River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-07-20
FOREIaN

HoBLoT X. BROWNE, of London, the IL
| illustrator of Dickens works, is dead.
THIRTY persons were injured in rail-
way collision at Cork, twelve of whom are
not expected to survive.
SLoBELoFF, the afmous Russian gener-
| al, died in Moscow July 10, of heart dis
ease, in his 40th year.
! A DUBLIN cablegram states that thir-
teen counties will be proclaimed under
the repression act.
| THE treasurer of the Irish land league
received from March to June G19,740.
| Most of the subscriptions were from
| America.
THE London Times believes that the
warlike preparations at English dock
| yards are fraught with meaning touching
the crisis in Egypt.
The rainy weather in England has seri-
ously hurt the wheat crop. As result,
values of grains are mounting rapidly.
| Flour and wheat are 8d@1s dearer. and
corn advanced So 6d@4s Cd.
By the explosion of gas in the Rue Phil
! lippe, Paris, in burning house, twenty
persons were killed. forty injured, and
twelve residences destroyed.
! ChOhT TIME WAS iHOuKHl 10 De AStcc-
sary by the East Lancashire cotton manu-
| fscturers, because of the disturbances TO
| business occasioned by tie Egyptian
troubles.
Two brothers named Flaherty, recent
arrivals from America, were arrested in
the county Kerry. charged with com
| plicity in the assassination of Cayendish
| and Burke.
| GLADSTONE stated in the commons that
| his defeat last week was unprecedented.
The government would be discreet in its
use of the powers of the repression bill,
and he hoped it would be unnecessary to
employ them all.
| ARRESTS were made at Moscow on the
| Sth inst. of several prominent personages.
| They intended to blow up the building
occupied by the secret administrative
bureau.
| DE BRAzzA, the French explorer of
Africa. backed by liberal appropriation
from the treasury at Paris, has succeeded
in tx NJ feet OF vessels to the pool in
| the Congo river, by cutting q canal
eighty kilometers IN length, giving his
nation control of what is destined TO be-
come rich trade. Meantime, Stanley,
with $1.500,000 OF Belgian money, made
a roadway from the coast 240 kilometers
long, and placed his steamers above the
cataracts, only to find himself beaten.
SOLEMN services were held ever the re-
mains of General Skobeleff at Moscow,
before they were taken TO Riazan. The
czar sent a special letter of coincidence to
the hero's sister, and the emperor's uscle
and brother attended the fsneral. All the
generals in Moscow followed the remains
to the station, the streets, balconies and
roofs of houses on the route being packed
with mourning Russians.
In view Of the fact that the Egyptians
were discovered mounting heavy guns
near the entrance to Alexandria Harbor
the British Admiral Seymour has charged
the authorities with breach of faith. ard
demanded the surrender of the defenses on
peEalty of bombardment of the city. The
Ministry declare they will resist, and have
| taken measures to secure the safety of the
Khedive in case troops are landed. Arab
Pasha has refused to obey the Sultan's
mandate to proceed to Constantinople.
Soldiers are seen at work on the trenches,
and the members of the consulates have
been taken on board ships in the harbor.
Shots may be exchanged at any moment.
Five men were killed and twenty-seven
wounded was the loss sustained by the
British man-of-war in the bombardment
of Alexandria. The Egyptian loss can
not be ascertained. but it is supposed to be
heavy. The forts suffered severity bv the
cannonading, a party of marines landing
| from the Invincible and blowing up the
heavy guns of fort Mex. The Egyp-
tians fought their batteries with much de-
termination, but their earth-works proved
TO be simple heaps of sand. The Sultan's
representative in England has been or
| dered to protest against the bombardment,
and request Earl Granville that the firing
| shall instantly sease.