The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-11-15
FROM BEYOND THE SEA.
Interesting Events Of the Week
in Other Lands.
Cholera Making Alarming Progress In
France-Troubles of the Crofters
in the Isle of Skye-Erance
and China.
OTHER FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

Many residents have fled to the suburbs,
but many of these localities have also shown
signs of infection. Two soldiers on guard
at the Elyscc Palace were seized
with cholera yesterday, and one of them
died almost Immediately. The wife
of member of the BourSe died
of the disease while shopping in the Bon
Marche. The disease is raging with
great virulence along the river districts and
it is thought that many cases are being sup
pressed by the police and health authorities.
Forty-seyen deaths from the epidemic have
occurred in the city during the twenty-four
hours ending at midnight. At Melnn, TWEEN.
ty-seven miles southeast of Paris there
have been seven cases of cholera and two
deaths therefrom in the last forty-eight
hours.
There was one death yesterday at each of
the following places: Auberyilliers, Clichy,
BoulOgne and Tartin. Deaths also occurred
in villages adjacent to the above places. 1t
is noticeable that the suburbs of this city,
where the drainage is bad and the water
mere sewage, are unaffected by the epidem-
ic; also that envirous of cemeteries are
scarcely affected by the disease while in
several portions of the city which are well
supplied with water several cases have oc-
Cured.
PARIS, Nov. 12.-Ninety-seven fresh
cases of cholera and eleven deaths are re-
ported in this city between noon yesterday
and eleven o'clock Monday night. The
victims of the epidemic are mostly llly-fed
or'dissipated, and rarely Of robust constiti-
ton. AS soon as it is known that a case OF
cholera is in tenement two constables
are assigned to guard the house until
the patient is taken to the hospital.
Two deaths by cholera are reported at
Toulon and two at Nantes. These num-
beers do not include the additional cases and
deaths which have occurred at the hos
ptals. The hospitals set apart for the use
Of cholera patients are already full to over
flowing, and others are being placed in
readiness as rapidly as circumstances will
permit Many cases have occurred among
the troops at the garrison. In nearly all the
barracks some soldiers were attacked.
If the epidemic continues an order will be
issued closing the public schools. The
eastern and central portions of the city are
the ones most affected. Residences Occu-
pied principally by English and American
people are in most excellent sanitary con-
ditiOn. In numerous instances the victims
were seized in more sudden manner; with
hardly "a premonition they were stricken on
the streets in omnibuSeS and other public
places, or when about their ordinary yoca'
tons.
The air is cooler with sharp, frosty
breeze. The majority of the English and
American visitors are leaving the city for
their homes. french Government officials
are sending their families into the country,
and the aristocratic portion OF the COM
munity are preparing to spend the winter at
its county seat No cases have occurred in
the Champs Elysees as yet
1t is supposed that the plague was intro
duced into Paris by an inmate OF the Bre-
teuil Asylum who returned thither recently
| from a holiday excursion. Forty-four
deaths occurred at the asylum The moJ-
tally has been greater among males than
among females. The asylum has $50 in
mates. The surrounding district is healthy.
Nuns fearessly attend the patients in the
asylum. The chapel has been converted
into cholera-ward Troops are removing
to the barracks outside of town. Jules
| Wales, in the Cri dlt Pe,tple, urges dwell
ers in the sluns 10 mmigrate to healthier
parts, occupy fashionable aud deserted
houses, and help themselves to wholesome
| food. Three deaths occurred at the Prison
Melun. near Fontainebleau.
PARIS, Nov. l2.-The police are making
valiant efforts to put stop to public gam
bling They have just closed thirty-three
gambling clubs.
The HAGUE, Nov. t2.-The Dutch
colonial banks are in difficulties owing to
the great depression in the sugar trade
The shares of Dutch-Indian and colonial
banks have fallen from ten to sixteen per
! cent. Efforts are now being made to pre-
vent financial crisis through closing the
sugar factories which are connected with
| the Dutch-Indian Bank.
LONDON, Nov. l1.-There is no abatement
of the excited feeling in the Isle Of Skye.
Cr0fters from the neighboring Islands are
focking to Skye to assist their brethren in
maintaining their claims. Fully two thou
sand FIVE hundred crofters will meet the de-
tachment Of police on their arrival tomorrow
and conduct them to Jig There the croft
ers will demand of the police the object Of
| their coming II an unsatisfactory answer
| is given, the islanders will conduct them
| back 10 the landing place and request them
To leave their shores
! A troop ship, with 1000 marines, has
! been ordered to proceed from Portsmouth to
the Isle of Skye to assist the police in re-
| storing order among the crofterS.
| LONDON, Nov. 1.-THE House of Com
mons has rejected, by vote of 1874 to
| l9o an amendment to the Franchise bill,
| the purpose of which was to prevent the
bill from going into operation until the
! scheme of redistribution should be adopted.
Later in the session the Franchise bill was
passed by the House in Committee of the
| Whole without amendment. The result was
| greeted with cheers.
! ROME, Nov. 1.-THE Pope created nine
new Cardinals yesterday. In his all0cution
/ he dwelt on the progress that the Catholic
| faith was making throughout the world and
/ the United States where the PlenaTy COun-
| Gil mad Just assembled. He mentioned the
| fact that new Bishops had been appointed
! in Australia. India, and throughout the
East and expressed special granhca-
| ton at the restorage Of the See
of Carthage. The following are eight
| of the Cardinals created: Ganglebauer
! Archbishop Of Vienna; Gonzales y Diaz Tu-
mon, Archbishop of Seville; Celesia, Arch
bishop Of Palermo; Massia, venerable
| African missionary; Merona di Geri, Secre-