humbert. manifested
most perfect unconcern and brutal self as
surance at his preliminary examination;
when the magistrate expressed horror at
the deed, the prisoner said, it seems to me
you are getting too excited; on being asked
if he had not observed the people would
have torn him to pieces but for the police,
he replied, "the people are fools, they al.
ways act that way.
To the question whether he had intend
ed to kill the King, or merely wound him,
he answered, my intention was to finish
him. He said he was neither an interna-
tionaIist nor socialist; that he did not
know the meaning of these words.
BRITISH INDIA.
LONDON, Nov. 20.-An important dis
patch received yesterday at the Iudia Of
fee, is believed to be Shere Ats reply to
the Viceroy's ultimatum. The Indian
council was Immediately summoned; the
result of the conference will be laid before
the cabinet this afternoon,
ENGLAND.
LONDON, Nov. 20.-The Cleveland
mine owners have ordered ten per cent
reduction of wages.
/ The proprietors of the Oldham cotton
mills refuse to postpone the three months
ten per cent reduction and the Clyde
| ship builders threaten lockout unless tbs
men agree to lower wages.
Appalling distress and destitution exists
among the mechanics and laborers oil
tShefheld; 10 consequence of business de
preston hundreds exist 10 tenements
without clothing or furniture, all beins
sold or pawned to procure food. They are
without fuel and dependent upon the char
lity of the ueighbors. The mayor ha
called public meeting to devise measures
of relief.
Blower Brown, of Fulham. has deposited
lO'Leary for long distance, the champion
ship of the world and the Ashley belt.
PRUSSIA.
! LONDON, Nov, 20.-At the opening 0
the PrussiRn parliament, yesterday, tn,
vice-chancellor said the government relic
upon the cooperation of the chambers TO
the removal of the financial difficulties
last years supplies will be almost eutirel
required to cover the increasing eontribu
tons OF Prussia towards the German ex
chequer. The interest on the public deb
viii likewise be considerably increased, an
There are other unavoidable expenses uules
important interests are to be neglected; re
trenchment will be almost impossible; th
influx of large sums from extraordinar.
sources has ceased, while the ordinary an
and regular revenue, suffering from con
tinued depression of trade, does not ALLOW
as to count upon any sensible addition
the previous figures; the revenue is insU
fcient to cover the ordinary aud regula
R expenditure of the state; the means RI
: quired to amend this state of thiHgs wi
II be found in taxes and imports handed oyt
to the German exchequer, meanwhile th
Expenditure will have to be partly defraye
by loans; the deficit is stated to excee
seventy million marks; but for the last
the French indemnity being distributed
R 1876 the deficit would have occurred
year ago; it is occasioned by the steady i
crease OF military expenditures accom- PAL
lied by decrease of indirect taxes and tn
proceeds from government railways, mine
aod forests. The exact figures of the de
R cit are still unknown, but the total rest
y. strangely contrasts with the gratifying a
r. pect of the Prussian budget for So mai
e. years past.