The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-28

of 229 to 1879 the General Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. in session at Gin
cinnati, decided motto elect Bishop Of African
descent.
The contestat Creedmoor for the honor
Of representing the United States in the coming
international rife match in Ireland ended in
the selection of Messrs. w. II. Jackson, w f.
Farrow, s. /. Scott. 81. f. Clark, J. S. Brown
IT. Fisher, and r. Rathbone . Several vessels
are said to have been sunk in attempting to
force their way through the immense fields of
ice on the New Foundland ceast.
A CONTRACT is said to have been made
between an American company and the Govern
ment of Nicaragua for the construction of a
canal across the territory of that republic. -.
Mr.. Hillhouse, Assistant Treasurer at New York,
writes to Secretary Sherman that, unless the
coinage of silver is stopped the question of
storing the silver that can't be got into circua-
ton will speedily become a very pressing one.
Samuel Pye, living at Brooklyn Newfound-
land, was pulling his three children, two boys
and girl, on sled across the Arm, to school,
when the sled broke through the ice and all the
children were drowned.
NEARLY every State in the Union was
represented at the annual session of the Ma
tional Woman Suffrage Association, held at In
dianapolis last week. Susan B. Anthony pre-
sided, and many of the noted women s-rights
advocates were IN attendance
FOREIGN.
CABLE dispatches indicate that the last
extremity of distress has been reached in the
famine-stricken regions of Northern Hungary.
At three minor towns no less than l 400 people
are reported to be without other food than net
ties, mushrooms, and grass
THE British Parliament met on the
Doth of May. The Queens speech promises
early steps to compel Turkey to fulfill the Ber-
lin treaty, and assiduous efforts to establish an
independent government in Afghanistan in
vites especial attention to the Indian finances
and announces that the South African colonies
have been advised to form confederation. In
regard to legislation the speech states that Par
lament will not be asked to renew the
Peace Preservation act for Ireland it will be
invited to pass an act for the settlement of the
burial question, to renew the Secret Voting act,
and to enact laws giving more effectual protec-
ton to occupiers against injury from ground
game, for the determination of the liability of
employers for accidents sustained by their work
men, and for the extension Of the borough
franchise in Ireland.
WHEN Mr.. Bradlaugh presented him
self at the bar of the British House of Com
MONS May 81, to take the prescribed oath, a
Conservative member objected on the ground
that Bradlaugh was an atheist and a revolution
ist. The question was then discussed, on mo-
ton of Gladstone to refer the case to select
committee, but no action was taken.
A MOB Of cotton-spinners wrecked and
set fire to a cotton-mill in Barcelona, SPAIN
An order was in consequence issued dissolving
all the trades unions in Catalonia The Euro
pean powers have issued a joint note calling on
the Porte to settle the Montenegrin. Greek and
Armenian difficulties immediately In case this
request is not Obeyed, another conference will
be held at Berlin in July, at which measures
will be taken without consulting Turkey to in
sure the settlement of the question The
news of the Philadel phia and Reading failure
created panic in American railroad stocks in
London.
Mr.. HEAP, Charge d'Affaires at Con-
stantinople, in dispatch to the State Depart
ment at Washington, reports that the following
letter has been received by telegraph at the
Legation of the United States. 1t is dated at
Mossoul, in Armenia, and signed by the Arch
bishop of the Syrians: "The terrible fam
inc in which we exist kills all inhabi-
tants of town and those of neighbour
ing villages, who are assembling here
EN- masse. Their sufferings are indie
scribable. Finding no cereals at all, some
are eating corpses, and become Ill in conse-
quence. Their lamentations are heartrend1ng
Most of them are dying, as they have nothing
to eat. Those of the inhabitants who have
lived until now between life and death pray you
to give them such assistance as will enable
them to live. They take the liberty to present
their prayer with the tears of expectation
which are flowing from their eyes covered with
blood"
LEON SAY, now French Minister to
England, has been elected President of the
French Senate, vice Martel, resigned. 1T is
said that Gen. Todleben will be appointed
Commander-in-Chie of the Russian army in
case nj q haf1UaaO Ruccio md Chino