St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-13
NEARING THE ENEMY.

an immediate dissolution of parliament is
| desirable.
| NEARING THE ENEMY.
| SUAKIM, March 1.-THE British forces
reached Baker Pasha's position at Zariba on
| Tuesday at midnight, and went into camp.
The Abysinnian scouts reported Osman Dig
ma in position surrounded by large force
of rebels. After dinner about l O'Clock. the
British started for the rebel camp, advancing
in squares. The rebels are without entrench-
ments. Fifty thousand enemies have been
sighted and battle is imminent: The enc
my is twelve miles from Suakim.
ANARCHISTS ARRESTED.
LONDON, March 12-The two German an
archists, arrested yesterday at Fribourg,
were named Otter and Falk. The arrest
was investigated by the Vienna police.
SOCIALISTS ACTIVE.
VIENNA, March 12.-Socialist prints have
been circulated among the coal districts Of
Bshemia. Suspicious letters and parcels ar
irving by post from America, England and
Switzerland, are subjected to careful ex-
animation by the authorities.
CRICKETERs FOR ENGLAND.
MELBOURNE, March 12.-The Australian
cricketers have started for England.
GRAIN ELEVATORS.
| ST. PETERSBURG, March 12.-The counse
of the empire approve, by large majority
the proposed concession to Russo-Amercar
company, which contemplates the erection OF
elevators throughout the country but Michae
Katkoff, editor of the official journal of Mos
CT olxr ba naf-
riotic grounds, it Is, therefore, doubtful
whether the car sanctions the scheme.
ADIsIINUTIoN OF CRIME.
DUBLIN, March 12--The Irish justices, in
opening the assizes, agree that there has been
gratifying diminution of crime.
A CRITICAL SITUATION.
LONDON, March 12.-Much anxiety is felt
| In regard to the situation at Khartoum. The
| Times Alexandria correspondent says: 1t is
poverbial that three courses are possible; to
| leave Gen. Gordon to his fate, to dispatch
English troops to Khartoum, or to import In
dian troops. The policy of doing nothing
has not hitherto achieved signal success.
WATCHING SUSPECT.
PARIS, March 12-The police are watching
| the proprietor of an establishment near Made
laine, not far from Bordeaux. He is alleged
| to be Fenian and a receiver of funds fol
| the Irish cause.
| LARGE DEFICIT.
PARIS, March 12.-The deficit in the indi-
rect taxes for January and February amount
to 81, 500, 600 francs.
LISBON, March IA duel with swords
was fought here this morning between Wis
count Roberdo and Major Serpo Pinto. The
former received five wounds.
A FREE COUNTRY INDEED.
MADRID, March 12.- The Progresso was
seized for saying tht Canovas Del Castillo
leader of the Conservative party, is trying tc
influence the army to support the reaction
airy policy of the opposition. Editors will
hold meeting to protest against the govern
ment's action.
| HIS TRIP FAILED.
LONDON, March 12.-Inspector Moser has
returned from France. He failed to fine
evidence that the Fenians in Paris made the
dynamite or were implicated in the London
explosions. He believes that nine men Oh
board the steamer Danube brought the dyn
amite to London. These men the police are
now tracking.
BACKING DOWN.
BERLIN, March 12.-The Proai'acial Cor
respondence says the Lasker discussion is
closed. The Germans agreed, it is no affair
of parliament to examine into the merits Of
foreign politicians, and that nations only in
tercourse should be through the supreme
heads The German Gazette attributes the
fuss to the Berlin correspondent of the Lon
don Times, the policy of the editors of which
paper, it says, is to start up strife between
Germany and other countries.
| MOMENTS IN CHINA.
PARIS, March 12-The commander of the
French fleet in Tonquin announced that ht
Shanghai and the Triumphante and two
others to annoy the northern posts. The
| Marquis Using has arrived in London.
CATTLE DISEASE BILL.
| LONDON March 12-Baron Carlngford lore
of the privy seal, gave an audience this morn
ing to deputation which sought to learn the
attitude of the government toward the
amendment adopted by the lords to TIT
contagious diseases of animals bill of 1878
Baron Carlingford stated the government
hoped to resist the passage of the bill by the
commons. He said, however the govern
ment would prohibit the importation o
foreign cattle, when the necessity should
arise, even in the case of the foot an(
mouth disease, but he was anxious that this
measure should be resorted to only wheI
positively necessary. The contagious dis
eases animals bill of 1878 was directed more
especially against the cattle plague ant
pneumonia, and it. has been deemed unwist
to resort to the same extreme measures in
the case of the milder foot and mouth dis
ease.
| AFRAID OF THE COATE.
| T PARIS, March 12.-Marshal MacMahon to
day paid visit to the comte de Paris a
Cannes. The many letters the comte is re
ceiving, congratulating him upon his escape
from death by dynamite, is causing mucl
disquiet to the government.
DIGMA's TACTICS.
SUAKIM, March ia spy reports tina
Osman Digma, with 1000 men, intends t,
take a position in narrow defile, allow tn,
British to pass, and then attack them in tn
krear.
THE SLAVE TRADE.
/ LONDON, March 12.-The Arabs, in a re
cent slave raid, captured 1900 children. TIL
I natives :ecently attacked the European fac