The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02
FOREIGN FACTS.
THE wATER TRICYCIIsT.

THE WATER TRICYCLIST.
LONDON, July 29.-Tesy, the mai
who left Dover at 8 o'clock yesterda,
morning on a floating tricycle.. witt
the intention of crossing the Englisl
channel, arrived safely at Calais at
O'Clock yesterday afternoon.
DEAD COUNT.
LONDON, July 29.-Count DE Per
sac, eX-admiral in the navy, is dead
age IS.
NINE EXPLOSION.
CURED in the mine at Caltaninetta
Sicily. Thirty-tive miners out OF
seventy were killed.
THE CHOLERA PLAGUE.
ALEXANDRIA, July 29.-TwO chol
era deaths to-day.
A RUSSIAN FIRE.
ST. PETERSBURG, July 3O.-One
hundred and eighty houses have been
destroyed by fire in the town Semenov
in the government of Nizhnee Nova
gorod.
LONDON, July 30.-The Standards
correspondent at Hong Kong says the
success of the rec ent sortie of the
French in TOnquin was due to the
fact that half the garrison was Sc
cretly conveyed in junks and took the
enemy in the rear by surprise. The
Chinese still persist in maintaining
prohibition of expectation of cattle
for the French forces. A French
squadron will shortly make demon
stration on the Chinese coast.
CHINA AND FRANCE.
LONDON. July 30.-The Standards
correspondent at Vienna learns that
China proposed to Tri8cou, French
minister, that negotiations be opened
for formal treaty, and France Ieadi-
ly agreed to the proposal.
ALEXANDRIA, July 30-AnalysiS
has been made of the water of the
Nile, which shows that it is infected
with putrid matter to above the cata-
racts.
AMERICAN PORK.
BREMEN, July 30.-The senate has
issued an order to all captains of YES
sells arriving from America with
picked pork as part of cargo to noti-
fly the custom authorities of the
quantity they have ON board, under
pain of three hundred marks fine for
neglect to do so.
IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
LONDON, July 30.-In the house of
commons Mr.. Gladstone said that be-
fore action was taken on second SueZ
canal, the house should have an OPP
portunity of expressing its opinion on
the subject. The government, he
said, desired merchants and shippers
to have ample time to consider mat
tiers, and does not intend an early re-
newal of negotiations. as it is hopeless
to consider the question fairly so long
as it is entongled in politics.
Northcote moved an address to the
queen, praying that in any negotia-
ton relative to the Suez canal she
will decline to recognize any claim of
the Suez canal company to such mo-
nOpoly as would exclude other under
takings designed for the purpose of
opening way between the Mediter-
ranean and Red seas. The motion
was received by the Tory members
with loud cheers. Northcote begged for
calm discussion of the motion, which
he said was not of party character.
He wished to do nothing to discredit
the government. He only asked the
house to express such opinion as
would relieve them from the embar-
rassment arising from practical rec
ognition of monopoly of the SueZ
canal company by some members OF
the government.
Norwood, Liberal offered an amend
ment declaring it undesirable to pref
udice the action of the government t,
and that the house decline to pass
resolutions concerning further nego-
tiations or proceedings in connection
with the canal.
Gladstone, amid great applause, cor
daily supported NorWood's amend
ment.
Dodson said the government would
consider the subject of cattle disease
next session, and was now receiving,
he said, definite reports concerning it
from the American government and
from British consuls abroad.
CAREY, THE INFORMER, SLAIN.
LONDON, July 20.-Intelligence is
just received here that James Carey,
the infOrmer of the Phoenix Park MUIR
der cases, was shot dead yesterday on
the steamer Melrose, while she was be-
tween Cape Town and Port Elizabeth.
The deed was committed by fellow
passenger, named O'Donnell.
LONDON, July 30.-Later advices
about the killing of Carey show he
was shot while landing from the Mel
rose at Port Elizabeth. O'Donnell, his
slayer, is in custody. The govern
ment had taken special and expensive
measures to protect Carey.
O'Donnell took passage here by
the steamship kinspauns Castle,
which left Dartmouth on the 9th for
Cape Town, where she transferred her
passengers who were destined for
Port Elizabeth, Natal and other coast
ports, to the steamship Melrose. The
report of the shooting of Carey caused
intense excitement in West End, Lon
don and in the house of commons,
THE CHOLERA IN ALEXANDRIA.
ALEXANDRIA, July 80. = Four
deaths from cholera occurred here
yesterday.
THE RED FLAG.
GENEVA, July 30.-At a meeting OF
socialist workmen violent speeches
were made, summoning the state
to provide employment for workmen
The assembly afterwards proceeded
to the town hall, but the officials re
fused to receive the deputation
whereupon the leader of the process.
sion unfurled the red flag. He and
several others were arrested.