The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-05-27
NEWS OF The week.


FOREIGN NEWS.
The Monetary Conference was ad-
dressed, On the 18th inst, by Hon. Timothy o.
Howe, IN favor of bimetAllism. Louis Mallett
representing India, offered 70 support any
measure to increase the value Of silver.
The new Gar has made o narrow es-
cape from poisoning. Arsenic was sprinkled
over bowl OF salad by . servant in the palace,
but luckily he did not partaks Of the dish.
Bismarck's scheme for increasing the
beer tax has been rejected by the Reichstag.
The plague which broke out some
time ago in Mesopotamia Is committing fright
full ravages.
Iroquois, owned by Mr.. p. Lorillard,
won the Burwell stakes at the Newmarket
eng races.
The manifesto of the Gar has been
answered by one from the Nihilists. They
take up the challenge, and are confident Of
victory.
A tube of dynamite, with fuse at
tached, was thrown into the doorway Of the
Central police station, at Liverpool, where it
exploded. Many windows were broken, but
nobody was hurt
Fresh outbreaks against tho Jews
have occurred at Smela and Odessa, Russia,
where houses Of Hebrews were wrecked. The
populace of Tartoro are said to have sung q
Jew into tho flames Of burning house.
The English newspapers are loudly
Indignant 1T the Franco-Tunisian treaty.
They accuse France Of perfdy, and intimate
that, but for the lack Of concert among other
European powers, Italy would have declared
war against her.
Gen. Ignatieff, the successor Of Gen.
Melikon, has issued q circular to Governors Of
provinces, in which he indicates the present
evils Of Russian social life and the measures
proposed for their ameoration by the Cars
Government. The first task will DO the extir-
patton Of rebellion.
In the Monetary Conference, at Paris,
on May 49, Hon. Timothy o. Howe United
States Commissioner, outlined the American
position on the question Of bimetal!ism. "The
United States he said, care not here on be-
half Of mine owners to bull the market for sill
yer. Agriculture is our chief interest. Our
annual cotton crop is worth seven times, our
wheat crop twelve times, and corn crop eight
cen times the average annual produc-
ton of our silver mines. America is seeking
for herself and the world broad and stable
money basis, upon which $50, 600, O0O,0 900 of the
worlds Indebtedness can rest" Most Of the
delegates who had already spoken replied to the
arguments adduced by subsequent speeches
against the views propounded by them. Mr..
Evarts and Sig. Doda recapitulated their Argyll
ments in favor OF bimetallism, and with their
speeches the general discussion closed. The
conference then decided to adjourn its sittings
until the 30th of June.
London Israelites are organizing with
view Of protecting their prosecuted coreligion-
lists in Russia.
Count Won Arnim, the German diplo-
matist who was sentenced to five years penal
servitude for betraying his country, died at
Nice, France.
GREAT BRITAIN declines to take part
in the conference Of the powers, suggested by
Russia, for the purpose of taking joint action
against Nihilism.
Two more heavy shocks of earthquake
have occurred at Scio, topping over houses.
Abdul Bey, ex-chief of the Albanian
League, was tried at Constantinople by court
martial and sentenced to death.
The Governor General of Charkoff has
issued proclamation against the Jewish per-
secution, threatening to bring the military to
punish the rioters.
There was desperate fight at Pallas,
Ireland, between the peasants and the military.
There are fears that the Commune is
about to break forth all over Russia.
English grain crops do not stand well
for harvest. SO says the Mark Lane Express.
Thirty-nine negroes have been SEN
fenced to death for rebellion against the
Government of the Danish West Indian island.
The Russian Government are COM
mencing to revenge the atrocities perpetrated
on the Jews. Over ], 200 persons have been
arrested in the Kieff district.