The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1880-12-18
Foreign News.

BAILIFF has been shot dead while attempt.
ing to execute decree in County Tyrone
Ireland. Orangemen are reported to he arm.
ing and determined to oppose the land
league.
The village of Flasch in Switzerland has
been destroyed by fire.
An old man in Wicklow, Ireland, in feeble
health, was evicted from the property OF Earl
Fitzwiiliam for non-payment of rent AS the
earps gamekeeper and two bailiffs were carry.
ing the old man ont OF his cabin, he gave one
gasp and died in their arms.
THE situation OF a1airs in Ireland is well
illustrated by the following remarkable Incl
dent, cabled to the New York Hera'd: "Miss
Harriet Gardiner, of Farmhill, Killala, Ire
land, has been for years on bad terms with
her tenants, and was shot and wounded in her
own house a few years ago. She was yester-
day accosted by woman while passing
through the street and called some vile name.
The woman then struck her across the face
with teapot. Atterward Miss Gardiner
entered hardware shop, owned by Mr.. Nut
teny, town commissioner, and was in tbs act
OF buying goods when the proprietor entered
and ordered Miss Gardiner out, declining her
custom. The lady then walked down the
street followed by an excited crowd, yelling
and hooting. She drew six-chamber re-
voiver and turning presented it at the crowd.
She commanded them to stop, saying she
could and would use the pisto, If necessary
She was escorted to her hotel by the police,
and finally accompanied to her home by two
constables. She is an excellent shot and a.
ways goes armed. She is profoundly hated
by people of the neighboring country"
THE Spanish people have bought 80 900
shares OF De Lessep's Panama canal stock.
A CANADIAN lawyer is to be sent to Dublin
TO help defend the indicted leaders OF the land
league.
FLoaGNG in the British navy is to be
abolished.
A FIRE at Arendai, Norway, has destroyed
the postoffice and eighteen houses.
CAPTAIN WEBB, the noted English swim
mer, will endeavor next summer to surpass
all previous na:atorial feats by swimming
across the Irish sea from Holyhead in Wales
to Kingston in Ireland, q distance OF sixty
Jour miles.
EIGHTY-sIx miners have lost their lives by
col!iery explosion in the Rhondda valley,
Wales. The colliery is about a mile from the
scene OF the great explosion in the Divans
colliery, in the same valley, on January ID,
1878, when about sixty persons lost their
lives.
MORE severe shocks OF earthquake have
been felt at Agram, Austria.
Tn Persians have destroyed the Kurdish
town OF Uchni, killing many OF the inhabi-
tanis. They atterward defeated Il. 600 Kurds
at Mergeuar.
SEVENTEEN transports containing 5000
CHILEAN troops have sailed from africa, Peru,
for the purpose of attacking Lima, the Peru
Wan capital.
A PARIS dispatch announces the death OF
Nine. Theirs, widow OF President The S.
DURING a recent gale a vessel was wrecked
at Pleasant bay, Nova Scotia, and twenty-five
lives were lost.
THE land question has spread into England
and English landlords are becoming alarmed
at the increased number Of land organizations
among their tenantry.
NEAR Ciaremoriis, Ireland. q body OF men
attempted forcibly to enter farm from which
q tenant had been evicted. Tiny attacked the
who Immediately fred upon
them. wounding four. Two men were ar.
rested.
BARON DoUzE, one of the assize judges in
Connaught, Ireland. has been TIN eatened with
assassination should he convict any members
OF the land league.
GENERAL LoNGsTREEr has presented his
credentials as United States minister to Tur-
key to the sultan.
A DISPATCH from Bucharest says that an
a, tempt has been made to assas sinate the
Romanian president, NJ. Bratiauo, who was
assaulted as he was about entering his carriage
and slightly wounded in the face By q dagger
in the hands Of an employee of the fluance
department.