The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-04-02
NEWS OF HI WEEK.



Theodore Martin, who has just COM
pleted the life of the Prince Consort, has been
knighted by Queen Victoria
All of the Russian prisons are full,
and new ones will be built to accommodate the
Nihilists yet to be ARE ted.
There is peace in the island of Hayti
for the first time in good many years.
A Capetown South Africa dispatch
reports another heavy diamond robbery. Half
million dollars worth of the precious stones
were stolen from the safe of the Postmaster
there.
A Paris dispatch states that the great
billiard match between slosson, Of Chicago,
and vigneaux, Of Paris. for $4,000 and the
championship Of the world, has been postponed
till April H. The game will consist Of 1900
points, 800 points to beplayed each evening for
Eve successive days. AL Smith. a well-known
Chicago sport, is backing Slosson, and has
wagered several thousand dollars on the
plucky little American.
Under the new arrangement for the
protection Of the Winter Palace, in ST. Peters
burg, five officers of the Imperial Guard have
been appointed for each floor, with instructions
TO hand over to the police all strangers enter
ing the building whose business is unknown.
A destructive confagration in the
city of SANTANA, Santo Domingo, destroyed
81 ,50O,0 600 Of property, covering an area of
six acres. The most disgraceful scenes Of
pillage followed the fire. 1t is said that
pllagers quarreled over the distribution of
the booty, and several Of them were killed in
fight that followed.
Col. Synge, an Englishman, was cap
tured by brigands in Greece, and the British
Government has just paid 100000 for his ran
som.
Queen Victoria and the Prince and
Princess of Wales have gone to Germany for a
months visit.
The ex-Empress Eugene has left
England for South Africa, to visit the scene of
the Prince Imperials death.
Bismarck has, under medical advice,
abandoned beer-drinking, hoping thereby to
stop the excessive and dangerous corpulency to
which he is subject
The Rhode Island Senate has reject
ed, by a vote of Is to 20, a proposed amend
ment to the State constitution giving suffrage
to women at elections for school officers.
A British General named Donovan
refused to fire salute in honor of Washing
toms birthday at Hong Kong, China, which
caused no little Indignation among the Amori-
can residents there
China has decided to risk war with
Russia rather than accept the result Of the re-
cent negotiations.
There were several severe shocks of
earthquake at Toxic on the 22d of February,
during which many houses were injured or de-
stroyed. No lives were lost.
Defalcations have been discovered in
the overland Custom House at St Petersburg
amounting to el05,0O0
Diphtheria is making many victims
among the inhabitants of the Russian Province
of Kharkoff, and nineteen sanitary bodies are
now endeavoring 20 stay Its deadly progress.
Sicilian bandits have captured
German Duke, and released him on payment
of ransom.
The Jews are being mercilessly per-
secuted in Russia.
Mr.. Parnell, while addressing an
audience at Trustworthy, Ireland, was rotten
egged and driven from the platform. Several
other Parliamentary candidates have been as
sailed and roughly handled by mobs The
present is the most intensely exciting political
campaign witnessed in Great Britain for years.
The French Government has ordered
the closing of all Jesuitical establishments in
France within three months.
There is every prospect of war be-
tween China and Russia.
There is to be meeting of the Ger
man and Russian Emperors shortly.