The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-08-20
Foreign News,

The International Exhibition of Electricity
was formally opened in Paris by President
Grevy. Edison, the American inventor. mako.
large display.
SEVERAL Panama canal officials have died of
fever, and there is dismay in the canal service.
Six superintendents of the Isthmus excavations
have died there.
JAMES WETHERELL, widower aged seventy,
and Margaret Doherty, widow aged fifty,
were married at Ottawa, Canada. and during
the night party Of roughs broke into the
house of the newly unmarried pair and demanded
money. Upon being refused the roughs muir
dered Wetherell
GREAT drought prevails In Switzerland.
Water is scarce and in many places whole
herds have persisted.
The boat race on the Danube between the
Cornell University crew and an Austrian crew.
selected from four rowing clubs Of Vienna, re-
suited in victory for the Austrians The
Americans led at the beginning of the race, but
when it was about half over one Of their num-
Der was seized with cramps at the stomach and
stopped rowing, and the Austrians then had an
easy victory.
SrEoNG measures are being taken in Ger
many to suppress the riots against the Jews.
Many arrests have been made.
FIRE at Sophia, Turkey. destroyed upward
of thirty houses.
A TRAIN on the Grand Trunk railroad, loaded
with excursionists, was thrown from the tract,
by COW at Prescott Junction, Canada, and
several of the cars We're overturned. The en-
gineer was instantly killed, and four train hands
and several passengers were injured more or
less seriously
ALI Ben KALIFA, the insurgent Arab chief III
Tunis, Africa, is reported to be ready to end
the rebellion if he can obtain amnesty and an
appointment as cadi or judge
ANOTHER prominent Russian newspaper has
been suspended for publishing political news.
ADvIcEs from Alaska report that sledgin.
party from the United States revenue cutie
Corgin reached the Waukerem river and fel
in with party Of natives, who exhibited articles
taken from the wreck Of wAaler believed t.
have been the Yigilant. 1t is believed that the
vessel was wrecked as far back as 1879.
ENGLISH crop reports represent that of the
acreage under wheat 81 per cent. will give al
average yield, s per cent. will be above tn.
average and IL below the average Wet weather
las retarded harvesting The first Of the wheat
threshed has belied its appearance, the head
being thin. The wheat crop in France will b.
below the average.
The German and the Russian government
are investigating the wholesale attacks made
recently upon the Jews in those countries.
DURING a bull-fght at Marseilles, France
several tiers of seats collapsed suddenly, and
twelve persons were killed and $50 injured
SIGNoR MARISELLI, distinguished member
of the Alpine club, and two guides were over
whelmed by an avalanche while attemptiu the
ascent of Monte Rosa and killed.
GAMBETTA attempted to speak at a political
meeting in Paris, but the tumult was so great.
some Of the ten thousand persons present be-
ing opposed to the orator while others were
friendly to him, that after vainly trying for
twenty minutes to speak he was compelled to
desist and retired, denouncing his enemies a.
towards.
LATER reports put the number of killed by
the fall of seats during bull-fght in Mar
settles at seventeen and the number Of injured
at $50.
FORTY persons were arrested in Stettin, Ger
many. for parading the streets and uttering
anti-Jewish cries.
FRENCH camp in Algiers was surprised re-
Gently by insurgent Arabs and twenty soldiers
were killed