The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-05-13
NEWS OF THE week.
FOREIGN NEWS.

FOREIGN NEWS.
A committee OF the international Mon
stary Conference, in session at Paris, adopted
two lists Of questions to be submitted az basis
for discussion Great cordially prevails among
the delegates.
More than II, 900 convicts arc await
ing transportat ton to Siberia. in Russia.
Turkey has Internationally accepted
the solution Of the frontier question arranged
by the powers.
The British war sloop Doterel was
blown up on the 26th of April In the Straits Of
Magellan. She had 15s officers and men, Of
whom only eleven we're saved.
Maspero, the Egyptian explorer, has
opened some more Of tbs Sakkara pyramids,
and claims to have discovered texts which COM
pletely upset the Masonic theory Of the religious
belief in the days Of the Kings Of the fifth dy-
nasty.
The anti-Jewish excitement is spread
ing in Russia. At Smela, Korssum, Uman and
Litin the Hebrew inhabitants have been threat
ened, and the Russian Government has dis
patched troops to all these points to restrain
the intolerant and bigoted inhabitants.
The committee appointed to arrange
programme for the Monetary Conference at
Paris agreed upon that drafted by Vrolik, the
Dutch delegate. 1t consists Of five questions
relative to the cause and effect Of diminution
and oscillation in tho value of silver the effect
OF unlimited coinage of both gold and silver
tha;x az -. IN ra1t1na No
minimum of oscillations in the ratio Of value
between the two metals and, finally, as to
what that ratio should be.
Further information regarding the
catastrophe to the British war-sloop, Doterel.
is to the effect that eight officers and 1876 men
saved.
A Paris dispatch says that delegate
of the revolutionary committee stated to the
Gear the demands Of the Nihilists, and was re-
warded by arrest
The peasants of the Baltic provinces
lands now held on lease.
Herr Most, the publisher of the Fret
het, has been indicted Mt London for melting
to murder. The Grand Jury added a rider to
the bill, stating that such publications are un-
English and ought to be vigorously dealt with.
The National Land League of Great
Britain has issued q manifesto relative to the
arrest of Dillon. 1t is signed by Justin Nc
Carthy. 1t urges Irishmen to evict their land
lords as they have themselves been evicted,
and to wreak vengeance at the polls on the
apostates from Liberalism whom they helped
to raise to power.
At the second plenary sitting of the
monetary conference in Paris the series Of
questions reported by the committee was
adopted as the programme. The delegates for
Germany Austria, England, India, Canada,
Greece, Portugal, Sweden and Switzerland ex-
planned the views Of their respective Govern
ments. The speech of the German delegate
was ordered printed and distributed among the
members Of the conference, as it contained
statements of the highest importance.
There will ben public executions
In Russia.
Locusts have devoured the rice and
corn crops of Bolivia.
A movement is on foot for the confed-
Grafton of the Spanish-American republics.
Cork, Kilkenny, and portions of Kings
and Queens counties, Ireland, have been pro-
claimed under the Arms act.
A Nihilistic movement by sailors of
the Russian fleet is predicted as likely to fol-
low the arrest of the Grand Duke Constantine.
Experiments over the cable between
Dover and Calais have demonstrated that the
Atlantic cables can be used for telephone pur-
poses as easily as short land wires. A patent
for an electophone has been taken out in
Paris.
Letters from Algiers state that Col.
Flatters' Sahara expedition, heretofore reported
destroyed, was driven to take refuge in cave.
The men, being starving, resorted to cannibal-
ism, and fifteen of the force were eaten.
Gladstone's motion relative to q mon
ument to Lord Beaconsfed was adopted in the
House Of Commons by a vote OF $50 to 81. A
similar motion was adopted in the House of
Lords without division.
Troops have been sent to Pado liza,
Russia, to protect the Jews.