River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-14
Nuggets of Foreign News.

| Schumacher, the anarchist murderer, was
! hanged at Vienna
| Miss Benedict of London is in training te
swim across the English channel
A French almanac predicts that Emperor
William and Gen. Moltke will die before Dec.
81.
Four earthquakes occurred at Frascste
Albaao and Costello Romani, few miles south
east of Rome.
A German gunboat is cruising in the North
sea for English fishing smacks, which recently
pillaged provision cutter from Bremen.
The porte has informed Earl Dufrerin, Brit
ish minister to Constantinople, that no restric-
tons will be placed on the passage OF Black
sea traffic through the Dardanelles.
In Brussels a mob hooted the Clericals and
Liberals yesterday as they were leaving the
chamber of deputies The police repeatedly
dispersed the mob and made several ar.
rests
Advices from South Africa report severe
engagement between the followers of Montsioa
and the Beers, in which the latter were defeat
ed. Many warriors were killed, including sew
eral Englishmen.
AT the Hague the duke of Nassau has issued
formal protest against the king of the Neither
lands declaration that the passage of the
Dutch regency law settles the question Of
succession to the duchy of Luxembourg.
The Russian government has issued circu-
lar to the principals of schools in Russia, hold
ing them responsible for any revolutionary
tendencies their scholars may have, and en-
joining them to maintain strict supervision
over their pupils, in order to extirpate the
slightest flavor of nihilistic sentiments.
Consul Campbell reports that one American
sewing machine firm sold 800 machines in
Monterey last year. Two stores imported
2,254 American plows, and American agricul-
tural implements have driven the English and
German goods out of the market About 160,-
coo gallons of American kerosene were sent to
Monterey in fourteen months and the price al
retail there is IS cents a a gallon.
The half yearly meeting of the Anglo-Amer-
lean Cable company was held to-day. Reports
showed falling off in receipts of els. 377 COM
pared with the first half of 1888 The chair
man remarked that the company were about to
meet another baleful competition, but it's prop
erty in good order The decrease in earn
ings was owing to depression in trade A mo-
ton was adopted setting apart Els, 900 for re-
newal fund.
In Mexico relations have been resumed with
England, the papers having just been signed.
The relations referred 70 are the relations dip
lomatc between England and Mexico, which
have been suspended since the fall of Maxi
milan 1t is understood that the settlement of
the English debt viz, certain national loans to
Mexico negotiated in England, then repudiat-
ed, is one of the conditions of resuming rela-
tons.
Santa Fe is considerably excited over an at
tempt to kidnap one of its most beautiful Span
lsh-American senoritas by the use of chloro-
form. The william entered the place where the
maiden was sleeping by scaling the wall and
passing over the fiat roof. When the drug had
benumed his victim he seized her in his arms
and was about to carry her off, but she fortu-
nately awoke and her struggles aroused the
family, when the william fed before he could be
captured
The United Ireland says regarding the YER
diets just gained in Belfast by Crown Solicitor
Bolton in the action brought by him against
the editors and proprietors of United Ireland:
''The end is not yet Lords Spencer and
Treveiyan would have sharedin the tTinmphs of
Cornwall and Bolton, If they had triumphed.
They must share also in their dismissal or find
deadlier weapons to silence United Ireland.
The grand jury yesterday, in presenting
the indictments against Cornwall and
companions, urged the Judge to pro-
hbit the publication of the evidence. The
judge said ne would do what he legally could,
and commended the request of the grand jury
TO the discretion and forbearance of the press.