The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-07-22
FOREIGN.
The Sultan of Morocco Anxious
for His Throne.
HESSY HELFMAN'S SENTENCE COM
MUTED.
The Latest Plot Against the Cars Life.

NEW YORK, July ola ST. Petersburg dis
patch gives fresh particulars concerning the
recent plot laid to assassinate the Gar. NJ.
Baronoff, the Chief OF follce, had received an
ANONYMOUS letter, stating that on the 18th of
July the Emperor of Russia was to be assassin
ated The letter contained nothing more.
Baronoff made inquiries in every direction and
ascertained that a. young student had COM
mitted suicide under extraordinary circum-
stances, the man having first run himself
through with his sword without injuring
vital part, and having then lodged bullet
with his revolver in his left temple, and find.
ing himself still alive again in his other
temple and IN the gaping wound made by the
sword. This determined suicide awakened
BaronoH's suspicious. He found the man an
parently dead but in fact still breathing and in
a swoon. M. Baropoff, by the aid of the doc
tors, caused the student to come to his senses
and to speak. The student declared that he
had formed part of secret society of twenty
Nihilists. who had all sworn to kill the EN-
peror. They had drawn lots, and it had fallen
to his lot to carry out the plan of assassination
on the 18th OF July. Nineteen daggers were
suspended over his head and his brother
Nihilists swore to kill him if he showed the
slightest hesitation, but notwithstanding this
threat his heart failed him, and he resolved to
die by his own hand. Before committing
suicide he had written to M. Baronoff with
the conviction that one of his fellow conspira-
tors would take his place. The student lived
until the 18th OF July. Before breathing his
last he revealed the names of his 10 brother
Nihllists, who have all been secured by the
police.
The Tunisian Troubles. :
LONDON, July 21.-The Telegraph's cores
pondent at Paris. says: "The tone of bitter
ness lately assumed by the Ministerial press to-
ward Turkey has eliminated in a violently
hostile article in the Republique Franchise,
protesting great apprehension in regard to the
action of the Porte in Tripoli, and not only at
tributing to the Sultan desire to stir up
Mussulman fanaticism on the frontier and in
the interior of Trnis, but directly. charging
him with keeping agents there for that pur-
pose" The telegraph's correspondent at Con-
stantinople says the Porte has instructed the
Governor OF Trip0li to prevent any Turks
from joining the Arabs revolving against
France.
The Sultan of Morocco Fearful of the
Loss OF His Throne.
LONDON, July 21.-The Standards Vienna
dispatch says that the Sultan of Morocco has
appealed to the Sultan of Turkey to put a stop
to the agitation in Northern Africa less the in
surrection result in the expulsion of himself
from the throne of Morocco and the complete
separation of the Barbary states from the
Turkish hegemony. 1t is stated that these re-
presentations produced a profound impression
at Constantinople. An inquiry by England
in regard to the attitude of the powers should
the French attack Tripoli was met by the de-
claratlon OF Germany and Austria that they
lub0uucu W uldluldlu Neutrality.
The Irish Land Bill.
The House of Commons in committee took
up tho land bill. Mr.. Forster's clause proVi-
ding for allotment of land to and building of
cottages for laborers was added to the bill.
Mr.. Forster explained that the clause was not
intended to give permanence of tenure. What
was wanted was to give cottages to those en-
ployed on the land. The other clauses moved
by Mr.. Forster giving power to courts on APP
plication to determine judicial rent, to impose
conditions as to laborers cottages and provi.
ding that the land commission shall make a
yearly report to the Viceroy in regard to their
proceedings were also added to the bill.
Mr.. Goschen on Eastern Affairs.
Hon. George j. Goschen, in addressing his
constituents at Ripon, his first speech since his
return from Constantinople, testified to the
cordial cooperation of the six Ambassadors of
the Powers in settling the Greek question.
one lukeWarm or cantankerous ambassador,
he said, would have rendered success very diff
| cult and if one had intrigued against the COM
mon cause success would have been impossible.
He declared emphatically that he saw no de-
Walton from straight course on the part Of
| Russia, who was SO much suspected, and that
no Power had been more prudent than Aus
tria, no Power so anxious to prevent a cannon
shot from being fred in the Balkan Peninsula,
| and no Power more anxious to prevent any
| complication in the East, or, any encroach-
| ment on the Turkish Empire beyond the de-
| cision of the Berlin Congress. If it be true
that Austria harbored design of pushing
| down to Salonica he had found no trustworthy
| evidence of such intention True. he occa-
| sionally heard of so-called Austrian agents,
but the charge of employing secret agents was
| continually banded in the most reckless
| fashion in the East He declared that no
! Power retained SO much real influence at Con-
stantinople as England, because Turkey be-
lieved England had no designs upon her.
| Intense Heat in Paris.
| T,,l1
strokes here Tuesday. The director of the
| observatory declares there is no authentic re-
| cord of such heat. Two deaths from lightning
| are reported near Argentan. Twenty-Five
hectares Of forest of Pierrefeu were burned
| and two child rem perished The municipality
of Paris has voted 100000 francs for the inn
1 provement of the water works
The Egyptian Cotton Crop.
| ALEXANDRIA, July 21.-It is believed the
cotton crop will equal last years as the in
creased acreage will counterbalance the def
| cheney on lands not inundated. The Nile is
considerably below last years mark at the
same time.
The zulus Fighting Among Themselves.
| DURHAM, July 21.-Fighting between two
| Zulu chiefs has caused uneasiness lest the
troubl e spread and invade the Transvaal.
John Dunn has gone to try and settle matters.
Hessy Helfman's Sentence COMMITTED.
| ST. PETERSBURG, July 21.-The Gear has
granted the petlt1On OF HesSy Holman, the
| woman convicted of completely in the assas-
sination of the late Gar, and committed her
sentence of death to that of penal servitude for
| life
| Arbitration in South America.
| VIENNA, July 31.-The Political Correspond
ence says several States of South America arc
thinking of adopting the principle of arbitra-
| ton in their various differences. Colombia,
| which assumed the initiative in this move
ment, has invited the several friendly repub-
lies to send delegates to conference for the
purpose of discussing the subject. Some OF
the other republics, including the Argentine
COME deration, have already adhered to the