The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-05-12
NEWS OF THE week.
FOREIGN NEWS.

xOAE10N NEW0s
A battle between 5000 Albanians and
IN army Of Turks Of equal strength resulted
In the defeat Of the former. The combined
losses were 1,sOO killed and wounded.
The arrest and incarceration in prison
Of John Dillon, Irish Member Of Parliament,
produced unusual excitement thraaghout Ire
land.
Fresh excesses against the Jews have
been committed in Argenau, West Prussia.
The anti-Jewish riot in Elizabcthgrsd, Russia,
proves to have been moro serious affair than
was first reported. Two hundred persons were
injured.
Vigel, . bootmaker in Vienna, killed
his wife and four children and cut them In
pieces.
Edwin Booth achieved an immense
success in his great character Of Othello, il
London.
A committee Of the international Mon
etary Conference, in session at Paris, adopted
two lists Of questions to be submitted a. basis
Tor discussion. Great cordiality prevails among
the delegates.
More than 1900 convicts are await
ing transportation to Siberia, in Russia.
Turkey has Internationally accepted
the solution Of the frontier question arranged
BY tho powers.
The British war sloop Doterel was
blown up on the 26th Of April in the Straits Of
Magellan. She had l5S officers aud men, Of
whom only eleven were saved.
Maspero, the Egyptian explorer, has
opened some more Of ths Sakkara pyramids,
and claims to have discovered texts which COM
pletelyupset the Masonic theory Of ths religious
belief in the days Of the Kings Of the Afth dy-
uasty.
The anti-Jewish excitement is spread
ing in Russia. At Smela, Korssum, Uman and
i.itin the Hebrew inhabitants have been threat
ned, and tho Russian Government has d.s-
patched troops to al 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 Eve questions
relative to tho cause and effect OF diminution
and oscillation in tho value of silver the effect
OF unlimited coinage Of both gold and silver
upon their stability measures to reduce the
minimum OF oscillations in tho ratio or value
between the two metals; and, finally, as to
what that ratio should be.
Further information regarding the
catastrophe to tho British war-sloop, Dotercl.
10 to the effect that eight officers and 135 men
were kllled, and three officers aud fourteen n,eu
saved.
A Paris dispatch says that delegate
OF the revolutionary committee stated to the
Gear tho demands Of the Nihilists, and Was re-
wardcd BY arrest.
The peasants Of the Baltic provinces
Of Russia demand absolute ownership Of the
lands now. held on lease.
Herr Most, the publisher of the Frci-
heit, has been indicted at London for melting
to murder. The Grand Jury added rider to
the bill, stating that such publications aro un-
English and ought to DO vigorously dealt With.
The National Land League Of Great
Britain has issued manifesto relative to the
arrest Of Dillon. It is signed by Justin Nc
Carthy. It urges Irishmen to evict their land
lords Ms they have themselves been eyicted,
and to wreak vengeance at the polls on the
apostatcs 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 tho committee was
adopted as the programme. The delegates for
Germany, Austria, England, India, Canada,
Greece, Portugal, Sweden and Switzerland eA-
planned the views Of their respective Govern
mcnts. The speech Of the German delegate
was ordered printed aud distributed among the
members OF the conference, as it contained
statements Of the highest importance.
There will benomore public executions
in Russ,a.
Locusts have devoured the rice and
corn crops Of Bolivia.
A movement is on foot for the confed-
era,ion of the spanish-American republics.
Cork, Kilkenny, and portions Of Kings
and Gu ems 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-
pos. IS easily as short land wires. A patent
for an electophone has been taken out in
Paris.