River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-28
FOREIGN.

The comet discovered at Ann Arbor by
Sch@rberle has been seen from Vienna.
CoURcIA, the Catholic archbishop OF
Egypt, died while on his way to Italy.
A CABLE is TO be laid from some German
port to Valencia, and thence to the United
States, at a cost of &l60, 900.
SIR EVELYN WooD will probably be
raised to the peerage for his success in
closing up the war in the Transvaal.
GENERAL IGNATIEFF has secured from
the car a Communication of the sentence of
death passed upon Hessy Helfmann, one
of the assassins of Alexander.
TnE Algerian insurgents. commanded
by the Arab Chief Bon Amena, have had
another repulse, and are split by dissen-
sion, the chief having been forced to flee
for his life.
VENEZUELA, the most northerlv of the
South American republics, has a revolu-
ton on hand. The president, General
Guzman Blanco, has nearly 10000 men
under arms.
A BERLIN dispatch says that the nihil-
lists are holding congress in st. Peters
burg, but their place of meeting cannot be
discovered.
TIE strike of 10000 naiI-makers at
Staffordshire, England. has ended by the
masters conceding an advance of 30 per
cent in wages.
THE London Standard, commenting on
the recent train robbery in. Missouri, con-
graduates its readers that such a whole
sale robbery could not happen on an Eng
lish train.
Bon AMANA, the rebel chief of Oran,
Algeria, is said by spies to have murdered
the French soldiers captured by him, and
spared only thirty-three of the Spaniards
whom he took prisoners near Saida.
a MAN named Beaumont arrived at Kill
FUSS, Ireland, from Norway, in half
decked boat 80 feet long, and sailed again
for America. where he expects to arrive
in 90 days. He carried so days provis-
ions.
In private letter to King Humbert,
Pope Leo makes bitter complaints against
the Italian government for not preventing
the recent disturbance, and declares he
will appeal to Europe against the position
occupied by the pontiff at Rome.
A LARGE force of farm laborers in the
MacroOm district, county Cork, ireland
have struck for higher wages, and are on
march through the district compelling
others to strike. This is an outcome of the
Land League agitation.
BERLIN journals announce that law
student of the University at Bonn has re-
Gently been killed in duel, another is a
hopeless wreck at the hospital, and third
had his nose slashed off in a fight with
sabres.
ANOTHER desperate fight has taken
place at Sfax, in which 300 natives and 20C
Arab horsemen were killed The French
commander has ordered the disarmament
of the natives, the delivery of hostages
and the payment of war indemnity Of
100000 francs.
EUROPE is having its hot spell now The
French Chamber is expected to adjourn
on the 29th, ten days earlier than usual
on account of the heat. Madrid is report
ed to be like a fiery furnace. At La Gran
| ia, the summer residence of the Spanish
| Court, the heat is said to be almost un
bearable, and London continues 10 com
plain of the excessive heat.
LORD LATHAM and Baron de RothschilC
| are among the directors of the new Italian
| Opera company of London, which has Z
| capital stock of e3l0,000 of ordinary
| shares, and ESQ 900 of deferred. The pur
chase price of the two opera houses il
/ e225, 900 cash, and e150,00O in deferred
stock.
THE Lord Mayor of London gave ban
quet at the Mansion House to the Prince
| of Wales, as President of the ROYAL Colo
NAL Institute. King David Kalakaua was
| present, and when his health was propos-
ed by the Lord Mayor responded with {
brief speech.
| The Russian nihilists have transferred
their operations from the cities 10 tn,
country districts, and have met with con
| siderable success. Government detectives
sent to watch them are having a hare
time. The nihilist detectives are too
acute for them. and when they are dis
covered they are shot down. One of thei
number was shot near kief recently.