The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS.


Moldayia.
The officers of the Custom House at
London have Leen warned that an attempt
viii shortly be made to blow up that building.
Twenty women attacked dozen po-
aicemen who were escorting process-server at
Ballinamore, County Leitrim, Ireland, and
seriously injured several Of them. One girl
was fatally shot and another wounded.
The United States Consul at Basic,
Switzerland, has transmitted to Secretary Blaine
the results of his investigation into the circum-
stances which led to the excitement in France
and Switzerland over American pork. II APP
pears that the ostensible ca1ae of the decree of
Introduction by the French Government was
the outbreak Of trichinosis in family which it
was at first supposed had eaten American pork,
but is now officially conceded to have eaten the
raw flesh of home-bred pig. There is no in
stance on record of any person in Europe being
injured in health by eating American hams or
pork,
The irish Land bill was introduced in
the British House of Commons by Mr.. Glad
stone on the 7th inst. 1t provides that ten
ant may sell the interest in his holding, subject
TO the reasonable veto Of the landlord that
rents shall be fixed by Land Court wherever
the landlord and tenant cannot agree, but the
court will not interfere in cases where they do
agree This court will also have to determine
on the landlords right of veto on
the assignment of interest on a farm. Power
to contract out of the act is given where
the rental exceeds $1,000 per annuln. The
Land Court will consist of one Judge or
ex-Judge of the Irish courts and two
persons having practical knowledge Of the
relations between landlords and tenants
Sub-courts may be established by the CEN
trail court. The bill also empowers this
Land Court to buy estates which landlords
arc willing to sell, and resell them to the
tenants, the title i'll the lands to be vested in
the court, 80 as to guarantee payment, and to
prevent subdivision. Advances will also be
made to owners, tenants and solvent compa-
MES for the retaining of waste lands, or
other agricultural improvements, the adj
vance not to be greater than the amount
to be laid out by the tenant, land
lord OF company to which it is adj
vanced. Advances will also be made to as
si5t emigration. Mr.. Gladstone spoke several
hours in explanation of the provisions of The
bill. He said the desire of tho Cover Imcnt
was to do justice to the Irish people, to give
them laws which would enabl3 them to live
and thrive upon the land, to help them to pur-
chase farms, or assist them, ii they preferred,
to emigrate. Mr.. Parnell regretted that pro-
vision was not made for colonizing Irish
farmers upon lands to be purchased for the
purpose.
A large fund has been raised in Lon
don for the relief of the rufferers by earth
quakes in Scio, where the desttution surpasses
belief,
The Russian Grand Duke Nicholas,
Che diamond thief has been incarcerated in q
castle belonging to his father, for intrigues in
his behalf.
BY vote of 1872 to III, the italian
Chamber OF Deputies rejected motion for a
vote of confidence i'll the Cabinet.
1t was stated in the British House O
Commons that England will not discuss the
question of bimetallism, and, therefore, de-
clines to participate in the monetary confer
ence, but India will send delegate The
French Minister of Finance states that the
United States, France, Italy, Spain and the
Netherlands agree upon double standard.
Ten thousand Turkish troops have
the Pauran district of Syria, where
n conflict has arisen between the Druses and
the neighboring Mohammedans.
The London Times says the Land bill,
since it was first discussed by the British Cab
met, has passed through twenty-five variations
Of form.
Oxford won the annual University
boat race, defeating Cambridge by four lengths.
Later advices from Scio indicate that
The extent of the calamity was underestimate
in the first dispatches. Between 1000 and
6 0j0 persons were killed, and more than double
that number injured.
Count Hamilton, Chancellor OF the
University at Upsol, Sweden, has issued G4O,-
600 in forged paper, counterfeiting the sigma
TIRES of the King and Queen.
1t is reported that the Gar has re-
oeiyed from the Nihilst committee printed
proclamation, Offering to lay down their arms
in return for constitution, amnesty for ali
reyolutionists, and a few miner considerations.
The trial of the assassins of the Gar
was brought to a close at ST. Petersburg on the
10th Of April. During the trial the prisoners
were all attired in black and seemed to be
proud of asserting that they belonged to the
terrorist party, by whose order the assSssina-
ton was accomplished. All except Russakoff
and Jeliaboff disclaimed any participation in
the deed itself. They were all sentenced to
death on the gallows.
Parneli declares that the Coercion bill
is the result of the desertion of seventeen men,
ber3 from the Irish party. He thinks pitfalls
are plenty in the first portion of the Land blll,
but from the second part he looks for very inn
portant results.
Bradlaugh was reelected to the British
House of Commons by 1875 majority.
Advices concerning the massacre of
Col. Platter and his exploring party in Tripol
arc fully confirmed. The commander and all
the Fronohmen of the expedition were killed
by the natives after brave resistance against
heavy odds.
Thomas Carlyle willed to Harvard
University the books he used in writing the
lives of Oliver Cromwell and Frederick the
Great.
1t is charged that Germany, while
avowedly in favor Of peace, has been secretly
working to bring about war between Turkey
and Greece.
1t Is reported that the Turcomans sur
prised and captured Naru Kissar, the most adj
Vanced fort on the road to Merry, killing the
entire Russian garrison.
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.