The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-04-21
,oblemen, retired generals and officials.

noblemen, retired generals and officials. =,
DR.. Carver, the American marks
man, has challenged ten of the best shots Of
the Hurlham club and the Gun club Of Lon:
don to pigeon~shooting match for E5OO, the
doctor shooting 1000 pigeons to his oppo-:
merits 100 each.
The trial of the assassins of the
czar is in progress at st. Petersburg. A fea-
ture OF the hall is life-size portrait of the
dead emperor, draped in black. There are
sixty-four witnesses and eleven experts to be
examined.
The Gar is said to have received
from the Nihilist committee an offer to Law
down their arms in return for constitution
and amnesty. 1t is alleged that another mine
has been discovered under the entrance to the
Winter Palace. .
Dispatches dated April 10, place the
number killed by the earthquakes in Scio at
eight thousand. Forty thousand persons are
without bread. Goschen, the British Ambas:
sador at Constantinople, has sent an agent to
distribute relief to sixty villages. 81.
Prince Pierre Napoleon died of gout
at Versailles on April 8. He was the third
son of Iicien, and was born at Rome in 1915.
He served in Colombia under General Santan-
der, was expelled from the papal states by
Pope Gregory XVI, and ordered from Greece
by the British: He will be remembered as
having shot Victor Noir in Paris, ten years
ago.
News from T:nis says that hostile
demonstrations have been made outside of the
house of the French consul. He refuses to
leave his post until ordered by the officials.
A band CT five hundred maranders crossed the
French frontier April II, and attempted to
carry off some cattle. They laid siege to the
block house occupied by the French outposts.
Reinforcements were sent up of Zouaves and
chasseurs, under Gen. Vinceden, and attacked
the enemy. The fight lasted an hour and a
half, when the raiders retired, keeping up q
CALLING fire until over the frontier. The
French lost fifty nine men. The loss of the
marauders Is believed to be considerable, but
they managed to carry off nearly all their
dead and wounded. Hostilities have now
commenced in earnest. The population OF
Algeria are in a great excitement. In the
French chamber of deputies Premier Ferry
stated affairs on the Tunisian frontier were in
tolerable. The government intended to chas-
tise the marauders and take steps to prevent
the occurrence of their aggressions.
The present situation on the north coast of
Africa is undoubtedly one of the outcOmes of
the British congress of 1877. At that time, it
was said that France submitted to the acquisi-
ton of Cyprus by England with the understand
n a Tho o1,,6o 10 o%o
Tunis England would not object. The aim of
France is, nnquestionably, TO seize aud annex
Tunis as she did Algeria, and in much the
same way The causes leading to the ac-
QUESTION Of Algeria by France date back to
1918, when French trading brig was plum
dere d in Bonca. The dwelling Of the French
consul was attacked in 1923, and vessels under
the French flag were plundered. But the
chief cause of the quarrel wos dispute
aboMt the payment of debt incurred
by the French government to two Jewish
merchants of Algiers at the time of the ex-
pedition to Egypt. This debt was 100000
francs, all but 800, 600 of which was imme-
until the counter claima of certain French
creditors should be decided in the French
courts. For three years the suite dragged
along, and the dey became impatient. He
grossly insnlted the French consul, whcreat
France, sent qnadron to Algiers, which
blockaded the port June 10, 1927. The block
ade lasted three years, when a French army
OF 81, 600 infantry, 900 cavalry and a porpor-
tionate number Of artillery, all under Gen.
Bourmont, landed on the coast Active hos
tilitics soon began, which were carried
on until the complete subjugation of
Algcrians and the annexation of their co,ln-
try by the French, which was consummated
Add -Kaker. The latter was young emir
who had for years, and with great fortitude
and bravery, though with constantly waning
prospects, led the Marabouts in a holy war
against the French invaders. Since then there
have been periodical nprisings against the
French in Algiers, the most notable being
those of February, 1s4s, 1854, 1867, 1864,
| 1868 and 1870. The latter result was oc-
occasioned by the withdrawal of the
greater part Of the French troops from the
colony in consequence of the Franco Prussian
war. The insurrcction was, however, soon
suppressed by Gen. Duricu, then acting gov
ernor general in the absence Of Mac N1ahon,
1879 THAR ed-Dinn- -Pasha, premier of Tunis,
was made grand vizier by the sultan of Turkey.
The sale of his African possessions to the So
cietc Marseillafse, and the rnmpus created over
the inability of the new promier to succeed to
the landed possessions Of his predecessor, as
he should have done in accordance with the
law and usage of Tunis, was the immediate
cause OF the present quarrel with the French.
The Societe Marseillaise was refused possession
and bloodshed began at once; two or three
engagements between the French and Tunis-
ians--the latter, in reality, border tribe, the
khoumis. France pretends that she desires
TO punish the KhOumis for selzing the land
belonging to the French Loan Company, but
we are compelled to infer, from the size of
the French amy now in Tuns, that the
Frenchmen are bent upon anncxing the whole
Of Iunis. The latter province is tributary to
Turkey. Germany and Austria have nothing
at stake there, but the prospects are encourage
involving France, Fngland and italy, not to
mention Turkey.