Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-08-11
Martin Luther be observed by all Protest.

Martin Luther be observed by all Protest
ant peoples.
On the 2d it was estimated that eight
| thousand persons lost their lives by the
| recent earthquake shock at 1schia, in
Italy.
In British Columbia forest fires were
raging on the I'd. Three hundred and sixty
cars of giant powder We're ignited by fly
ing sparks at Onderdonk's mill, near Yale,
! blowing up the place and breaking win
dows for miles around. No one was killed
! although several were badly hurt.
| IN London, Eng, fund is being raised
| for the assistance of the family of the late
| Captain Webb.
The death is announced of Miss Spirlev
| Sears, teacher in the American Ladies'
| College at Panama, Cuba, of yellow fever.
| She had only recently arrived from New
| York.
| On the Mexican National Railway the
| telegraph operators struck on the I'd for
an increase of thirty dollars per month.
The movements of the trains were inter-
/ rupted.
| The London Daily Ne,rs correspondent
at Cape Town says O'Donnell, the muir
/ derer of Carey, the infOrmer, is an Ameri-
{ can citizen and native of Ohio.
IN the British House of Commons on the
81 it was stated that pleuro-pneumonia ex-
/ isted in the Eastern States of America, and
! the Government was unable to discrIml-
| nate in favor of the West.
| AT Melbourne, Australia, on the Sd three
| informers in the Phoenix Park murder
| trials were prohibit ed from landing from
| a steamer.
| THE killing of six persons and the wound
| ing of many others by recent explosion
| in powder-mill at Angouleime, France,
! is reported. The property damage is
! 1,0Oo, 900 francs.
| FExIANIsM is credited with an attempt
! on the 81 to blow up a linen factory at
! Cupar Fife, Scotland. A box of dynamite
| with lighted fuse attached was discov-
! cred in the building in time to eXtinguls sh
! the fuse before it reached the explosive.
PARIS was startled by a rumor on the
! 3D. that plot to restore the monarchy III
! France had been discovered.
| EARL GRANVILLE, the English Secretary
| of State for Foreign Affairs, has instructed
the British Minister to Morocco to make
| an earnest appeal to the Sultan of Morocco
| to consider whether it is not time to place
| his Empire on q level with the other civil
| lied powers by abolishing slavery.
| EDWARD Fox, Patrick Connolly and
! William Driskin were convicted at the
| Sligo (IrelandA asSizes the Sd of man.
| slaughter for participation in the killing
| of u bailiff attached to the estates of Lord
! Arlilaun. They were each sentenced to
twenty years Imprisonment.
WHILE drunk a few days ago, Jose Car
| don, of Rahones, Mexico, cut his wife to
! pieces.
! THERE were 1,59S deaths during the
twenty four hours ended on the 9th from
! cholera in Egypt, including $50 in Cairo.
FoRTY-NINE deaths from yeilow-fever oc-
Cured in Havana during the week ended
on the 4th.
In many sections of British Columbia
brush fires were raging on the 9TH, the
smoke being SO dense in some localities as
to hide the sun.
In Lincolnshire, Eng, on the 9th nine
persons were drowned by the upsctting of
a boat.
THE deaths from cholera in Egypt. ac.
cording to official returns on the 65h, num-
bered about one thousand daily, of which
more than half We're at Cairo, Ghizeh and
Boulak. Hundreds of wretched people
were without food, doctors or medicine.
! At Alexandria the scourge was spreading
rapidly, and business was suspended.
AFTER being five days without food on
watertyx American fl fishermen who strayed
from their vessel landed at Trepassy, n.
B., on the 9th
IT was stated on the 9th that one hun
dred persons We're killed or wounded dur
/ ing the recent riots at Ekatirinoslav, Rus
Sia.
THE Spanish Government on the Oh sup
pressed the outbreak of the soldiers at
Badajoz, in which seven hundred of the
troops proclaimed Republic, and were
Joined by a great number of citizens, and
the revolutionists fled to Portugal, where
they were disarmed and placed in Jail.
THIRTY THOUSAND persons were present
at a demonstration which took place on
the 9th in Trafalgar Square, London, Eng,
the object of which was TO protest against
the expulsion of BradlauSh from the
House of Commons.
AT Havana recently bank bills to the
amount of 100000 were burned in the
Spanish Bank in accordance with the law
of amortization, dated July I, 1882.