The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-03-10
HENS Of THE WEEK.


F0nEI0N NEWS.
\ 0ispatch from Dublin sAys tle Nv.
snave emergency comrAittss IN taaiuk Jksus 10
sr,curs Protestant tanAats for nrish laudiord.
xho aye about % svict ~ present occspsuss Of
sheir lands. It's tAosSht there ~il be no l,ck
Of applicants tar the passage Of IN Coercion
bill has csnooldened al Who vcre opposed 70
the Land League, Nssaerous syictions sre
takssg place oil ovsr ireland, and tho scenes in
sonsesases are eaid to b heartrending.
Another destructive conhagration has
occurred in Toxic, Japan. Eleven thousand
house ~erc destroyed, and 5000 people rem
dasA homeless.
A party Of fifty armed men arc re-
ported to have visited severed houses in Kerry,
Ireland, stol.sn forty guns and compelled the
farmers to swcar that thsy Win pay only Orif-
6th's val Aation.
FerAan lodges have been discovered in
Lar .Ashiro, England. and quantity Of arms
snod.
Forty-Ave carloads Of munitions Of
~sf, destined for 0rsece, have bean embar-
COED at Dunkirk. The authorities ct Mar
seillss have stopped large amount Of dynAm,
its which was on tho way 70 The 0reshs.
Thomas Carlyle bequeathed his Duu,-
irissshirs estate 70 ths Univsssity q Edin-
burgh.
The Arms bin passed IN ths British
House Of Commons forbtds the possesston Of
arms except " ltosnsN permits ths seArchias
OF houscs bee~cen sanrtss asd sunssk and
regulates tho importation OF arms, dynamite
and nitzo-giycorina The bill is to have e1s4t
for Avs ycarA
Detailed accounts of Che engagement
between Con. Coller and the Doors 1t spitslop
render Il certain that the Britiah were fairly
beaten The fight ended in = rout, and Tho
most moderate estimate places the loss Il 200
KIDD and wounded.
The losses by Are and robbery during
the riots in Lima and Callao ~ estimated It
o6.0O0,O 900.
The correspondent who WAS with Gen.
Collcy At Spitskon and who was captured and
'nb>eqaently released By Tho BoerA has writ
IN vsry graphic description Of tho engage
mont nis statement shows that, With every
advantage on the slde Of ~ British, the Beers
carried the day bv sheer fighting. Gen.
Collcy had 60 men, and : position that
was regarded q absolutely impresnable
Tho noers, who numbered about 1000, made
ssvoral attempts to carry the position with .
rush, but each time they were driven back
with the bayonet Al last they made tire
mendous charge, and tho British were routed.
Il Was an instantaneous change from perfec.
safety to total defeat
Drouyn de L'Huys, Minister Of For.
stgn Affairs in France under tho republic, and
again under tho empire = dad
In the debate on the second reading Of
tho Arms bill in tho British House OF Com
mons, Dillon defended his advice to tho Irish
to arm, and said that i'll the event OF their dis
armament they were resolved to disarm the
| landlords also. He declared that were he 1
tenant farmer he would keep rifle TO kill land
lords, and expressed his regret that the Irish
people had not resorted 70 civil. war.
Advices from Honolulu report de.
p,orable condition Of affairs there. Small-po,
il epidemic, and many houses szs quarantined
aud no ono II allowed 70 enter OF leave tn
city.
The Pope has asked the Cz@ 10 grant
amnesty to the Bishops and priests exiled to
Siberia.
Full returns Of the census Just taken
III Germany show population Of 4s,lsAl72
A cable dispatch from Rome says
"Thc loss Of life BY tho earthquake on the
island Of Ischia Is appalling. Ono hundred
and two bodies have been found at Cassama.
ciati up to the present It 10 stated that S0(
houses have fallen 1t Cassamaciati. One hun
dred and ten corpscs have been recovered, and
sixty-seven wounded sent TO the hospital
The assures in the streets were fifty centimetre,
wide, and tho people 1ed from town and en-
campsd in the fields"
The British Ministry has settled upor
terms Of peace with the Beers, which were tele
graphed Gen. Wood last week.
II has been showing steadily in Scot
land for seventy hours. .Tfa6hc u blocked, and
many shipwrecks are reported on tho coast
Harris, Boyton and Sheridan, the
lrsh traversers, have reappeared.
About twenty Americans in tho coun
ties OF Cork, Limerick and Kerry. Ireland. hay
applied TO the Unitsd States Consul at Queens
town for protection. They fear arrest untle
tho Coercion act.