Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-05-08
FOREIGN.

A slave instruction has taken place in
Brazil.
The French have again been victorious
in TOnquin.
A blue book on Egyptian affairs has been
issued ia London.
A Spanish custom house in Navarro has
been destroyed by insurgents.
A large number of emigrants are leaving
England for Canada, this year.
An insurgent band in Cuba has been de-
feated and twelve men captured.
Leading steel works in Prussia are cur
failing production and discharging work
men.
Auguero's movement appears to have been
fomented by Spanish revolutionists at Mad
rid.
A subscription has been opened in Lon
don for the benefit of the sufferers from the
recent earthquake.
In suppressing the labor riots in the South
African diamond mines the police killed
several persons.
The conclusion has at last been reached
that the terrible railroad disaster in Spain
was purely accidental.
The British war department and it's chief
advisers are opposed to sending troops to
Berber before Autumn.
A construction train on the Mexican Cen
trail road was wrecked at Otero, killing two
American employees and WOunding ten.
A London cabegram says: The officials at
PaddingtOn railway station have received
threats that the station will be blown up.
The Conservative leaders in the English
Parliament favor an appeal to the country
to support the policy of the Government.
Ship builders at Glasgow to the number
of $4,000 quit work on the announcement
of a reduction of 10 per cent. in their wages.
King John of Abyssinia has agreed to in
wade the Soudan and aid the withdrawal
of Egyptian garrisOns through his dOmi-
mons.
An Eagle Pass dispatch says that twelve
Kickapoo Indians surprised and killed two
Mexican sheep herders at San Buena Ven
tura, Mexico.
Conspirators are actively at work in Spain
It is reported that plans have been perfected
for simultaneous uprisings throughout all
the Southern provinces.
While two blocks of buildings were burn
ing at Panama large mob began plumber
ing, and were fired on with deadly effect by
property owners. Loss 100000.
One hundred and ten persons were killed
in a railway disaster at Cindad Spain The
Government thinks the revolutionary
party is responsible for the outrage.
A powder magazine exploded across the
bay from Havana, Cuba, causing cOnsidera-
BILE damage and greater CONSERVATION in the
city. The gas works were also Destroyed
The marriage of Princess Victoria of Hesse
to Prince Louis OF Battenburg took place at
Darmstadt, in presence of Queen Victoria
and the Prince and Princess Imperial of
Germany.
The oldest financial institution in Mexico
the National Bank of Monte de Piedad, re-
fused peremptory demand by the Govern
ment for a large sum of money, and closed
its doors to protect its creditors.
The British House of Commons by a vote
of 357 to 300, hiss adopted an amendment to
the cattle bill stopping for two years all i'm
portation Of beeYes from countries where
disease prevails among cattle.
A Pole only seventeen years of age threw
bomb through the window of the Court
house at CracOw, Russia, where the Chiefs
of Police were in consultation. The ex-
plosion did no damage. The youth was
prom pity captured, and loaded revolver
was found in his pocket.
There is great excitement among Cath
Olics in Canada, over the rumor that the
Pope has ordered the closing of Laval IN
iversity and its law and medical branches,
because of the expenditure of over $1,000,
coo of church funds without reaching
self-supporting basis. The Archbishop of
Quebec has started for Rome to secure a re-
scindment of the mandate.