The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-05-26

On the 10th the English newspapers ex-
pressed great indignation at the Franco
Tunisian treaty. They declared that France
had been guilty Of perfdy, and intimated
that. but for the lack Of concert among other
European powers, Italy would have declared
war against her.
ACCORDING to st. Petersburg telegram of
augment its income by reducing its military
establishments, paying smaller salaries to
Ministers Of War and Marine and Generals
on long furlough, and placing the army on .
peace footing.
On the 18th Lorillard's 'Iroquois' won the
Burwell stakes In the Newmarket Eng.)
races, and Keene's "North Starr was second
in the Welter handicap
On the 18th the international Monetary
Conference at Paris was addressed by Ho,.
Timothy o. Howe in favor of bimetallism.
The representative from India said he would
support any measure tending to increase the
value of silver.
ST. PETERSBURG dispatches Of the 18th say
that fresh outbreaks against the Jews had
occurred at Smela and Odessa, where several
houses OF Hebrews had been wrecked. The
populace of Tartoro had flung Jew into the
flames of burning house.
A FEW days ago q mine of thirty-seven
pounds Of gunpOwder was found under .
stone bridge at st. Petersburg.
THREE battalons of Turkish troops sudden
ly surrounded the ralace Of Midhat Pasha, in
Smyrna, on the 18th, to arrest him for COM
plicity in the murder of the Sultan Abdul
Azix. He escaped by side door, took refuge
at tho French Consulate, and appealed to the
foreign Consuls for protection.
BIsMARcK's project for biennial budgets
and quadrennial sessions has been voted down
by the German Parliament
ACCORDING to a St. Petersburg dispatch of
the 18th the Gar had nearly persisted few
days before by partaking of a salad upon
which one of his servants had sprinkled
arsenic.
A PROSPEROUS Montreal marble-cutter has
been arrested for stealing tombstones from .
cemetery.
A FEARFUL disaster is reported to have re-
Gently occurred in the st. Gothard Tunnel in
Switzerland. While a large force of men
were engaged at work in the tunnel large
mass of rock became dislodged and buried
nearly 400 of them. Three hundred, some
MANNED for life, Others fatally injured, were
taken from the debris. Seventy workmen
were killed outright.
GENERAL IGNATlEFF has recently issued q
circular to the Governors of the several Rus
sian provinces in which be attributes the des-
perate condition of Russia to the irreligious
education of youth, the inactivity of the au-
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oficeholdere.
A NEW Italian Ministry was organized on
the 18th, wholly from the Right. This fact
led to angry demonstrations by the people of
Milan and Florence. In the former city the
troops charged on the people; in the latter,
barbados were erected.
M1DHAr PAsHA surrendered himself to the
Turkish authorities on the 18th, with the
understanding that he was to nave fair
trial
On the 18th Solicitor Moran, one of the
most active members of the Limerick Land
League. was arrested and lodged in Kilmain.
ham jail
1T was stated on the 18th that the tribes
throughout Tunis had demanded of the Bey
full statement of the conditions of the
treaty with France and accused him of
treason.
In recent raid on the Jews by the people
of Woloszks, on the Prussian border: many
houses were destroyed. Three hundred and
thirty families fed into Galicia.
On the evening Of the 10th Parnell and
eighteen followers withdrew from the House
of Commons without voting on the second
reading of the Land bill.
JOHN DILLON has, at h 9 own request, b ZEN
removed from the in6rmary in Kilmainham
Jail to a cell.
The Kurdish leader who, some months ago.
made an incursion into Persia, has gathered
force of twenty thousand men for another
incursion.
FEW evenings ago Count ven A, nm, the
distinguished German diplomatist who was
sentenced to five years. penal servitude for
tetraying his country, died at Nice, France.
On the 10th an officer Of the Spanish Treas
ury and some persons prominent in business
in Madrid were arrested on charges Of fraud
and forgery.
ACCORDING to q Constantinople telegram
OF the 10Th the Sultan was disposed to
abandon the investigation into the circum-
stances attending the murder of Abdul Aziz,
because most of the leading Pashas were
likely to be implicated.