The Dickinson press., 1884-03-08
Foreign Flashes,

Montreal has sixty French Catholic churches
and the largest cathedral on the continent
The betrothal of the Princess Elizabeth of
Hesse with the Grand Duke Sergius of Russia
is officially announced.
The government has descided to send o cour-
teous dispatch to America relative to the action
of Americans in ~countenancing and assisting
the dynamiters.
Martin Turner & Co., merchants of Glasgow,
engaged in the East India trade, have failed.
Liabilities roughly estimated at between E40O,-
coo land 4500,UN.
The Spanish GOVERN ont prohibited a meet
ing of the republican press OIL March l, for the
purpose of endeavoring to harmohize and unity
the barbarous discordant factions of the re-
publicans.
The United States government presses its
claim against Spain for $493, 600 as a balance of
awards due on account of American losses dur
ing the rebellion in Cuba, and also 5000, GOO
for estates embargoed ut the same period and
not restored to their American owners.
Ex-Collector Bradley, of the Emerson Mani
toba custom house, and under bond on the
charge of embezzling 800 died at Winnipeg
on the 2Sth at the residence of DR.. Codd. He was
taken seriously i'll after his arrest, andthe matter
preyed 80 upon his mind that apoplexy put an
end to his sufferings.
CO. Watterberg kept a hotel in Antwerp,
Belgium. His wife disappeared with some 49,
600 francs and SUu0 worth of diamonds.
Franz Wonters, o physician, disappeared at
the same time. Watterberg traced the parties
to New York, and found them living together
in apartments up town. They were arrested
the country. Wonters was held in $4,000 bail.
Mrs. Watterberg was remanded.
The London Times, speaking Of the late Uni
ted States Minister Hunt, says: Mr.. HUT was
Southerner, honest and sturdy, and of vener-
painter as atype of Puritan father. His was a
prominent head amongst the crowd of diplo-
matists present at the coronation at the Krem-
lin last May. Hospitality was nowhere more
freely or graciously dispensed than at his ele-
giant villa at Moscow, over which waved the
stars and stripes.
Aterrible tragedy was enacted the 2Sth in the
south of France. A gardner named Chave, en-
ployed at a convent at Sarviane, near Marseilles
was recently discharged for ~laziness. While
the Sisters were walking in the convent grounds,
and at the moment when they were in q secluded
spot, Chaye suddenly appeared before them.
found work, and Chave, without replying,
drew q revolver and discharged six barrels Kill
ling the lady superior, and MORALLY ~wounding
one of her companions. He then killed him
self.
Generals Schramm and De Wimpffen are
dead. The former entered the army in 1899
when only ten years ofage, before completing
his twenty-fourth year was brigadier general.
DE Wimpffen, during the Franco-prussian war,
received an order on Aug. IS appointing him
commander n-chicf in case Marshal MacMahon
should be disabled. On Sept. / during the bat
tie of Sedan, hearing that MacMahon was wound
ed, he produced his commission and assumed
chief command. He Mt once reversed the Or
ders for capitulation, already given, still hoping
for victory. The order directing a retreat came
from the emperor, and 2 from him.
Lord Randolph Churchill inquired whether
the government intended to ask further powers
in regard to the dynamite fcnds, and whether
they would ask permission to xpel from Great
Britain persons suspected OF having connec-
ton with recent discoveries Of dynamite. Sew
eral Parncllites strongly condemned the dyna-
mite proceedings, and declared no excuse valid
for such attempts upon life and property.
They declared conspiracies of this nature are
in no wise associated with the Irish cause,
but had been Matched i'll America, and attempts
TO carry them out had been made by agents
sent from the United States.