The Portland daily press., 1884-07-29
THE OLD WORLD.
News by Gable From Different
Countries.
FIRE xN A TOWN
IN ASIA MINOR.
France Advised to Form an Alliance
with Germany.
REPORT OF THE DEATH OF Os
MAN DEGNA.

PARIS, July 2S.-The Figaro has a bitter
article against England. lie declares that
England has never helped but always
thwarted France. Her friendship is false and
the alliance with her hollow. The Figaro ad-
vises France to abandon her relations with
England and give mp her prejudices and ha-
tired and make an alliance with Germany.
Germany was an honest enemy and she would
be an honest ally.
Celebrated Case.
LONDON, July 28.-The tr al of the action
for damages brought by Mrs. Weldon against
Mr.. Simple, medical man, who had signed
the certificate for her secIusion as ''person of
unsonnd mind and fit subject Tor treatment"
under which an attempt was made to take her
to lunatie asylum, was concluded t1day, A
verdict III favor OF Mrs. Weldon for $1,000 was
rendered. The trial took place before Mr..
Justice Hawkins of the Court OF Queens
Bench and Common Jury. The defendant
represented by able counsel but Mrs.
Weldon conducted her own case. The trial
attracted much attention and the court room
was thronged with people during its progress.
Big OOnAagratiOn.
Today at Marash, town of Asia Minor,
1000 shops, 200 houses, four hotels, three
mosques aud the municipal palace we're de.
stroyed by fire,
I'm the Commons.
LONDON, July 28.-Gladssone stated this
evening in the House of Commons that an inn
portant 20 MT rose in the conference today
which the delegates thought necessary to re-
fer to their Home governments and they would
ask for an immediate reply and expected to re-
Csive this tomorrow when a conclusion will
he speedily arrived at. All the delegates were
anxious to press the matter to a settlement.
A. E. Ashley, under secretary for the colon
ial department stated Tat the government
was ready to confirm the Queens land scheme
for confederation of Austrian colonies, annex
alton of New Guinea and other Pacific islands
as soon as the colonies shall have finally de-
termiled upon the necessary steps to accom-
plsh this
To Aid the Nationalist Cause.
At meeting of the Irish members of Parlia-
ment yesterday, it was decided to send Messrs.
Sexton and w. Redmond on a special mission
to America for the purpose OF reviving the in
terest in the national cause and raise funds to
enable the Nationalist to run 80 candidates at
the next general election.
Egypt's Affairs.
CAIRO, July 2S-The inhabitants of Dom
COLA, through the Mudir, have sent despatch
to the General commanding at Assouan de-
clarlng loyalty and expressing regret for
wayering in the past The telegram is Ie-
garded as additional proof that the Mahdi's
influence is waning.
An Arab tracer, who has arrived at Assouan
from Anne r, which place he left on the 20th
inst, says it was reported there that Osman
Digna was killed on the 18th inst. by a men,
Der of the Bishareen tribe, whose nephew
Osman stabbed because he Iefused to join the
rebels.
A despatch to the Daily Telegraph from
Suakin says: ga friendly tribe on the main
land near Agiz has been massaared. Seven
teen thousand rebels are around Suakin and
make nightly attacks upon the town, coming
within short range of the garrison. Sailors
and marines landed but the rebels fearlessy
danced and waved their spears in broad day
light within TWO miles of the fort.
Lord Randolph ChurchiIl 20 Resign.
LONDON, July 28.-Lord Randolph Churchill
bias determined for the sake of unity to retire
from the craftsmanship of the Conservative
Union and will nominate the Rt. Hon. Sir
Michael Edward Hicks Beach as his successor.
Parliament 90 be PrOrOgued August o.
Parliament will be prorogued August 9th,
and will be reopened October %.
Gable Notes.
Henry NJ. Stanley, the African explorer, ar
rived at Plymouth last evening.