The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-29
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The merchants of Halifax petition the state
department for the retention of Consul Gen,
eral Frye.
Mr.. Mayor of Montreal has been fined 20 for
kissing his daughter, who has been adopted by
Mrs. Morn.
The customs officer at Regina, N. w. t., has
been fined for bringing s~pirituous liquors in
to the territory.
The health officer of Montreal has just
made the startling discovery that CHAMBERS is
widespread among the horses in that district,
and even as far as Quebec.
II is reported here that Russia has for som
months had at Cabul an agent disguised as o
native. The car, it is said, has presented
Gen Komarof 100, 600 roubles.
Edward Sheppard, proprietor of the Toronto
Daily News, was remanded to the criminal
assizes for allegedlibel in publishing that Col
0uimet, the commanding officer of the Sixty
fifth regiment. and Mai Dngas had shown the
white feather and refused TO proceed TO the
front with their regiment
Lieut.. John Loomis Shock, assistant naval
constructor of the United States navy, on special
duty at the Royal college, Greenwich, Eng
land, committed suicide by shooting himself.
Shock is said to have been engaged to q young
lady IN this country who was recently married,
and his friends attribute the suicldeto this dis
appointment
The earl of ROseberry, lord privy seal OF
Great Britain, has arrived and been received
by Bismarck The papen insist that his visit
has political significance and predict that the
result viii be new negotiations between Eng
land and Germany with regard to the affairs or
Egypt, and against the interest Of France IN
that country.
The Times says that the feeling Of anxiety
is growing and that the negotiations have come
to q standstill. British officers have arrived
at Herat and report that the Notifications of
Herat are stronger than they supposed they
were. a battalion of Russian engineers ID ex-
tending the Notifications at Sebastopol The
completion of the Russian ironclads in the
docks is being FASTENED. La Repnbliqne Fran
caise OF Paris announces that an Indian, the
reputed son of Mana 6ahib, leader of the SepoY
revolt in India, is at present an officer IN the
Russian army, and that he is treated with
princely hcncrs.
The state OF the negotiations between England
and Russia Is still enycloped in complete mys-
terry. The one thing certain Is that Russia to-
tally refuses to ratify the frontier line agreed
on between her envoy and the English govern.
ment Lord Granville and Nh. Gladstone OK
presely deny the report that Russia objects tt
English officers for terrifying Herat, or de-
mands the naturalization Of A~fghanistan
They admit that fresh difficulties have arisen
respecting arbitration and the arbitrator
England Is understood To object to the king q
Denmark, while Russia insists upon having
him. Nor have they succeeded in framing ar
agreement defining the limits Of arbitration
Mr.. Gladstone said that arbitration must In
nlx.Io ar4o fnw uuhfnI. tho voanQ0tivn UQVQrI1
ments were responsible This can only NEAR
q new effort TO induce Russia 10 submit Il
Koniorof's conduct TO inquiry. Altogether TIN
sifuatiogs under the strain of this prolonged
delay, has grown much grayer than It was las
week.