The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-06-27
FOREIGN.
Siberian Prisons Filled with Dying
Exiles.
The Cholera Outbreak at Damietta.

LONDON, June ZO.--At session OF tn6 HSneT-
les conference last night Mr. Lowell United
States Minister presided. Professor Goode, of
the American Commission, read paper on
American fisheries, at che conclusion Of which
the Marquis of Exeter moved a vote Of thanks
TO the Professor.
Mr.. Lowell said he believed that without ma
tioDal vanity, he might say that the generous
grant by the United States Congress had
greatly encouraged the fisheries exhibition. The
scientific and practical character OF the Ameri-
can Department was acknowledged. The
American fisheries, he said, was mine OF
wealth and a nursery for ceamen, and were
protected rather by the people than by law.
What ParneII Proposes 10 DO.
LONDON, June 25.-Parnell, in a speech at
Monaghan, to-day, said IL was the object Of his
party to improve the land act that majori-
ty OF the tenants would get reduction Of 80
per cent. in rents.
A CarIist Organ Suspended.
MADRID, June 26.--The Carlist organ, Cabe-
ella, has been lonf 5nced to suspension OF pub.
ication for forty weeks, for publishing libel
against the Queen
Tho Arnnaite War.
HoNa KoNG June 26.--Ihe hottie Anpa-
mites are intrenched 25 miles from Hannoi, are
well armed and confident. 1t is belieyeds that
the French will make an attack as soon as they
receive reinforcemenil, which are expected
daily.
among the London newspapers and in the Eu
ropean centres that the difficulty between
France and China will be settled amicably.
Siberian Exiles Dying OF Diphtberia.
ST. PETERSBURG, June 26.-Two thou sand
political and ordinary pric0ners have arrived at
Tomsk by steamers on which typhoid diphthe-
ria shas been raging. The prisons at Tomsk
are full Of dying men.
Industrial and Art Exhibition.
Iun In Ana Car in
dustrial and art exhibition will be held here in
1896
Prince Bismarck is suffering from severe
pains in his side
The Result of American Competition.
LONDON, June 26.-It is reported that the
Of advice3 received from the government rela-
tive TO American competition, has lowered its
rate for the carriage Of grain from Delhi ID
Bombay, to "a shillings per ton.
Ravages Of Cholera at Danietta.
DAMErTA, June 26.-Of ~ deaths which oc-
Cured here yesterday, 2S were known to be
from cholera. and the rest, it Ia suspected were
| from the same malady.
/. Atrocities in Africa.
Intelligence has been received from Sierra
| Leone that the recent British operations
against Chief Ghpowe were attended with
great atrocities on the part of the native al
lies, who butchered and mntilated all the
men killed during the attack upon the main
| fort which was captured. Eighty-two Of the
enemy were killed by single shell.
Colliery Explosion-Loss OF Life.
LONDON, June 26.-A despatch from Cardiff
states that an explc ion ha1 occurred in col
| liery near there, by which two persons were
| killed and twelve injured.
Earl Spencer Ds6fecaees-E2rced Emigra-
ton.
Tnrr.Rr - =. =
Lieutenant, replying TO an address preSented
10 him at Limerick spoke in depreciation Of
/ forced emigration. He said he believed care
full aid to emigrants having prospect OF sue
cess abroad was beneficial both to them and to
the districts which they leave. He regretted
the necessity for the passage of the crimes act
which was distasteful both to Parliament and
to ths government but he said he abhorred the
crimes which had rendered il necessary In
conclusion Earl Spencer said be rejoiced that
greater re5pect was now paid 10 law and order
throughout the land.
Violent Thunder Storm in England.
LONDON, June pa violent thunler storm
prevailed throughout various sections of Eng
land yesterday. -Four Eoldiers are reported
killed by lightning at Chatham.
Fears Of a Rice FAMINE.
Fears are entertained at Sonarobaga and
Rembang, Java, of rice famine. Disease has
destroyed 1000 acres Of the crop.
Ott0y bAc AIlOEiuCIs
In the House Of Commons this afternoon
Mr. Porter, Attorney General for ireland,
stated that James Carey, the iDformer, had
not yet been pardoned, bat the subject was be-
ing considered by the government. II Carey
should be pardoned, he said, the executive
clemency would certainly be coupled with con-
ditious.
The Alleged Passover Murder.
The development OF further scandals at the
trial at Nyreghhaza, Hungary, of the Jews
charged with numbering a Christian girl, has
given rise TO the belief that the prosecution
viii have to be abandoned. Several Jewish
had either been threatened at the preliminary
inquiry or that statements which they
had never made had been inserted
in their dispositions. 1t has been elected
that the girl said to have been murder
ed had quarreled with her mistress a short
time before she Disappeared and that the
friends Of the girl, when they missed her,
The employer Of a sister of Esther Salomo-sy,
the dead girl, to-day testified that he met
Esther an hour after the murder is alleged to
have occurred. A magistrates clerk deposed
that the magistrate who examined Moritz
Scharf threatened Moritz with lifelong inn
priConment If he did not confess, and told him
his father had confessed, thus inducing Moritz
to make the statement that he saw the murder
committed in the synagogue.
Foreign Notes.
A st. Petersburg dispatch says several per
sous were killed during the progress OF the fire
| Monday, In the warehouses on Gutujewsky
| Island.
A Mahommedan attempted to murder the
| Mayor of Errsm, but was frustrated. He as
| serts that he was hired 10 commit the deed by
enemie Of Russia.