The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-01-22
Foreign News.

THERE is great strike among tn coal col
Eers OF Lancashire, England. From forty to
fifty thousand men and boys are idle. The
strike is said to be principally caused by the
desire for the masters to contract themselves
out OF the law rendering them liable to pay
compensation in the event OF accidents.
THEATER in Cronstadt, Russia, was de-
stroyed by fire, and the director and several
other persons persisted in the flames.
Mr.. MACDoNoUGH opened for the defense
in the trial of the indicted land leaguers at
Dublin before an immense audience. The
speech consisted OF a vlndication and reasser-
ton of the principles OF the land league,
which organization, he said, was as legal as a
trades-union. He declared that the traversers
protested the principles OF John Stuart Mill,
and said that but for the support OF England
the landlords would be driven into the
sea. Before the opening of the proceedings
200 rack-rented and evicted tenants of both
sexes marched from the Offices OF the land
league to the courthouse.
T.B. WILLOWS Co., flannel manufacturers
at Rochdale, England, have failed fl
s3oO,cto.
THE anti-Jewish agitation in Germany la,
spread from the cities to the provinces.
At St. Scholastique, Canada, Franco, Mar
bonnie, his wife, Genegieve Narbonne, and
jean Baptiste Narbonne, son of Francis, We {
all sentenced to be hanged on February IS
for the murder OF Alexander Narbonne, the
brother of the aforementioned. 1t is doubtful
however, whether this extreme sentence will
be carried out in the case OF the husband and
vile, as they are both over eighty years old.
An attempt made to blow up the military
barracks at Salford near Manchester, Eng
land, resulted in the serious wounding of
woman and boy. The attempt is attribu-
ted to the Fenian brotherhood, and in con-
sequence special guards have been placed
around all buildings in England where arms
are stored.
THE British ship Leonore, Captain Bailey,
has been sunk of Hartlepool, England, in COL
lision with the steamer John Dixon, OF Lon
don. Nine persons, including the captain,
were drowned
The Turcomans hare been severely de-
feated by the Russians under General Skobe-
| left.
| Two OF the principal coal owners who
were chiefly instrumental in causing the
strike in Lancashire, England, have agreed
| to the terms demanded By the men, and the
| strike ia considered virtually ended
CROWN PRINCE FREDERICK WILLIAM, OF
| Germany, has expressed himself in q public
speech as strongly opposed to the anti-Jewish
agitation.
| SIR WILLIAM VERNoN-HARCoURT, Secre-
tary of State for the British home depart.
ment, states that he is in possession of details
! which show the recent formation of q gigantic
secret society, with local branch in every
important town OF the kingdom, by Fenians
from the United States. Great alarm is felt
at this new danger to the government, and
orders have been again forwarded to the COM
manders OF all military depots warning them
OF this new phase OF the agitation and coun-
| selling extra precautions.
THE net cost of the war in Afghanistan is
| officially estimated at SS7, 5Oo,00
The austrian ministers of justice and OF
commerce have resigned.
| BY railroad accident at Wakefield, Eng
! land, seven persons are reported killed and
from thirty to forty injured.
THE diphtheria is still raging at Grand
| Manan, N. B. John Meggs recently lost eight
children within few days by the terrible
scourge.
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Berthier, Canada, by the discovery that two
graves have been robbed by body -snetchels
from Montreal.