The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-08
FOREIGN.
Afghan.
LATEST FROM THE SEAT OF WAR.

LATEST FROM THE SEAT OF WAR.
Hahonal Associated Press to the Star.
LONDON, March S.-A cable dispatch says
II 10 reported that Abdur Rahman has been
repulssd. Insurgent overtures incline to-
wards the British. The Afghans are favor
ably impressed by the establishment OF d
dispensing hospital at Cabul, where eleven
thousand patients have been treated dur
ing the past two months. There is much
sickness among the Kuram Valley force.
The British authorities have presented
Ehere Ali, Governor of Candahar, with
battery of six.poupders and two thousand
smooth bore Enfield rifles in recognition of
his friendship. The approaching spring
renders the early resumption of hostilities
probable. General Roberts estimates the
snemy's force at sixty thousand.
Austria.
CROWN PRINCE BETRoTHED.
I, VIENNA, March S.-The Crown Prince OF
Austria is betrothed to Princess Stephanie
olotilde Of Belgium.
Great Britain.
AS TO THE PANAMA CANAL.
LONDON, March S.--The Standard this
morning in referring to the United States
claim for preponderating influence in the
Panama Canal, says this pretension the
British Government is bound to match and,
II necessa ry, resist. No more at Panama
than at Suez can the preponderating lntiu-
snce OF another Power be allowed to lay
hands on the trade Of England.
France.
DEsTRJCTIyE FIRE YESTERDAY.
Paris, March 8.-The warehouse OF Mes
sgeries Rationale Company, this city, was
PARTIALLY destroyed by fire yesterday, doing
damage to the extent of two million francs.
| Italy.
BURSTING or GUN.
ROMR, March 8.--The hundred ton gun
y aboard the new iron clad Duilio, burst yes.
terday, wounding ten men. The vessel is
aninjured.
Il THE POPE AND POLAND.
The accounts of the extreme agitation in
| Poland received by the Vatican and the
| abnormal condition of Russia have moved
Leo XIII to send special instructions the
Catholic 3 shops to exert their utmost
J mower to prevent Catholics from taking
| Sart in any plots or political complications
| HARTMANN TO BE EXPELLED.
! PARIS March 8.-The French Govern
| pnent has taken measures to expel Hart
J nAn, who will arrive in England to-day.
aREvY ELECTED LIFE SENATOR.
n. Albert Grevy has been elected Lift
usnatOr from Paris.
w. Belgium.
MATRIMONIAL EXPEDITION.
LONDON, March S.--Agsqispatch from
Brussels says it is reported that Primo
Rudolph will visit that city CT matrimo
NAL expedition.
Germany.
INTERNATIONAL DOG SHOW.
BERLIN, March 8.-The international e1
hIbition of dogs, under the patronage O
Prince Carl of Prussia, will be opened il
this city ON May 26th. One thousand an
tvo hundred dogs are entered.
@ Russia.
INcENsED AT FRANCES REFUSAL.
LONDON, March 8.-Reports from 81
Petersburg say that Russia is astounded q
ths refusal of France to extradite Har
mann. Prince Orlotf, Russian Ambassado
to Paris, Is reported as very much incense
nt the refusal.
REIGN OF TERROR CONTINUES.
LONDON, mtTCu o IA Dts lcGCIoUulS CO
respondent says: 1t is asserted that fiv
thousand people have been arrested. Thre
thousand are IN the fortress Of Petropal
loyski, but Nihilism continues, neverth,
less, and some new and fearful events al
reported in st. Petersburg. The author
ties having learned that suspicious indvit
mails lived at No. Bezbordkin Prospec
ordered twenty policemen and five Officer
to proceed thither. Five policemen nj
ticed three men hastily leaving a shed thel
and rushed in.
At the same moment terrible expl'
don occurred, blowing up the policeme
and the shed. The house itself suffere
terribly from the explosion. Immediat
Inquiries resulted in the discovery that tn
he'd had contained dynamite. Hardl
had this expl sion become known when
great fire occurred in the street called Ba
shaya. Three police buildings and pr
yats house were burned down. Durir
ihe fury of the fire in the police station
several policemen perished in the endeavt
b save the papers.