The Portland daily press., 1883-11-21

Ohiciai Account of the Egyptian Defeat.
LONDON, Nov. 20.-The latest official account
of the fighting at Toka, Upper Egypt, state
that the Egyptians lost IL officers and 142
men, besides six Turks and several Greeks.
They also lost one gun and 300 rifles. About
$40 of them regained their ship. The Egyp-
tians during the fight formed hollow square,
when small number of the enemy locked
their shields together and rushed through the
Egyptian lice. An immediate panic among
the Egyptians resulted. 1t is doubtful II the
black troops can be spared from Massowah,
which is in the same critical position as
Suakim. The British gunboat Ranger has
been ordered from Alden to Suakim.
The Governor OF Suakim has telegraphed TO
the Khedive, th at although the Bedouins were
numerically inferior to the Egyptian troops,
the latter attempted no stand, but divested
themselves of their arms and clothes and
rushed naked into the sea, forsaking the Turk
ish officers commanding them, who were
killed. The governor urgently demands re-
Inducements, but says it is useless to send
Egyptian soldiers, because they will not fight
The council OF ministers, the Khedive pre-
siding, discussed measures for protecting
Suakim andssubjugating the hostile tribes. 1t
was decided to enlist Bashi Baxouks. and $50
of them have started for Suakim. Six COM
panies of black troops will be despatched from
Massowah. These will raise the garrison Of
Suakim to nearly 1000 men. A council will
also go to Suakim to inquire into the disaster
and to punish the guilty.
The widest rumors are rife respecting Hicks
Pasha, owing to the defeat of the Egyptians
at Toks. His force, however, and tho force
slaughtered at Toka were entirely discon-
nected.
The Kenny Murder Case.
DUBLIN, Nov. 20.-At the trial to-day OF
Joseph Poole for the murder of John Kenny,
VIM Larnie, brother-in-law of the prisoner,
repeate his former evidence respecting the
divisions in the ranks of the Fenian party.
he also testified that he believed at the time
OF the murder that Kenny had been an in
former, but since then he has had reason to
believe otherwise, and was now of the opinion
that revenge for the seduction of girl had
led to the murder
After receiving instructions the jury retired,
and in about forty minutes returned verdict
of guilty The court then pronounced SEN
tence of death upon the prisoner.
Before being sentenced Poole spoke at length
in earnest and at times excited tones. He en-
phatically denied the murder of Kenny; ad-
mitted he was member of the Fenian
brotherhood and said he woutd be proud to go
to the scaffold for being member. Its object
was not to commit murder, but to free Ireland
from the tyraDnical rule of England. He
believed he was prosecuted because he was an
enemy OF the government under which he had
the misfortune to live. Poole acknowledged
he had been in Kenny's company on the night
of the murder, but declared he had no hand In
striking him down. He had belonged to the
brotherhood since he was Is years OF age, but
had never belonged to vigilance committee.
His purpose was to wait until his countrymen
were prepared to strike blow for indepent-
ence, when he would cooperate with them.
In conclusion he said, 81 am not afraid to
die. Farewell all; farewell Ireland. Three
cheers for the Irish republic, and TO hell with
English tyranny"
Poole will be hanged December 18th.
Or. stocLer,s Defence.
LONDON, Nov. 20.-Hofprediger Stocker, the
Jew-bailer, has made his defence before st.
Stephens Club. he says that the Jews are
trying to control the public affairs Of Ger
many, and that the liberal press is completely
In their hands. They invented lies to destroy
their enemies and said that DR.. Stocker had
left his mother to starve. They csricstured
the synod of the evangelic church, and said
that Christian schools were the homes OF
hypocrisy, wickedness and stupidity. They
trsmpled on Christian believers, churches and
ministers of the gospel, and maintained that
the German army and religion were to blame
for the prevalence of suicide. Moreover, the
jews were mostly radicals, opposing the poll
tics OF the Emperor and of Prince Bismarck,
and the inner life of Germany. There was
great danger to the State in an alliance of the
Democratic parties with the Jews. The num-
Der Of German Jews was very large. There
were more Jews in Berlin than in all Great
Britain. They aggravated competition, and
almost nine-ienths of the stock brokers' were
Jews, and Jews had caused all the recent
'smashes." The Jews we're a source of peril
to the peasants; they were running agriculture
by usury. The historian Treitschke said: "The
jews are our distress" "FJr myself" added
DR.. Stocker, "if the Jews continue ths pur-
susl of their aims, / shall continue to fight
them for the sake of Christ and OF my father
land"
Gloomy Oufieol for the IRON Trade i'm
Great Britain.
A letter just published from prominent
iron master OF Sheffield gives a somewhat
gloomy outlook for the iron industry through
out Great Britain. He says the English and
Scotch producers have for long time had to
face keen competition from Germany, and
now that strike is imminent among the coal
miners of Yorkshire it is probable that an in
crease in the cost of fuse will soon be added to
the difficulty. The only escape from the dam
ger of overproduction on a falling market is
the thorough shutting down of many works
and wholesale discharge of workmsn.
Lord Rector of st. Andrews University.
The polling for Lord Rector of st. Andrews
University will take place Thursday. A stu
dent has lodged protest against the nomins-
tion of Minister Lowell on the ground that he
is an alien, and therefore ineligible.
Death of siemens, the Electrical Engineer
Charles William Siemens, the we'll known
scientist, engineer ami electrician, died to-day
of rupture of the heart agep 60 years.
Charles William Siemens was born at Leuthe
and educated at Gottingen; settled in London
as a civil engineer in 1SA3 and founded there
branch of the Berlin house with immense tele-
graph building establishments at Woolwich
and extensive steel works at Landore in
Wales He invented the regenerating gas fur
mace, the barometer, pyrometer, etc. He
was the author of q large number of scientific
books.
ODOnnells Trial Postponed.
1t Is probable that the trial of O'Donpell
will be postponed one week, in Consequences of
the non-arrival of witnesses from the Cane of
Good Hope
Londeu Wool sales,
=. The fourth series q wool sales bsgaa ta.asy.