The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-05-26
NEWS OF THE week.
FOREIGN NEWS.

FOREIGN NEWS.
The Monetary Conference was ad.
dressed, on the 17th inst, by Hon. Timothy O
Howe, in favor Of bimetallism. Louis MalIett
representing india, offered to support an,
measure to increase tho value u silver.
Tho new Czar hns made narrow es
cape from poisoning. Arsenic was sprinllcd
over bowl Of salad By servant in tho palace.
but luckily he did not partaks Of the dish.
Bismarck's scheme for increasing the
besr TAI has been rejected by the Reichstag.
The plague which broke out some
time ago in Mesopotamia IL committing fright
ful ravages.
Iroquois, owned by Mr.. P. Lorillard,
won the Burwell stakes It tho Newmarket
Eng.) races.
The manifesto Of the Czar has been
answered by one from the Nihilists. They
take up the challenge, and are confident Of
victory.
4 tube OF dynamite, with fuse at
tachcd, was thrown into tho doorway Of the
Central police station, at Liverpool, whore IL
exploded. Many windows were broken, but
nobody was hurt.
Fresh outbreaks against the Jews
have occurred at Smela and Odessa, Russia,
whore houses Of Hebrews were wrecked. The
populace Of Tartoro are said to have lung q
Jew into the lames Of burning house.
Tho English newspapers are loudly
indignant at the Eranco-T -Tunisian treaty.
They accuse France Of perfdy, ana intimate
that, but for the lack OF concert among other
European powers, Italy would havs declared
war against hst.
Gen. Ignatieff, tho successor of Cen.
Melikon, has issusd circular to Govsrnors si
provinces, in which hs indicates the present
evils Of Russian social life and the measured
proposed for their amelioration BY the Cxar'a
Government. The first task viii b ths extir-
patton OF rebellion.
In the Monetary Conference, at Paris,
on May is, Hon. Timothy o. Howe. United
States Commissioner, outlined the American
position on the question Of bimetallism. "The
United States, he said, "are not here on be-
half Of mine-owners to bull the market for sil-
yer. Agriculture is our chief interest. Our
annual cotton crop is worth seven times, our
wheat crop twelve times. and corn crop eight
cen times the average annual produc-
ton OF our silver mines. America 10 seeking
for herself and the world broad and stable
money basis, upon which S30, ,0O0, ,000, 600 Of the
worlds indebtedness can rest" Most Of the
delegates who had already spoken replied to the
arguments adduced by subsequent speeches
against the views propounded by them. Mr..
Evarts and Sig. Doda rccapitulated their argu.
mcnts in favor of himetallisn, and with their
speeches the general discussion closed. The
conference then decided to adjourn its sitting.
until the 3Oth of June.
London Israelitcs are organizing with
view Of protecting their persecuted corelsion
lists III Russia.
Count Won Arnim, the German diplo
matist who was sentenced to fivo years pena
scrvitudo for betraying his country, died a
Nice France.
GREAT BRITAIN declines to take par
in the conference Of the powers, suggested b
iins-ia, for the purpose of taking JOINT actor
against Nihilism.
Two more heavy shocks Of earthquake
have occurred at scio, toppling over houses.
Abdul Bey, ex-chief Of the Albanian
League. was tried Mt Constantinople by court
martial and sentenced to death.
The Governor General of Charkoff ha.
issued a proclamation sgainst the Jewish per
secut,on, threatening to bring the military I.
| punish the rioters
There was desperate fight at Pallas
Ireland, between the peasants and the military
There are fears that the Commune i
| about to break forth all over Russia.