The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-02-27
NEWS OF The WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS.


Another determined but unsuccessful
attempt has been made upon the lives OF the
Russian imperial family. Just before the royal
family entered the dining-hall in the Winter
Palace, at noon of the 18th inst, mine was
exploded under the room, blowing an enormous
hole in the floor and wrecking that portion OF
the building Five soldiers were killed and
thirty five wounded, but not one of the Ro-
manoffs was injured.
Benjamin Moran, the American Min
lister to Portugal, is almost hopeless paralytic,
and il is feared must abandon his post
The Italian Parliament opened on the
18th inst. The speech from the throne treats
almost exclusively of internal affairs.
The new Russian expedition against
the Turcomans will be divided into three col
umns, Gen. Skobeleff commanding the main
army. numbering 10000 men.
Reports from the interior of Ireland
show that, while there is much suffering,
there is no starvation. The Mansion House
fund is being distributed without delay or
STINT Land meetings seem to have been aban-
doned.
A Havana dispatch says the insur-
gent leaders Mariana Forces and Miguel
Ramos have surrendered in the district OF
Bayomo, with four field officers, five line Off
GERS. and more than 200 armed men,
No satisfactory clew to the authors OF
the late explosion in the Winter Palace at st.
Petersburg has yet been found. The official
reports of the desperate affair do not differ
materially from the first sdvices concerning it,
all agreeing that the imperial family had an
almost miraculous escape. Throughout Eu
rope the utmost horror at the enormity of the
crime is manifested
The Turcomans are preparing to give
the Russian legions warm reception. A coun-
ell of war has been held at Merv, and messen-
gers have been sent to Persia and other neigh
boring countries asking support
A Havana letter says that the Gov
eminent has discovered conspiracy among
the Creoles for uprising in Vuetta Alba, and
secured six of the ringleaders, who were en-
ployed on a railroad Three thousand Rem
ington rifles and vast quantity of fixed am
munition, arms and munitions were struggled
in from the United States, and the insurrection
was to begin on the first week of March.
Prof. Maskelyne, of the mineral de-
partment of the British Museum, has exam
ined Mr.. Hannays artificial diamonds, and
pronounces them a success from scientific
standpoint.
Famine and diphtheria are thinning
out the population of the interior of Russia at
frightful rate.
England, France and Germany have
officially recognized the independence OF Rot
mania.
A man believed to have been con-
cerned in the plot to blow up the Car at Mos
COW has been arrested in Paris
A Dublin editor has been arrested for
libeling the Lord Mayor
A six-days' pedestrian match at Lon
don for the English championship has been
won by Blower Brown, who scored 553 miles.
Russia has asked all European gov
ernments to cooperate in the arrest of Nihilist
refugees.
a lady of high rank has been ar
rested in ST. Petersburg on suspicion of being
connected with the Winter Palace conspiracy,
and several high Off Gals have been placed un-
der surveillance.
Six more of the soldiers of the Palace
Guard who were wounded by the dynamite
mine explosion in st. Petersburg have died of
their injuries
A st. Petersburg dispatch reports
that the Gar contemplates declaring the whole
Russian empire in state of siege, as prelim-
mary to the measures to be taken to crush out
Nihilism.
Over 10000 persons have died from
diphtheria in Central Russia since November
last.