The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-06-20
NEWS OF The WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS.

It is said that the Gear of Russia re
nounced his visit to Berlin because the German
police had received intelligence that it wa
highly probable his assassination would be at
tempted there
Three employees Of the Government
book depot at Poonah, India, having confessed
that they set the recent fires in order to destroy
the evidences of their defalcations, two were
sentenced to lifelong transportation and the
other one to ten years transportation.
A correspondent of the New York
Herald, at Alexandria, Egypt, says: after
seven months campaign, Capt Gessi returns
north completely victorious. The revolt has
been crushed, and with it must 60 down the
slave traffic which has outraged civilization for
half century. In all seven pitched battles
were fought on the Gazelle river, the slave
traders and rebels combining against Gessi
ALI the slave stations were destroyed, and the
establishment of civilized rule will prevent any
further raids from the region of the Gazelle A"
The Prince of Orange, heir apparent
to the throne of the Netherlands, is dead.
John Ennis, the American pedes-
trian, who went over to England to walk for
the Ashley belt, recently saved the lives of two
ladies at one of the locks on the river Thames.
The Britons unanimously vote him great hero.
A fire at Point Breeze, on the Schuyl-
kill river, just above Philadelphia, destroyed
several factories, large amount of shipping,
and 100000 gallons of OIL The loss will reach
more than million of dollars.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg
states that the Governor General of Moscow
has found it necessary to extend martial law to
five adjacent provinces.
Reports have reached the Govern
ment Of India Of fresh massacres Of royal
Princes at Mandalay, prompted by the King OF
Burmah
The cause of the recent advance in
silver in London is attributed by the London
Times to the fact that the German Government
is boarding coin with view, it is believed, to
its early reconciliation.
The Great Council of Geneva, Swift
erland, has refused to discuss the re-esta blish-
ment of capital punishment Not single voice
was raised in its favor
It is rumored that the Khedive of |
Egypt will abdicate
The bill for the removal OF the French
legislative body from Versailles to Paris has
passed the upper houee of the French Parla-
ment by large majority.
While the steamer Orpheus, bound
to Koenigsburg, was lying In the lrarbor OF
Stettin, Germany, her boiler burst, and many
persons aboard we're killed
A British Parliamentary committee
has resolved that the eiectric-Ighting system is
sufficiently developed to allow its being econ
omically used for public, but not for domestic
purposes
A telegram from Rio Janeiro states
that Gen. CODY has deposed the President of
Paraguay and seized upon the Government.
The great boat race on the river TYNE.
between Hanlan, the Canadian champion, and
Elliott. champion sculer of England, was
Won by the Canadian with the greatest ease
Upward Of 100000 Englishmen witnessed the
ace
Dispatches from the City of Mexico /
ay that Gen Negra, commanding the Mexican t
rmy, had pronounced against Diaz, and left the il
ity with 900 adherents Diaz was in pursuit /
'allarte, President of the Supreme Court. was o
citing President