The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-04-14

Democrats were organising . NOV, msnt to
agitate for the uncon litional releas, Of Davitt
Ok. the 9th Gen. longstreet United States
Minister to Turkey, ordered the 0alena topro-
coed TO the island OF scio with succor for the
sufferers by the recent earthquake. -Four
hundred oospses had already been found, and
the loss of HE was placed at i've thousands
Thirty villages had been destroyed, and forty
thousand people were destitute.
Mr.. OCoNNOR, in the British House Of
Commons on the 5th, alluded to the increase
of evictions in Ireland, and appealed to the
Government to take steps to restrict them.
Mr.. Gladstone asserted that never had Gov.
eminent bestowed more anxious labor than
had the present Ministry ON the proposed
Land bill
ACCORDING to q Dublin dispatch OF the 9Th
every person in the disturbed districts Of
Ireland had been ordered, under the pro-
visions of the Arms bill, to lodge at the near.
est police station all arms and ammunition he
may possess, for the purpose Of obtaining .
license
. The Bank of England on the 9Th reported
q greater stock Of gold on hand than for many
years before, there being Els, sou. 900 in its
vsultA = e'%F &, - -
TWENTY women attacked dozen police
men who were escorting . process-server at
Ballnamore, County Leitrim, Ireland, on the
9Th, and seriously injured several of them.
One girl was fatally shot and another
wounded.
IT is said party Of Americans have leased
from the Dominion Government twelve hun
dred acres of bog near Winnipeg, and will
manufacture peat on large scale.
A CATHOLIC college at Rimosky, Quebec,
valued at $6o, 900. was destroyed by fire few
days ago. -
The Trappists expelled from Anglers,
France, who are on their way to Montreal,
have been assigned seven hundred acres of
land at Okla, where they will open an Agri-
cultural College.
The United Sta ties Consul ct Basic,
Switzerland, has been investigating the cir
cumstances which led to the trichinae scare
in France and Switzerland, and has commu-
nicated the result of his Investigations to
the Secretary Of State at Washington. 1t
appears that the ostensible occasion for the
agitation was the outbreak of trichinosis in
. French family, at first supposed to have
eaten American pork, but which had only
partaken of the flesh Of a rccently-killed
French hog. The pork found infected with
trichine in France, and which was
reported to be American pork, was
really pork imported from Germany.
where the disease first originated.
Mr.. Mason states that there had not
been single instance of any person having
suffered In health from the use o: American
hams or pork, that this fact was fully recog.
nized by dealers in Great Britain. Belgium
and Switzerland, and that the danger from
trichinosis arises from the use of fresh un.
cured and uncooEed pork. From November
l, 1880, to January l6, 1881, Sc. 1851, 200 pounds
of lard and l37, 9S7 500 pounds of pork were
imported from America into Great Britain,
where the inspection is most rigid, and in all
this quantity no instance of infection was
discovered. At Basic, after two years. ex-
perence, the inspection of American pork
was discontinued as unnecessary.
Most, the Freihet editor, has been COM
mitted without bail for trial in the London
Police Court.
COMMANDER MEA DE recently reported to
the Navy Department that lawlessness was
unrestraned at Havana, and that the British
Consul was nearly murdered by rufians a
few nights before.
The Italian Chamber Of Deputies have re-
jected resolution of confidence in the Min
istry, by q vote of 1872 to III.
On the It'll the Duke of Argyll resigned his
position in the English Cabinet, because of
the too radical character of the Irish Land
bill
The English Court of Appeals has dis
missed the appeal OF the celebrated ritualis-
tic clergyman, Mackonochie, under sentence
of deprivation for ritualistic practices.
ABOUT midnight on the 9TH slight earth
Quake shock was felt in the vicinity Of st.
Paul Bay, Quebec. 1t was sufficiently strong
to awaken people from sleep.