The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-20
FOREIGN FAGIS
EpitOme of Events Across the
Water.
DEATH ON TILE ALPS

EpitOme OF Events Across the
Water.
DEATH ON THE ALPS.
BERN, Sept. 17.-Dr. Stintging, an
eminent professor of jurisprudence in
the university at Bern, was killed
While climbing the Alps.
oDoNNELL'S ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND.
LONDON, Sept. 17.5Steamer Athe-
man. with O'Donnell, the murderer
OF Carey, on board, arrived off Ply
mouth to-day. A force of dete 4 YES
has left on tender to board the
Armenian. 1t is rumored that a gun
boat will be dispatched from Victuell-
ing yard to intercept the Athenian
and O'Donnell will be landed at the
navy yard. No suspicious persons
are as yet observed i'll this vicinity,
but extra precautions are being taken
by the authorities to prevent any at
tempt at rescue of the latter. O'Don-
nell will not be taken 20 Plymouth as
anticipated, but will he landed at
southampton. lie maintained an easy
demeanor and reiterated his former
statement, that in killing Carey he
only acted in self dcfenSc, and ex-
pressed himself confident of ac-
quittal.
THE TONQUiS BLOCKADE.
LONDON, Sept. 1.-THE Standards
Hong Kong dispatch says the severity
of the blockade of TonQuin has been
so far relaxed as to allow vessels to
proceed to their ports of destination,
after being searched for contraband
articles.
A great lack of harmony between
the French civil and military author
tiles in Tonquin is reported.
Marquis Tseng leaves London to-
day for Paris.
THE IRISH NATIONAL LEAGUE.
DUBLIN, Sept. 17.-There was a
mass meeting of the Irish national
league at Corrick, on Shannon, Sum
day at which there were over $1,000
persons present. Thomas Power
| O'Conner, a member of parliament for
Galway, delivered a stirring speech
in favor of home rule for Ireland.
The meeting adopted resolutions de-
CHARMS; that the Irish national league
will never cease its efforts until a
native Irish parliament is established.
A large meeting of the league was
also held at Mallow, at which VIM.
O'Brien, III. p. editor of the United
Ireland, made an address. He urged
his hearers to persevere in their deter
mination to win the independence of
Ireland from English domination, by
peaceful means if possible, but to
win it all hazards.
A BOLD NIHILIST.
ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. IL. - 1t is
stated that the czarina lately detected
one of the imperial chamberlalns in
the act of placing nihilistic docu-
ment in her apartment, and he, fear
ing the consequences, committed sui
eide. The authorities endeavored to
prevent the fact being made public.
TsENG DISAPPOINTED,
PARIS, Sept. II. = Waddington, the
French ambassador to Great Britain,
! has returned from a visit to Earl
Granville at Walmer Castle, England,
! where he met Tseng, the Chinese am
bassador. Washington, in an inter-
view with Prime Minister Ferry, yes
terday. expressed the disappointment
felt'by TSeng at the absence of any
French government for the settle
ment Of the Tonquin question.
AGAINST AUSTRIA.
PEsTHER, Sept. 15.-The Pesther
! Lloyd says all indications point to the
belief that the authors of the disor-
ders in Croatia are but pioneers of a
projected South Slovenian agitation
which is to be directed not against
Hungary alone, but against the Aus
trian empire generally.
THE CROATIEN TROUBLES.
AGRA0I, Sept. 15.-There is a con-
= tinual skirmishing between the mill
tary and peasantry on the southern
frontier of Croatia, but all is quiet in
Zagorien.
O'DONNELL.
LONDON, Sept. 15.-Probably the
police will board the steamer
Athenian upon her arrival off South
ampton, take o Donnell, the murderer
of James Carey ashore, and bring him
secretly to London.
LONDON, Sept. ID Lord Derby,
colonial secretary, forwarded a dis
patch to the Australian government
stating that the imperial government
deprecates the proposed scheme of an
neXation of the Pacific Islands tnthe
Australian colonies, and calls atten-
ton specifically to the case of the
islands of Samoa, where German,
British and American consuls have
sometimes exercised their influence
jointly or separately, and say the gov
ernments of Great Britain and Ger
many made treaties with Samoa
which, therefore, forms an indirect
state, and its annexation to Australia
might lead TO violation. In the dis
patch he declares the same to be true
, of other islands.
NOT SUBSTANTIATED.
ST. JOHNS, N. F., Sept. Is. = The
stories of DR.. PAWS death, by mutiny
in Greenlay' camp, and the murder of
the whole party by Mountain Indians,
are merely reports of Esquimaux and
not substantiated.
: The United States frigate Powhat-
tan arrived here to-day, being sevaR,
days from New York, and will crui
, around the Newfoundland coast al
investigate the causes of collision a
conflict between the United So
and Newfoundland fsherme
, No new developments in I'd, y
Graenlay's expedition.
Misrepresentation.
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