The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-09-13
FOREIGN TELEGPAPHIc NEWS.

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Soup houses have been opened at Spezia,
Italy.
Hundreds of people are fleeing from Ma.
Piles for Rome.
A sanitary Gordon has been established
around Madrid.
The Emperor of Germany reviewed the
troops last week.
Count Limburg Stirlum, the Dutch min.
lister of state, is dead.
Vessels from the Mediterranean are sub.
Jected to quarantine by =. .;.,Ssl Ssl nnrts.
A Prussian was arrested at Nice last
week while sketching the forts and werks
there.
President Grevy has slightly acknowl.
edged the receipt Of letter from dele
cation of the extreme left.
The Belgian Chamber of Deputies re-
Gently passed bill imposing sur-tax on
sugar until January ], 1885.
The rebels have removed another mine
placed by troops near Suakim. 1t was af-
ward seen to explode in the enemy's camp.
The two towing companies at Victoria,
b. o., hitherto amalgamated, have dis.
solved and are now running in opposition.
Admiral Courbets movements in the
Chinese waters are kept secret. He is
taking circuitous route to deceive the
Chinese.
1t is reported that the rebels at Berber
are selling the population of the city into
slavery. Women are subjected to horrible
atrocities.
A Russian corvette recently seized the
American schooner Sophia johnson, at
Behring' g Island, Behring's sea, for illicitly
| selling rum to natives.
The British foreign office denies all
knowledge OF any intention on the part of
Germany to propose new conference on
the Egyptian question.
The German corvette Elizabeth has been
ordered to proceed from Australia, where
| she has been stationed, to Hong Kong, to
reinforce the German fleet.
The United States government has in.
structed its minister at Lima, Peru, to
| protect the property of the Central and
South American Cable Company.
| 1t is reported in London that General
Wolseley has offered Henry M. Stanley a
position on his staff Stanley has asked
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cept.
Nine. Patti writes that her appearance
In Paris in opera, October 18th, is contin-
gent upon the favorable settlement of her
divorce proceedings against Marquis de
| Caux.
As the German steamer Hohenstaufer
| was sailing from Berlin for Baltimore, she
| collIded with the German ironclad Sophie.
both vessels were damaged. No one in
jured.
/ The London Truth asserts that Baron
Carlingford, lord of the privy seal, will
| shortly resign his cabinet position. 1t is
probable his successor will be Lord Rose.
berry.
Major Kitchener telegraphs that the
route from Dongola to Berber is perfectly
open as far as the wells of Present, and
hostile tribes are dispensing and fleeing
the country.
A Montreal dispatch of last week states:
Lieutenant Greely's paper was read before
the geographical section of the British as.
sociation, which was a review of the work
OF the Franklin Bay expedition.
The English committee of Mexican
bondholders has approved of the general
proposals for the settlement of the Mexi
can debt, submitted by Noetzlin, agent in
England for the Mexican treasury.
Word has been received in Halifax, N. S.,
that the expedition steamer Neptune was
at Ford's Harbor thirty-four miles from
Main, Labrador, July 3Oth. She reports
all hands well. Seven stations have been
established.
The British Science Association, lately
in session at Montreal, Can, have ad
journed to meet in Aberdeen, Scotland, in
1885. McGiil University conferred the de-
gree of LII. d. upon many members of the
association.
The inhabitants of the Cameroons coun
try, western Africa, are about to present
a protest to the English foreign Office
against the annexation of that district te
the German possessions, rs they prefer
British protection.
The Berlin North German Gazette at
tributes to Bismarck the design to Greats
political blockade against England, bJ
the formation Of coalition of the powers
unless her egotistical policy of colonia
extension is abandoned.
; A London dispatch of last week saws a
the Lloyd Insurance Agency trading yes
sells for China were insured for per cent
, The steamer Imbros, with a cargo of gum
! and munitions of war for China, was re
quired to pay 20 per cent.
Upon the occasion recently of the ami
versary of the battle of Sedan, the En-
peror OF Germany sent to Bismarck tn
order OF Pour Lemerite," surrounded b.
oak leaves and an autograph letter, ex
: pressing the deepest appreciation of hi
. services.
Growing activity is apparent In the Gei
: man electoral campaign. The Socialist
5 of Berlin have brought forward ak candi
dates: Volmar, Hazencleur, Lutzanel
: Neitz, Singer and Guellenberger. ANON
!, the Progressist candidates are Virchow
| Loewe, Klotz, Trager and Eugene Richter
= Gyde intends to bring suit in Londo
\ against Fursch, made on the ground tina
after agreeing on thirty performances 4
= European capitals and to make q tour G
Q England and Holland, singing In concerts
she has suddenly gone to America to sin
at the autumn festival without informin
him of her intentions.
The Chinese merchant fleet, sold I
Russell recently, consisted OF twenty-si
;, steamers, aggregating 1854 tonnage
u The company started twelve years agt
y Chang, who obtained loans from the gol
. ernment, to whom the company was ii
J debted for 1000, 600 taels f$3, co., 600.
= A Dublin cablegram stays: The Nation,
n League adopted resolution, last weel
to hold fresh inquiry in the Maamtrasn
murder case, in view Of Informer Carey
confession. The refusal is denounced 4
breach of public faith. The previous Il
quiry, the resolution asserts, was a mel
IA farce.
, Gladstone, the other evening at Waver
IA market Edinburgh delivered his thil