River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-01-13
FOREIGN

THE Minister of the Netherlands to the
court of Spain was found dead in his bed
on the 4th inst.
HEIR STRAssMAN, an Israelite, has been
elected president of the municipal council
of Berlin.
THE German police have discovered q
new secret organization of socialists, ex-
tending over the whole empire.
THE Dutch government is about to APP
peal to the people of the British nation in
favtr of the independence of Transvaal.
HEAVY rains have caused great damage
in Sicily. At Barcelona the river burst
its entertainments, creating a great panic
THE pope has requested all Catholic
journals to submit their articles on Ire
land to the authorities of the Vatican.
THE porte has resolved to mass one hun
bred thousand troops on the Greek
frontier. and concentrate forces at other
points.
PARNELL and his parliamentary col
leagues have made a burlesque Ofthe state
trials at Dublin, by absenting themselves.
Not even an audience gathers TO hear the
testimony
AT Vienna war j. regarded as next to
certainty. In a recent interview, Gen.
Ignatietf declared that retrograde move
ment on the part of Greece would endan-
ger the throne of King George.
THE students of the German university
are debating upon the best means of ex-
tending the anti-Jewish agitation, and
over two thousand have already signed the
petition to Bismark.
In consequence of the report of the COM
mittee of physicians that the assassin of
the Russian Colonel COmeraoff is insane,
he will not be executed, but will probably
be confined in an asylum.
IT is stated that 1000 guns are sent to
Ireland surreptitiously from birmingham
weeks 5000 Enfield rifles have been sent
there from the Birmingha workshops.
ONE of the largest meetings ever held
in Connaught took place at Loughrea,
county Galway, on Sunday. Davitt was
the principal speaker. Several thousand
persons were present.
THE Greek premier has informed the
foreign ministers at Athens that his gov
eminent would cling to the decisions of
the Berlin conference. The pressure for
war is intense, and thirty-two thousand re-
serves will soon be called out.
A POLICE patrol in the county Sligo,
on January 9TH exchanged shots with an
armed party. 1t is supposed that enc of
the providers was mortally wounded. One
arrest was made.
LORD DUFFERiN, in an essay on the Irish
land question, declares that the sale often
ants interests has a tendency to saddle
holdings with double rents. and urges
state aid for emigration to Canada.
A Cork cablegram announces that a
party of men visited the house of a man
named Daniels, on the 9th inst, and in
hicted dangerous wounds upon him, but
the victim refuses to disclose their names
or state the cause of the attack.
In the house of commons, on the Sth
inst, Parnell gave notice that he would
move for a select committee to inquire
into alleged outrages in Ireland, as also of
an amendment to the address to the queen,
declaring that peace cannot be promoted
by the suspension of the constitution.
1T is reported on good authority that
J, III Brand. president of the Orange Free
State, has wired here that he is unable to
restrain the Beers of that state from join
ing the in3urrection, and that in a few
days he may be compelled to resign.
EIGHT thousand lrlsh peasants attend
ed land meeting near Killarney, on the
4th inst The meeting which was prohib-
tied at Drogheda, on Sunday, took place
on the previous day, but two magistrates
read the riot act and the ten thousand
farmers dispersed. Monster gatherings
were held at Bally Castle and Killaly.
A DUBLIN correspondent says: Parnell,
who was apparently Indifferent while the
case for the crown was being stated de-
veloped much watchful industry in regard
to witnesses, making copious notes and
passing them to his counsel. 1t is a
curious fact that one of the traver8ers,
Gordon, has not up to the present, even
come to Dublin, and the crown has never
once inquired after him. 1t is stated that
he is Ill in the western part of Ireland.
The crown does not trouble itself in re-
gard to the whereabouts of the defendants.
This has given the traversers much salts
faction, and it is probable Biggar, Sex
ton. and others will go to the meeting OF
parliament.