River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-02-12
CABLEGRAMS.

A BUENos Ayres cablegram of Feb
| End says Gen. Comancho has made him.
selfpresident of Bolivia.
By railway collision at Argentenil
| in the department of the Seine, France
on the 4th inst, seven persons were
! killed and twenty wounded.
RETURNS by counties from Ireland re
celved up to the 5th inst state that 312
| $40 persons are slowing starving, and
that the outlook for the coming months
is gloomier than can be described.
A LONDON Times dispatch from Can
dahar, Feb. 2nd, says: Terrible ac-
counts reach here from without the
British lines. 1t is reported that nearly
! 1000 families have been exterminated by
| Ghlzais, and that seven of the villages
of the latter were afterwards captured by
HAZARDS and every soul in them slain.
THE American demand for iron, says
| London dispach of the 9th inst, IS
causing an unprecedented activity in
Great Britain. Four vessels loaded with
over 5000 tons of pig-iron and rails
sailed from Leith for New York to-day,
and thirteen vessels are at present
chartered to load iron for American
ports.
A QUEEN VICTORIA opened the British
parliament in person on the 9th instant.
| The day was fine and the royal process
sion attracted great crowds of people,
who paid fabulous prices for good places
from which to view the pageant. Lord
| Cairns read the speech.
INTELLIGENCE from st. Petersburg on
Feb. End announces that new revolu-
tionary proclamation is circulated by
students of the high schools. The
students draw terrible picture of their
condition and declare they will fight the
great moloch, called the Russian gov
eminent, to the end, even though the best
of them perish. The proclamation is
considered important as showing the
formation of a new party against the
government.
A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch of the 9Th
inst says: The GOl0s publishes an article
on the recent letter of Count Won
Moltke in reply to correspondent who
requested him to use his influence with
the emperor for reduction of the army,
in which the count suggests that the
nation must be educated in the belief
that even victorious war is national
misfortune, and by implication justifies
the proposed increase of the German
army. The article says Russia cannot
remain inactive In the face of the arma-
ments Of the rest of Europe, but will also
increase her army.
AT meeting of the Mansion. House
commi ttee last night, says Dublin tele-
gram of Feb. I'd, Lord-Mayor Grey pre-
siding, it was announced that e33, coo
had been received to date, and t15,3O0
disbursed, The chairman complained
of the attacks which bad been made in
America upon the constitution of the
committee and its mode of distribution
of funds entrusted to it, and read letters
from Roman Catholic Bishops McEvilly,
Of Galway, and Duggan, of Clonfert. ex-
pressing establishment at these attacks,
and declaring that the Mansion-House
fund is administered solely with view
to the relief of distress, and that the
committee enjoys public confidence
Archbishop Trench, Of the Church Of
Ireland, was present, and Joined In these
expressions. 1t was announced that the
committee had received GO 600 addition
al from Sydney, making the total from
the Australian colonies e2l 600.
SAYS a London dispatch of tn 4th inst. :
The experimental test of the question as
to the cause of the explosion of the
thirty-eight ton turret gun on board the
British iron-clad Thunderer, in the sea
of Marmora, January 2, 1879, by which
several officers and seamen were killed,
was made today at proof butts in the
government marshes, adjoining the royal
arsenal at Woolwich. The theory was
that the disaster resulted from the double
loading of the gun through carelessness,
and according to this theory the sister
gun, which was brought home for the
purpose of experiment, was to-day load.
ed and fired with a double charge of
eighty and 10 pounds of powder, one
600 pound common shell, and one 700
pound Palliser projectile. The gun
burst, as its fellow did, on board the
Thunderer, justifying the opinion of the
committee of investigation as to the
cause of that disaster. The muzzle, gun
and projectiles were buried in the sand
at the proof bats The remainder of the
gun, with the exception of its base, was
blown to atoms.