River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-12-29
FOREIGN.

IT is reported that forty lives were lost
by a colliery explosion at Bolton, En-
gland.
THE fund started by the lord mayor of
London to aid Irish ladies in distress
amounts to $4,000.
THE Cuban authorities have discovered
false certificates, by means of which ITO
negroes are held in bondage.
Ar soudan, Egypt, a false prophet with
l 500 followers, killed Governor Forsheaa
and totally annihilated his force of $50
Egyptians
In three churches of Santander, Spain,
accommodation has been pronounced
against the director of three liberal news
papers, for attacking the clergy.
For caustic criticisms upon Bismarck's
course on the jewish question, the editor
of the Berlin Gazette has been sentenced to
imprisonment for one month.
THERE were six arrests in Ireland in
one day recently, under the coercion act.
Orders for hundred beds for female
prison at Dublin have been given.
GEN. PRADo, ex-president of the re-
public of Peru. is in New York. He de-
clares that this country will never consent
to Chill.
THE official list of the victims OF the
Vienna theater horror places the number
at 1914. of whom IA have been legally
identified, the remainder being burned be-
yond recognition.
STORMS and floods OF a destructive
character occurred Saturday and Sunday
throughout England Hundreds of trees
were uprooted N the vicinity of London,
and many minor casualties among the
shipping are reported.
ANNA PARNELL. in addressing six hun
dred Irishmen at Huddersfeld, said that
the reported outrages in Ireland are exag-
gerated, the funds of the emergency COM
mittee being employed in getting up po
lice cases.
On charge of publicly insulting the
sultan, correspondent of The Daily NeWS,
of London, is being tried at Constantine
pie. Ten witnesses testified that they
heard the accused use seditious language.
Bail was refused.
THE police of Madrid arrested a mail
robber, who exposed the operations of a
gang of postal thieves. Five thousand
letters have been stolen. and sixteen per-
sons were arrested. One hundred vaiua-
BILE letters, addressed to important firms
III AiduEiu, were lOuuu Ill the bOustS Vi
accomplices in the theft.
THR Dublin police discovered the
whereabouts of the arms sliced last Sun
day morning, through drunken quarrel
among the persons who concealed them
Four persons-three Whelans ard a man
named Ryan-haye been ARRESTED. 1t is
believed that the disclosures will lead to
a number of important arrests, and to fur
ther seizures.
THE Dublin police seized the office of
United Ireland, the land-league paper,
carted away 1920 copies of the paper to
the castle, and arrested the sub-editor and
clerk. 1t was intended to prevent the
publication ofthe paper this week. hut the
editors stole a march, and got it out day
earlier. The paper viii be published in
England for the future.
NEAR Killaloe, Ireland, a magistrate
named Stoddard was fired upon by I'M
known persons. The agent of Sir Roger
Palmer is reducing his entire rental or
the basis of decisions by the land court.
There were three arrests at Dublin under
the coercion act. At Cork forty seized
farms were offered for sale, and :weDty-one
were purchased for the landlord.