Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-08-23
FOREIGN


the scourge prevailing there is not
Asiatic cholera.
Great damage is caused to crops in
Egypt by overflow of the Nile, and the
harvest Is threatened.
The pope has instructed Spanish
bishops TO have nothing to do with the
outbreak in that country.
Gorilla is still melting instruction in
Spain. He is said to have been plan
ming operations for six years.
According TO the Irish Times the New |
South Wales government will protect |
the Phoenix Park murder informers who |
have landed there.
Canon Bernard, charged with alb
stracting valuable papers and securities
from the Episcopal palace at Tourney,
Belgium, has been released.
Forty two of the riotous workmen at
Vienna who rebelled against the police
seizure of the workmen's paper were
arrested and II were wounded in the
charge of officers dispensing the crowd.
Star music hall at Sunderland, Eng
land, caught fire the other night while
an audience of l 800 was within. The
hall was cleared in four minutes and
there was no panic. In half an hour
after the outbreak the roof fell in.
The revolt among the Spanish garri-
son at SEQ de Urgel, led by q lieutenant
colonel, causes some uneasiness among
the Kings loyal subjects The Military
Governor was expelled by the rebels,
but the ministerial papers declare that
the insurgents fled on the arrival of
loyal troops. AT Barcelona mob of
workmen cheered for the republic and
martial law was proclaimed. 1t is re-
ported that the garrisons at Valencia
| and Lerida have revolted and there are
fears of an uprising in other places.
The King and Queen are safe at Madrid.
| They were waited upon the otEer day
by several delegations with assurances
of loyalty.
Yellow fever is raging frightfully at
Havana.
Austria, Germany and Turkey are
negotiating fol the annexation of Bos-
mia and Herzegovina to Austria.
Germany will send scientific expedi-
ton to Egypt to investigate into the
origin and nature of the scourge. that
has carried off so many thousands of
the Egyptians.
| The varnish and japan mandatory
OF Noble IL Hoare, London, Eng, burn
ed the other day ut loss of many Lur-
dreds Of thousands of dollars. At one
time it was feared that wholesale con-
Migration vas imminent, but the COM
bined efforts of so engines stayed the
progress of the flames
Meddler's in the dynamite policy have
received wholesome warning in the
conviction of the four men in Liverpool
who it is believed were under DIR. Gal
lagher's orders. They have received a
similar punishment to his own. Their
arrest, and more recently that of Nc
Dermoit, encourage the opinion that the
English Government possesses an !nti-
mate knowledge of the details of the
dynamite faction in the United States.
An earthquake is reported from Ka.
hola, Hawaii; no damage.
The river Nile is falling. There are
no longer fears of flood.
The leaders of the revolt at Badaios,
Spain, who took refuge in Portugal,
have been sent to Cherbourg, France.
A private insane asulum in Eating,
MiddleseX county, Eng, was burned the
other day. Five of the inmates perish.
ed.
A shipper of cattle has contracted
with the Allan line for taking across
the ocean 10000 head of cattle via Mon.
| mr. se, Fol
Gen. Iglesias of Peru, has issued q
decree that all Peruvians between the
ages of q and GO and all foreigners ov-
er l year old must pay poll tax.
1t is stated that China has ordered
two large iron clads to be built at Kiel.
Anti-semitic riots are reported at Oh.
denburg, Germany, where the mob was
charged by cavalry and eighty-nine per-
sons arrested.
The commercial treaty between Mex.
leo and Germany has been ratified
Germany is to pay no taxes not levied
on Mexicans, TO be exempt from military
, service and contributions i'm lieu there.
of, and from forced loans.
Indications eff another earthquake on
the island of Ischia. The terror-strick.
en- inhabitants are leaving the island.
Twelve men were killed by being
dropped from near the surface IN the
bottom of the shaft of q mine in Corn.
wall, England.
Angry depositors attacked London
Eng, savings bank, because they were
not allowed to draw their money on de.
mand.
Arrests of students in Russia occur
daily. The authorities in charge OF
gymnasia and secondary schools arc
urged to enforce stricter discipline and
to seek the aid of the police if neces.
sary, to the end that seditious principles
and publications may be stiflled and sup,
pressed.
Jewish manufacturers i'm Russia are
prohibited from employing Christian
workmen.
| 1t is stated on good authority that
China will fight France rather than
lyield her sovereignty over Aunam.
1t is proposed to raise fund ut Dub.
lin, to supplement the government
grant, in aid of emigration from Ireland.
1t is rumorel in Spain that French
capitalists raised 100000 francs to cor
rupt the Spanish army and incite re-
bellion.
A strike of the weavers in the Ash
ton-on-Tyne district, Eng, throws TO-
900 persons out of work.
The commons has adopted the pro-
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