Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-05-22
FOREIGN

Sumed.
FOREIGN
Three hundred Irish emigrants will arrive
soon.
The Franco-Chinese treaty has been
signed.
Gladstone was Kissed by the people at the
Health Exhibition.
Two messengers from Suakim, with mes
sages for Gen. Gordon, have been captured.
The steamer Thetis, of the Greedy relief
expedition, arrived at st. Johns, N. F., May
Ell Mahdi has ordered Osman Digna
to take Dongola and march into Upper
Egypt.
Efforts are being made to send messages
from Cairo to Gen. Gordon, but with poor
success.
Gordon refuses to escape from Khartoum
by bribing the natives and offers of funds
are refused.
At Montreal there are eighteen steamers
in port and not grain enough to make q
cargo for one.
Business during the past year was the
most unsatisfactory in the history of the
Toronto Corn Exchange.
Jno. Boultbee, a prominent barrister of
Portage, La Prairie county, Manitoba, has
absconded with $4,000.
Foster, lately chief secretary for Ireland,
attacked the Government in the House of
Commons on its Egyptian policy.
Baker Pasha has returned to London, still
suffering from shell wound received in
the disastrous attempt to relieve Tokar.
TQ1y ~,
tory in Ayrshire, England, ten women
were blown to pieces and two others
wounded.
Eagan and DAILY, charged with having
caused the explosion at the Victoria rail-
way station, have been committed for trial
at Warwick.
At BueEaes, GaIicia, a family of six per
sons were murdered, but child who had
been hid was found unframed. Robbery
caused the crime.
The Mexican Central railway directors
have been the recipients of banquet and |
other Inequalities at the hands of the Off !
Gals of the City of -hexico.
It is reported treaty has been signed by |
France and China recognizing a French |
protectOrate over Tonquin and Anam. No |
Indemnity is demanded by France.
The London Times explains the Kisses
with which Gladstone was greeted at the |
Heath exhibition as a condemnation of the |
treatment of the government towards Cor
don.
Garroting is becoming sufficiently fire.
quent in London to alarm the public. a
gentleman was recently throttled and |
robbed on the Thames embankment in
broad daylight.
Portevin, Secretary of the French Con-
sulate at New York, on his arrival at Paris,
insulting Tevis, an American, and |
sympathy with Germany. He
was drunk when he did it.
1t is stated that the Canadian Pacific road
has agreed to make Port Williams the chief
point on Lake Superior, and erect there a
great indignation at the ambitious town,
Port Arthur, twelve miles distant.
Threats. are made to destroy Nelson
McGinn was discovered within the pre-
cincts of the castle, having a bag containing
several bags of gunpoWder and a fuse. He
was arrested and locked up for three
months.
Mr.. Gladstone, in reply to the proposed
vote of censure, charged the Tories with
blind greed for political power, and asserted
that they were capable of anything in the
way OF tTeacherous and insidious attacks
on the Government. He was loudly
cheered.
A London dispatch says: A tin can con-
tanning forty decorators for firing dynamite
was found under the wall of WooIWich Ar
senal. Another tin can near by contained
seven pounds of earthly substance labelled
ground amber" 1.-THE material proves to i
be dynamite, which seems without doubt, a
large portion of the Arsenal had a narrow
escape.