The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-11-08
FOREIGN.

AN official dispatch from Manila, Phil
lipine Islands, on the 1st, states that twenty
merchant ships were lost and over 100 sailors
drowned during the terrible typhoon of Octo-
Der 20.
The first meeting of the Longfellow
Memorial Committee was held at London on
the LIST. Lord Granville presided and deliv-
cred an eulogistic address. Resolutions were
passed to erect bust in Westminster Abbey
in poets corner" Letters were read from
Earl Derby, Hugh Childers, W. H. E. Jockey,
Max Mueller and others.
The Gar has committed the death
sentence of Polevanoff and Novitsckys to
penal servitude.
A CoNsTANTINoPLE dispatch of the
LIST stated that there was an official denial
made that Arabi's captured papers contained
anything compromising the Sultan. The latter
desires that Arab shall have an open trial,
but will not attempt TO interfere in the judg-
ment of the court.
THE large increase in the number of
destructive fires in Russia has caused nearly
all the insurance companies to fall back on
their reserve funds. The insurance rates have
been raised forty per cent. on the advice of the
delegates from English companies present at
the Insurance Congress recently held at st.
Petersburgh.
IT was reported at Berlin on the 1st
that the Prussian Ministry had, with the sane
ton OF the Emperor, decided upon the step Of
dissolvng the Town Council of the munich
pality of that city some time during the COM
ing month.
The London Times, in an editorial on
the LIST, says it believes a compromise has
been offered, or is about to be offered to the
British Government, the import of which is
that Arab Pasha be allowed to expatriate him
self and live in exile.
LORD DUFFERIN left Constantinople
on the I'd for Alexandria. Before leaving he
had an audience with the Sultan.
The returns of the election held in
England and Wales on the 1st show probable
gain of thirty Conservatives and Tories.
THE final returns of the election in
Italy show the election of $50 Ministerial sup
porters, including left and center, 80; right,
%; radicals and socialists, 4.
The revival of Nihiiist activity in
Russia, has been observable lately. The police
broke up meeting at Pottawa on the evening
of the 1st aud arrested a number of those in
attendance. The object of the meeting did
not appear 10 be known by the authorities but
was suspected of being revolutionary, as the
organ of the Nihilists had declared revolu-
tion to be imminent.
EDDY's mills and several adjoining
manufactures, at Hull, on the opposite side
of the river from Ottawa, Canada, were burned
on the I'd. Loss over S2O0,000; insurance
small. Eddy's works were lighted by cleo
tricity.
THE Paris Voltaire says that the ex-
Empress Eugenie has made her will in favor
of Prince Victor Napoleon.
THE King of Corea has issued an edict
frankly declaring that the recent disorders in
his dominion were evidently due to his own
maladministration of the Government affairs,
and ordered that the insurgents who had been
captured be released. This step has been
taken by the King for the purpose of assuring
allegiance of his subjects to himself IL the
Governments of China or Japan should renew
their attempts to annex Corea.
AGENTS of California syndicate were
on q steamer prospecting the northern end of
Victoria, B. c., Island recently, for coal and
other minerals, with a view to heavy invest
ments. A vein of new metal, worth four shil-
lings an ounce in London, was discovered on
the coast range.
THE statement of the Imperial Bank
of Germany on the Sd showed decrease in its
specie OF 9, 4S0, 900 marks.
A GENERAL order has been issued by
the 6eTI0aQ OONeTQu1euL 10 Tue CODSulS OF
the Empire in all parts OF the world, directing
them carefully to avoid any interference what
ever in the politics of the country to which
they are assigned.
DISTURBANCES have broken out at Val,
in the Andarvia Pyrenees, Spain, and number
| of persons were reported killed and wounded.
The Governor of Crete telegraphed
the Khedive on the 4th that by order of the
Porte, the prisoners Musselaks Pasha, Hasson
Pasha, Suleiman Pasha and Daoub Pasha, who
were arrested at Cardia after hurried flight
| and pursuit from Cairo, and who were impli-
Gated in the burning of Alexandria and scenes
| of pillage and slaughter which accompanied it,
| will be surrendered to the Egyptian Govern
ment for punishment. The Sultan prefers to
| let the authorities of Egypt deal with them
than to make an exceptional case of their trial.
CONSIDERABLE excitement was caused
| in Leipzig and Berlin, Germany, on the 4th,
among the Socialist and Liberal circles, by the
action of the Court of Trial in setting aside
| the verdict in the Mommser case. Mommser
was tried before q jury for slandering Prince
Bismarck. On trial the jury. acquitted him.
That verdict has been set aside, through in
fluence, 1t is said, and he will probably again
be placed on trial for the same offense.
A TERRIBLE confagration is reported
from Uleaborg, the second town in population
and commercial Importance in Findland, which
dates back to 1910. 1t was almost entirely
destroyed, and many lives are reported lost