The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-07-07
FOREIGN
Disastrous Floods in India.
Count de ChambOrd's Condition Less
Favorable.
The Assisted" Hmigrant Question
Again in Parliament.

LoNDoN, July 6.--The American rifle team
have been offered the use of tents during their
stay At Wimbledon, but they have declined
the offer saying that they would prefer to take
private lodgings.
Floods in India.
CALCUTTA, July 6.--Heavy floods have pre-
vailed IN Surat, causing gseat damage to prop
erty and some loss Of life. The waters are now
subsiding. Traffic on the railways is inter-
rupted.
Five hundred houses have fallen at gurat
Many villages arc destroyed bp floods and
thousands OF people are homeless.
British Troops In India Attacked by
Natives-50 ofthe Latter Killed
Five hundred members OF q tribe OF natives
attacked detachment OF British troops which
had been sent to chastise refractory village in
Assam The natives were repulsed with loss
OF 90 killed. The British sustained no loss.
A New French Acquisition.
SYDNEY, N. s. W., July GA French man
of-wat iias hoisted the French flag on the New
Hebrides Islands,
The Condition of Count dc Chambord
Less Favorable.
VIENNA, July 6.-The secretary OF Count de
Chamhord has conveyed to Count de Paris the
thanksof the sick prince for coming 10 Vienna.
The secretary added that since the physicians
consultation yesterday the condition of de
Chambord is less favorable and that vomiting
was renewed during the night.
PARIS, July 6.--Count do Chambord yester-
day received the last sacrament, retaining per-
feet callnness throughout the ceremony. To-
day he was able to take a few spoonfuls OF
soup and wine and TO address few words TO
his encourage The Count has invited the
Dacs de Nemours and ID 'Alencon and Compte
dc Paris TO Frohersdorif.
Proceedings in Parliament.
LONDON, July 6.--Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice
said the government had not been informed
that the French flag had been
hoisted on New Hebrides Islands. He
stated that there was no cholera
Ia either tue Egyptian or Eogish army in
Egypt
Treyelyan, Chief Secretary for ireland, said
he had been informed that of a thousand i'm
migrants who had gone TO America, only two
families had been inmates OF the workhonse at
BelmuieI, from which section they came, and
they had received money on landing and were
doing we'll. He was not aware OF The grounds
ou which the United States had returned the
emlgrants, bat he supposed they thought that
those returned we're not desirable settlers.
LONDON, July 6.-Lord Edmund Fitzmau-
rice, III replying to a question in the Commons
this afternoon, stated there was every reason
TO suppose the death in Alexandria to-day, said
TO have been OF cholera, was not from that
disease.
Gladstone, in replying TO Bourke, said the
Count dc Lesseps' son came TO London because
personal communication touching the SueZ
Canal affair was desirable. He hoped the
agreement already reached would lead to a
settlement.
House of Commons tonight by vote I30 to
ia rejected the motion made by Hugh Mason,
advanced LIBERAL member for Ashton-under-
Tyne, in favor of female suffrage. The motion
was supported by Mr.. Leonard II. Courtney,
financial secretary to the treasury, and was
strongly opposed b Sir Henry James, attorney
general.
The Staffordshire Strikers
LONDON, July 6.-rhe striking iron workers
Of Wednesday,, III the county OF StaHordsuire,
entered the foundry last night, damaged the
machinery and forced tho employees TO quit
work.
Riotous Italian Strikers.
MARsEiLLEs, july 6.--Four hundred Italians
employed in an oil factory At Marseiilss, struck
work yesterday, and endeavored TO wreck the
factory. They we're dispersed by force of pc
.icemen who charged them with drawn swords.
u is feared That there viii bs renewal Of rial-
ing by strikers