The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-11-08
FOREIGN rELEGRAPH1C NEWS.
Everything is quiet at Kassoula.

A Violent STORM prevailed CnfOugnouG
Great Britain last week.
Count Lowenhaupst, Swedish minister
at Washington, has been recalled.
The Cuban bandits Porez Junines and
Juan Rodriqnez are reported killed by
troops.
The Duke of Connaught will return to
London from India in March via San
Francisco.
The English authorities at Morocco are
accused of melting the natives against
the French.
Small pox is raging among the natives
at Merawl, Egypt, and numbers are dying
from the disease.
Nine. Gerster is in London i'll with rheu-
matism of the throat, and has cancelled
all her engagements.
The French flag has been at Jaiurah,
Sagalo and Rodalion, Bay of Alden.
France will annex them.
Mr.. Wilson Barrett's impersonation of
Hamlet Is having a successful run at the
Princess Theater in London.
The trial of Cornwall and Kirwin at Dub
lin, for unnatural offences, resulted in the
acquittal of the prisoners last week.
The Paris Telegraphic states that Prime
Minister Ferry has accepted England's of
fer to mediate between China and France.
Advices from Shanghai say a serious
type OF cholera is spreading through the
French squadron now blockading For
mosa.
Several of the tribes at Suaken, hearing
of the success of General Gordon are man
N irn tiYo inrA fn
Digma.
In the House of Commons last week,
Gladstone said the advance on Khartoum
would have been made earlier had it been
possible.
The bark Plevna, of Liverpool, which
arrived out from st. John, N. b., was
burned to the waters edge last week
Tho crew were saved.
The Conservatives in the House of Lords
will not unite in accepting the Marquis of
Salisburys policy of resistance to the pass
age of the franchise bill.
One thousand students accused of Mill
ism have been expelled from the Univers-
ity of Kieff, st. Petersburg, and drafted
into the army as conscripts.
The Vienna Official Journal announces
the approval by the diet of Lower Austria
the Danube Elbe and Oder rivers.
The State line steamer State of Alabama,
which recently arrived at Glasgow from
New York, has been aground in the Clyde.
She is leaking badly. Part of the cargo is
damaged.
The report that Sir John Mcdonald has
secured subsidy for line of steamers to
connect with the Canadian Pacific and ply
hat pYff ~,
lacks confirmation.
A package containing fifty three pounds
OF dynamite was stolen from the magazine
at Kindberg, Austria. The people in that
vicinity are much alarmed, as it's wherea
bouts are unknown.
Says Paris dispatch of recent date
Sardou's new drama Theodore" accord
ing to critical forecast, is his finest work
The drama opens to Bernhardt chance
for her greatest creation.
The French Minister of War strongly
opposes the proposal to demolish Paris
Notifications erected under the admins
tratien of President Theirs and to ust
their sites for building purposes.
Recently at Laclen, France, an attemp
was made to shoot King Leopold. One
shot was fired at him by radical student
The would-be regicide was arrested anG
news incident thereto suppressed.
In the House of Commons last week
Ashley, Under Secretary for the Colonia
Department, stated that the English gov
ernment was preparing to send force tt
expel the Beers from the Montsloas terri
tory.
Count Won Munster, German embassa
dor to England, has been instructed b,
his government to reply verbally to severa
of the questions regarding the proposed
Congo conference recently asked by Ear
Granville.
Archibald Stewart, q hotel keeper a
Porter's Lake, n. S., died recently from
eating wild parsnip which he supposed t,
be sarsaparilla. Another man name'
Murphy is in a critical condition from th'
same cause.
"Unser Fritz" Crown Prince of Ger
many, has become regent of Brunswick
The title of Duke has been dropped. Th
Princes eldest son will succeed to the re
Rency when his father becomes Empero
at Germany.
1t is learned that fifty basha bazouk
who were dispatched from Massoula il
pursuit of marauders have decided in
body to become a band of Abyssinial
briRands. Two Europeans are held pris
oners by them in hope of securing a ran
som.
Fl. Campbell Bonnerman, Secretary t,
the Admiralty, is appointed Chief Secre
tary for Ireland vice Trevelyan. Georg
Dobson, Chancellor of the Duchy of Ian
caster, has been created a peer and will b.
succeeded by Trevelyan with seat in tn
Cabinet.
Adyices from Valparaiso state that th
steamer Cardillera is stranded in th
straits. She will probably be gotten off
Three feet of water have already beer
pumped out and the openings stopped
Three hundred tons of undamaged cargo
have been saved.
The Town Council of Capo Destria, nea
Friest, has been dissolved by the German
government and the town put in charg,
of a government commissioner, in conse
quence of a recent proposal to hold dem
onstration in favor of the historian Colmi
recently expelled from the country.
At meeting of the beet root suga
manufacturers held in Berlin last week
resolutions were adopted against compul
sorry reduction of the cultivation of bee
roots. Manufacturers believe that tn
necessary reduction will come naturally
owing to the state of the sugar trade.
General Klapska recently convoked
meeting at Pesth of the veterans of tn
war of 1849. He has compiled declara
ton acquitting General Georgey of trea
son. A deputation will present the orig
nal declaration to General Georgey an
place a copy in the National Museum a
Pesth,
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