The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-18
NEWS OF The week.
FOREIGN NEWS.

identified with the Land League. ne haoou'in
of Michael Dayitt. Upward OF twenty others
have been arrested in the country districts
Notwithstanding the efforts OF the
German Government, the emigration from Ger
MANY to this country is enormously on the in
crease. Whole villages in Posen, Schleswig and
Prussia proper are being depopulatsd, and the
authorities are seriously alarmed.
Queen Caroline, widow of King Chris
tian VIII, OF Denmark, is dead.
The leaders of the Land League In
Ireland are trying to prevent the celebration OF
st. Patrick's day in order to prevent religious
discord.
A loss of 1000, 600 francs has been in
Cured at Paris by the burning of the drapery
establishment on the Boulevard Haussman
known as LIE Printemps. No less than twenty
six persons were injured b. .ne fire.
England is negotiating to secure
modification of the invitation to the interna-
tional monetary conference in order that she
may accept it without pledging herself to
b-metallic standard.
The appeal of Orton, the Iichborne
claimant, having been dismissed by the House of
Lords. there remains nothing for him but to
complete his fourteen years in prison.
Mohammed Jan, the noted Afghan
leader, has been murdered.
In one of the Spanish provinces thirty
persons have been arrested for making demon
strations in favor of federal republic.
Alexander IL, Gar of Russia, has at
last met his death at the hands of
Nihilist assassins. On Sunday afternoon,
March IS, while riding with the Grand
Duke Michael in closed carriage, guarded by
eight Cossacks, a bomb was thrown, which tore
out the back part of the vehicle. The Gar
and his brother sprung out when
bystander drew a revolver, but was pre-
vented from discharging it. At this
instant second bomb fell near the
Gar, SCATTERING both his legs. With cry for
help he fell, and was taken to the Winter Pal
ace, where troops kept back the throng. The
sacrament was administered to the sufferer,
who survived his injuries but an hour. The
two assassins stood on opposite sides Of the
roadway, disguised as peasants. One was 80
roughly handled that he has since died. The
other gives the name Of Roussakoff. The
dead Emperor was born in 1918, and
was called to the throne while Russia was en-
gagged in the Crimean war. The chief event OF
his reign was the emancipation of 23,000,00
serfs in 1891. Attempts upon his life were
made by Karaksoff, at Moscow by BerezowslSi,
in Paris, during the international exposition
by Nihilist, who fred at him in the streets OF
ST. Petersburg by the explosion of mine
under the Winter Palace, and by means Of
an internal machine beneath the railway track
at Moscow. Alexander, the heir TO the throne.
was born in 1916, and welded the Princess
Dagmar, of Denmark. The Grand Duke
Alexis and the Duke and Duchess Of Edin-
burgh have left London for ST. Petersburg
kilograms of coincidence have been received
from nearly all the leading countries, the
United States being among the first to oner Its
tribute.
A telegram from the Russian frontier
states that the attempt to assassinate the Car
was not unexpected, as the police had received
an intimation of the existence of a conspiracy.
Several domciliary visits in search of political
criminals were made the night preceding the
murder. The Gar was warned not to attend
the parade.
All the European Cabinets and the ELL
tire European press express profound sorrow
for the death of the Car. The Emperor of
Germany is said to be inconsoabe. Gladstone,
Harrington and Granville called on the muir
dered monarch's son-ln-law, the Duke of Edin-
burgh, to express coincidence, and President
Grevy telegraphed his sorrow to st. Petersburg
Messages Of coincidence were also sent from
the other European courts.
A st. Petersburg dispatch of March
IA says 1t is now stated that the asssasins who
killed the Car drove in IN open carriage, and
were thus enabled to avoid suspicion, and get
close to the imperial sleigh. The bombs
which the murderers threw, and which did the
fatal work, exploded with such force as to tear
mp tho entire pavement around the place where
they struck and to make hole four feet deep
in the ground. Both the Cars legs were bro
ken, the lower part of his body severely injured,
and his left eye forced completely out of its
socket. The assassins were disguised,as peasants
Russakoff, who threw the first bomt, has been
student for two years at the Mining Academy.
The second bomb-thrower has been arrested.
He Is also young man. A Cossack and
civilian, who declined to give his name, died
from injuries received by the bursting Of the
bomb. Altogether twenty persons are more or
less injured, thirteen of whom are in the hos
pital DIR. Dvoriachine, who was among the
physicians frtt summoned to the Car, inme-
diately fetched the necessary instruments
for amputating the legs, which we're held by
the flesh only, the bones being broken. The
blood flowed copiously from the lacerated
wounds. India-rubber bandages were applied,
first TO the right leg below the knee, and then
to the left. The Cars right hand. on which
was glove, was found to BIO greatly lacerated
His marriage ring was broken to pieces and
driven into the flesh. The surgeons tied mp
the several arteries. At length, under
the influence Of sulphate of oxygen and
ice, the Emperor opened his eyes,
and respiration became more apparent Chap