The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-01-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS.


Gale, the English pedestrian, who u1l-
saertook to walk $500 miles in 1000 hours
broke down after having covered 2,233 miles.
By the collapse of the roof OF crowd
ed church in France several persons were
killed and hfty or more wounded.
The state trials opened at Dublin
last week, dense crowd being in attendance
Chief Justice May refused to take part and
Justice Fitzgerald took the chief seat. Eighteen
Of the twenty-four jurors called answered TO
their names from whom twelve were selected,
eight oeing Catholics, three Protestants, ard
one Quaker.
The remains OF George Eliot were
buried at Highgate Cemetery, London.
Among the mouners we're Profs. Tyndall.
Be5ley, and Calvin.
By the fall Of church in Sailligott,
France, during the Christmas service, seven
persons wero killed and fifty injured.
Official returns show that the foot and
mouth disease is seriously spreading among
cattle in all the large counties of England
There are 6, 754 cases of the disease in Norfolk
Ind 2976 in London.
According to the latest advices all the
powers except England have assented to the
Greek arbitration scheme. Greece has prom
lsed to make definite statement as soon as the
proposal is officially submitted, and the Porte
IS undecided.
China has agreed to open the entire
empire to Russian commerce.
The British steamer Garnet was lost
on the North sea, with crew Of seventeen.
Spain has contracted with England
for several war vessels, and is building sew
eral gunboats and fast ships at a cost of nearly
e2,OOO,OO0.
An immense anti-J Jewish meeting has
been held in Berlin. Several members of Par
lament were present, and thousands of people
were unable to gain admittance.
The Vatican has sent peremptory or
derg to the Irish Episcopacy to abstain from
the Pope favors the operations of the Land
League.
The Irish militia regiments will not
be called out for drill this year.
A big Turkish army is TO be stationed
on the Greek frontier.
All persons impri. J4od for debt in
Scotland were release On New Years eve, UNI
der the new law.
Severe fighting is expected between
the Russians and Turoomans in Central Asia.
Crowds OF students in Berlin cele-
DRAFTED New Years day by invading cafes fire.
Ggcntcd by Jews, smashing the windows, and
mobbng representatives of the unfortunate
race.
Dispatches from Lima, Peru, report
eight on the 4th of December in the bay. The
Peruvian launch UrcOs was attacked by three
Gillian torpedo launches, and forced to seek
shelter under the shore batteries. The Chill
inns were reinforced, and the engagement be-
came general, After two hours fighting the
Chilians retreated for repairs.
A fight occurred between the police
and party of armed men in the County
Sligo, Ireland. Shots were exchanged, and
one man was mortaAy wounded. In Dublin,
two girls were injured by the explosion of
quantity Of gunpowder which had been placed
tn the Window-oill of q private house,
The Beers have entered Natal, and in
tend to oppose Sir George Colley's force ON the
Natal side Of the Drackensburg England has
asked permission to march her troops through
the Portuguese colony ON Delagoa bay.
1t is officially reported that in the
province Of Sarntoff, Russia, 100000 peasants
are starving, and in Samesa upward of LOCO, 900
are in absolute want.
The armories of the volunteers in the
southern part of London are kept under strict
guard through rumors of a contemplated
Fenian raid.
DIR. Schiemann has presented his col
lection Of Trojan antiquities to the Emperor
of Germany, to be placed in the Berlin Mu-
scum.
An effort is being made to induce the
German Parliament to adopt custom war du-
ties, which it has hitherto refused to sanction.
The death of Gen. Moriones, one Of
The ablest officers in the Spanish civil service,
j. reported by cable.
1T is believed at ST. Petersburg that
the Gar intends to confer equality of civil
rights on the Poles.
A London dispatch announces the
death of John Stenhouso, the chemist John
7. Towson, the noted writer on navigation
Baron Simon Won Oppenheim, the head If the
great London banking house of Oppeul4 elm Il
Sons and Dr. Frederick Jobson, the emf
neut Methodist divine.