Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-03-04
ABROAD.

The car OF Russia has appointed the men,
Der, and defined the powers Of the commission
Of supreme control, with Gen. Melikoff chief.
Gen. Mehkof has issued manifesto announc-
ing that he will not hesitate to take the most
stringent measures for the punishment Of crnl-
mails, while endeavoring to tanquilze and pro-
| tect the 1el-intended part of society Vera
Sassulitch, the famous female Nihilist agent,
who, on the 9Th of February, 1878, attempted
the assassination of General Trepoff, project of
ST. Petersburg, has been again arrested. She
was found in the apartments of an officer of the
marine, whose wife assisted in concealing her
Ii Is announced that after the burning of~the
academy of Forest Culture at Moscow, the Dist
ult. seven Students were arrested and copies of
revolutionary paper found i'll their possession.
TIE revolution in Antigua, as far as heard
from, has leen confined to an outbreak on Me-
dein and fighting in the streets, with a re-
suit OF fourteen or fifteen killed. Pedro Res
uepo, hohs5umed charge of the government
on RenJlfo} departure for his native state, has
been oustedan a new government installed
AZ ;id-decamp to the sultan OF Turkey has
been arrested and taken into custody for COM
plicity with Greek arrested for having an in
fernal machine in his possession. The affair ap-
pears to hive been conspiracy against the
sultans life,
VERY REr. CHARLES WILLIAM RUSSELL, DID,
president OF st. Patricks College, Maynooth,
Ireland, since 1857, is dead, aged g.
The English squadron arrived at Salonica on
the 9th, 70 secure the release of the Ambassa-
dor, Col. 6ynge and his wife, held by Greek
brigands The brgands demand $4,000 ran
som.
A LARdE tenant right meeting in county Ar
nagh, Ireland was attacked by three thousand
Orangeinen, armed with bludgcons who storlned
the platform and disturbed the meeting, which
they considered seditious.
GREAT BRITAIss war expenditures for 1879
were e3, s2l 900. The total war expenditure to
the end Il 1881 Is estimated at f5,75U, 900.
On the night of the 23d light oscillatory
shock of earthquake was felt at San Cristobal
Cuba, and next morning another and violent
shock, accompanied bYa NOISE like an explosion
The steamship Assyria, from New York, has
arrived at Liverpool. She lost 105 head of cat
tie during the passage.
john LEMoNE. editor of the Journal der De-
bats Paris, was elected senator for hfe on the
23d.
coRREsPoNDESr now il Dublin reports that
he has received letters from almost every
barony In Kerry. Mayo, Galway Sligo, Donegal,
South Cork and Clare counties, Ireland, where
the restitution is greatest, ranking in the order
named. The writer's are mostly priests The
letters Indicate that the distress Is greater tLan
has been represented in America. 1t is increas-
ing rapidly and spreading in many directions.
A GEsrvA dispatch says the village of Rien,
IN the Grisons Overland, was destroyed by fire
on the 18th.
THE Academy of Forest Culture at Moscow,
capable of accommodating 800 students was de-
stroyed by fire on the 2lst.
AN official dispatch from Douzolum, dated the
18th, says: An engagement occurred between
the Russian troops and rurcomans and resulted
in the complete defeat of the Turcomans who
lost twenty-five killed. The enemy were pur-
sued until ughtfall which saved them from an
initiation. No loss on the Russian side.
News from the interior OF Russia is heart
rending. Famine and diphtheria are decimat-
ing the population. In the Caucasus the famine
is also great and people are committing suicide
and selling their children.