Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-01
Fatal Fight AT a srhool.house,
FOREIGN NEWS.
The Winter Palace n Refuge for Eaga.
bOnds-Satisfnction Over the Appoint.
ment OF General MelikOG.

The Winter Palace Refuge for vaga.
bOnds-Satisfaction Over the Appoint.
ment of General MelikofT.
LONDON, February 2Sth.-A dispatch from
st. Petersburg says: 1t may be unintelligible
to many persons abroad how the Nihilists
succeeded in doing their work in the very
residence of the Imperial family. Probably
no other building in St. Petersburg is less
safe than the Winter Palace. 1t has always
been refuge for numberless vagabonds,
workmen, friends of servants, and others,
many without passports, who could not live
with IMMUNITY anywhere else. An Imperial
ukase of last April gave full powers to Gen
eral Gourka to search the buildings of the
Palace, but even that severe man could hardly
venture, such is Russian administration, to
interfere with the special authorities of the
Imperial residence. There is an old Russian
law which gives the right of sanctuary to
criminals taking refuge within the buildings
of Imperial palaces, far as concerns the
ordinary police, who have no jurisdiction in
such cases. No fewer than 5000 persons
have been living in the Winter Palace, and
nobody has ever known the precise duties of
one-half of them.
England's Policy In Afghanistan. :
LONDON, February 2S,h-The Cica and
Military Gazette says: The following pro-
gramme the Indian Government will enforce.
unless unforeseen accidents prevent First
Herat and Afghanistan to be placed under
Persian rule. Second-Sonthern Afghanis-
tan, with Candahar as its capital, to be de-
tendency under British protection. Third
Eastern Afghanistan to be dependency un.
der British protection, with its capital at
Cabul These two dependencies to be gar
risoned by Hazara Kazil Bash, and other
native levies under English officers. Fourth
The other portions of Afghan territory to
be annexed to Khelat and Cashmere. Fifth
India retains Kurth, Khost and Khyber to
Jellalabad. Finally, there is strong in
clination to form Merv into State under the
Anglo Persian guarantee.
Investigation Of the Tay Fridge Disaster.
LONDON, February 2Sth.-Inquiry into the
fall of the railway bridge over the Firth of
the Tay, on the night of December 28th, by
which many lives were lost, is proceeding at
Dundee before the Board of Trade. Sew
eral painters, who painted the bridge last
summer, testified that they saw numerous
bolt-holes empty found bolts in holes where
they should have been rivets, and found riv-
cts without heads, and bars loosened, and
nuts unscrewed; that one of the supporting
| columns of the high Orders was cracked from
| top to bottom, and held together with four
| hoop bands that sometimes the oscillation
of the bridge was so great they feared it
would fall.
An Armed Rebellion.
| PHIuPPoPoLIs, February 2Sth. = Three
| thousand armed Mussulmans are resisting
| the Government in Kirdialy district, and
Aleko Pasha, Governor-General of Roumelia,
and Reouf Pasha, Governor of Adrianople,
are comforting for joint repressive action.
The ChiIe-Peruvian War.
New YORK, February 2Sth.-The Panama
steamer brings the following intelligence
| The Peruvian Admiral, Montero, has
officially notified foreign Consuls and naval
commanders that the Chilean, blockade of
| africa is ineffective, and that it cannot be
maintained in accordance with the principles
of international law.
The Chilean squadron has destroyed the
guano launches and platforms on Viego
Island, in Independence Bay. The strength
| of the Chilean army is estimated at from
II, 900 to 2l,000, including the reserve in
Chile. Smallpox is reported as making
havoc among the invading forces. A dis
patch dated Callao, February 4th, says
! We are without improvement to report in
commercial affairs. Articles of daily con-
sumption have increased considerably in
price.
The Revolution in Antigua, Colombia.
| PANAMA, February ZSth.-1he revolution
in Antigua, as far as heard from, has been
confined to an outbreak in Medelin and fight
| ing in the streets, with the result of some
fourteen or fifteen killed. Pedro Restrepo,
who assumed charge of the Government on
ReDjito's departure for his native State, has
| been ousted, and new Government in
stalled. The leaders of the movement are
stated to be General Rafael Ters and DIR.
Gaitan.
The DonneiIy Massacre Investigation.
LONDON (Ontario), February 2Sth.-In the
Donnelly massacre inquiry to-day, William
Donnelly testified that his brother John was
called to the door of his house and shot.
Witness testified that James Carroll, John
Kennedy, Martin Mclaughlin, Justice of the
Peace, and James Ryder were the assassins.
He heard some one crying "Fire!" at his
house, and looking out through his bedroom
window saw the men named standing before
| his house. His brother John went to the
door and was instantly shot from behind a
large tree, the gun resting on crotch in the
! tree.
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