The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-05-20
NEWS OF THE week.


FOREIGN NEWS.
Dispatches from South Africa state
that the Beers and natives have begun hostili-
ties ON the western border Of Transvaal
A. 4 b. Schroeder, merchants, Of Lon
don, have failed for 100000 because of the
suspension Of their Amsterdam house.
Cardinal Manning's order forbidding
the use Of Catholic club-rooms for Land-League
meetings has caused great dissatisfaction
among the Irish In London
Prince Rudolph, of Austria, was mar
ried to the Princess Stephanie, OF Belgium,
with all the pomp and circumstance be-
fitting such IN occasion. The ceremony
took place in the Church Of st. Augustine, in
Vienna.
Alexander Jonas, q German journalist
of New York, was recently arrested in Dresden,
Germany, on suspicion Of being q Socialistic
agent, and his private papers were retained for
nino days. He has applied to Minister White
for redress, and the matter has been referred
to the foreign Office at Berlin
The losses of the Jews by the recent
not in Elizabethgrad, Russia, are estimated at
2,U0O 600 rubles
Mr.. Forster and Lord-Lieutenant
Cowper are vigorously enforcing the Coercion
act and the Disarming act in Ireland.
st. Hilaire, Minister of Foreign At
fairs, has issued "yellow book" on the
Tunis- Algerian imbroglio, defining the French
view of the matter. France is only doing in
Africa what England has done in India.
Lord Dundales bailiff was fatally shot
from behind a hedge in Dakeen, Ireland. Five
men were arrested in Dublin under the pro-
visions of the Coercion act.
An electric railway from Berlin to
Lichterfeld has been opened with great sue
cess.
Emmett, the American actor, has
broken his engagement in Liverpool, England,
and has been placed in lunatic asylum.
The Bank of France has hitherto issued
no notes Of less denomination than 100 francs,
but has decided to put in circulation some of
20 francs.
The persecution of the Jews in South
ern Russia continues. At Cherson, shops were
pillaged; also at Jenewinka aud other cities.
The destruction Of Jewish property at Kief
amounted to 80, 900. 600 roubles.
Bismarck lately telegraphed the
French Government: 81 am happy to say
there is a prospect Of the further undisturbed
continuance of peace"
A treaty has been concluded between
France and Tunis which gives the former
power the right to occupy certain important
military positions. The financial system of
Tunis will be regulated by the French. The
Bey is guaranteed security of person and
dynasty.
The anti-Jewish riots in Southern
Russia seem to have had the effect of utterly
disorganizing society and business interests in
some localities. Railroad traffic has been prao-
tically suspended in some places, as the mob
will not permit engineers to work On trains car
rying Jewish refugees.
The German delegates to the Mon
etary Conference ask the representatives of
Italy France, Holland and the United States
to decide whether or not they will indorsc the
unlimited coinage Of silver in the proportion of
1917 to 1.
Gen. Loris Melikoff, Commandment at
st. Petersburg; Dabazs, Russian Finance Min
ister Nicolai, Minister of Public Instruction,
and Giers, Minister OF Foreign Affairs, have
rendered their designations.
Fifty-three persons broke jail at Ku-
ba, in the Caucasus, seventeen Of whom were
killed by the troops.
At the sitting Of the Monetary Con-
ference, in Paris, on Saturday, May IA, Senator
de Normandie, q French delegate, urged the
dangers OF the present monetary system. he
claimed to show, from the position OF England
since 1887, that gold monometallism did not
afford q remedy. Unless wise measures are
adopted, he said, crisis would in the end vio-
lently force itself on the money markets.
The stipulations of the Franco Tunis
treaty excite great indignation in Italy.
Under the title of Earl of Oxford or
Earl Of Hawarden, Gladstone will. doubtless
accept a peersge and seat in the House Of
Lords after the passage Of the Land bill.
The Swiss representatives abroad have
been instructed to ascertain the views Of the
various states relative to the adoption OF an in
ternational law regulating hours of labor in
factories.
Anti-Jewish disturbances have &C.
CURED Mt Warsaw. In consequence OF the
murder Of q Christian at Odessa, the Jews Of
that city have been ordered to surrender their
arms.
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENuE.