The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-07-07
NEWS Of THE WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS.

The trial of the murderers OF the late
sult,n, Abdul Aziz, has commenced at Con-
stantinople. Noun Pasha confessed to having
ordered the death Of the monarch BY command
Of a commission composed Of Midhat, Rnchdi
and Mahmoud Pashas. Midhat Pasha denied
all this. and denies again that Abdul Aziz was
murdered. In his speech the public prosecu-
tor demanded tho death OF the actual assassins
and fifteen years. penal sefyitude for the three
Pashas.
There are no prospects Of good En-
glish harvest, and doubts are entertained Of
even an average one.
Twelve hundred Italians have left
Marscilles in consequence OF the Franco Italian
riots.
Baron Magnus, late German Ambassa-
dor at Copenhagen, who was dismissed for At
tending banquet given to Miss Sarah Bern
hardt, who cherishes anti-0erman feeling, has
become insane from brooding over his dis.
grace.
In financial article the London
Times advises the withdrawal OF tho English
representatives from the Monetary Conference
It states that England is firmly welded to the
single (gold) standard, and only entered the
bi-metallic conference out Of compliment to
the United States and France
Cornell University crew has completed
arrangements to row at Vienna, Aug. s.
Bon Amana, the rebel chief Of Oran,
Algeria, is said BY spies to have murdered tho
French soldiers captured by him, and spared
only thirty-three Of the Spaniards whom he
took prisoners near Saida.
The French astronomers say that the
comet has no head worth speaking or, but an
immense tail which is 100000 leagues in
length. It il to be visible about three weekn
longer and then to disappear for seventy-feur
years.
7. 7. Gould, retired business man.
was murdered while travelling on an express
train from London to Brighton, and his corpse
thrown out at Balcombe tunnel.
Herr Most, editor of the Communist
paper Freiheit was sentenced in tho Central
Criminal Court, London, to sixteen months
imprisonment, with hard labor, for having
written an article inclting to murder.
McAulife, process-server who gave
evidence against the President Of local land
league, was shot dead at his residence near
Castle island, County Kerry, Ireland.
A landslide is in progress above Lake
fhurn, Canton Of Berne, Switzerland. On th,
land are meadows and houses. and the whole is
gradually sliding into the lake. In the Canton
Of Grisons 1880 sheep with their shepherd,
we're overwhelmed BY an avalanche.
The leaders of the Home Rule party
in the House of Commons, Messrs. Parnell.
OConnor and Mccarthy, have appealed to
Irish electors throughout Great Britain t.
remember the ingratitndo OF Liberal mem
bers who are ardent in the cause of coer-
cion," and whose election Was assisted by Irish
votes.
A Paris dispatch reports the appear
ance Of new and wonderful contagion re-
sembling leprosy at Toulouse.
Russia wants more ships of war, and
the Minister of Marine proposes to spend for
them 2l6. 100000 roubles-about 3l6O, ,OOO, ,O0O.
In the Henley regatta, the Cornell
crew were - bad third" in the race for the
stewards cup The Americans were said to row
in cramped, jerky, slow style.
Coleman's mustard warehouse. at
Norwich, England, burned. Damage slJO, 900.