The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-05-10
FOREIGN rEIEGRApH1c NEWS.

posted in various portions of Nice.
Reports'fro the interior of Egypt state
that the cotton worm has reappeared.
Bemlont Castle, near Dundee, burned
recently. Many valuable paintings were
destroyed.
Sara Bernhardt, while playing La Dame
aux Camelias recently, was Kissed at by
tickle Parisians.
Ii Fong Pao, Chinese ambassador, left
Berlin for Paris last week to open negotia-
tions with Ferry.
The Crandall; House and sixteen other
structures at Trenton Falls Ontario, were
destroyed by fire recently.
Every village between Berber and Khar-
toum is reported to be in rebellion, and
rebels are entering Berber.
Another band of insurgents have ap-
peared in Catitonia, Spain Efforts are
being made to capture them.
Sir Edward Walkin, member of the
English Parliament offers $4,000 toward
the rescue of General Gordon.
Sir Evelyn Barring has advised the En-
glish government to abandon the Soudan
after relieving General Gordon.
Heavy frosts have occurred in south
England during the last few nights, and
there is general blight in fruit.
The German government insists upon
the adoption of anti-Socialist laws, with
the entire provisions unchanged.
Between 4, 600 and 5000 Cinnamon are at
the Twenty third siding on the Canadian
Pasifie trying to obtain employment.
Three hundred track layers and laborers
on the Ontario and Quebec Railway, near
Toronto, Can, have struck for higher
wages.
A London cable says: Orders have been
sent to Cairo to establish special messen-
ger post to convey dispatches to General
Gordon.
As result of the terrific explosion near
Havana day or two ago, the dead so far
numbers twenty .one, and the injured sew
enty-nine.
France accepts the proposed conference
in principle, but stipulates that it shall
not be confined to the discussion OF the
financial situation.
Ship owners of England have approved
the proposal to lay up one-fourth of their
tonnage in view of the present condition
of the freight market.
Advices from Cape Town mention a
strike and serious disorders in the dia-
mond fields. Men are searched daily at
the conclusion of work.
A Winnipeg dispatch says: DR.. Wilson
has been appointed Provincial Secretary,
| in place of the late Attorney General Mil
| Ter, on provincial rights.
Farrell Williams, an Irish American, has
been arrested at Ballymot, Ireland. He
had loaded revolver and reasonable
documents in his possession.
All the federal Princes agree that if the
German Reichstag rejects the measure,
prolonging the anti-Socialist law, disso-
luton of that body shall ensue.
Hussein Pasha telegraphed that he is
still at Berber. 1t is too late to retreat, as
the town is completely surrounded, and
the garrison utterlyidemolished.
Fifty workmen were buried under fall.
ing wall of Whitley's building in London
| last week. Most of the workmen were ex-
tricated. A large number were wounded.
The latter part of last month band of
Mexican insurgents, in rebellion against
the State of Guerrero, were defeated at
Taipsche by troops and f1fty.two of them
killed.
| Two bands of insurgents appeared at
j Lerida and Corona, Spain, recently, and
cut the telegraph wires and destroyed the
railroad bridge at Corona. Troops are in
pursuit.
| Forty-one bodies have been extricated
| from the recent railroad wreck in Spain,
near Madrid. The number of wounded
are thirty y-eight. The dead are mostly
| peasants.
The Italian Consul at Malta proposed to
deposit in the government stores 200 cases
| of dynamite from a vessel, but the Gov
nor ordered the ship to sail within forty
eight hours.
Lord Rawton, of Londen, who is editing
papers left by Earl Beaconsfeld, has found
no memoirs among his effects, although a
mass of partly arranged notes and letters
was discovered.
| A Montreal dispatch says: The bottom
| of the ferryboat at St. Albert's crossing on
the Nicolet river broke through last week.
| Louis Demeros, wife and daughter, Joseph
Gauther and child, and two other. children
were drowned.
| Upon the assembling of the Chamber of
Deputies last week, Vice Admiral Payron,
| Minister of Marine and the Colonies. sub
mitted bill for additional credit for 4, 600,
600 francs to defray the expenses of the
| Tonquin expedition.
William Leigh, for twenty years town
/
| of hemmorrhage of the lungs. He was
only sick for few hours. Deceased was
a native of England and had resided in
Victoria for thirty-two years.
Last Fridays edition of the Republican
| newspaper, E PalenQ1te, published at
Havana, was seized, and the director, SEN
fenced for previous offense, imprisoned for
six months, to be deprived of the right to
vote and to pay the cost of trial.
/ The National Bank of Monte de Piedad,
the oldest financial institution in Mexico,
closed its doors last week. There had been
a run on the bank for several days owing
to the expectation that the government
would demand assistance from it.
A profound sensation was created in
Toronto recently through the discovery OF
two powerful dynamite cartridges, with
wire and fuse attached, under the Crown
Land Office of the Parliament building
and two under the steps leading to the
: speakers chamber.
Professor Virchows, of Berlin, says thai
trichnosis in Germany, caused by eating
imported American pork. is confined to 6
few isolated eases at Bremen. He points
out the dangers connected with eating
, pigs, and urges compulsory examination
I of German and American pork.
Count d'Aguilla, uncle of the ex-King o.
. Naples, has summoned the Italian govern
ment to appear at the tribunal on May 18th
to answer to his claim for the restitution
of his patrimony, sequestrated by Genera
Gariba1di. He claims 5000, 600 lire, be
sides arrears of interest since 1870.
t The marriage of Princess Victoria Of
Hesse, to Prince Louis, of Battenberg
) took place at Darmstadt last week. The
streets were profusely decorated with flags
and thronged with sightseers. After ths
wedding the newly married couple started
for Jugenheim, amidst the plaudits of the
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