The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-03-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS.

Gen Solorzano has raised the stand
ard Of revolt in Venezuela.
The italian Chamber of Deputies vot
ted to abolish forced paper currency.
Nineteen of the prisoners arrested fo1
conspring to murder the European residents Of
Kalapore have been found guilty.
President Pierola, of Peru, refuses to
90 to Lima, and thu Chiians cannot find any
body to sign the treaty Of peace.
English journals announce that in
Sligo many farmers who have hitherto refused
to pay the rents asked arc now complying with
the demands of the landlords.
Advices from Panama report that a
revolution, characterized by the usual scenes ot
bloodshed, broke out in Antisqua. but it wa.
finally suppressed.
Directors of arsenals in France have
been prohibited from selling arms or ammuni-
ton, and Projects have orders to prevent arms
from leaving the republic.
Thirty-six successive shocks of earth
quake occurred at st. Mchael's, in the Azores.
One church and about 200 houses were de-
stroyed, and several people killed.
Parnell has recalled his advice to ten
ants TO pillow up lands on being evicted. his
reason being that they would be liable to seven
years penal seryitude.
More troops are to be sent to South
Africa.
George Berkeley, the English author,
brother of the Earl OF Berkeley, is dead.
Gladstone, while alighting from his
carriage, fell and cut his head severely.
Odo Russell, the British Ambassador
to Berlin has Leen raised to the peerage, with
the title of Baron Ampthill.
Rev. Benjamin Spekerecently drowned
himself in England. He was a brother of the
African explorer
South American advices report that
peace has finally been declared between Chill
and Peru.
The new treaty between Russia and
China has been signed.
ParneIl has gone to Paris. He is sui
fering severely from nervous prostraton.
The marriage of Prince William and
the Princess Augusta, in Berlin, last evening,
was followed by grand court recc tioH nd
state banquet.
The birthday of Victo Hugo was
made the occasion of a greet popular demon
stration in Paris. A large number of members
of the Chamber Of Deputies AMI other distirl-
guished persons were received by Hugo. Dur
ing the reception about 800, 900 people marched
TO the residence Of the Industrious author who
saluted them from the window Louis Blanc
delivered panegyric on Hugo at Trocad(ro.
In u desperate battle in South Africa.
tho British Gen. Colby was killed by the Beers
and his forces nearly decimlted 1t appears
that, with twenty-five officers and over 600
men, he marched up Moioh mountain, and,
after four bloody charges by the Boors,, the
British were forced to retreat for lack of am
munition. Not over 100 of the British es-
capped.
A dispatch from Dublin says the av-
erage emergency committee are taking steps to
procure Protestant tenants for Irish landlords
who are about to eyict the present occupants of
their lands 1t is thought there will be 10 lack
of applicants, for the passage of the Coercion
bill has emColdened all who were opposed to
the Land League, Numer Jus evictions are
taking place all over Ireland, and tho scenes in
NIL 4, 1.
Another destructive conflagration has
occurred in Toxic, Japan. Eleven thousand
houses were destroyed, and $4,000 people rem
dered homeless.
A party of fifty armed men are re-
ported to have visited several houses in Kerry,
Ireland, stolen forty guns, and compelled the
farmers to swear that they will pay only Grif-
fiths valuation
Fenian lodges have been discovered in
Lancashire, England, and quantity of arms
seized.
Forty-five carloads of munitions of
war, destined for Greece have been embar-
coed at Dunkirk. The authorities at Mar
settles have stopped large amount of dynsm-
lite which was on the way to the Greeks.
Thomas Carlyle bequeathed his DUN
friesshire estate to the University of Edin-
burgh
The Arms bin passed in the British
House of Commons forbids the possession of
arms except by license, permits the searching
of houses between sunrise and sunset, and
regulates the importation of arms, dynamite
and nitro-glycorine. The bill is to have effect
for FIVE years.
Detailed accounts of the engagement
between Gen. Cooley and the Beers at Spitzkop
render It certain that the British were fairly
beaten. The fight ended in rout, and the
most moderate estimate places the loss at 800
killed and wounded.
The losses by fire and robbery during
the riots in Lima and Callao are estimated at
$6,OO0,0OO