The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1879-02-27
EGYPT's RUAIPUS.

lAJo1-NNPI1AL NOlES.
EGYPT's RUMPUS.
4 correspondent at Cairo says d shot
fired by one of the mob, Tuesday, passed
close to the khediye. Great pressure is
being used to induce Wilson to remain
in Office. ~ De Blignieres awaits the
advice of the French government.
A dispatch from Alexandria says the
officers threaten general revolt if then
comrades are not released.
The minister of war has resigned II
is said Cherif Pasha, an old Turk, viii
succeed Nubar Pasha at the head of the
ministry.
THE PLAGUE.
LONDON, Feb. 19.-The Royal College
of Physicians ask the government tc
appoint royal commission of statesmen
physicians and specialists to investigate
the plague in Russia. In st. Petersburg
commission is forming under Gen.
Helfrelch, specially to watch over the
sanitary condition of the troops.
ST. PETERSBURG, February 20.-De
spite the general thaw and warm weather
throughout the infected district, both
public and private advices state that nc
fresh cases Of the plague have occurred
THE STRIKE.
LIVERPOOL, February 20.-The strike
not being entirely ended here, troops
remain at the request of the magistrates.
Bolton cotton operatives are striking
against a reduction, while the Sheffield
scissors manufacturers are reducing the
wages from five to fifteen per cent.
SOUTH AFRICA
LONDON, Feb. 20.-Advices from Cape
Town, Jan. 30, via. MADEIRA, are as fol-
lows: Colonel Woods column was at.
tackled Jan. "a by 1000 Zulus. The
enemy were dispersed with but trifing
loss to Colonel Woods command. Sew.
eral attacks on Pearson's column and the
other columns have been repulsed, but
the gravity of the situation has not been
exaggerated. The enemy are concentra.
ting toward Ekowe, where Pearson is
entrenched. Il grand attack is daily ex-
pected. Colonel Wood is falling back
to cover Utrecht.
THE AFRICAN WAR.
CAPETowN, January 29.-Unless at
tackled, the British force will confne
their operations to the maintenance of
statu quo and the retention of the strate-
gical position on the border until strCng-
Il reinforced. Two hundred volunteers
from Port Elizabeth will relieve the SSth
regiment at King Willamstown, so as to
permit the latter to go the front.
THE REPORTED MASSACRE IN BURNAH.
CALCUTTA, Feb. 20.-A report from
Mandalay asserts that the King of Bar
nah had murdered all the royal Princes
and their entire families, and replaced
the new ministers with those formerly in
office, thus restoring a despotic govern
ment.
LONDON, Feb. 20.-The startling in
telligence has been received from Man
dalay, the capital of independent Bur
nah, that the King of Burmah, his ma
iesty Mendoomen, has for some time
cherished a deep hostility against certain
of his mobiles, especially against Princes
Thouse and Mekara. The King himself
is orthodox, and devoted Buddhist,
and largely under the influence of his
ecclesiastical advisers. He is of an ex-
tremely jealous and secretive disposition,
and for some months past appears to
have cherished the belief that the princes
in question were plotting against him.
Finally summoning his privy council,
which consists of four persons, known as
the Hoitlraw, he laid before them his
suspicious, and demanded that they and
their whole households should he execu-
ted. As the Will of the monarch in
Burmah is supreme, the order was given
and the massacre took place. The two
princes and eighty six of their relations
were slain. The immediate details of
the massacre are described as horrible in
the extreme.