The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-12-22
Foreign Intelligence.


Of London on the 10th train met an obstruc-
ton and was thrown from the track. Three
other trains, ignorant of the accident, fol-
lowed in quick succession and plunged upon
each other at full speed. Eight men were
killed and sixty injured,
By a recent explosion in the Cockerill col
liery, in Belgium, sixty-six persons lost their
lives.
A GOVERNMENT balloon recently assembled
from Bath, Eng, and descended at Bridge
port, where Captain Templar and q companion
were thrown out and injured. When thus
lightened, it arose with Walter Powell, NJ. p,
and was seen to descend at sea. Up to the
evening of the 18th nothing had been heard of
him.
SENTENCE of three years imprisonment has
been passed on the three Russian policemen
who failed to discover the mine in Little Gar
den street.
THE American Minister to Turkey has been
informed by the Turkish Minister for Foreign
Affairs that the man who murdered Parsons,
the missionary, died over year ago.
A LIVELY sensation has been created at the
City of Mexico by the alleged attempt of an
American named Greenwood to bride Senators
and secure valuable railroad concession.
THE number of bodies recovered from the
ruins of the Ring Theater building in Vienna,
Austria, up to the evening of the 18th was
5O7, of which only 125 had been identified.
The ruins had not been thoroughly explored,
and it was feared that hundreds more victims
would be found, as OH people were still in
cluded in the list of missing" The Reichs-
rath had voted 50 900 forms for the benefit of
the surviving sufferers. The general relief
fund amounted to SOC, 600 forms, of which the
Empero subscribed $1,000, and the Rouma-
MAN Government 100000 The unidentified
deas! were buried on the 18th in one common
grave. It was stated that the Government
proposed to prosecute the theater managers
for criminal carelessness.
A FEW days ago near Killaloe, ireland, a
magistrate named Stoddard was fired upon by
unknown persons. The agent of Sir Roger
Palmer has reduced his entire rental on the
basis of decisions by the Land Court There
were three arrests at Dublin under the Coer-
cion act on the 18th. At Cork forty seized
farms were offered for sale, and twenty-one
were purchased for the landlords.
On recent Sunday in three churches of
Santander, Spain, accommodation was pro-
nounced against the directors of three Liberal
newspapers for attacking the clergy.
THE police and Cossacks searched all res
taurants, lighthouses, ETC., in Odessa, Rus
STA, during the late disturbances, and arrested
1,34S persons.
OVER 1900 persons died of diphtheria in
Nova Scotia during the past year.
A UNIVERSAL EXPOSITION is to be held In
the city of Berlin, in 1885. Prince Bismarck is
said to favor the project.
A MEETING of Irish land owners was recent
ly held In London, at which it was resolved to
take up subscription in behalf of persons
unable to gather crops. The London World
fof recent date says it was proposed to indict
Healy and O'Connor, on their arrival in En-
gland, for the part they took in the Land
League Convention at Chicago.
The yellow fever is said to have assumed
alarming proportions at Barbados and in San
Domingo.
ACCORDING to late Rome Italy) journals
the question of the Pope's departure was Sc
riously mooted. 1t was reported that his
Holiness had advised the Bishops, who came
to Rome to attend the canoniZation CEREMONY,
of his intention to leave Rome
A MEETING was recently held at Westmin-
Ser Abbey, London, at which it was resolved
to place q recumbent cffigy of Dean Stanley
near the grave of his wife, The Prince of
Wales was appointed to receive subscriptions.
United States Minister Lowell participated in
the proceedings, and expressed the hope that
the American people would be allowed to con-
tribute to the fund.