The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1880-07-24
Foreign News.

A boy in Stephenson township, Ont, saw
bear passing through a clearing on his
fathers farm and fred at it with gun, wound
ing it. He then started in pursuit of the bear
with an empty gun, whereupon the bear
turned upon him, and before assistance could
arrive had killed him and torn his body almost
to pieces.
By an explosion in coal mine near New
port, Wales, 1i9 men lost their lives. The
force OF the explosion was terrific, blowing to
atoms the ventflating fan in the upcast air
blast. The SCENES about the mine are re-
ported to have, been heartrending. Shortly
after the explosion there was large throng
of people present, composed in great part of
the relatives and friends of the imprisoned
miners. Among them were many women who
were bewaling the late OF husbands and sons,
while little children were asking anxiously
concerning their fathers, their inquiries draw
ing tears to the eyes of bluff miners whose
faces looked as hard as their hands, but whose
hearts were melted by the pitiful scene before
them. The disaster is attributed by mining
experts to unskillful management. The coal
field is supposed to have been sunk below the
shaft, causing detective ventilation. similar
accident, causing the death of l55 men, &C.
cul red in the same colliery in December, 1869.
The harvest in France has begun and
promises to be satisfactory.
The destruction by fire of twenty stores in
the business part of Arnprior, Ontario, caused
loss OF $50, GOO.
Montenegrin advance post has been sur
prised by the Turks and cut to pieces. Ten
men out of sixteen were beheaded.
Henry Rocheiort, the well-known French
editor and asitator, has established new
paper in Paris, in opposition to NJ Gambetta.
On the first day nearly 100000 copies were
sold.
1t is announced that Peru and Bolivia are
about to enter into confederation and be-
come one country under the name OF the
United States OF Peru and Bolivia.
Great forest res are raging in New Bruns-
wick.
The British house of commons has d Sap
proved OF placing a memorial to Eugenie's
son, the late French prince imperial in West
minister abbey, by vote of l6l to 147.
Prince Gunther II. OF Schwarsburg- Souders,
has abdicated.
a dispatch from Rio de Janeiro says that
election riots have occurred at Victoria, in the
province of Pernambuco. The military fired
on the people and killed twenty, including
Baron Escada. Many were wounded.
The Austrian iron ship Hydaspes, 1908
tons, from London bound for Melbourne, was
run into off the English coast by the British
steamer Centurion and sunk. The passengers
and crew were all saved.
Quite a sensation has been created in
English social circles by the announcement
that Lady Burdett-C outts, who is sixty-six
years old, the richest woman in all Great
Britain and noted tor her generosity, is about
to marry.
Madame Skobelef, wife of the noted Rus
slim general was recently murdered by a
Russian army officer, who when arrested
committed suicide.
Cardinal Nina, the papal secretary of state,
has resigned.
A dispatch from Calcutta, India, says that
the great embankment in Scinde, known as
the Kusmore Bund, has given away. The
emhankment extends from Kusmore to the
mouth of the Beari canal, distance of forty
miles, and was constructed to protect large
tract OF country from floods.
Turkey is actively preparing for threat
ened war with Greece.
Ninety.eight houses, comprising the village
of Remus, in Switzerland, has been destroyed
by fire.
There have been repeated shocks OF earth
quake in the island of Luzon. Eleven natives
have been killed and sixty-one injured. The
earth opened in several places and jets of
boiling water and showers of ashes were
elected.
General Gonzales has been elected president
of Mexico by large majority. Shortly after
his election an unsuccessful attempt was made
to assassiEate him by shooting at him while
receiving an ovation on balcony.
Locusts are destroying all the crops in
several OF the States OF Mexico.
American marksmen won large number
of individual prizes this year at Wimbledon.