The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1883-10-13
FOREIGN NEIYS GOSSIP.

completely severed at the hips.
FOREIGN VIEWS GOSSIP.
A correspondent at Hong Kong cables the
following: I have just returned from Can
ton. Affairs there are in a very critical con-
dition. The populace is greatly excited
over the result of the Logan trial. Com
muniCatiOns between the English Quarter il
entirely cut off. Incendiary placards are
posted on the walls of the vICeroy's palace
daily, and are torn down by tie police,
They proclaim that should the French
fleet threaten an attack the mob first of all,
will Kill all foreigners and destroy their
property. The mob is ripe for rebellion
Mandarins of the highest rank are ipsulted
n spit upon while going through the city.
Troops are being drawn from OUTLYING
posts TO guard the palace OF the ~vicerov,
The foreign quarter is safe, being unde. tie
cover of six %gunboats, Including the United
States steamer Palos. Even in Hong Kong
precautions have been adopted. Arms for
volunteers have been deposited in two
banks and the night patrols have been in
creased.
! No fewer than 2, 200 trains leave the sta
tons of London every twenty. four hours.
Every hour between ten in the morning
and II atnight, 1000 trains start for the va
rious railway termini in L~ondon-that
is, at the rate of 120 and more every hour,
or two a minute, all day long, not includ-
ing the trains on the Metropolitan aud
Metropolitan District. OF the 1900 trains
dispatched daily, !, $50 serve on the suburbs
and q suburban region of thirty miles
around the city. Fifteen leave for Scot
land andttreland and sixteen for the CONT
nent,
Excitement prevailed at Montreal, re.
Gently among fnanciers, on its leaking out
that Thomas Craig, president and general
manager of the suspended Exchange bank.
made himself advances to a large amount
The definite sum net being positively
known outside of official circles, but esti-
mated from $150,000 to $3.50, 600. He as
serts his liabilities are covered by security,
but the money was appropriated to his
wi use without the knowledge of some of
the directors, if net all
Col. King Harmon, M. P. for County
Dublin, and Lord Arthur Hill, NJ. P. for
County Down, laid the foundation stone of
a new Orange hall at Belfast, Ireland, re-
Gently. a number of 0rangemen assem-
bled to witness the ceremonies. It was the
lniSCSL COhSICkhblOu tSI LNtubY wears. Du-
ring the proceedings the stand COLLAPSED
and several persons were seriously injured.
Advices from Madagascar state that Ma
kobo, commander of the Havas forces, has
offered rewards for the slaughter of the cap
tain of any French man-oEWar which shall
wreck and burn any vessel. The same adj
vices report the French garrisons at
TamatiVe and Msjunga virtually block
AIDED.
A reward Of 9100 is offered for the arrest
OF Gen. Warden, secretary of the London &
River Plate bank, who absconded. The
bank loses from ESQ, 600 to E10O, 600 by bis
defalcations, but its surplus is supposed to
cover all losses. Warden was also manager
OF the bank.
Bradlaugh has addressed letter to Sir
Stafford Northcote. in which he declares be
viii again demand his seat in the house of
commons on the reassembling OF parliament
and charges Northcote with causing all the
mischief that has grown out of the contin.
ued violation of his (Bradlaugh's) rights.
The Journal de 81. Petersburg denies the
report published that several Russian of
ficers had been arrested for completely in a
nlhllist plot. n that q large depot had
been discovered containing arms, gunpow-
der. dynamite booms and printing apparatus.
British merchants engaged in trading
with Madagascar are forwarding to Lori
Granville, secretary of state for foreign aE
fairs, claims sgainst France for damages
because their goods are not allowed to be
landed.
Value OF exports for the Ottawa district to
the United States for the quarter ended
Sept. 80 is 81, 041, 713 an increase of s14. OOC
J over the corresponding period last year.
Sawed lamber alone reached 1886, $50.
The Parnell fund committee has received
the draft for 81 ,6s2 from Dennis 0sConnos
Of Chicago. The fund will close at the end
: Of December. Its expected it will reach
f40, 600.
The Austrian and Hungarian DELEGATIONS
are convoked Tor the 23dinst. The iuris-
diction OF the delegation is limited 10 for.
eign affairs and war.
Suze q Sibeth, East EIndian and West
Indian merchants, London, have failed. Ii.
abilities, ESQ, 900.
The German government has prohibited
the importation Of swine from Russia into
Germany.
A dispatch says negotiations between
france ana China are virtually suspended.
PERSONAL MENTION
Judge F.s. Gibson, of Fond du Lac. wis,
was gone to Washington t~oargue before the
supreme court of the United States a rase