The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-02-17
NEWS Of THE WEEK.


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FOREIGN NEWS.
A Dublin dispatch says: Although
terrorism has not diminished in the West and
South Of Ireland. there il. in other particulars.
decided change for the better in al parts Of
the country. The Government i fully alive to
the plans Of the Fenians, and II prepared to
defeat them. The tenants Of several estates
heretofore refusing 70 pay rents arc now pay
Ing.
Seventeen persons perishcd by an ex-
plosion inthe Whitfield colliery In StafYordshire,
England.
The Home Rulers have decided to
carry into tho great towns Of England and
Scotland the agitation against coercion.
The steamer Bohemian, from Boston
Tor Liverpool, was wrecked in Dunlough bay,
and thirty-two persons drowned. She had
cargo Of bacon and cotton.
Orders have been given to treat Davitt
With oil possible indulgence. He Il to be kept
part from other convicts, and will not be sub
ject to prison labor, though hs must wear the
prison garb.
In consequence Of serious disagree
ment with King Alfonso in regard to refunding
the debt, the members Of the Spanish Ministry
have rendered their designations.
Brennan, Secretary Of the Irish Lani
League. ID coming to America to collect meney.
Walsh, another Treasurer, q going to Aus
tralia for the Same purpose.
The steamer Bohemian, which was
wrecked on the coast Of ireland, was valued It
e5oO.oOo and her cargo was worth half that
amount
The Skuptschina Of Servia hos resolved
70 close all the monasteries.
The British troops have again been
defeated BY the Boers, in South Africa.
The Archbishop Of Dublin hos replied
to the Pontfcal letter concerning tho Irish
citation, claiming that pernicious laws for
centuries have reduced the people to the ex-
treme Of misery, and the abrogation Of the
cruel statutes i demanded that while deplora-
ble acts and speeches have blackened just
cause, it must not be forgotten that the people
have despaired Of justice.
The publication Of the Russo Afghan
correspondence reveals ths fact that . secret
treaty was made BY which Russia bound her
self to perpetual friendship With Afghanistan,
and undertook to assist the Ameer against for
eign enemies. Two months later the Russian
Foreign Minister wrote to the Afghan Foreign
Minister, advising him to make peaoe openly
with England, but in secret to prepare for war.
plan for inciting the Mohammedans in India
to rebellion is also revealed. Il Is significant
fact that the dates Of the documents are ali
subsequent to the date Of the Berlin treaty,
which professedly settled the differences be-
tween Eng and and Russia.
At fair in Killkeely, Ireland, the
people stoned the police, aud At Ballyhanis the
police charged crowd with bayonets.
The distress is 10 great among the
Ural tribes in Russia that they are selling their
male children for grain and leaving their girls
to perish.
Twelve Of the Home Rule party are
to proceed to Ireland and hold meetings after
the passage Of the Coercion aot, thus inviting
arrest.
News is received Of tho capture Of Lii
ma by the Chilians on Jan. Is, after two des-
pcrate battles, in which the losses arc said to
have been 10000 men, The Chinese quarter Of
the city was burned BY the Peruvians before the
surrender.
The Christians Of Macedonia are leav.
ing ON account of ill-treatment.
Baroness Burdett-C Coutts and William
Z. Ashmesd Bartlett were married last week,
in Christ Church, London. Mr.. Bartlett will
assume the name Of Burdett- Coutts before his
own surname. A great lawsuit win result from
| the wedding. Should the decision be adverse
| to the Baroness, she will still have about &lO-
0OO. 900 left.
An Irish Land Lacquer named Habon
has been sentcnced to three mouths imprison-
ment for making reasonable speech.
Eleven out Of thirteen Socialists on
acquitted. The remaining two were sentenced
! to imprisonment, ono for four years and the
other for six months.
Several regiments Of all arms have
been ordered to Natal to take the places Of the
ncn killed by the Beers.
Parnell and six OF his associates in the
Land League held . council in Paris in regard
to the funds OF the organization.
Garibaldi was chosen President of q
universal-suffrage convention at Rome.
A leading French journal agrees with
Secretary Sherman that tho present proportion
Of l5l,< to between gold and silver should be
abandoned. Bismarck has declared in favor Of
| double standard.