The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1884-02-02
LIVING ON D0G-MEAT.
SAD PLIGHT OF slNkATs CITIZENS.
The Condition Of Anairs at Tokar No Bettor
Tho Austrian Capital Placed Under
Martial Law--De BraazA
Reported Slain.
CANNES FoR FOOD,

CAIRo, Feb. la German, formerly
servant In the Office Of Hicks Pasha has
Joined El Mahdl and been made General.
Peace has been completely restored on the
Egypto- Abyslnlan frontier, and trade
reopened between Kassala and Masorrah.
II IL Gald that the beeaguered
people OF Snkat have eaton all
tho dogs In tho town, and only
horses and ono baE OF barley remain.
Nothing will DO left February l. when, un.
less relieved, the inhabitants intend 10 try
10 cut their way 10 Suaklm. They say
they would rather be killed than starye.
General Gordon has left AssOuan en- rOute
for KhartOum. He has written q letter 20
Ia Mahdl asking him 10 send
his European prisoners 10 Khar-
toum, Gordon left his specie at Assouan,
and will receive advances OF Rlle,00 from
tho Greek merchants at Khartoum.
Colonel Sart0rls telegraphs from Suakm
that Slnkat and Tokar are still holding out,
and that ho Is going 10 join Baker Pasha ut
IrInkltat Baker Pasha recently made o
cavalry reconnaissance, and attacked Osman
Dlgna and killed and wounded over ono
hundred and twenty Of his men.
LONDON, Feb, 1.-The commander at
TOkar, In tho SOudan, writes; " II would
DO impossible for our condition 10 be
worse, The rebels have filled up oil the
wells outside town. The water inside Ia
bracklsh and bad, and tho troops ARE suffer.
Ing from dlarrhea. There Il great fear that
II will bo necessary shortly 10 surrender.
Only ten 10 twenty rounds OF ammunition
per man IL still left The rebels continue
firing day and night"
vienna, Feb l,--Thls city, KOOfnuberg
and Wiener Nenstadt have been placed un-
der martial law. This net has been carried
out In the apprehension OF further SOolalstlc
disturbances. Special measures have also
been adopted with reference 10 suspicious
letters and dangerous publications. and In
this city and k0ernuberg trial by jury has
been suspended, BY this ordinance persons
may bo imprisoned for week without
trial; jurlcs are replaced by six Judges, and
private houses may be searched NJ any time
without warrants
LONDON, Feb, 1.-Two lnyalded mem.
bors Of Stanley's expedition 10 the Congo
River have arrived at Madeira. II is their
positive opinion that DO Brazla, OF the
French expedition, IL dead, rs, At the last
accounts hc was surrounded by hostile ma.
tiyes, who refused 10 allow his followers "
approach him,
LONDON, Feb i,--Mr. Gladstone Thurs
day gave audience TO deputation from the
Leeds Liberal Conference, asking an oxton.
sion OF suffrage; 10 party OF Indian resi-
dents OF London, who presented n birthday
address; 10 n battalion OF trades-union dele
gates, introduced by Joseph Arch, and 10
u dopul0tlon from the Metropolitan Liberal
Associations, who seek municipal reforma
The failure OF T. w. Thomas Sons h
Co, brokers, astonShod the London Stock
Exchange, especially as one OF the partners
has abscondod Their liabilities arc eS35,.
900 sterling, and the Cornish Bank and an
insurance company are heavy losers, The
firm carried large amounts Of Grand Trunk
securities on speculation.