The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-10-04
FOREIGN TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.


Egypt for the present.
Ell Mahdi will reinforce his troops oper-
atlng before Khartoum.
A Shanghai dispatch reports that 4, 800
troops are sick in Tonquin.
The French transport Avyron was re-
Gently wrecked off Cape Guardifui.
The French occupied the bay of Passem-
dove, Madagascar, August Sth, and erected
fort.
Since the outbreak of cholera in Naples
there have been 10,203 cases and 5,305
deaths.
A fund will be shortly started in Dublin
in behalf of the families of the Birming.
ham dynamiters.
The Dublin Frccmans Journal has two
libel suits on hand. The aggregate amount
sued for is $S5,0O0.
Agitation in regard to the new educa-
ton bill, which the King of Belgium has
already signed, still continues.
Twenty-one persons have been arrested
at Vienna, charged with completely in
Buchmann's anarchist schemes.
The failure of Thomas Fawcett, private
banker of London, Ont, has had a de-
Prince Bismarck has gone back to Var
sin. Before leaving Berlin he paid visit
to Baron De Courcel, the French minister.
Advices from London state that the In
dian crops are reported as improving at
Madras; however there is still drouth.
The autumn manoeuvers of the German
army at Dusseldorf was concluded last
week with a review of the Rhineland
corps.
Says Limerick dispatch: All the pigs
brought to the regular fortnightly market
here are unsold, owing to the strike of the
butchers.
The British gunboat Wasp was wrecked
of Eary Island, on the northern coast of
Ireland recently, and fifty-two msn were
drowned.
The Chinese have spread over the north
srn portion of the province of Quong Yen,
and are levying contributions upon the in
habitants.
Three thousand people at White Bay,
Labrador, are starving. An appeal for aid
has been forwarded to the Newfoundland
government.
The director Of the Rationale, a Brus-
sells newspaper, has been expelled from
the country for publishing violent repub-
lican articles.
Says Paris dispatch: Count De Paris.
in acknowledging the Pope's benediction
on his son, sent l COO francs as a contribu-
tion to the Peter Pence's fund.
The inhabitants of Meracuch and Berlin
in the Soudan are frightened at the ap-
proach of the English expedition and
many are fleeing from their homes.
The Berlin National Gazette expresses
belief that Germany, Austria and Rus
sia will support any step taken by France
in regard to the Egyptian financial ques-
tion.
Ebensburg, proprietor of the Hotel
Splendide, Paris, was arrested at Lisbon
recently, as he was about to depart on the
steamer Oregon for La Plata, on q charge
of fraud.
The Paris Telegraph asserts that diff
ference of views between Prime Minister
Ferry and General Camperon, minister OF
war, is expected to lead to the resignation
OF the latter.
A disastrous fire occurred at Zeltowr
(Syria) bazaar, last week. Five hundred
houses were consumed. The fire has oc
casioned much suffering among the resi-
dents Of the town.
Lord Lyons, British ambassador te
France, recently made an appeal to Prime
Minister Ferry to open the government
ship building yards in order to provide
work for starving laborers.
The Berlin TagblaH says that Germany
is negotiating with Spain for the purchase
Of the island of Fernando Pc, with q
view of strengthening the position of the
German settlements in west Africa.
A London cablegram of last week says
A further order for 100000 pounds of com
pressed beef has been given to Chicago
firm, making o total of ZOO, 900 pounds ot
beef ordered for the Nile relief expedition
The London Daily Telegraph declares
that the English government has finally
realized the necessity of a British protec
torate over Egypt, and that is the mean
ing of Lord Northbrook's journey to that
country.
A Paris journal publishes an article ovel
the signature of Maine Herve, a vel
known Orleanist, in which the writer as
serts that the relations between England
and France are so strained that a rupture
is feared.
All passengers arriving at Malta from
England are prohibited from landing un
less they can produce certificates that they
have not been in any cholera infected dis
tricts during twenty-one days previous t6
their embarkation.
A desperate conflict took place recently
at Rowndie, province of Saratov, Russia
between German and Russian peasants
attending the annual fair. Eleven persons
were killed, including one gendarme, anC
thirty were wounded.
The United States frigate Quinebaue
has arrived at Antwerp. The Quinebaue
frigate reported on Marlborough rock or
the night of the 18th ult., and later fioatec
off without assistance.
General Lord Wolseley has started III
the Nile without awaiting the further ar
rivals of troops. Merchants from FL ObeiC
report that FL Mahdi has twenty krupI
with Remington rifles.
The miners in the gold diggings recently
discovered on the Skeena river, in British
Columbia, say the Indians are in state o
revolt, and issue an advertisement calling
on all whites who may contemplate visit
ing the diggings to come armed.
The London correspondent of wei
known American newspaper has elopeC
with the wife of an English nobleman
Detectives tracked the fugitives to Brus
sells, but the scent was lost in that city
and they are believed to have taken pass
age to the colonies.
An important conference of steel.rai
manufacturers of England, Germany ana
Belgium has just been held at Bonn. II
was decided to form an international com
bination of all the leading manufacturers