The true northerner., 1880-03-12

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b Great Britain and Germany. securing the
5opeYstion Of war vessels in the suppression
Iof the slave traffic.
The Spanish army for 18s0-'81 has
been fixed at q, 600 men for Spain, $1,000 for
Cuba, TO- 600 for the Philippine island, and 1895
for Porto Rico.
While alghting from carriage at his
residence in ST. Petersburg, Gen. Melikoff, chief
of the new Supreme Executive Commission,
was fired at by young Nihilist, but with such
bad aim that he escaped uninjured. The would
be assassin was promptly arrested
George +. Slasson, the weIl-known
American billiardist, and vignaux, the French
champion, will begin at Paris. on the evening
Of March q, the most-notable match game of
billiards ever played. The game will be for
1000 points, and viii run five nights, or 800
points each night The contest is for 5000.
The United States, Great Britain and
France are going to try to stop the war be-
tween Chill and Peru.
The members of the Mansion House
Committee are unanimous in expressing the
belief that the most serious distress In Ireland
Is yet to be met, principally in the months of
May, June and July.
The tide of Irish immigration to this
country has already commenced.
The young Nihilist who attempted
assassinate Gen. Melikoff, at st. Petersburg,
on the Sd of March, was tried by court-martial
and sentenced to death on the 4th, and wac
hanged ut daylight on the morning of the 5th.
His demeanor when in the presence of his
Judges was very defiant, the severest cross-ex-
animation failing to shake his determination to
maintain silence as to his accompIices On
leaving the courtroom the assassin declared
that sooner or later the tyrants who now op-
pressed Russia would fall by the hands of
members Of the organization to which he be-
longed.
A dispatch from Berlin states that a
movement for independence has been set on
foot in Finland.
Eight men were killed and thirty
wounded by boiler explosion at Glasgow,
Scotland.
The Russian Nihilists have issued a
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life of the Czar, and declaring that the strug-
gle must continue until the Car abdicates or
grants constitution.
Twenty-three deaths resulted from
the boiler explosion at Glasgow, Scotland.
France has decided not to surrender
the Nihilist Hartmann, who was engaged in the
Moscow conspiracy against the Cars life.
From Armenia come heartrending
accounts Of the suffering in that famine
stricken land. Thousands were endeavoring
to escape to the neighboring Persian provinces.
The roads were covered deep with snow, and
many perished on the journey
Four Turkish villages are reported to
have been fired by order of Russian officer
commanding Bulgarian militia.
In Afghanistan Gen. Roberts is pre-
pairing to renew operations with the opening of
the spring. He estimates the force of the
enemy at 5000 men.
The Irish Relief bill has passed both
houses of the British Parliament
Twenty-four Chilian soldiers were
hurried into eternity by an explosion in the
artillery barracks at Santiago.
Russia is astounded at the refusal OF
France to extradite Hartmann. Prince Orlof,
the Russian Ambassador to Paris, is reported
very much incensed at the refusal.