The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-02-25
NEWS OF THE week.


FOREIGN NEWS.
The Russian police have discovered q
plot TO blow open the arsenal at Kieff, and
have made several arrests in connection with
the conspiracy.
The alarm which prevails in England
receives fresh illustration daily. Sir William
Vernon Harcourt announced in the House Of
Commons that James Stephens, the FeniAn
head-center, had arrived in Paris. II is ru-
mored in Cork that the Fenians in America
and the United Kingdom are sending nen and
money to the Beers.
1t is reported from Dublin that an at
tempt to ignite large dynamite mine under
the wall Of the Beggar's Bush Barracks was
frustrated by person passing by chance.
The murder of Christian by Turk
at Beyrout, Syria, has led to several encounters
In the neighboring villages. In one Of these
Affairs, ten persons were killed
Italy will participate in the Interna-
tional Monetary Conference to be held in Paris
the 10Th Of April.
A dispatch from London says it is
proposed that that part of Transvaal to which
the Beers have q fair claim be declared indie
pendent, the remaining part to continue under
British administration, and that British Resi-
dent be appointed at the Boer capital.
The Greek Chamber of Deputies
passed the bill for the organization Of the Ma
tional Guard.
Several French subjects in Algeria
have been murdered by maraudors from Tunis.
The British Parliament is now over
six weeks in session, and the principal bust
ness it has done is to pass the Irish Coercion
act, which it did by vote of 302 to A.
Ayoob Khan has declared war against
Afghanistan, and has already occupied Mali
mund.
The importation into France of salt
pork, bacon and hams from the United States
is prohibited.
Germany has given its adherence to a
plan for an international exhibition of cleo
tricity in Paris.
The municipality of Marseilles, by
vote of 33 TO /, annulled the decision to grant
a site for the erection Of a statue to Theirs,
on the ground that he was an enemy to radical
ideas.
At masked fete of the students OF
the Academy Of Painting, at Munich, Bavaria,
the costumes of several caught fire. -Four
pupils were burned to death and eight serious
ly injured.
News from South Africa is to the eff
feet that the Beers made overtures for peace
through the President Of the Orange Free
State, asking that the British evacuate the
Transvaal and leave its future relations to be
settled by q commission. Gen. Colley agreed
to the appointment of Commissioners on con-
dltion that hostiities were Immediately sus-
pended.
The Greek reserves have been called
out, and Gen. Nora ordered to move north
ward gradually. The largest college in Athens
has been converted into marine hospital
According to the Dublin correspond
ent of the London Times, the prestige Of the
Land League has sensibly declined. The peo-
pie are beginning to fear it less, outrages have
almost ceased, and the payment of rent is in
creasing.
In his speech at Clara, Ireland, Par
nell is reported to have advised tenants, in
case OF threatened eviction, to pillow up the
land and prevent the landlord from grazing
his cattle. A formal question will be raised in
Parliament whether this is not an excitement
to indictable offenses.
Large quantities of cartridges intended
for export have been seized at Havre, France.