The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-09-06
FOREIGN rELEeRApH1c EEws.
Gladstone is at Edinburg.

Gladstone is at Edinburg.
A Franco German alliance is talked OF.
The Car of Russia will visit Warsaw
soon.
China's ability to carry on war is not
good.
Russia is strengthening her army and
navy.
Victoria, B. c., has self-confessed can
nibal.
The arsenal at Foo Chow, China, is in
ruins.
Austria reports an average yield of
crops.
Another rebellion is on the tapis in
Spain.
China has formerly declared war against
France.
Russia is taking precautions against
cholera.
The sugar trade of Vienna is passing
through crisis.
The financial condition of Toulon and
Marseilles is bad.
Cholera has secured foot hold on the
island of Corsica.
The rebels were defeated before Khar.
toum on the 18th ult.
Egypt is bankrupt and unable to meet
her current expenses.
King Humbert is visiting the cholera
hospitals at Turin. Italy.
Ishen Ki Kong, secretary of the Chinese
embassy, remains at Paris.
Hans Markart, the Austrian painter, Is
probably hopelessly insane.
Colonel Redera Fuller, of the French
army, has started for Egypt.
Charles Bradlaugh will lecture in Amer
lea in October and November.
Admiral Courbet has been ordered to
Halben, after taking Kelung.
The French consul at Khartoum has
been ordered to remain there.
Lord Cahir, an Irish peer, Is the hero of
the latest escapade in London.
Great fears are entertained for the safety
of Catholic missionaries in China.
Plans are being drawn up in st. Peters
burg for another polar expedition.
A French officer of high rank was killed
at the bombardment of Foo Chow.
Minister Taft has left Vienna for his new
post as minister to st. Petersburg.
The French forces will occupy the Island
of Formosa, off the coast OF China.
Professor Brugsch. of Berlin, will go on
special mission to Teheran, Persia.
Advices from Calcutta state that famine
at Mysore is inevitable, owing to drought.
Italian peasants trust to charms and SUI
perstitious observances as cure for chol-
era.
Several persons have been nearly killed
from over fumigation at the Italian from
tier.
Cool weather in and around Suakim has
greatly improved the health Of the British
troops.
The Franco Chinese war has as yet had
no effect on the trade between England
and India. =
Princess Victoria, wife of Prince Will
liam of Prussia, is alarmingly ill with
scarlet fever.
A coal vein thirteen feet thick has been
discovered in the Wellington mines, Brit
ish Columbia.
The steamship Faraday has laid the first
deep sea portion of the second Bennett
Mackay cable.
A meeting of the Car of Russia and the
Emperors of Austria and Germany has
been arranged.
The Swiss government announces meas
ures of increased stringency to be enforced
against Anarchists.
Richard Tweed, son of the late William
M. Tweed, of New York, died in a Paris
mad house, recently.
General Lord Welsley will at once pro-
ceed to Egypt to take command OF the ex-
pedition up the Nile.
Anarchist Hammer, under sentence of
death at Vienna has confessed completely
in number of murders.
A London advice says there was an
earthquake of thirty-seconds duration
last week on the Island of Jersey.
Owing to the prevalence of smallpox in
London, England, vessels from there are
quarantined at all Canadian ports.
The annual meeting of the British Asso-
citation for the Advancement of Sciences
opened at Montreal Can., last week.
There is another chance for misunder-
standing between England and Germany
in regard to West African territory.
Nine Kalemine, the morganatic wife OF
the Grand luke Louis of Hesse, will ap-
peal from the decls sion of the divorce court
A cable special says: The usual period.
ical rumors of the death of Queen Victoria
last week were of course without shadow
of foundation.
The authorities of Upper Burmah, in
India, captured 235 robbers last week be-
tween Mandalay and Buamo. Fifty have
already been crucified.
The Paris Figaro says: General Millot
will be recalled from Tonquin, because he
is considered responsible for the difficulties
since the Tien Tsin treaty was made.
An Odessa. Russia, dispatch states that
compromising documents have been dis
covered in the houses of merchant Gatins
naia, whose daughter fired at Colonel
Kalinski, and of General Darmedia, last
week.
The two French officers arrested at Cob
lentz, Germany while sketching fortifica
tions, have been released. Their arrest
was mistake. They were authorized tc
attend the mannuvers of the German
army.
An agent of the British government ar
rived recently in Montreal. Can, fol
Cangnawaga to secure the services of fifty
Indians of that tribe to be employed il
navigating the Nile with the Gordon relic
expedition.
Information has been received in Lon
don that China has directed it's ambassa
dors to call the attention of the grea
powers to the manner in which tn,
French bombardmeRt at Foo Chow wa
conducted.
Baron De Courcel, the French ambassa
r1o-s has ,,aI %r1p u, -;,St ~