New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-05-04
FOREIGN NEWS.

FOREIGN NEWS.
Five servants in the Imperial Palace
at Constantinople have confessed that the,
suffocated Abdul Aziz, the late Sultan, ani
opened veins in his arms to make it appear
that he killed himself. Three officials are sale
to be implicated.
Frohloff, the executioner Of tho Nj
hilists, has been given 100 lashes because il
tho hanging Of Alichailoff the rope .brokt
twice.
Bismarck is said to be decidedly
favorable to the maintenance Of the GOLD
standard.
The police of St Petersburg continue
to seize printing presses used for seditious pur.
poses and arrest the workm
A ferry-boat crossing the Dneiste,
river, in Austria, upset, and, according to one
VERSION sixty-three persons drowned. Anothe,
account says thirty drowned.
The announcement in the House Of
Commons that Gladstone would move an ap-
preparation to erect monument to the MON.
ory of Beaconsfeld was received with loud
cheers.
The town Of Buena Ventura, in Pana'
ma, was destroyed by fire. The loss wat
$1,000,000. Three persons were burned tx
death, aud 1900 were left homeless and almost
starving.
Catherine Marshall, the 14-year-oli
daughter of a railway laborer at Glasgow
Scotland, has abstained from food since thu
commencement of the year. She drinks lit
tic water daily, and is greatly emaciated.
John Mccullough made his first ap
pearance in London at the Drury Lane Theater
in the tragedy of ':Virginius," and was highl,
successful. He was enthusiastically applaudet
by house crowded in every part, and was re
peatedly called before the curtain.
The Nihilists have advised the GA,
that indiscriminate execution Of the assassin
only served to knit their ranks more closely to
gether.
Lord Beaconsfeld's funeral took place
au Hughenden, in the presence of large mum
bers of people Of all classes Of society. Th
Queen and Princess of Wales, among others
sent wreaths to be placed upon the coffin. A
the hour appointed for the funeral the churcl
bells were tolled in all the principal cities ant
towns in England.
When Charles Bradlaugh entered thu
English House of Commons and asked to
sworn in, Sir Stafford Northcote, the Conserva
tive leader, moved that he be not permitted
take tho oath. Notwithstanding Gladstone
opposition, the motion prevailed by vote O
208 to 175. The Speaker then directed Brad
laugh to withdraw, and, as he refused, he wa
removed by the Sergeant-at-Arms.
France has decided to send 5000
troops to keep the Algerian Arabs in subjee
| ton.
Contracts have been made in Englan'
| to carry 81, 900 Swedes and Norwegians to tn
United States.
The death of the German General
Baron Won der Taun, is announced.
Emile dc Girardin, the French jour
nalist and statesman, is dead.
Gen. Ludwig Won Benedek, of Austria
| is dead.
The Governors of Kef and Beja hav
been instructed by the Boy of Tunis to surrer
| der to the French under protest.
A sentence Of Imprisonment for if
has been imposed upon the Russian Gran
Duke Nicholas, his completely in Nihilistic plot
having been clearly established. He is brothe
of the late Gear.
England and the other European pow
ers object to the Russian proposal for confer
ence on the refugee question.
During artillery practice on board th
training-ship Mars, at Wlhclmshaven, Ge
man station on the North sea, a shell bur
while the gun was being loaded. Eight me
were killed and sixteen wounded.
Nine persons have been arrested {
Constantinople for completely in tho murder
] Sultan Abdul Aziz, including a Hungarian en-
| ployed as his medical attendant
Beaconsfeld left all his property
his nephew, Coninssby Ralph Disraei.
TO effect the necessary alterations 6
the Russian imperial castle of Gatschina, II
it, occupancy by the new Gar, several hui
dred artisans labored for forty-eight hour
after being sworn to silonce in the church
midnight. The windows of the imperial be-
room are protected by massive iron shutters {;
guard Of eighty Cossacks are posted in Il
ante-ohambers electrical apparatus has bee
arranged for ringing bell in every guar,
house, and, on retiring, the Emperor remov
the outer handle of the door. Dynamite ",
captured in the courtyard which had been col
cealed in load Of hay.
Easter eggs were used in Moscow
inclose proclamations from tho Land and Lii
erty party urging the peasantry to seize Il
lands and refuse to pay taxes or serve in Il
army.
Sir Stafford Northcote succeeds Di
rael as leader Of the Tory opposition in Il
British House Of Commons.
It is understood that the Car is di
posed to adopt repressive measures Of cha
acter SO vigorous that Russian history has 81
en- no example Of them.
The movement against the Jews b,
broken out in Argenau, West Prussia. A mo
led by school-teacher, wrecked the houses
some Jews ani maltreated the inmates.
| The Russian peasantry destroyed Il
synagogue at Elizabethgrad, in the Cover
ment Of Kherson. Many Of the rioters we
killed by the troops. The disturbance err
out Of the superstition regarding the Passov
rites.
!
DOMESTIC INTELLI0ENQE.
East,
-Four business houses and three dive
ings in Shamokin, Pa, were destroyed by
incendiary fire. The loss was 100000.
It has been discovered that domest
at Middlesex, Pa, named Hattie Mosley, v
recently buried alive. The agony she endur
| Was plainly depicted on her face