River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-12-04
Nuggets OF Foreign News.

Blaine's plurality in Iowa was 1875; his
majority Is, 232.
Prominent Catholics expect Bishop Feehan
to succeed Cardinal McCloskey.
Sir Moses Montifiore had a relapse, and is
confined to his bed He recently received a
life pass over railway to add to his comforts.
Sir John Mcdonald very closely much re.
sembles the late Earl Beaeonsfeld, and by his
manner and dress loses no opportunity of en-.
forcing the likness.
At parliamentary election in County Down,
Ireland, the Conservatives elected their eandi-
date, Kerr. He received 1887 votes. Craw-
ford, Liberal, polled 3,99S
Leonie Dare, the trapeze performer who Gre
ated a sensation in Valencia, Spain, recently,
was formerly a waiter in Tennessee hotel
and afterward married Young Greenebaum in
Chicago. They went 10 Austria, where the
father of Greenebaum refused to receive them,
and not only disinherited his son, but had him
drafted in the Austrian army
London Cable: The government of Swift
erland is initiating the example of Its Austrian
neighbor and waging war against Mormon
propagandists. The federal council at Bale
has formally resolved that the work of the
Mormon missionaries in Switzerland is great
and growing evil and that their converts or
dupes are plundered and outraged after being
decoyed from home. Strict repressive laws
against the Mormon sectanes have been enact
ed and their first results have just appeared
Vanity Fair quotes from private letters from
officials of India stating that there is danger
GUS condition of affairs in that country. The
feelings Of the natives were never excited
against England as at present; and foreign
emissaries are at work among them stirring
them up 70 strife and preparing them to make
an explosion. Officers in high command have
sent to England urgent demand for the authori
ties to form camps of refuge for women and
children, in order to be ready iii case OF
mutiny The government has been warned
that it is on the eve of a great trial
An attempt was made at Tralee, Ireland,
which nearly proved successful, to destroy
with dynamite the residence of Samuel Hussey,
known as the Edinburn house Many windows
and portion OF the eastean wall was badly
shattered, but no one was hurt IL Is believed
the explosive was placed in the sewer under
the back part of the house After the explo-
sion the house looked as though it had been
bombarded. A split several inches wide was
made in the main wall and reached from the
ground to the roof. Great excitement prevails
in Cork, where Hussey is one of the largest
land agents in Ireland, and it has been known
that plot existed against his life
A tragedy which caused great sensation
occurred in Paris, Wednesday. The wife OF
Deputy Clovis Hughes with revolver shot
and killed NORM, commission agent at the
palais dc justice, because he had slandered
her She fired six shots at her victim, four Of
which lodged in his chest Hughes, who APP
proves his wife's action, together with Madame
Hughes, was arrested. Last year Hughes and
wife prosecuted NORM for defamation Of char
acter, and secured a sentence of two years
imprisonment NORM, however, by system
of dilatory motions, carried the case from
court 10 court Madame Hughes became an
CRY, and to-day hearing that the assze court
Of the Seine wonld grant another adjournment
of fortnight, proceeded there, and killed
him.
The German reichstag-1S0 TO 97--adopted
resolution in favor of the payment of its men,
bers for their services as Legislators. The
resolution was strongly opposed by Bismarck.
The result is considered signal defeat for
Bismarck Bismarck said he considered the
new Liberals, Socialists and Peoples Party
we're all republicans. He admitted his former
misgivings that the action Of federal govern
ments might jeopardize the unity of the EN-.
pire had proven unfounded but for the last
ten wears he had not seen a reichstag which
could be called national body. He strongly
disapproved of the principles of the now liber-
ais and pointed ont that the affairs of the
country will remain at stand still unless the
government is III accord with the reichstag and
bundesrath, which latter is the more important
body