The Portland daily press., 1885-03-19
THE OLD WORLD.
News by Cable from Different
Countries.
An Explosion Of Fire Damp Causes the
Death OF Many German Miners.
A Terrible Crime Committed
Near Dublin.
A General Advance to be Made from
Suakim ion Friday.
Affairs in Egypt.


SUAKIM, March 18.-A general advance toward
Tamas will be made from here next Friday. Spies
continue to report that the Amarar tribe of Arabia
will desert the Mahdi and join the British at the
first opportunity.
Seventy i've thousand blankets have been ordered
for the troops in Egypt.
KoRTI. March 18.-It is estimated that reinforce
ments to the extent of per cent. of the present
autumn owing to the large number of cases of
sickness and death from heat. The camel drivers
refuse to remain here, navigation OF the Nile is
very difficult, and transportation Of the wounded is
tedious.
The Russo English Trouble.
LONDON, March 1S.-The Standards correspond
ent at st. Petersburg says that Gen. Kamarof actu:
ally demanded permission to attack Penjeh a few
days ago. The counseis of NJ. de Giers and other
peace ministers prevailed, however, and the con-
fict was averted.
LawIessness in Ireland.
DUBLIN March 18.-There is no little excite
ment on the line of the Cork and Bandon Railroad
today. 1t is oecasoned by the finding of the bodies
of two men who had been frightfully hacked to
death with knives and then thrown across the
tracks to be mangled beyond recognition. The un-
fortunate men had evidently been engaged in
terrible struggle Wild their assaants The tragedy
Is surrounded with mystery.
LATER.
DUBLIN, March 18.-The mystery of the two
corpses found hacked and mutilated on the track
of the Cork & Bandon railroad has been solved by
the police. 1t appears that the four men who had
been celebrating st. Patricks day at Cork started
to walk home along the line of the Bandon railroad
They were all drunk and quarrel occurred. The
men fought desperately with knives and two were
killed. The survivors were badly cut but managed
to drag the two dead bodies on the railroad track
SO that they might be run over by train and evi.
dence of the fight destroyed. The two survivors
have been arrested.
Disgracefui Scene.
VIENNA, March 1S.-A disgraceful scene occurred
during the session of the Austrian chamber of rep.
resentatives today. Two deputies, one of whom is
Pole and the other German, became engaged in
an angry debate during which insulting pers0nali-
ties were banded back and forth. A great uproar
ensued. during which violent scenes were enacted
The president was powerless TO preserve even
sembiance of order At last the original disputants
were separated by their friends and the
hastily adjourned.
Imprisoned in Mime.
BERLIN March 18.-A terrible disaster occurred
in the mining valley of Camphausen, near ssar-
braecken this morning, by which 1t ia believed
fully 200 miners lost their lives. The explosion
cure in one of the large mines. The miners had
hardly begun the days work, when the hre-damp
becoming lgnted, exploded, causing heavy cave-in
around the shaft and entrance to the mine. Over
200 men are known to have been in the mine at the
time OF the explosion, and all efforts reach them
have been unsuccessful. 1t is feared that they
have all been crushed to death or asphyxiated The
scenes in and around the mines are hearth ending
The wives, mothers ana children of the imprisoned
men have hocked around the entrance to the mine,
sobbing Historically and imploring God to help
At~-HA
low.
[LATER.]
Latest reports from the of the colliery dis
aster Camphausen state that 90 bodies have been
recovered from the wrecked niue. There are still
1O2 men and boys unaecounted for. The work of
exploration is being pushed as actively possible
but it is almost certain that all who in the
mine must be dead as the main shaft and air ap-
psratus were destroyed by the explosion.
A Royal Mason.
LONDON, March 1S.-Last night in the Royal
Alpha Lodge, in the presence of large company of
Masons, Prince Edward, heir presumptive to the
Wales, his father, heir apparent Grand Master and
for some time working Mason in the Office Of
Worshipful Master.
The Princes' Visit.
DOVER, March 18.-The Prince of Wales, Duke
of Edinburgh and Prince Albert Victor, son of the
Prince of Wales sailed for Calais today enroute to
Berlin.
LONDON, March 18.-Rumors are current in this
city that the Prince of Wales while In Ireland
will announce that the Duke o. Connaueht and fam
lily. after their return from India will reside in
Dublin, the Duke succeeding Earl Spencer as Lord
Lieutenant of ireland,
En the Commons.
LONDON, March 1S.-In the House of Commons
this afternoon, Mr. Hugh Chders; chancellor of the
exchecquer, said that the convention which was
signed by the powers concerned the settling of the
Egyptian financial question provided for loan of
$4,000, goo which was internationally guaranteed
ny INC SIX powers VINO were Responsible Jointly and
severally in the sum of e375 900 yearly. The
sinking fund debt would be the first charge on the
Egyptian revenues. The interest on the coupon
bonds will be reduced to five per centum and the
British Suez Canal shares ito two and half per
centum. The powers will have financial control of
the Susz Canal for two years, the management to
be in charge of an international board Foreigners
would also be subject to taxation.
Cable Notes.
England will submit two proposals to the Suez
canal commission: First, that the canal be declared
an arm Of the sea- second that it shall be an abso-
lutely neutral waterway.
Mr.. Gladstone has given notice that he will offer
motion in opposition to the Parnelite motion to
censure the speaker of the House of Commons for
suspendiDg Mr.. OBrion
The German acquisitions on the northern coast of
New Guinea have been officially named "Haiser
Wilhems Land Frederick Wilhelm's Hafen''
and prince Henrich's Haven"
thousands of colliers in the southwest of York
shire have been notified of 10 per cent reduction
in wages.