Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-03-06
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WILL FRANCE OCCUPY RHODES?
DIR. NEWMAN TO BE A CARDINAL.
NEWSPAPER ATTACKS on LORD
CHELMSFORD.
The Plague Disappearing.
B. NEWMAN TO BE A CARDINAL.
The Plague Disappearing.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

Hard ON Lord Chalmsrord.
LoHD0N, March 6-The London DaiIv S.rs
Lord Chelmsford, the commander of tha sorcaS
at !he cape OF Good Hope, has failed. and ought
nrs fns1snsy y 10 ne recalled The latest news con-
qua on The 29d Of January, was due to misera-
1le DlunderlDg and helpless incapaclty.'
French Politics.
LONDON, March 6-The Paris correspondent
OF tne Daily Ne,rs fears that NJ. Tirard, the new
minister OF commerce in the compromise nv
Wnlcn he entered the cabinet, yielded more than
ms coileagues. The correspondent adds: "This
pipTdDy , d0eS not matter much, as, according to
~ remodled before long. Deputy NJ Andrieux
tne new project OF police, must seek reelection
1oua1 40 .he chameer on his appointment It is most
In disfavor with the Lyons Reds forihaving made
speech against plenary amnesty, wherein ne
oescrioed the Lyons communists as assassins" /"
Floods in Austria.
LONDON. March Ga special dispatch to the
Dany Ae.es from Pesth Says: The Thesis river is
still rising and 10000 acres of Land are threat
ened with total submersion. Many dams have
already burst.
Press C0ndem nation Of Cbeln,sford.
The Sdndard aid PaR Mau Gazette declare
lnat Loid Chelmsford Is incompetent for the
posi- posi- ne now holds. The Times, after summari-
Nhg tne fuIl details OF the Isandula disaster
wnicn are now at hand, says that Lord Che,ms-
1Ord was both surprised and deceived. The
Post says, Nobody will be surprised to hear
mat IL mas become matter OF anxious copsid.
eratlon whether the strategy OF the war Should
talent
New Cardinals.
The list OF cardinals to be created at the next
consfstory includes Hergenroctkcr, professor of
ecclesiastical history, at WurZburg: DR. New
man, ma ire archbishop OF Toulouse: the bishop OF
POlctlers; The papal nuncioS at Paris and Iis-
Don, and some Italian prelates.
No Berlin Conference .Annex.
COUNT AEdraSsy has told committee OF the
delegations that the question of holding s,lp-
piementary conference had not even been
broached
France, Turkey and Rhodes.
Inc Times CORE Spondent at Vienna says
1.-The Porte has decided upon transferring the
central aS government OF the vilayet OF the Greek
been sent to the former place to make all the
preparations for the change and for the removal
Gi 1ne armed me- force and waIlike stores from one
under Turkish sway, having been the seat of
government and the Turks not being ant to
make such change without cogent reasons, It is
not surprising that In the absence OF other an
parent grounds some secret motives are sought
In explanation of proceeding which takes
away the island government from place in all
respects convenient and transfer it to q place
WheTe every requisite for such purpose will
have to be provided. Some, therefore, seek an
explanation Of the step by connecting it with
Times has reference to the inference In some
quarters that the occupation is offered France
as an 1nducement to guarantee loan.
The Plague Disappearing.
LONDON, March 6.-The Dai;y TelegrdpA's st
Petersburg dispatch says there is other and
more trustworthy testimony to hand than tha
contained In the official accounts, showing tina
the plague has not only made no progress, buG
tends TO disappear altogether. Meanwhile SAM
tary inspectors have been appointed for each
quarter OF the town, and have made an appeal
coed deal that is not clear about the case re-
ported some days ago by DIR. Botkin. He per
SlslS 10 maintaining the first opinion that
Brok0n, the fOotman, succumbed to the
plague, and at the last meeting OF the surgical
society Dr. Fi1nsky expressed a similar view.
HanlOn I'm ENGLAND.
TORONTO, March "a special cablegram from
London to the Globe says Edward Hanlan
commenced regular training yesterday, and is
in good hands. He is preparing for bis coming
match with Hawdon, and win proceed to New
SsiTdaR sSae ~ "a good do9ga hanan boat arrived
in every way satisfactory"
What Russia Wishen.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, March s.-Prince Lebanon,
that Russia only wishes to safeguard her rights
loan.
German EcOnOmy.
BERLIN, March 6.-The budget Committee OF
she l Reachstag 6 have reduced the navy estimates
The TribulattOms Of AdOlph Sutro.
San FRANCISCO, March 6.-The negotiations
1Or compromise between the SUtrO Tunnel
company and the mining companies have come
TO an end, for the present at least; the mining
companies having broken them of and returned
tGe papers, The latter assert that Sutro cannot
be brought to stand by verbal agreements long
enough to get them on paper. Sutr0, on the
contrary, denies positively that he has varied
from the agreement proposed by him, and as
Signs the following as the point Of disagree
ment: He claims that all ore producing mines
between the Utah on the north and the Over
man on the south should begin to pay the roy
atty agreed upon whenever they send their
water through the tunnel either BY direct con.
nection or indirectly by pumping into mines in
the other hand, refuse to pay royalty on ore ex-
tracted from any mine until such time as said
mine is directly connected with the tunnel by
lalefal orlItS. In this agreement they would at
present include the mines between the Califor.
MIA on the north and the ChOllar on the south
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