New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-04-09
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LATEST NEWS.
THE OLD WORLD.
JOSEPH FRANCE & Co., metal
workers of Newcastle, Eng, failed. on the
10Th ult. Liabilities oo,000,
The Socialists in the German Par
lament complain that the authorities violate
the sanctity Of the mails in their search for
revolutionary literature.
UNITED STATES MINISTER MOVES, on
the 10th ult., handed to President Grevy an
autograph letter from President Hayes, con-
graduating him upon his accession to the
Presidency OF the French Republic.
The final appeal of Passanante, who
attempted to shoot King Humbert, Of Italy,
has been rejected. The King has signed . de-
cree committing his sentence to life-imprison-
ment.
The Viceroy of India telegraphed
the British Government, on the 3Oth ult., that
the British forces had defeated 1900 Afghans
near Baree.
A CoNsTANT1NoPLE telegram Of the
the sOth ult reports considerable fighting be-
tween the Turkish troops and the Macedonian
insurgents.
The Italian Agent in Albania reports
that the Albanians have decided to forcibly
resist the proposed annexation Of Albania to
Greece.
A PARIS telegram of the 31st ult.
says the extreme Republicans in the Assem-
bly, threatened to abolish the Senate If 1t con-
tinued to interfere with the will of France in
the matter of the removal of the Legislature
from Versailles to Paris.
THE Operative Weavers in the Black
burn (Eng.) District have consented to accept
a5-per-cent. reduction in the rate of wages.
The Catholics of London have Or
ganized a bank, to be known as the Anglo
Universal Bank, with directorate in London
and Paris.
The total revenue receipts of the
United Kingdom for tie financial year just
closed were esq, 115, 972-an increase of e.
352,67 over the receipts of the preceding
year.
In the House of Commons, on the
31st ult., after long debate, the motion cen
policy was defeated by ayes, A6; noes, 3Oo.
The King of Burmah has sent q
summons to all Burmese resident in Rangoon
directing them to return at once to Burmah.
He warns them that he will execute all men,
bers of their families If they remain absent.
ORDERS have been telegraphed d.
recting the stoppage of all preparations for
the expedition to Merv, until further orders.
The British Parliament has passed a
resolution calling for an official report of the
British trade with the United States.
On the LIST, Gen. Kaufman tele-
graphed to the Russian Government that the
English Government had arranged to place
Wall Mohammed, cousin of the late Ameer,
upon the Afghan throne, and would labor for
the dethronement of Yakoob Khan. It was
further stated that an Afghan tribe had late
ly captured 700 British soldiers, near Jellala-
bad, whom the Viceroy ransomed by the pay
ment Of el50,0OO.
A LONDON dispatch of the LIST says
Austria, England, Russia, Turkey and Italy
had consented to take part in the mixed occu-
patton Of Eastern Roumelia.
Two MEMBERS of the household of
the Crown Prince OF Germany have been at
tackled with diphtheria.
A VIENNA dispatch of the LIST says
800 members OF Revolutionary Committee
had been arrested at Warsaw.
A PARIS telegram of the LIST says q
battalion of zouaves In Algeria was caught
In snowstorm, on the 28th of March, be-
tween Sonaki and Sonkeltleta, and nineteen
men persisted. Fourteen men were in the
hospital.
A LONDON telegram Of the I'd says a
dispatch had just been received, announcing
tho death, by drowning, while crossing the
Cahue River, in Afghanistan, few days be
fore, Of q squadron of the Tenth Huzzars.
They attempted to cross the river in the dark
ness, missed the ford and were swept away by
the roaring torrent. Fifty men, as many
horses and one officer persisted.
A ST.. PETERSBURG dispatch to the
London Telegraph of the % says that Russia
had decided to substitute Yakoob Khan, and
was preparing to make diversion in his favor.
LONDON kilograms say the failure of
the Chartered Mercantile and Oriental Banks
to pay dividend have seriously crippled the
Agra Bank, the Chartered Bank of India,
Australia and China, the Delhi and London
Bank, the Hong Kong and China Bank, the
National Bank Of 1ndia-all London cor
porations-and that failure Of one or all
these institutions ia feared
A TEMPERANCE meeting in Dublin
was dispersed by rioters, on the night of the
I'd.
A VIENNA telegram of the I'd an
nounces the appearance of the rinderpest in
over hundred Bohemian villages.
AUSTRIA has discontinued her quar-
antine against the Russian plague.
ACCORDING to a Lahore (India) dis
patch Of the Sd, Capt. Cough, at the head of
small British force, had lately defeated 5000
Afghans, killing 400. The British loss was
three officers and three men killed and thirty
two wounded.
In the British House of Commons, on
the Sd, the Chancellor of the Exchequer an
nounced that the estimated revenue Of the
country for the current fiscal year would be
2s3, 055,0 900, and the estimated expenditures
81, 153, 1913, and that no additional taxes would
be laid. This announcement to the House
caused surprise, and was received with leafen-
ing cheers.
The latest advices from Russia give
alarming reports concerning the constant
spread of revolutionary ideas and purposes
among the people, and the increasing audaci.
ty Of the Nihilist conspirators. Among the
latter have been found large numbers of per
sons of rank.
TIE German Reichrath has I'D.
1ourned until April %.
TROUBLE has arisen between France