The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1882-01-12
Foreign Intelligence.

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THE consolidation was recently announced
of the Great Western Railway of Canada, the
Credit Valley, the Ontario & Quebec and the
Toronto, Gray & Bruce Roads.
In Warsaw, Poland, 200 persons were re-
Gently arrested for participation in the anti
Jewish riot growing out of the church panic
of Christmas Day. The prisoners are mostly
young men.
FEW days ago a passenger train made a
successful trip through the recently-completed
tunnel under st. Gothard Mountain, in the
Alps. The time occupied in the round trip
was eighty three minutes
IT is reported that three steamers have been
lost recently, two of them in the Mediterra-
mean. One hundred and ten persons were
drowned. ...
DAWSON was inaugurated Lord Mayor of
Dublin on the I'd. The Common Council,
composed largely of Land Leaguers, refused,
by a vote of % to Is, to pass the customary
vote of thanks to ex-Mayor George Meyers,
because he had declined a few months before
to convene a special meeting of the Council to
confer the freedom of the city upon Messrs.
Parnell and Dillon. In his passage through
the streets the ex-Mayor was Kissed by mob,
but no personal violence was offered.
A FEW days ago the Khedive of Egypt for
warded 800 to the fund for the erection of the
Garfield Hospital at Washington~ He prom
Uses to send 81 900 more.
ON the evening of the I'd through mail-car
from the East was found in flames at Ridge
town, Ontario, and before the fire could be ex-
tinguished a large amount of mail matter was
badly scorched.
A LANDLORDS meeting at Dublin on the Sd
was attended by about 5000 persons. Reso-
lutions were adopted protesting against the
administration of the Land act as unjust to
the landlords, and claiming compensation for
losses sustained through the diminution of
the value Of estates in consequence of the de-
cisions of the Land Court. On the same day
the corporation of Cork conferred the free
dom of the city on John Dillon, and sent copies
of the resolution to Messrs. Gladstone and
Foster.
Two MORMON missionaries recently at
tempted to hold services in one of the suburbs
of London, when they were forced by a mob to
seek refuge at police headquarters.
FORGED cablegrams from Madrid in regard
to a lottery ticket recently tricked banking
house in Havana into negotiating $500, 900
prize. The scheme was soon exposed, the
principal operator arrested, and most of the
money recovered.
THE noted English novelist, William Har-
rison Aainsworth, died.a few days ago.
JAMES RYAN, who recently escaped from the
Pittsburgh Penitentiary by concealing himself
in shoe-case, was recaptured in Toronto,
Canada, on the 4th.
A FEW days ago Joseph Chariot, Bor-
deaux France) banker, absconded, leaving be-
hind him liabilities Of 100000.
The Irish constabulary recently seized at
Kilrush box containing twenty rifles and
bayonets and five hundred rounds of ammuni-
ton. The Government has applied to the
Court Of Queens Bench in Dublin for man
damus to quash the resolution comforting the
freedom of that city upon Parnell and Dillon.
AT banquet of the Liverpool Reform Club
on the 9Th Earl Derby announced himself as
an advanced Liberal. In regard to the ex-
IRENE coercive measures in Ireland, he said
that England was justified in using toward
Ireland the same degree of force that the
United States Government employed toward
the Southern States in the late civil war.