The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-12-04
LATEST NEWS.
THE OLD WORLD.

LATEST NEWS.
THE OLD WORLD.
HE visit of the Princess Louise Il
London is said to have for its object the colo
hlzatlon OF Manitoba and Northwestern Can
ada. company has been formed, under tn,
title OF the Lake Winnipeg Land and Colo
nization Association, to give aid and informa
ton to emigrants.
1T was reported at Berlin on the 18th
that Russia had advised Turkey to ask all the
signatories to the treaty of 1856 to dispatch
squadrons to the Dardanelles in case the En-.
glish fleet entered the Straits. The whole Of
the st. Petersburg press was violent in its
tone on the question.
1T was officially denied in London on
the 18th that England's ultimatum had been
sent to the Porte; that the Channel fleet had
been ordered to be in readiness to proceed
from Malta to the Turkish waters in -four
days; that England had demanded from Tur.
key the cession of port in the Black Sea,
and that league of Balkan provinces had
been formed.
A LONDON telegram of the 10Th SAYS
the Government had resolved to squelch Sc
slition in Ireland and, while doing everything
it possibly could to diminish and relieve
distress. would not permit agitators to carry
out their reasonable programme. Several
persons had already been arrested for the use
of language tending to a breach of the peace,
and there was considerable excitement
throughout Ireland in consequence Among
those arrested was James DAILY, editor of the
COnnaught Telegraph.
The Irish Home-Ru Executive
Committee adopted resolutions on the 10th
dsnouncing the British Government for
causing the arrest of Davitt, DAILY and Killen
for defending the rights of the Irish tenantry
IT is said the Directors of the Bremen
Steamship line have decided to refuse trans
portation on their vessels to class of heavy
French silks which are so weighted with
chemicals and oils as to cause danger of spon-
taneOus combustion.
A LONDON telegram of the goth says
tie iron steamer Pallas, from. Copenhagen
for Amsterdam had foundered off Helms
kirk, and that thirty persons persisted.
PARKHALL, near Evesham, Eng, the
seat of the Earl of Yarmouth, burned on the
10th. Loss, SSOa,OOO.
The King of Abyssinia demanded on
the Goth that his right to Soudan and Nubia
be acknowledged, and also that he be paid
two million pounds sterling. He refused to
make any other treaty.
The inquiry into the conduct of the
cx-Ameer Yakoob Khan and his ministers in
connection with the massacre of the British
Embassy terminated on the Goth, and the re-
port of the Commission of Inquiry was for
warded to the Niceroy of India. Nothing had
transpired to alter the unfavorable opinions
current regarding the Ameer's course
THOMAS tLAHERTY, a farmer resid-
ing at Monasterredan, near Ballaghderen,
County Sligo, Ireland, was dragged out of
bed on the night of the Goth, by party of
twenty men with their faces disguised. Hav-
ing blindfolded their victim, they took him
about fifty yards from the house, cut off a
piece of his right ear, beat him numerically
with piece of bush, took away his gun, and
there left him. He alleges the cause of the
outrage to be that he had paid his rent be-
fore it was due.
LONDON dispatches of the 21st repre-
sent the agitation in Ireland as rapidly
increasing. The Government had directed
regiment of dragons stationed at Manches-
ter to prepare for immediate departure, and
the troops scattered throughout Ireland had
been ordered to concentrate at Sligo, where
the parties lately arrested for seditious ut
terances are confined and where there are
ominous threats of an attempted rescue. On
the evening Of the 21st an immense meeting
was held in Dublin, at which resolutions were
adopted denouncing the Government for the
arrest of DAILY, killen and Davitt. The arrest
of Parnell the Home-Rule member of Parlia-
ment, was threatened.
A LONDON dispatch of the 23d an
nounces the death of the widow of Charles
Dickens.
The Irish agitators lately imprisoned
at Sligo express themselves as confident of
acauittal if unprejudiced juries be given
them.
THERE were numerous meetings
held throughout England and Ireland on the
ed and 23i, at all of which resolutions were
passed protesting against the Imprisonment
of Davitt, DAILY and Killen.
The Countess de Montijo, the
mother of Eugene, the ex-Empress of
France, died at Madrid Spain, on the 22d.
RUMORs were afloat in India on the
a3d that bloody conflict had taken place in
Burmah between the natives and the Euro
pean residents, and that great number of
lives had been sacrificed.
ACCORDING to Cabul dispatch of
the 2ist the Afghan leader of the insurgents
had crossed the Balkh frontier and taken
refuge with the Russians.
A NEW scheme for the construction of
the Turkish army has been inaugurated by the
Sublime Porte. The plan contemplates COM
pulsory universal military service, to be per-
formed by every able-bodied subject of the
Sultan, men to serve two years in the in
fantry three years in the cavalry and five
years i'm the reserve.
THE NEW WORLD.
AT Andover, Mass, on the 18th two
young sons of Mrs. II. P Beard were burned
TO death by fire which an incendiary started
in room they occupied.
The failure of the well-known Chi
cago music firm of A. Reed & Sons was an
nounced on the 18th.
CALLS were issued on the 18th for
h'"S'hS III " dshuHStOu OH IHc OIL VI JanuaTy
next OF the Union Greenback National Com
mittce, Chairman and members of the various
State Committees, representatives of Green
bac' and Labor organizations, and editors of
newspapers throughout the country friendly
to the principles of the Greenback and Labor
organizations, to decide upon the time and
place for holding a National Convention.
A FEARFUL explosion occurred IN
Tunnel No. on the Narrow Gauge Railroad
from San Jose to Santa Cruz early on the
morning of the 18th. 1t appears that blast
was let off about 2,7OO feet from the mouth
OF the tunnel, which caused an ex-
plosion Of gas generated by the filter
ing of coal oil through the roof and sides
of the tunnel. Twenty-one Cinnamon and
two white men were at work in the tunnel at
the time, Immediately ahout fuo~Ay