Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-05-23
FOREIGN NEWS.
Russia's Agitation.

Moscow, Nav 81. The police are taxing
precautions against the rumored Impending
attack on the Jews. Some Jewish families
have already fed. and Others are disp"sins
of their valuables in the banks.
ST. PETERSBURG, May 81. Important ar
rests are made almost daily. Hessy Heif-
mann. who was sentenced to death for com
plicifv in the murder of the Gar, and re-
prived on account of her delegate conditlon,
has been delivered of a still born chiid.
Anothers conspiritor's den, containing
large store of arm and dynamite, was found
near Warsaw. The occupants fled.
The Irish fairs.
LONDON. NAVEL. Priest Sheehy, arrested
at Kellmalon, under the coercion act, mas
been a prominent member of the land league
since the foundation, and was one OF Its orig
inal organizers. having attended the hrst
meeting at Dublin.
Italian Troubles.
ROME, MAY 81 1t is rumored that in con-
sequence of the agitated state OF some OF
the provinces. Depretis, the retiring minister
of the interior, recently expressed to Selia
his conviction that the new ministry shouiu
promptly assume the power and undertake
the preservation of public order.
The French Troops in Alsiers.
PARIS, Nav u. The news from Oran,
Algeria states that the French troops under
Colonel Innocents have been attacked bv
five thousand insurgents. led by the chlef OF
Bouamena The rebels were defeated after
an engagement. in which the French lost 40
native auxiliaries killed and wounded.
France and Tunis.
PARIS. Nav %. Barthely st. Hilian min
lister of foreign affairs, attended the nrst
meeting of the committee of Deputies on
the Tunisian treaty, said that the Porte had
resigned itself to the new situation, and
thinks of sending troops to Tripoli. He said
that France contemplated the reorganization
of the Tunisian finances and that she would
occupy points in the surrounding kroumlr
country.
Resolutions Supporting the Nihilists.
PARIS, May % At private meeting
organized by the irreconcillables, to protest
against the sentance of Hessy Hoffman, after
number of inflammatory speeches resolu-
tions were passed censuring the acts of Rus
STA and blaming France for crushing the
right of asylum and hoping that the revolu-
tionists of Russia would triumph.
France Disagrees Over the Bey Of Tunis.
LONDON, May 81. A dispatch from Tunis
announces the Sultan of Turkey has an
nounced the deposition of the Bey and the
French declare an intention to uphold him.
Criticisms of Salisbury Speech.
LONDON. May 81. The Standard, Tele-
graph, Spectator and Saturday Review
strongly critisise the speech Of Lord Sails
bury at the banquet. Thursday night, in
which, referring to the Land bill, he gave
his own opinion of the constitutional rela-
tions between the House of Lords and
Commons.
The report that Lrauce had decided to oc-
cupy Tnnis is unfounded.
Anew King.
BucnAusr, May 90. Fetes in honor of the
elevation of Roumania to kingdom, COM
menced to-day with the coronation of King
Charles with crown of steel manufactured
from a cannon captured at Plevna, which was
placed on his majestv's head by the President
of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies.
A Proclamation.
ST.. PETERSBURG, May 90. The Governor
General of Charkoff has issued a proclama-
ton forbidding the persecution of the Jews
and stating that the Jews, equally with all
other faithful subjects of the Gar, are under
the protection Of the law, their persons and
property most therefore be equally respected
Condemned to Death.
CoNsT ANTINOPLE, May %. A despatch says
Abdul Bey, ex-chief of the Albanian League,
has been court martialed and condemned to
death.
Other Notes.
LONDON, May 90. The castle on the
estate at New Pallas which the tenants took
refuge last Thursday. to escape service of
writs, has been surrounded by the police and
soldeiry. in order to starve out the garrison.
The Standards correspondent at Madrid
states that the decree will be issused dimn-
ishing the fines on foreign shipping at Span
ish ports, for irregularity in ships papers in
order to satisfy the demands of rates pre-
scented by England France, Sweden, Holland,
Germany and the L. S.
The Standards dispatch from Durham says
The Beers have defeated the Kaffirs; loss,
20 men killed.