The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-01-06
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MICHAELoFF, a Russian nihilist of high
rank, has been arrested at Berlin.
TUE British authorities in Africa charge
the Beers with firing on a flag of truce.
AT last accounts the Chilian expedition
against the Peruvian city of Lima had moi
yet reached its destination.
BEAcE JONES declines the military OF
police protection rendered him by Mr..
Forster, chief secretary for Ireland.
The British garrison in Ireland will
soon number 10000 men, including ten
batteries and seven cavalry regiments.
HERoLD, project eff the Seine, rendered
his resignation from the French cabinet,
but Premier Ferry refused to accept it,
THE Pail Mall Gazette of the 9th says
We see not the slightest reason to believe
it necessary for the marquis of Ripon tc
return from India.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Times at Bucha
rest says: II hear on good authority that
the commercial difficulties between Aus.
tria and Servia have been arranged.'
\ DUBLIN dispatch of the 9th says
THE land commissioners concluded their
inquiry and communicated the result tc
Gladstone"
The north of England has serious
freshet: The river Irwell has overhowed
its banks, flooding large tract Of country
and filling the easements of houses.
THE friends of Mrs. Cross George Eliot,
| are considering the suggestion that Dean
Stanley be asked to permit the interment
Of the remains Of the dead authorees in
Westminster Abbey.
THE first spiral tunnel on The st. Goth
ard line, in Switzerland. has been com.
pleted. 1t is one thousand metres in
length. and was bored through granite en-
tirely by hand.
SOME of the Protestant farmers of the
north are making a determined stand
against the land league. The military
stationed at Cork have been ordered tc
suppress land meeting proposed to be
held at Kanturk the I'd of January.
The Beers Of Africa have released the
men ofthc Oath English regiment, whom
they took prisoners, and sent them to Pre-
| toria. 1t appears that only thirty were
killed. The 9th regiment has sailed fol
Natal from Gibraltar.
THlRTY-sEvEN home-rule members OF
the British parliament have held 4 councl
in Dublin, and reso lved to oppose every
movement refusing ust demands by the
Irish people. The horses were detached
! from Parnell's carriage, and the vehicle
drawn through the streets by the people
THE state trials were formally opened
at Dublin, Dec. 80, in the Court o.
Queens Bench before Lord Chief Justice
May and Justices Fitzgerald and Barry
! The court room was densely crowded with
spectators Chief Justice May read ar
address stating that after the misconcep
tion which had arisen as to what he hac
said on a former occasion, he should not
take part in the present trials. A great
crowd of people around the approaches tc
the Four Courts loudly cheered the ira
versers upon their arrival.
TUE London Times of the 9th, in ;
leading article. says: The reported seizure
of a cargo of arms seems to have original
dentally. The ball struck Drury below
the left ear and passed upward, killing
him instantly. A post-mortem examine
ton was made and an inquest was held
The verdict was that Drury
had come to his death by pistol-sho
fired by Il. X. Scott. Scott was ARE estee
and taken to Defiance for keeping
There was much excitement and talk o
lyDching. Drury has lived in Napoleon
about six months, and was considered al
excellent young man. He was to hav,
been to Miss Dora Luckcey in two or thre,
days. His remains we're taken to Elmore
o., where his mother resides.