The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-07-08
THE NEWS.
A Brief Summary.
Events Of the Past Week,
General. Personal and Political
Interest,
At Home and Abroad.
-INoLUpNa-
Financial. Commercial and Indus
trial Points,
Crimes, Casualties and GossiDv
Carefully Selected, CONDENSED 0aA
Arranged for the Rcadsrs
ot this Paper.
THE NEWS.
Grimes, Casualties and GOSSIP I
FOREIGN NEWS.

Herr Auer, a Socialist member of the
German Parliament, yentured to return TO Bsr-
hu ga private business, aud was arrested, hav-
ing lac privileges beyond the session.
A collicry explosion near Dartmund,
Prussia, killed seventeen persons and injured
five.
The trial of the murderers of the late
Sultan. Abdul AziZ, has commenced at Con-
stautinopie. Noun Pasha confessed to having
ordered the death Of the monarch by command
Of a commission composed OF Midhat, Ruchdi
and Mshnoui Pashas. Midhat Pasha denied
all this. aud denies again that Abdul Aziz was
murdered. In his speech the public prossou-
ton d,mauded the death of the actual assassins
and fifteen years penal seryituds for the three
Pashas.
There are no prospects Of . good En-
glish harvest. and doubts are entertained Of
even ala average one.
Twelve hundred Italians have left
MarseiIles in consequence of the Franco-Italian
riots.
Baron Magnus, late German Ambassa-
dor at Copenhagen, who WAS dismissed for At
tending II banquet given to Miss Sarah Bern
hardt. who cherishes nti-Germsn feeling, has
become insane from brooding over his dis
grace.
In q financial article the London
Tspts advises the withdrawal Of the English
representatives from the Monetary Conferences.
II states that EnGlam il firmly welded to the
single (gold) stand . and only entered the
tSlH ~ ina 70
the United States and France.
Cornell University crew has completed
arrangement. TO ru~ at Vienna. Aug. s.
Bon Amana. the rebel chief of Oran,
Algeria, il said by spies 10 have murdered the
French soldiers captured by him. and spared
only thirty.three Of the Spanisrds whom he
took prisoners hear saba.
The French astronomers say that the
comet has 10 head worth speaking OF, but An
immense tail which Is 100000 leagues in
length. II is 10 be visible about three weeks
longer and then 10 disappear for seventy fsur
years.
i. 7. Gould, q retired business man,
WAS murdered while travelling on an express
train from London 10 Brighton, aud his oorpss
thrown ont al Bslcombo tunnel.
Herr Most, editor of the Communist
paper F,,ittit. was sentenced il the Central
Grimm Court. London. TO sixteen months
Imprisonment. with hard labor, for having
written an article IucItIng 10 murder.
McAulitie, q process-server who gave
evidence against the President OF q local land
league, was shot dead at his residence near
Castle island, Colnty Kerry. Ireland.
4 landslide is i'll progress above Lake
Thuu. Canton Of Berne, Switzerland On the
and are meadows and houses. and the whole IL
gradually sliding into the lake. In the Canton
Of GrIsons 1880 sheep with their shepherds
were overwhelmed by all avalanche.
A Paris dispatch reports the appear
ance Of ncS aud wonderful contagion re-
sembllng eprosy at Toulouse.
The leaders of the Home-Rule party
in the House OF Commons, Messrs. Parnell,
OCounor and Mccarthy, have appealed to
Irish electors throughout Great Britain to
remember 1.-THE ingratitude of Liberal mem.
bers who are ardent III the cause Of coer-
cion," and whose election was assisted by Irish
votes.
Coleman's mustard warehouse, ut
Norwich. England, burned. Damage al5O, 900.
Russia wants more ships of war, and
the Minister Of Marine proposes to spend for
them 2lG, 90 900 roublcs -about SI60, 0OO, 0OO.
In the Henley regatta, the Cornell
crew were "a bad third in the race for the
Stewards cup. The Americans were said to row
in q cramped, jcrky. slow style.
The National Liberal party of Ger
many proposes To demand the reduction Of tbs
term Of service in the army from three years
10 two.
Turkish brigands have captured the
manager Of the forest works belonging to Baron
Hirsch. and demand Els, 900 ransom.