The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-03-06
Foreign Flashes.

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Panellites condemn dynamites, and say they
are Americans.
Montreal has sixty French Catholic churches
and the largest cathedral on the continent
| The betrothal of the Princess Elizabeth OF
Hesse with the Grand Duke Sergius of Russia
! is officially announced
| The government has descided to send cour-
teous dispatch to America relative to the action
| the dynamiters.
Martin Turner & Co., merchants of Glasgow
engaged in the East India trade, have failed.
Liabilities roughly estimated at between E4OO,
600 and E500, O0O.
The Spanish govern m ent prohibited meet
ing Of the republican press on March l, for the
F., purpose of endeavoring to harmonize and unity
the barbarous discordant factions of the re-
! publicane.
The United States government presses it's
claim against Spain for 1873 900 as balance of
awards due on account of American losses dur
ing the rebellion in Cuba, and also 100000
for estates embargood at the same period and
not restored to their American owners.
Ex-Collector Bradley, of the Emerson Mani
toba custom house, and under bond on the
charge Of embezzling $40, 600, died at Winnipeg
on the 18th at the residence of DR.. Codd. He was
taken seriously ill after his arrest and the matter
! proved so upon his mind that apoplexy put an
end to luis sufferings.
C. J. Watterberg kept hotel in Antwerp,
Belgium. His wife disappeared with some 49,
600 francs and $500 worth of diamonds.
Franz Wonters, a physician, disappeared at
| the same time. Watterberg traced the parties
to New York, and found them living together
| in apartments up town. They were arrested
| on a charge of bring ing stolen property into
| the country. Wonters was held in $50, 600 bail
Mrs. Watterberg was remanded.
The London Times, speaking Of the late Uni
ted States Minister Hunt, says: Mr.. Hunt was
Southerner, honest and sturdy, and of vcner-
! able presence He might well have sat to a
prominent head amongst the crowd of diplo-
matists present at the coronation at the Krem-
lin last May. Hospitality was nowhere moro
freely or graciously dispensed than at his ele-
CANT villa at Moscow, over which waved the
! stars and stripes.
Aterrible tragedy was enacted the 2Sth, in the
south of Franco. A gardner named Chavc, en-
ployed at a convent at Sarviane, near Marselles
was recently discharged for laziness. While
the Sisters were walking in the convent grounds,
and at the moment when they were in secluded
tho lady superior asked him kindly if he had
found work, and Chave, without replying,
drew a revolver and discharged six barrels Kill
ling the lady superior, and MORALLY wounding
one Of her companions. He then killed him
self.
Generals Schramnl and De Wimpffen are
dead The former entered the army in 1893
when only ten years ofage, before completing
his twenty-fourth year was brigadier general
De Wimpffen during the Franco Prussian war,
received an order on Aug. Is appointing him
commander in-c chief in case Marshal MacMahon
should be disabled. Ont Sept during the bat
tie of Sedan, hearing that MacMahon was wound
ed, he produced his commission and assumed
chief command. He at once reversed the Or
ders for capitnation, already given, still hoping
for victory The order directing retreat came
from the emperor, and n 2 from him.
Lord Randolph Churchill inquired whether
the government intended to ask further powers
| in regard to the dynamite tiends, and whether
they would ask permission to expel from Great
Britain persons suspected of having connec-
ton with recent discoveries of dynamite Sew
cral Parncllites strongly condemned the dyna-
! mite proceedings, and declared no excuse valid
for such attempts upon lifo and property
They declared conspiracies of this nature are
in no wise associated with the Irish cause,
but had been hatched in America, and attempts
to carry them out had been made by agents
sent from the United States.