River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-14
FOREIGN.

KING kALAKAUA has reached London,
on his tour westward around the word.
MEDICAL science has sustained great
loss by the death OF DIR. Maurice Raynaud,
of Paris
THE Mexican papers state that General
Ceballos will be given command of the
military line of the Rio Bravo,
THE London Sportsman is heartily
ashamed of the treatment the Cornell uni
versity crew received in England.
O'CoNNoR, the secretary of the Cork
branch of the Land league, has been ar
rested under the coercion act.
A cook containing the names of his Fe-
man accomplices has been found on Nc
grath. the Irish Nihilist.
Four THOUSAND Greek troops have en-
tered the Turkish village of DimariO
The occupying force will probably march
into ArnO to-day.
THE French cabinet has resolved to send
a large force to suppress the Arab insur-
rection at Sfax. England and Italy have
dispatched war vessels.
HEsSY HELFMAN. one of the assassins of
the car, who is imnrisoned in fortress
reports himself well treated, and says she
has been allowed to consult an attorney
on the subject of petitioning for a COM
mutation of sentence.
THE international monetary conference
will demand bimetalism or nothing. The
proposition Of the Bank of England will
be rejected, although some British specu-
lators undertook to advance the price of
silver on account of the document.
THE festivities at Halifax for the enter
tainment of the governor general still con-
tinue. The feature on yesterday was a
torpedo attack or the harbor by her maj
estys war-ship Tenedos, occupying two
hours and costing thousands OF dollars.
RUSSIA wants more ships of war, and
the minister of marine progresses to spend
for them 2l6,000, 600 roubles-about $780,
600. This sum would be more wisely ex-
pended in ameliorating the condition of
the wretched peasants.
john FRANCIS ERsKINE, a workman in
the Great Western car shops at London,
Ont, has learned enough to make claim
to the estate OF the Earl of Mar, in Scot
land, valued at $l00,000,000 Men of
means offer TO organize a stock company,
and prosecute his claim as a son of the
earl.
PARIS is evidently to have 4 terrible
duel Lullier, an accomplished swords
man, who is the insult party in the quar-
rel with Cassagnac, announces that the
duel will continue until the last drop of
blood is drawn, and the body of the van
qushed is at the disposal of the victor.
THE leaders of the Home Rule party
in the house of commons, Messrs, Parnell.
O'Connor and Mccarthy, have appealed
TO Irish electors throughout Great Britain
to remember "the ingratitude of liberal
members who are ardent in the cause of
coercion" and whose election was as
sisted by Irish votes.
COLONEL 0BERGoM, who was commission
ed by the Mexican government to inquire
into the cause of the Morles Bridge dis
aster. has reported that the sole cause
was the defective construction OF the
bridge Collections are being made in the
City of Mexico for the relief of the suffer
ers.
AT Prague, the capital of Bohemia,
festival of German students was interrupt
ed by Czechs, and in the course of the
riot, several Germans were stabbed. Next
day the Bohemians again attacked the
German students, when more stabbing oc-
Cured. This inter-race quarrel will no
doubt spread throughout Bohemia.
LKFRoY, the man who it is believed shot
Gould in the English railway carriage,
has, not vet yet been arrested. The British
public are beginning to think that they
have the worst organized, and consequently
the least efficient police force in the world.
LEROY, or Mapleton, is descsibed as a
provincial newspaper reporter very fond
of theatre-going.
AN Italian newspaper which is rep
resented by an English correspondent as
expressing the general feeling in Italy,
saws that France DESTROYS in some degree Of
blotting out the shame of her defeat in
1870. and conscious at the same time that
she is unable to measure swords with Ger