The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-07-28

DURING the recent bombardment OF Sfax
by the French 400 Arabs were killed and
about the same number wounded.
IT was stated on the 18th that . commit
tee had been formed at Rome, Italy, to con-
fer gold medals on the six men convicted of
rioting during the late removal Of Pho Nono's
body. Ajournal of that city expressed re-
greet that the corpse was not thrown into the
Tiber.
In opening the Cork County Assizes ON
the 18th Judge Barry said that the condition
Of Ireland, as shown by the crimes COM
mitted, must be regarded by honest men
with alarm.
AN English newspaper correspondent
named O'Donovan has been for some time
imprisoned by the Russians at Merv.
A HORRIBLE affair recently occurred in
France. A Lieutenant affected by sun
stroke at the camp at Chalons, was walking
through neighboring village and asked his
way of q woman, who, frightened at his
disorderly appearance, ran away screaming.
A number Of peasants returning from the
field threatened the officer with their sickles,
and he drew his revolver, fired several
shots that were harmless, and then ran into
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the peasants and shot the soldier down.
One Of the peasants then Drained the officer
with a pick-aX.
AT . recent meeting Of the clergy the
Archbishop of Canterbury said the last audi
bic words of the late Dean Stanley were
81 have labored amidst many frailties and
much weakness to make Westminster Abbey
great center of religious and National life,
in truly liberal spirit"
A FEW days ago the Roman Catholic Pres
bytery at Roxton Falls, Quebec, was de-
stroyed by fire, and the officiating priest
persisted in the flames. His nephew escaped
like fate by jumping from the window of
an upper story.
THE London (Eng.) authorities stopped
watering the streets on the 10th, on account
of the limited supply Of water. In Paris,
also, the water was running short.
On the 10th another desperate fight &C.
Cured at SfaX, in which 800 natives and 200
Arab horsemen were killed. The French
Commander had required the disarmament
of the natives, the delivery of hostages, and
the payment of a war indemnity of l, 5OO, 900
francs.
A SOCIALISTIC Congress convened in Lon
don on the 18th, at which 1000 people,
mostly workmen, were present. Among the
speakers were Louise Michel, the Paris fe-
an American.
A LARGE number Of persons have been ar
rested at New Stettin, Prussia, for demol-
ishing the Office of the New Stettin Zeitung,
which boldly denounce the "Jew baiters."
AN Irish boy named Patrick T. Hickie
was imprisoned in London on the 10Th for
threatening to murder Secretary Forster
unless he emptied Kilmainham Jail.
A CONTRACT has been made to lay cable
from some German port to Valencia, and
thence to the United States, at a cost of
f165,OO0.
A LONDON telegram of the 10th says
Charles Bradlaugh, whose atheistic views
prevented his qualifying for the seat in Par
lament to which he is otherwise entitled,
had limited to the police that, when he at
tempted to take his seat on the Sd Of August,
he would be escorted by mob.
THE Spanish pretender, Don Carlos, on
the Goth issued a manifesto complaining of
his election from France, and charging that
the late massacre of Spaniards in Algeria
was attributable to the French Government.
ONE Gordon, Land Lacquer, has been
sentenced to years imprisonment for in
citing to murder after he had been arrested
under the provisions Of the Coercion act.
THE boss farmers Of County Cork, Ire
land, yielded to the demands Of their agri-
cultural laborers for an increase of wages,
and the strike ended on the Goth.
IN Staffordshire, Eng, the nail manufact-
urers have advanced the wages of their
operatives thirty per cent, and work has
been resumed.
EGYPT is reported to have decided to
allow no more persons to be enslaved in the
future.
TIE troops of the Bey of Tunis are said to
be be deserving in great numbers.
IRELAND will this year, it is said, have a
crop of potatoes large enough to supply the
for expectation.
In the rifle contest at Wimbledon on the
Goth the Canadian team won the Kolopore
Cup, by twenty points.
In one Of the provinces of Egypt a de-
ssructive cotton-worm has appeared, and
the cattle-plague in another.
On the 21st Arthur LEROY, the London
journalist. was committed for trial on the
charge of numbering F. j. Gold Oh the
Brighton express train.
THE Sultan of Morocco has appealed to
the Porte to put a period to the fanatical
agitation in North Africa, lest Instruction
and the separation Of the Barbary States
from Turkish rule shall be the result.
COURCIA, the Catholic Archbishop of
Egypt, died recently while on his way to
Italy.
On the 2lst the English rifle, team won
the Elcho Challenge Shield at Wimbledon,
Eng. making 1852 points. The Irish team
scored $40 points, and the Scotch 1901.
II is announced that the Colonial Govern
mcnts of New Zealand, New South Wales
and Victoria have agreed to enter into a
convention for the exchange of money
orders with the United States.