River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-04-27
FOREIGN.

6 CHARLES r. DARWIN, the famous scien-
fist, died in London, recently, aged 73
years.
MAcLEAN, the assailant of Queen Vic
toria, is to be kept in custody during her
majesty's pleasure.
A DIRECTOR in the bank of Sicily has
been abducted by brigands, who demand
g3 900 as a ransom.
THrhTY-FIvE lives were lost by an ex-
plosion in the Blockhouse colliery, at
Sunderland. England.
KING THEEBAw, of Burmah, has put to
death an inferior wife, two half sisters of
the chancellor of the exchequer, and fifty
of their relatives.
SAMUEL WALSH, a ship-builder of st.
Johns, n. B., went under the steamship
Narwhal, in divers suit and was drowned
by the disconnection of the breathing
tube.
AN iron safe in the postofice at Paris
was forced by burglars and robbed of $50
letters, the value of their contents being
estimated at 100000 francs.
ENGLISH newspapers announce the
birth of daughter to Mrs. Richard A.
Proctor, the American wife of the English
astronomer.
PARNELL has written the editors of sew
eral Paris journals refusing interviews,
on the ground that his parole forbids
communication with persons connected
with politics.
Count Geza Itchy, the one-armed
Hungarian pianist, has accepted an invi-
tation from the Prince of Wales to appear
in several concerts in London during the
forthcoming season.
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has received cablegram announcing that
President Pierola has left Peru, and that
| the nation is united in support OF the Cal
deron government.
i. THE Canadian senate has passed bill
| leealizing marriage with the deceased
wifes sister. It's opponents give notice
| that they will appeal to the governor gen.
| eral for veto or to the queen TO disallow
| the bill.
BISMARCK caused the suspension for two
years of comic paper of Berlin, and the
| imprisonment of another journalist for
| inserting blasphemous letter in regard
| to Gambetta.
AFTER trial lasting three days. clerk
| in the Quebec postoffice, named Hercule
Huot, was convicted of stealing money
| letters and sentenced to three years in the
| penitentiary. The accused belonged to
the leading families. and had three of the
best attorneys in the province.
THE French cabinet council has APP
proved the scheme of De Lesseps to Fill
up the Desert of Sahara with salt water,
and separate Tunis and Algeria from
Tripoli.
| The theater at Schwerin burned on
| Sunday night, the alarm being given
while the house was crowded. The grand
duke of Mecklenburg kept the audience
from indulging in a panic. Only the
outer walls were left standing.
| The lord mayor of London asks sub
scriptions of $4,000 or SO to send to Cana
da 200 families of unemployed poor. Oil.
| phant, who Represents the committee to aid
| Russian Jews, has arranged for the emf
grafton of 10000 to America.
ADvIcEs from Siberia are to the effect
that the steamer Rodgers, which went in
| search of the survivors of the Jeanette,
| has been burned and sunk. and that Lieu
tenant Berry and his officers and crew,
numbering thirty-six, are near Cape
| Serdge.
| RUMoRs were afoat in Europe, that
| Parnell had been shot while on the way
| from London to Kilmainham, but Sexton
| states that the agitator is still in France.
A bailitf in the service of the emergency
committee was killed while going from
| Limerick TO Kiltealy. Forty tenants on
the estate of Lord Clancarry. in county
Limerick, have been evicted.