River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-05-01
Nuggets of Foreign News.

AtTrenton Falls, Ont The Crandall house
and sixteen other buildings were burned
Loss, $50, 900; insurance, $4,000
Prince Leopold was refused by Miss Barring,
Lady Ashburtons daughter, whose coming mar
riage was announced the day he died.
The pope will hold consistory about the
end of June, when he will create several car
dinals Eleven hats await disposition
London Truth says that Sam Ward is recov-
ering from an attack of fever at Rome. Eff
forts TO induce him and his nephew to join the
Catholic church failed.
Prof Theodore Mommsen, who has been a
prominent member of the Reichstag, declines
seeking reelection to that body. His present
action is taken because of his aversion to pub
lie disputes with the government.
Sir Edward Watkin, NJ p, offers e, 600
toward the rescue OF Gen. Gordon. He asks
the London Papers to open fund for this
purpose. He says: ''Two hundred thousand
pounds would be collected in few days"
Official kilograms received by Mr.. Baize,
consul general of Guatemala, state that the at
tempt on the life of President Barrios has no
political significance. The assassin, Mr.. Baiz
thinks, is some crank initiating Booth and
Guiteau
In Dublin the jury returned verdict that
Elliott, Swords, Byrne and Fitzpatrick were
guilty of the murder of Mrs. Smythe The
Judge concurred, and sentenced each to ten
years penal servitude Swords and Elliott
protested innocence
The Anglo French commission, to regulate
the Newfoundland fisheries, has terminated its
labors. France renounces the right to fishing
in certain bays of the island, but will exercise
strict supervision over places where former
treaties empowered French subjects to fish.
The Dublin police regard the ominous notices,
purporting to emanate from the lnvlnclbles,
which were found i'll various parts of the city,
as a hoax The purpose of this they believe,
was to stimulate contributions of money from
America, which of late have been seriously
falling off.
Minister James Russell Lowell presided
Thursday evening, the 25th, over the annual
glorification of the Robert Browning cult,
known as the meeting of the Browning society,
which organized in October, 1881. The attend
ance was large and included most of the literary
men now in London.
Bishop Whipple says he was standing in
rapt silence in Yorkminster overcome by the
grand interior, when he was approached by a
typical countryman, who exclaimed: wall,
stranger, there's one thing purity sartin, the
men who put up this here didn't build stun
for their God, did they?"
The arrest of Pat Fitzgerald, the alleged
Fenian in London, was made the subject of a
discussion in the commons ON Thursday, the
9th. William OBrien called attention to ''this
hugger-mugger system" of secret societies and
secret inquiry. Sexton condemned private ex-
animation. Harcourt, home secretary, repu-
dated the charges of inhumanity brought
against Trevalyan.
The English government has sent an invita-
ton to proposed conference regarding Egypt
ian affairs to all the powers which signed the
treaty of Berlin 1t estimates that Egypt Is
now in need of a fresh loan of $s,000,0O0 i'll
order to meet the most pressing requirements
on it, and points out the difficulty of devising
a guarantee for such loan, inasmuch as all
the recources of Egypt are already pledged.
1t proposes no solution of the difficulty, but to
consider the question
Prince Bismarck is preparing a radical re-
vision of the constitution of the empire He
proposes to amend the election law, making a
new classification of electors. He will impose
upon deputies of the reichstag oath of tideli-
ty to the constitution. If the reichstag rejects
! these charges the German princes will be con
! voked in accordance with the terms of the
present constitution to frame a new constitu-
| ton embodying Prince Bsmarck's IDEAS