The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-06-22
Foreign News.

FURTHER reports from ALEXANDRIA, Egypt,
state that sixty-seven Europeans were killed
during the riot. On the following day all the
shops in the city were closed, The object of
the rioters appears to have been pillsge. Fif-
teen hundred troops were sent from Cairo to
Alexandria to preserve order. At a meeting OF
the foreign consuls with Dervisch Pacha, the
Khedive and Arabi Pacha. a solemn engage
ment was entered into that the khedive should
undertake to maintain order, and that Arab
Pscha should strictly obey the khedive's COM
mands. Arab Bey threatened to proclaim
holy war II the khedive sought foreign aid.
THE government and city emigrant sheds
at Winnipeg are again filled with emigrants,
principally Europeans, and the tents which
cover the prairie around the city are also filled
with them.
A DISASTROUS flood has occurred at verse;,
Hungary, owing to sudden rise Of the river.
| A number of houses and two bridges were de-
stroyed. Twelve children and several adults
were drowned.
A SPECIAL dispatch to the New York Herald
few days after the outbreak in Alexandria,
| Egypt, says: "Words fail to describe the state
| 0R panic in Alexandria. The streets are
blocked. Carts are piled with the baggage OF
fleeing Europeans. ALI the men-of-war in the
harbor are crowded with fugitives The Ameri-
can frigate Galena is crowded with families
claiming American protection. Revs. Jo-
seph AMI Richard Smith, of New York
and Baltimore, have taken refuge on
board, the officers, though greatly incon-
yenienced, courteously giving up their cabins
| TO the ladies. One American officer narrowly
escaped while in the company of g Brltish.olti-
Ger who was killed in the isht. The American
government should issue warning to its cti-
2ens in Egypt to leave Immediately, and send
u vessel to Ismailia, on the Suez canal. to re-
ceive the fugitives from Cairo, should commu-
nication between Cairo and Alexandria be cut
of. The disturbance now transpiring was evil
IDENTIFY premeditated, breaking out in several
places at once. Europeans were dragged out
of their carriages and murdered with sticks
and legs of tables or chairs obtained by sackinl
The shops. In all there are forty-eight Euro
peans killed. Tho British consul is still in
danger. Three officers of the British fleet were
buried at sca to-day, the American marine;
presenting arms, and the officers and crew
dof1ing their hats. I now learn that the
prefect Of police in Alexandra, with the as
sistance of q fanatic orator, organized the
outbreak, the soldiers setting the example oi
sacking the shops. Many of the dead were
killed by bayonets. The khedive arrived from
Cairo this afternoon. He was coldly received
by the population. He expressed himself
greatly astonished at the agitation and excite
ment visible throughout the city. The natives
declare that they will resist all Intervention
Turkish or other. There are patrols through
out the city tonight. Soldiers are placed a
every fifty yards" Another account says tina
100 persons were killed in the riots TIL
} khediye and Dervisch Pasha went to Alexan
dria in pursuance OF orders from the sultan O
Turkey.
THE outlook for the crops in Europe isprom
ising.
GENERAL IGNATIEFF has retired from the min
istry of the interior of Russia, and Count Tol
! stoi has been appointed in his place.
TIE empress of Russia has become th
mother OF a female child.
MONTREAL has had fire which destroys
property worth s750,OO0.
: FoRTY-FoUR persons were drowned by the re
cent food caused by the sudden rise Of tn
river at verse;, Hungary.
HUNDREDS of Europeans left Egypt by tn
advice of the foreign consuls Not only wome
} and children, but many large capitalists witt
material interests in the country, departed
leaving their property behind.
THE steamship Pera, trading between Ne
York and London, struck an iceberg off CAP
! Race, N. F., and foundered few hours latel
The steamship Lake Manitoba picked up tw
boats containing Captain ]. D. Christie, of tn
lost steamship, and twenty-nine OF his crev
Another boat containing eleven men was SUI
j posed to be lost.