The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-04-08
NEWS OF The week.
FOREIGN NEWS.

FOREIGN NEWS.
a, page of the late Gar has been ar
rested on charge Of secretly serving sentence
Of death upon his master.
Rowell and Weston have signed
articles for the Ashley belt contest, which will
take place In some English city on June 20.
1t appears that Gen. Skobeleff was re-
called from the Russian army in Turkistan be-
cause he desired to occupy . portion Of the
country south of Merv, in order to do which he
would have to pass through the Persian terri
tory. The Gear did not want another war at
this juncture.
Sophia Pieoffsky, one of the murder
srs of the Gear, is daughter Of former
Provincial Governor. Her confession shows
that only Jelahoff and herself knew Of the time
and place for the assassination, and she sent
Roussaksf and his acoompice with the bombs
to the stations assigned them.
The German revolutionary hero, DR..
Heinrich windward, died in New York re-
Gently.
President Grevy and Minister Noyes
we're among the pall-bearers at the funeral Of
Oscar dc Lafayette.
The Ambassadors at Constantinople
regard with favor the last offer Of the Porte,
and will labor with Greece to secure her ao-
ceptance.
Weyprecht, the explorer, who discov-
cred Francis Joseph's Land, died at Vienna.
The latest ukase at st. Petersburg or
ders an election for 22s members OF tempo
rary council TO assist the commandment Of the
city, All landlords and independent tenants
may vote. The late Gear had projected the
extension of this plan TO the whole empire.
The experiment of lighting the streets
with electricity has been successfully tried in
London.
Greece is to be warned by the powers
that if she rejects the proffered compromise
they will not intervene. In the meantime
Greek battalions in every part Of the kingdom
have been placed III readiness to march to the
frontier.
A violent quarrel is reported to have
broken out in the imperial family Of Russia.
The Grand Duke Constantine, being suspected
of Nihilism, il to resign the post Of Grand Adj
miral in favor of Alexis. He is said to have
been refused permission TO visit st. Petersburg
after the assassination.
1t is announced that England will not
send representative to the monetary confer
ence at Paris.
A French expedition in North Africa
recently encountered terrible experience.
The party partook Of some poisoned dates pre-
sented to them by natives, and twenty-eight of
them died from the effects OF the poison. The
remainder were then set upon by the fierce
natives and many of them massacred. The
remnant, at last accounts, were beyond all
hope of succor from civilization.
Twelve Baronies in the County of
Cork have been proclaimed in @ state of dis
turbance
Some officers who were serving ejec-
tons in the County Mayo, Ireland were at
tackled by the peasantry, and two men killed.
st. Petersburg is surrounded by mil
itary Gordon, and no one Is allowed to enter or
lave the city.
The Spanish Cabinet has decided to
apply the constitution and Press laws TO Cuba
and Porto Rico.
The French Government is reinforc-
ing its troops in Algeria.
Prince Carolath has obtained O decree
of divorce from his wife, who will shortly take
Bsmarck's hopeful son. Count Hubert, for her
husband.
The damage in Spain by floods is esti-
mated at S1,000,000, and $4,000 persons are
said to be in want of provisions.
The island of Scio, in the Grecian
archipelago, has been visited by severe earth
quakes. The number of persons killed or in
jured Ii said to be 1900.
A war of races has broken out in the
valley of the Canete, in Peru, where 1000
Cinnamon were murdered by negroes and
Cholos, and property valued at millions de-
stroyed.
1t Is stated that the new Car, on re-
turning sfew evenings ago, found on his pill
low communication purporing to come from
the Nihilists, and threatening him with the
fate of his father he did not adopt liberal
measures
The Russian Philanthropical Society
has resolved to provide for the families of
those killed or injured in the struggle against
the Nihilists-
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
EAST.