The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-07-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK
FOREIGN NEWS.

EXceilent accounts are received OF the
crops in the French provinces. The farmers
of the central provinces. tho great wheat
growing region OF the beautiful country,
count on good average crops. and il IL be-
iieved that the vintage for this year will be
the best for fifteen wears. Favorable reports
OF the Spanish crops have also been re-
ceiyed
In England cold weather has had q
very unfavorsblc effect on the crops Just now
maturing. There was white frost on tho 9th
OF July.
G,rilamo, the ex-President of San
Domingo threatens an invasion Of that repub-
lie, and is purchasing war supplies in st.
Thomas.
The project of establishing German
university in the United States docs not meet
with much favor among German savants. They
regret that the Germans who settle here are
becoming Amer icaniIed too fast, but think that
the establishment OF German university IN
Amenca would not have much effect in pre-
venting such AUGMENTATION.
During m Orange demonstration at
Belfast mob attacked the Presbyterian mis-
sion hall. and shots wero exchanged at Newcas-
tie and Consett
A piece of land three miles long, one
milo wide and of unknown depth, in the Can.
ton Of Berne. Switzerland. Is moving toward
Lake Thun at the rate Of three miles per day.
Houses in tho path Of the landslide are de-
serted
1t is asserted i'll Turkish official
circles that Midhat Pasha attempted to cut his
own throat recently, but was prevented by the
Warders.
Father Sheehy, who has been several
weeks in Jail. declines TO allow his friends t.
intercede TO secure his liberation or any other
privileges not allowed to other "Coercon-act'
prisoners.
Edmund O'Brien and John Hyde,
members of the Middleton (Cork) Land League,
have been arrested under the Coercion act. II
is understood that an agricultural laborer will
lie put forward as the candidate OF the Land
League for the county Of Cork.
\ band of swindlers operating at Go
neya. Switzerland. has, within twenty years,
shipped 10 Egypt and other Eastern countries
from 10000 900 to 40. 600, 900 francs OF false
coin. Seven prominen, personages have been
arrested in connection with the swindles
Experiments with suspended electric
lamps were made in Paris the other night
-Four lamps covered with shades and burning
naked electric lights. were strung across the
streets at intervals of about l0e yards by means
Of light wires connected by poles forty feet
high. The light was fairly difused, but so
intense as to be unhcarable to the oye. The
experiment was a failure.
The anniversary of the taking Of the
Bastlle the national holiday Of France, wa
celebrated July II. in Paris and other French
ciu,s. and ly French citizens in various parts
of the world. by illuminations, decorations,
pyrotecllnic displays, patriotic music and
orstory. free theatrical entertainments. etc.,
and in such a manner AS only Frenchmen car
celebrate.
Bismarck demands that the Turkish
Government refund ths ransom money recently
paid TO Koumolian brigands for the release OF
two captive Germans.
The complicationsh between France and
Turkey are on the increase. The former powel
accuses Turkey of fomenting the rising IN
InpolL
A terrible disease, known as the 81.
beIian plague. has appeared in st. Petersburg
where ii is spreading with alarming rapidly
Horses are dying by scores. and many persons
are affected. want Of efficient medical at
tendance and the fact that the peasants sell thu
hides of the diseased animals render the loca
authorities helpless.
It is stated that the Gar has deter
mined to commute the sentence OF Hessy Helf
mann, the female Nihilist concerned in thu
murder Of the late Gar.
In the race tor the Thames Challeng,
Cup nj London the Cornellcrew was defeated
coming in third. The Thames crew were thu
winners. The London crew came in second
The Americans made gallant effort. but to III
purpose
A steward in the province Of KOorsk
Russia, shut up nineteen men and girls i'll :
tarn because they refused to work for him. A
village mob then set FIRE to the barn. and Tia,
unfortunate occupants were burned alive.