The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-06-17
NEWS OF The WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS.

Another American victory in England.
At Sheffield, Yorkshire, the whit-Tuesday fair
foot-race was won by an American Mr..
smith, of Pittsburgh, Pa. There were sixty-two
competitors. The prize was El00
Another priest, the Rev. Father Muir
ply, has been arrested in Ireland under the
Coercion act. Much excitement and the COM
initial Of outrages was the immediate result
Advices from Russia chronicle the ar
rest Of thirty officers Of the army, including
the Colonel of the Imperial Guard, during the
past month.
The last batch of Communists have
returned to Paris from Caledonia.
The Right Hon. Sir w. Melbourne
James, Lord Justice OF the English Court Of
Appeal, is dead.
A mob at Skibbereen. ireland, wrecked
the branch Bank of Munster, and tore up the
railway track party Of fifty marines was
stoned away from Balydehob by crowd of
several thousand. At Dromore process-serv-
or was beaten nearly to death.
The village of Bradley, in Hampshire,
fire.
The steamer Faraday, after various
unsuccessful attempts, finally succeeded in
landing the end of the new Atlantic cable on
the Lands End, Cornwall Eng.
Conservative members of the British
Parliament and ex-Cabinet officers are very
severe in their criticism of the Gladstone policy
in Ireland
The centennial anniversary of the
birth of George Stephenson, the originator Of
steam railways, was recently celebrated at
Newcastle, England, by 100000 persons. The
King of Belgium tenders $500 az a contribution
toward a memorial college. Nearly every rail-
way in the United Kingdom sent a locomotive
for the procession.
An attempt was made by two IRISH
men from the United States, named McKevett
and Roberts, to blow up the Town Hall in Liv-
erpool, but the only damage inflicted was upon
the windows. 1t is alleged that Fenian docu-
ments, plenty of money, loaded reyolyers and
quantity of dynamite were found on their per-
sons.
The Gladstone Government continues
the arrest Of petty officers of local Land
Leagues in Ireland but lacks the nerve to
tackle the big guns like Archbishop Croke and
the influential leaders of the league.
Forty-three persons were arrested for
participation in the riot in the city Of Cork, Ire
land. Sentences of Imprisonment of from two
to four months were passed on twenty-three Of
Al
nizances.
The French appear to have encoun-
tered foe in Africa more dangerous and more
deadly than the united force Of the Kroumir.
Typhoid fever is playing havoc among the gar
risons at the interior posts and several have
been abandoned because of its prevalence
there The hospitals are full, and the graves
are being filed.
Foxhall, an American horse owned by
James II. Keene, won the grand prize in the
Paris races, and the American colony In that
city is wild with joy over. the victory. The at
tendance was nearly 800, 900 people.
The affair creates intense excitement in the
sporting circles of London, where it helps to
lessen their modification over the achievement
of Iroquois. Among those who witnessed the
sport were President Grevy, ex-Queen Isabella,
Rochefort and Marshal MacMahon. The prize
is 100, 900 francs. one-ha II of which is given
by the municipality of Paris, and the other
half by five railway companies Foxhall was
foaled on the Alexander farm, in Kentucky,
and purchased and sent abroad by Mr.. Keene
last year.
A new era of Fenian scares seems to
have been inaugurated in England. The latest
rumor is that number of men have been de-
tailed to destroy public buildings in various
cities.
A Turkish force of 1000 men has an
rived at Tnpoli. Partisan newspapers think
this menace from the Sultan.
One hundred lives were lost and sew
eral villages were devastated by an earthquake
III the Pashalik of Van, Armenia.
Gar Alexander III. declined to grant
An audience to the publisher of the Moscow
Gdzette. Not the first man in Office who has
refused to be interviewed.