The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-04-29
THE OLD WORLD.
News by Gable From Different
Countries.
Mmssulman Agitation in Caucasus.

Mussulman Agitation i'm Caucasus.
Moscow, April 2S.-The Moscow Gazette
states that an important Mussulman agitation
is in. progress in Caucasus, when Mollahs are
preaching assassination of Christians.
sale of Race Horses.
LONDON, April 28.-At the sale of Lord Fal-
mouths race horses to-day, Sir John Will
loughby bought the three year old brown colt
Harvester for G8600. The three year old bay
ton for $500. The total amount realized at
the sale was e38,272.
Matters i'm Berlin.
BERLIN, April 28-All the federal princes
have agreed that if the Reichstag rejects the
measure prolonging the anti-Soc ialist law the
dissolution of that body shall ensue.
New Schemes for Attack Upon England.
LONDON, April ga despatch from Paris
to the Standard says: An Irishman states
that an emissary of the Clan Ma Gael has
arrived in Paris from New York to buy a
cruiser provided with torpedoes. lyman is
expected in Paris shortly, where he and
OCafferty will direct the dynamite and dag
ger campaign. An acting agent of the new
party, which aims to unite all patriotic Irish
men, says that the party has already consider
able funds with which to begin campaign
with cruisers provided with torpedoes. Re-
volving guns will protect the crews II attacked.
These vessels will be employed against British
10y
in London that behind him was a force before
which England would one day tremble. "There
are," said lyman, "men of high position and
social and intellectual distinction among the
Invincibles. I defy the English government
and its hirelings."
The Spanish Railway Disaster-3S Bodies
RecOvered-5O Soldiers Missing.
MADRID, April 27.-The loss of life in yes
terday's railway disaster near Ciudad Real
proves to have been much greater than was
first reported. Thirty-eight corpses have so
far been recovered from the wreck in the
river. Fifty soldiers are missing. 1t is be-
lieved that the weakening of the bridge,
which led to the collapse, was the work Of
Republicans.
The Spanish Elections.
MADRID, April 2S.-The elections for men,
bers of the Cortes have begun. Six Govern
ment candidates have been returned for Ma
drid, including Premier Canovas del Castillo,
Senior Romeroy Robledo, Minister OF the Int
rior, and the Marquis de la Vega de Armijo,
ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Buried I'm Failing Barracks.
LONDON, April 28.-The new cavalry bar
racks in process of erection at Portsmouth
suddenly fell this morning. The workmen, all
of whom were eonvicts, were buried in the
ruins. Thirty convicts were injured.
Gable Notes.
A revolutionary agitation has been started
on the Spanish frontier. The customs Office at
Valcarlos in the province of Navarro has been
destroyed by the insurgents.
Steamer Assyrien, bound for Madagascar
with provisions for the French forces, has been
wrecked at Providence Island in the Indian
Ocean.
A st. Petersburg despatch states that Prin-
cess Elizabeth of SAKE Altenburg was mar.
ried Sunday to the Grand Duke Constantine.
The ceremony was performed at the white
palace amid great pomp.
Major Filden writes to the London Standard
protesting against that journals giving cur
rency to the rumor that the Greedy party had
mutinied and had murdered their commander