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taken against him in Cuba.
RUCHoNNET, member of the Swiss fed
eral council, has received a letter threat
ening him with death unless his cours,
toward the Catholics shall be moderate.
THE condition of affairs in the west o
Ireland Is becoming serious. Bands O
armed nen roam through the country
and terrorize the inhabitants unchecked
The earl of Shrewsbury eloped to Stras
burg, Germany, with Mrs Miller Mundy
The lady's relatives found the fugitives
gave the earl a horsewhipping and
brought back his companion.
FRENCH troops at Algiers have captured
a messenger sent to the sultan by the
murderers of Colonel Fatter,s surveying
expedition. He was bearing a letter an
nouncing the massacre and asking a re-
ward.
A DESPERATE battle took place al Pris-
rend, where six thousand Albanians at
tackled the Turks. The arrival of Der
visch Pasha turned the tide of victory in
favor of the Turks. The combined loss
was eighteen hundred
| As a compromise, the English attorney
general introduced in the house OF com
mons bill allowing members of both
| houses to affirm instead of taking the oath
Of office. This, if carried, will permit
Bradlaugh to qualify.
| THE arrest of Dillon causes great indip-
nation in Ireland A meeting of the cleo
tors of Tipperary is to be held within a
few days, at which Archbishop Croke will
preside, and at which resolutions denouuc-
ing the Government will be proposed.
Parnell will speak at the meeting. The
Parnelllte members of Parliament have
resolved to vote against the second reading
of the land bill.
MAsPERo, the Egyptian explorer, has
opened some more of the Sakkara pyra-
mids, and claims to have discovered texts
which completely upset the Masonic theo-
ry of the religious belief in the DAYS of the
kings of the fifth dynasty.
THE retreat of the brigands who cap
tured Sutor, the Englishman. and demand
ed an enormous ransom for him, has been
cut of by the Turkish troops and gun
boats. A bark manned by brigands was
recently sunk by gunboat, and it is feared
Sutor was on board
RUCHoNNET, a radical member of the
federal council of Switzerland, has re-
ceIved an anonymous letter threatening
him with death unless he speaks and acts
more lenlently in reference TO the Swiss
Catholics. 1t is not likely that the letter
will charge the policy of NJ. Ruchonnet
VIOLENT resistance to landlord oppres-
sion and government measures to enforce
the new coercion law is reported on the
increase in the west and south Of Ireland
The London Times says ''the record of
agrarian crime Is more serious than at
any time since parliament met in Janu-
airy"
A BERLIN dispatch says there is land
agitation among the peasants in the Baltic
provinces of Russia. They desire to own,
instead of lease, their farms, and refuse to
swear allegiance to the car until he shall
have granted them laws and land rights
equal to those possessed by the Russian
people.
LORD REAY will represent India in the
international monetary conference at
Paris. tie has been selected because of
his knowledge Of the working of the dou-
bic standard in the Island of Java, where
he resided for some time. 1t is thought
that he will be very valuable accession
to the conference
A RUPTURE has occurred in ParneIl's
party. At a meeting In London, after a
stormy discussion a resolution to abstain
from voting on the second reading of the
land bill and to leave the house when a
division was called was adopted by vote
os IL 10 l.. Parnell threatened to resign
the leadership unless il was passed, while
Sullivan has written letter declining
longer TO acknowledge ParnelPs authority.
The French are beginning to admit that
or
easy as at first reported. The Kroumir
have contested every inch of the ground,
fighting with considerable skill and un-
questionable bravery. and inficting as Sc
we're loss on the French as the French in
flicted on them. And now the French are
threatened with a fire in the rear The
Algerlans are become restive, and ADD
El kader, son of the great rebel, but who
is himself loyal to the French connection,
advises the French that "rising" may be
expected at any time