The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-03-10
FOREIGN NEWS.

Gen. Sherman has left Washington on
tour of inspection of the military posts on the
Mexican frontier.
China is preparing for hostilities with
Japan on the Loochoo issue.
Representatives of thousands of un-
employed persons in London waited on the
Lord Mayor to ask his advice in regard to emf
grafton. They were urged TO confer with Sir
Alexander Gait, the Canadian Commissioner.
A great sensation was produced
throughout Great Britain by an attempt
to assassinate Queen Victoria. She was fred
at as she was leaving the Great Western rail-
road station, in London. for Windsor Castle
A miseraby dressed man named Roderick
MacLain, native of Southsea, and insane,
was the assassin. The Queen did not know the
shot had been fired, and suffered no i'll conse-
quences. But for the intervention of the
police the crank would have been roughly ham
died by the people. During Queen Victorias
reign of forty-four years this is the seventh
personal attack made upon her,
MacLean, who fired upon Queen Vic
toria, was examined by the Windsor borough
Justices. On his person was found letter
written before the shooting, in which he said
ne was compelled to commit crime against the
blooded aristocracy because of the insufficient
relief offered him. Policemen testified that he
aimed straight at the royal carriage, which was
thirty PAGES distant. After a search of
a bI11l Of i,NoN AL ~,
the ground. When the carriage containing
the prisoner left the Town Hail. twenty men
endeavored to oyerturn it. The discovery has
been made that MacLean was discharged from
the Wells Asylum last September, and has
until recently been an inmate of the asylum at
Weston-Super-Mare. Sympathetic messages
have been received by the Queen from all ma
TONS
Hessie Helfmann, the Nihilist, who
received respite from execution for the MUIR
der Of the Czar, died in childbirth at st. Peters
burg.
Forster, Chief Secretary for Ireland,
returned to Dublin A large organized crowd
of people hooted him at the Government depot
as the train passed. Hazel, an ex-suspect, was
arrested for supposed connection with the
demonstration.
A balloon which made an ascension
fell in the sea off Dover, England The aero
nauts persisted. The passengers were Col.
Brim, Royal Engineer, and Simmons, the
aeronaut who were attempting to cross the
channel.
Public opinion in England inclines to
the belief that MacIean is crank, and that
no had no serious intention to kill the Queen.
He stood 100 feet distant in crowd and
merely fired his little toy-pistol in the direction
of the Queens carriage. The ball did not go
within rod of her..
In the British House of Commons, Sir
Stafford Northcote carried resolution that
Bradlaugh be not permitted to go through the
form of repeating the words of the oath.
The substance of the Russian Gen.
Skobeleifs speech to the Servian students,
which has caused so much comment in
Europe, was that struggle between the Slav
and Teuton was inevitable for Russia would
no longer consent to be held in check by the
influence of Germany. When that struggle
came it would be q long and sanguinary one,
but the Slav would triumph. The words of
the fiery warrior have greatly stirred up Bis
marck and the Emperor. and set them to oues-
tionpg Russias Intentions