The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-15
Foreign Intelligence.


ADvIcEs of the 9th from London state
that General Hicks forces had defeated
the False Prophets followers in the Sou
dan, killing five hundred Arabs. The Gen
eral's loss was only two killed.
A DECISION was rendered in an alimony
ease at Toronto the other day that divorces
granted in the United States are not valid
in Canada.
PREPARATIONS for war with China were
being pushed by France on the 9th. Three
corps of troops and a feet of war vessels
were ready to proceed to Tonquin.
MAHMoUD SAM and Suleiman Daoud, the
leaders in the firing Of Alexandria during
the bombardment by the British feet were
on the It'll sentenced to death, and eighteen
officers charged with completely in the
crime were condemned to Imprisonment for
various terms.
IT is stated that strong feeling exists
among the Irish population of Canada
against the appointment of Lansdowne
as Governor General, they asserting that
his bearing in Parliament has always been
inimical to Ireland's interests.
In the House of Commons few days
ago Lord Randolph Churchill made bit
ter attack on the Gladstone Ministry for
its course in the late war in Egypt.
GENERAL WALLACE, the United States
Minister at Constantinople, was notified
recently by the Sublime Porte that when
the commercial treaty between Turkey and
the United States expired in March next,
the Importation of all American meats,
lard and similar products would be pro-
hibited.
THE roof of phosphate-mine at West
Templeton, Ont, caved in few days ago,
killing one man and fatally injuring four
others.
WHILE on the march recently three hun
bred Turkish troops were massacred near
Spikeanik, Albania, by Hollis The Turks
and Castratis engaged in battle near Al
bania, and thirteen hundred of the former
and five hundred Of the latter were slain.
AT Kilmainham Jail, in Dublin, on the
9th Timothy Kelly was hanged, being the
fifth man executed for completely in the
Phoenix Park murders, and the last of the
group sentenced to death.
THERE were eighty-one deaths from vel
low fever at Havana, Cuba, during the
month of May, and the disease was stead
lily increasing.
ON the 9th Sulieman Daoud was executed
at Alexandra, Egypt, for assisting in the
riots and burning the city after the British
bombardment.
L. s. CHAMBERLAIN, lately private secre-
tary to James Gordon Bennett, will COM
mence the publication of an American daily
! paper in Paris, July l.
A RECENT fire destroyed the Gayety
Theater at Manchester, England.
The failure is announced of Bidgood,
Jones & Wilson, wooden warehousemen, az
London, for $4,000.
LONDON advices of the 9th say that the
recent powder-magazine explosion at
Scutari, Turkey, killed seventeen persons
and wounded sixty-five.
| ON the 9th six hundred "assistedo immi-
grants left Galway, Ireland, for the United
States.
A FEW days ago Helen Markovich, who
attempted to shoot King Milan in the Ca
thedral at Belgrade, Servia, October last,
was found dead in prison. She was sup
posed to have committed suicide. ,
AT Birmingham, Eng, the celebration of
the twenty-five years of public service by
John Bright began on the 18th. The pro-
cession that met Mr.. Bright at the railway
station was five miles long.
The dynamite conspirators of Birming-
ham, Glasgow and London were placed on
trial at the latter place on the 11th, when
the informer Lynch, alias Norman, gave
his evidence.
In the House of Lords on the 18th the
bill legalizing marriage with a deceased
wife's sister was passed on second read.
ing, the vote being 165 to 15S
A MAIL-CARRIER and four passengers
were crossing Vernon Lake, at Huntsville,
Ont, few days ago, when the boat
swamped, and the mail-carrier and lady
were drowned.