River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-05-27
CABLEGRAMS.


cessive painful operations.
EXTERIOR WILHELM has given his az
sent to the draft of a measure modifying
the Falk laws.
WILLIAM LANG, Jr., q Co, lead manu-
facturers, of Glasgow, have failed, with
liabilities estimated at 100000.
AT a meeting of Home rulers Parnell's
resolution in favor of peasant proprietary
was adopted.
THE Irish solicitor general has been
reelected at Mallow, receiving POI votes
against SO for Kelley, Parnelllte. Mr..
Parnell is furious over the defeat of his
! candidate.
A BOILER explosion at Birchillsnall
! iron works killed fifteen persons
twenty-five persons have been TAX
en- to the hospital, some in dying
condition.
IT is proposed to liberate 200 political
| prisoners in St. Petersburg and 1000
throughout the embire, and to relieve
! II 900 from survilence.
PERSONS who wrecked the train on the
Andalusian railway in Spain recently
have been contaminated. Thirteen
were sentenced to death and thirteen to
Imprisonment for twenty years.
WILLIAM SHAW, speaking at Home
rule conference at Dublin said if Parnell's
policy on the land question was identical
with the views he enunciated in America
and in Ireland, he SHAW would not re-
main member of the party.
A BERLIN dispatch says: when all
new formations, planned and marked
out in their minutest details by the Ger
man war ministry, are completed, the
total strength OF the army will exceed
1000, 900 men"
A PARIS correspondent telegraphs,
SERIOUS rioting in connection with the
strike occurred yesterday at Loubaix,
during which the soldiery charged the
mob Further serious disturbances are
apprehended."
a BERLIN correspondent says: 1T is
reported here that the English Cabinet
is endeavoring to effect European con-
ference TO dispose of the points in the
Berlin treaty remaining in suspense
THE strike in France appears to about
ended. Three thousand men have re-
turned TO work. Three-fourths of the
strikers at Lille and Madeleine have re-
sumed work. 1t is generally believed that
some secret political committee provoked
and organized the present labor strike.
FIFTY brigands have been killed near
Salonica, others captured, and their pris-
oners secured. They were under the
leadership of Nike, assisted by his broth
er Basil and his brother-in-law Kalesh,
and all were armed with the best modern
weapons.
THE famine in North Hungary is in
creasing. Fourteen hundred persons at
Szinna, Comitat and Zemplin have no
N4I g.. h,rk h
rooms. Troops of emigrants are leaving
the country. The government has or
dered the authorities to stop emigration,
and the police have arrested some of the
emigrants.
THE bundesrath will prolong its sit
ting some weeks longer. 1t will not be
prorogued until October, when new
business regulations will come in force,
and the council will be composed quite
differently, as ell leading German minis
tiers will participate in the discussions.
Rev. 3. LARABEE, the well known
American missionary at Ooroomiyah,
North Persia, where the famine chiefly
prevails, writes: "Grain is selling at
eleven times the ordinary rates. Rye
has risen enormously, anc the people
are living largely on scsnty roots. Rob-
berries are becoming alarmingly fire.
quent"
A PARIS correspondent says premier
Gladstone prefers not to open negotia-
tions for a new commercial treaty until
the new tariff law has been passed by
the French Senate, in order to have
sure basis for discussion. If Gladstone
persists in this attitude, it is feared, Leon
Sage may resign the French Ambassador
ship 20 England, which he only accepted
for short time, and solely for the pur-
pose of this negotiation.
A TERRIBLE incident from Nihilist
life is reported from the Russian district
of Putiloff- 1.-THE moment of his arrest
q young noblemsn was shot by his own
father. The father then shot himself.
The Russian students, who, in many in-
stances, are men past 20, have been pro-
hibited from marrying. Their sweet
hearts are suspected of an even more un-
compromising radicalism than is at
tribatable to the students themselves
The like charge is preferred against fe-
male students, class recently created,
because the number of educated men is
too small for The professional work
of the country.