The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-20
FOREIGN NEWS ITEMS.

The King Of Siam will wear the same clothes
on his tour that he wears at home, His song is
Just as Siam, without one plea"
Lord BeacOnsfeld has announced his intention
to remain at the head Of his party IN opposition,
and not to retire into private life for the present
year at all.
Havana, May 4,-AnotheTand very destructive
FIRE occurred in the neighborhood Of Santiago de
Cuba The village Of San Luis is entirely de.
stroyed. Three hundred houses were burned
Seven persons perished in the flames and three
thousand are left withoutshelter. A large guam
| tity of military stores were burned.
London, May l3-One steamship company will
this week send out nearly 900 passengers. Sew.
eral lines are obliged 10 put on extra steamers
The demand for accommodation at Queenstown
greatly exceeds the supply. The companies
| which sold tickets IN advance are compelled to
pay detention money to emigrants awaiting
their turns Twenty-Five steamers have sailed
already this week with passengers for the United
States. -Four more follow besides several freight.
ers.
Sir Bartle Frere has rendered his resignation as
as Governor Of Cape Of Good Hope.
The criminal prosecution for libel instituted by
Lambr against LabOuchere, editor of the London
Truthresulted in verdict for the defendant,
The English government intends to remove the
restrictions of the native press Of India imposed
by the vernacular press laws under the late gov.
ernment
The lockout in Blackburn, England, will make
thirty thousand operatives idle. The mills are
not to be reopened until the operatives in body
are ready to resume work,
A London dispatch says boiler explosion at
Birch hill iron works Saturday, fifteen persons
were Billed and twenty nine taken to the hospi.
tai, some in dying condition
The ninth of the fallen girdes of the Tay bridge
has been lifted from the water, Therewas an ex.
pansion joint at the north end of this girder and
the condition Of the iron work, together with the
fact that part of the permanent roadway on the
adjoining span was torn away indicates that the
bridge first gave way at the south end
The committee of the French Chamber Of Dep
utles on the public meetings bill has decided t
withdraw clause and to substitute therefor
provision to the effect that mayors shall continue
to exercise over public meetings the right of sur
yeilance conferred by the laws of 179O-9l.
The cost of the Afghan war is now confessed t
be upward Of Gl3 100000 and will probably bt
, more.
George Clark & Co., of London tea merchants
have failed. Liabilities estimated at from &C.,
900 to 100000 Losses ascribed to speculation II
5 tea
: Bismarck is about to go to the country. He In
tends to return before the new ecclesiastical mea
: sures come up for discussion in the Prussian Die
1 as he wishes to take pant III the debate.
London, May 1.-THE Daily NslOs' dispatcl
from st, Petersburg says 1t is proposed to iberat
two hundred political prisoners in st. Petersbur
and four thousand throughout the empire, and +
} relieve eleven thousand from surveillance
Five weeks ago five hundred Russian prisoner
; were taken aboard the steamship Nijny.Novoro
to the Island of saghalien, and now the colo
= states that FIVE hundred and fifty more are to fol
, low their comrades to the same place. but by th
old overland route, upon which usually about
, third Of those dear, unhappy people," as tn
, Russian peasants call the exiled prisoners, di
from exhaustion, privatiOns and cold.