New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-12-10
LATEST NEWS.
THE OLD WORLD.

IHE land agltat0rs OF County Mayo,
ireland, held an immense meeting at Bal
laghaderin on the 30th ult. At least II, 900
persons were present. A large meeting was
also held in Hyde Park, London, to sympa-
thize with Irish demands. It was estimated
that 50, 900 persons participated in the latter
gathering. A similar meeting was held at
Glasgow, Scotland.
CARDINAL MANNING has issued an
appeal for subscriptions to relieve the dis
tress in Ireland 1t is stated that in the west
of Ireland suchhunger, poverty and want have
not been witnessed since the great Irish
famine.
A CAPE Town telegram received on
the LIST says the peace policy of the Govern
ment had wholly broken down, and the pro-
posed wholesale disarmament Of the natives
had proved failure. The Beers were also
reported to be in rebellion and to have estab-
lished armed camps throughout the Trans
vaal.
IT was stated on the 1st that nego-
tiations between Bismarck and the Vatican
had suddenly closed, as Bismarck would not
agree to the restoration of the German Bish-
ops. There seemed to be every probability
that the old struggles were recommending
AN unknown man forced himself into
an apartment occupied by medical board
in Constantinople on the I'd, and made an
indiscriminate attack upon the member
with a revolver. Before he could be seized
four of the council were wounded.
A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch of the
Sd gives the details of the late attempt to
assassinate the Car. It seems that the con-
spirators had dug tunnel $50 feet long
which extended from IN unoccupied house
to the middle Of the railroad bed, and in this
had placed wires connected with a battery
at one end and large quantity Of powder
at the other. The train bearing the
Car was following one containing
his baggage, but before reaching Mos
COW the position Of the trains were
reversed, and the explosion occurred just as
the baggage train was over the plant. The
train was almost entirely destroyed and sew
cral persons on board badly injured. So great
was the force of the explosion that hole was
created in the road bed five feet deep, sixteen
long and eighteen broad. There was great
excitement throughout Russia, and the Car
was constantly receiving Geographic congrat-
ulatOry messages.
1T was announced on the I'd that the
Car had decided to form Council, to be
made up of mobiles appointed by the Emperor
and members of the middle and peasant
classes chosen by ballot. The body thus con-
stituted will have advisory powers only.
The British Government has removed
the restriction on the importation of Amer
lean sheep.
News has been received that war
had broken out in Western Africa between
rival chiefs, in which two hundred persons
had already been killed, and that all the
prisoners on both sides were cooked and
eaten.
The principal Irish landlords are said
to be actively engaged in relieving the dis
tress in Ireland.
By a vote of 243 to 1O7 the French
Chamber of Deputies. on the 18th, voted tho
the Cabinet had its confidence, and that Of
the country.
REV. ARTHUR WAGNER, OF Brighton,
Eng, prominent Church-of-Englandc clergy
man, has seeded and gone over to the Church
of Rome.
II is stated that the famine in Upper
Silesia has become so serious that in many
villages over one-third OF the population are
starving.
THE London Times of a recent date
says United States Government bonds were
hardly to be procured there, and their prices
were a mere reflex of those of New York.
The Governor of Senegal, Western A.
RIGA, has been instructed by the French Govern
ment to send an expedition to explore the re-
gion lying between the upper Senegal and Nj
ger Rivers and report on the feasibility of the
construction of railway between the two
rivers.
THOMAS BRENNAN, q leading land
agitator, of Dublin was arrested on the 5th
or the use Of seditious words.
ACCOUNTS from Egypt, received on
the 5th, state that the Government was
actively preparing for war with Abyssinia.
SEVERAL of the Afg hans who had
been appointed by the British authorities to
rule over the districts In Afghanistan have
lately been murdered.