The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-11-06
FOREIGN.
The Balkan Conference Meets and
AdJourns to Saturday.
Norwegian Bark Foundered and
Twenty-Five Lives Lost.
Severe DenuncIations Of Gladstone
and His Cabinet.
Heavy Rains Ruin Crops in the Mid.
land Districts of England.

CoNsTANTINoPLE, Nov. 5-The first meet
ing of the Balkan conference took place to-
day. The business was limited to the ex-
changing of credentials and appointing of
officials. The conference will reassemble
Saturday, when the first formal session will
be held.
The Turkish government has contracted
with an English firm for a supply of White
head torpedoeS, with which its iron-clad
squadron will be equipped at an early date.
The total strength of Turkish troops now
modified is 100000 men. Great camps are
being formed on the Bulgarian, Servian and
Greek frontiers.
LONDON, Nov. 5.-The Balkan conference
opens with accord among the powers, on the
following basis: That the Treaty of Berlin
be nominally maintained; that Roumelia and
Bulgaria be kept separate, but be permitted
a personal union under Prince Alexander; ;
that an international commission fix COM
mon code of laws for the two States; that
their military budgets be kept separate: that
the Ronmelian militia be maintained, and the
Bulgarian troops be forbidden to cross their
own frontier. Queen Victorias influence is
used to keep Prince Alexander in power.
A Norwegian Bark Founders.
LONDON, Nov. 5.--The Norwegian bark
Aquila has foundered off Gothenburg and
% persons were drowned.
Heavy Rains in England.
Heavy rains are falling in the midland dis
tricts.- The water in some places is two feet
deep and is spelling the crops.
England and Burmah.
PARIS, Nov. 5.-The Burmese envoy has
again asked Lord Lyons, the British ambas-
sador, to obtain the consent of the English
government to negotiate with him. The dis
pute between Burmah and England is due to
a misunderstanding, the envoy says. He af-
firms that the Burmese government has al
ready telegraphed to the British agent at
Rangoon, announcing its readiness to accept
the proposed arbitration for the settlement
of the difficulty.
Doesn't Like Gladstone.
LONDON, Nov. 5.-Archdeacon Denison of
Taunton, in an election speech last evening,
said: Il have known Gladstone for 45 years,
but would not trust him with brass far
thing. The Wings nightly, before sleeping.
to Gladstone before morning" Somebody in
the crowd at this point cheered for Glad
stone, and Archdeacon Denlson retorted,
"You might equally as well cheer for the
devil"
LONDON, Nov. 5.--John Tyndal the sci
enlist, has written letter, in which he de.
clines to stand as candidate for member of
Parliament for Renfrew. He says the at
mosphere of the House would not suit him.
He denounced the Gladstone cabinet, which
he says, aided by an unstable ruler. caused
five years of humiliation abroad and confu-
sion at home. Recalling the events in the
Transvaal and in the Soudan, Mr.. Tyndal
says: s'If there be day of retribution for
the misdeeds of men, would not willingly
accompany to the judgment seat the unpurg-
ed spirits of those who were responsible for
the blood shed in the Soudan. 1t was dam
ming and damnable business from beginning
to end. Yet the man who is answerable
beyond all others for this loss of blood, who
sent Gordon to the wilds and there abandon
ed him to death and mutilation, now dares
talk to the people Of Midlothian as if no
f1eck rested on his workmanship.
The Conservatives are distributing Tyn-
dal's letter broadcast.
Selected for Parliament.
DUBLIN, Nov. 5.-The Nationalists of
Wexford, in convention today selected
Messrs. Barry and John Redmund as their
candidates for members of Parliament in
the coming election. Parnell, in speech,
said coercion had been crushed out, and CO.
ercers hurled from power, and that there
was no longer any question OF peddllng mu-
nicipal and other petty reforms, as lreland's
legislative independence was drawing near.
Foreign Notes.
Robert Thornuru, R. A., noted miniature
painter of London, is dead.
The monetary conference at Paris has
Belgium, having arrived at an agreement
No deaths from cholera have occurred in
the town of Bilboa, Spain, but deaths occur
daily in the environs.
The report of the capture of the Cacerest
commander, Romeno Y. Flores, is confirmed
at Lima, Peru.
The report that the Duke of Edinburg will
be appointed commander of the Mediterra-
mean squadron is confirmed.
The German government will prosecute
the Volks Zeitung for Gbeling the Gar The
charge Of libel is based on an expression
charging the Gar with despotism, which
was published in the Zeitung.
A Chilian paper contains the report of no
less than five cases of deliberate murder.
One of the victims was a woman conductor
on a street car.
The complete details of the fire which
broke out in Colon recently, show that six
new buildings, together with valuable con-
tents, were destroyed.
The work of building breakwater at La
Guayra, on the coast, a few miles from Cara
cas-, is to be commenced at once. The entire
breakwater will cost $40,0OO,000. The En-
glish company which is doing the work rec
ompenses itself with tolls for 80 years.