The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-03-06
Foreign Flashes.

are Americans
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 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 9400,-
600 and ESQ., OO
The Spanish govern m ant prohibited meet
ing of the republican press on March !, for the
purpose of endeavoring to harmonic and unity
the barbarous discordant factions of the re-
publicans
The United States government presses it's
claim against Spain for $493, 600 as balance of
awards due ON account of American losses dur
ing the rebellion in Cuba and also 1900, 600
for estates embargoed at 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 $40, 00O died at Winnipeg
on the 28th at the residence of DR.. Codd He was
taken seriously i'll after his arrest and the matter
preyed so upon his mind that apoplexy put an
end to his suferings.
G. J. Watterberg kept hotel in Antwerp,
Belgium. His wife disappeared with some 49,
600 francs and 5000 worth Of diamonds.
Franz Wonters, a physician, disapp cared at
the same time. Watterber,g traced the parties
to New York, and found them living together
in apartments up town. They were arrested
on a charge of bringing stolen property into
tho country Wonters was held in III, OOO bail.
Mrs. Watterberg was remanded.
= The London Times, speaking 81 late Uni
ted States Minister Hunt, says: Mr.. HUT was
Southerner, honest and sturdy, and of vener-
able presence. He might we'll have sat to q
painter as q type of Puritan father. His was
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-
CANT villa at Moscow, over which waved the
stars and stripes.
A terrible tragedy was enacted the 18th, 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 a secluded
spot Chave suddenly appeared before them:
the lady superior asked him kindly If he had
found work, and Chave, without replying,
drew a 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 1893,
when only ten years ofage, before completing
his twenty fourth year was brigadier general
De Wimpffen, during the Franco-P russian war,
received an order on Aug. Is appointing him
commandment chief in case Marshal Mac Mahon
should be disabled On Sept during the bat
tie of Sedan, hearing that Mac ahon was wound
ed, he produced his commission and assumed
chief command He at once reversed the Or
ders for capitulation, already given, still hoping
for victory. The order directing retreat came
from the emperor, and g from him
Lord Randolph Churchill inquired whether
the government intended to ask further powers
in regard to the dynamite fiends, and whether
they would ask permission to expel from Great
Britain persons suspected of having connec-
ton with recent discoveries of dynamite. Sew
eral Parnellites 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 in America, and attempts
to carry them out had been made by agents
sent from the United States