The National tribune., 1885-04-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The News from all Parts Of the
World.
ABROAD.

The Turkish authorities are taking extra
ordinory precautions to protect Tripoli agains
sny attempt ON the part of France 10 seize Ia
Province. Heavy guns are being mounted il
such positions as TO command the entrance 4
the port of Tripol new fortifcations are belD,
built, and torpedoes have been placed in thu
hsrbor and along the coast The garrison o
the city of TTipoli has been increased to 20,0r
men. The Porte has ordered five regiment
now auarteTed at Beyrout and SalOuica Il
TripeIi-The Chilian Government has sold
two torpedo launches 10 oEugland.--Forty thou
ssnd coal miners arc now on strike lii York
ahire, England. alone against the 10 per cent. re-
duction in wages ordered on April 1.-Noth
ing Of much importance has occurred in the
Soudan during the past week Four miles Ol
the Suakim- Berber Railway have been con-
structed. Gen. Graham has issued pr0elama-
ton, in which he urges the rebels 10 submit to
the British and send in supply of provisions
and cattle, for which he promises they shall be
paid; otherwise, they must take the cOnse-
Quences. An official proclamation has also
been issued at Constantinople, stating that the
Mahdi, acting IN opposition TO the principles
Of IsIamism, has carried his sedit0us au-
dacity to the extent Of issuing further incen-
diary maBifestoes in Hedjaz and Yemen against
Ottoman domination. Mussulmans will regard
the SOudanese sgitator as an impostoT and a
robber chief of the worst kind, and Will treat
with the same profound contempt as heretofore.
The Prince and Princess of Wales reached
Dublin last week, from which point they start
on tour of Ireland, They were received very
heartily by the populace.-A great number
Of deaths have lately taken place in various
parts of Spain. Physicians state they were
caused by cholera. but have made no official
admission to this effect to the board of health.
An isolation of infected persons has, however.
been directed. There were 40 new cases of the
disease supposed TO be cholera at Jativa, in the
Province Of Valencia last week, aud 20 deaths.
The press and public are positive that the
disease is Asiatic cholera. Three days
quarantine has been ordered at Marseilles
France, against arrivals from Spain, on account
of the suspected prevalence OF cholera at Span
ish ports.-An earthquake WIS felt i'm Anda-
lusia. Spain. on the Ilth inst. Several houses
fell, but nobody was injured.-Twenty thou
sand unemployed workmen met in Hyde Park,
London. Sunday last. Five platforms had been
erected from which speeches were made. Res
oiutions were adopted asking the Government to
reduce the working day to eight hours, and TO
provide public works for the unemployed.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES
In Chicago OF the 9th force of Pinkerton
dett etives, who had been engaged in guarding
the Mccormick Reaper Works, where trouble
from the strikers was feared, while driving
away from the works in an omnibus, met sew
erYl hundred of the strikers. The latter the
detectives claim, seized the horses. wheTeupon
the detectives fired upon the crowd, fatally
wounding George Roth, an old man. Four of
the DETECTIVES were arrested. At night as some
Of the dt tective returned 10 the works, they
were fired upon by the strikers.-In Chicago
On the Sth Edward Lambert, % years of age,
called at the house of his mother in-law, Mrs.
Ann A. Nalligan. To see his wife, from whom
he had been estranged. He shot and killed
Mrs Muiligan, shot and dangerously wounded
his wife, aud then fatally shot tlimself.-Ncl-
son Edwards. New York dentist committed
suicide in that city On the Sth inst by cutting
his throat and body with a razor, inficting 10
wounds in ell. Insanity is supposed TO have
been the cause of the aet.-At Wilkes Barre
Pa, on the 9Th inst, Nm. Fl. Carroll, the former
labor agitator and the originator of miners
unions throughout Pennsylvania. fatally shot
Henry Taylor, business rival.-While a
school-house WAS being demolished at Mauch
Chunk. Pa, Monday of last week, the walls fell
and buried boy and man in the debris. The
former was killed and the latter was badly in
1ured. oh the 9Th inst, in Newport. KY,
Mr.. Mcmillan boarded street car in whis h
John. l.. Cummings. a clerk in the First Ma
tionai Bank OF Cincinnati. was passenger, and
saying: Il have you now fired three balls
into his body, causing Instant death II is said
he Killed Cummings in revenge for the ruin of
his aaiighter.-The body of Geo. Farnsworth
was ioand hear ROssvile, o., Sunday evening
hast with his throat cat. He had Just bou ght
farm. and Is supposed TO have been murdered
tor the purchase-money, which he had with
him.--Jno. ID. Mckee, an oil broker. of Pitts
burg, Pa, committed suicide by shooting him
Self on Wednesday of last week. He was i'll,
and recently met with heavy reVerscs.-Da-
vid l.. Davis was killed in the Montana mines at
Mt. Carmel, Pa, Oh the 9TH inst. HIS wife had
previously lost two husbands by accident in col
lieries.-The Leon Hotel at Tallahassee, Fla,
was burned to the ground on the 9Th inst The
fire was caused by a defective fue in the
kitchen, and for lack of eytinguishing appa-
ratus the entire building was quickly con-
sumed. The structure was only two years old,
and. with tue furniture, cost $4,000. The
fnsnrance is supposed TO be smail.-A dis
patch from CoshoctOn, o.. says Gov. Hoadly
last Monday received an Internal machine in
closed in wooden box and loaded with dyna-
mite. It's character was discovered, and de-
tecnves are investigating the case.-COl. s.
&. Mower, one of the editors of the Milwaukee
sa' day Telegraph, shot himself in the head on
the 10Th inst, with suicidal intent and died
TWO hours afterward.
INDUSTRIAL
The war news on the 10th inst sent -four up
u per barrel at Minneapolis. c. A. PiIlsbnry
Il TO. made deal of $500, 900 barrels and a
profit OF Sl25000. Washbun & Crosby made
atdl Oh E,boU,UJo barrels, with 2 profit OF
&lo0.000.-The business failures occurring
throughout the country during the seven days
ending April ii number for the United States
lo9. aad for Canada 23 or total of 2I2 as
comparrd with total of 23l last week, and 277
the week previous. showing a steady decrease. |
Failures are lessening in all sections of the
country except the South.
MIscELLANEOUs
The Pennsylvania House Of Representatives |
has passed finally the act making il misde- |
meauor 10 keep or maintain place or Joint for |
thesmoking of0pium.-Richard Grant White |
the weIl-known author is dead He was a |
ShaIsspert an scholar aud critic Of considerable |
reputation, hut was best known as phlologist |
by his Words and Their Uses" and similar |
works.-As precantion against the cholera |
health inspectors commenced a house-to- |
house inspection in Phiiadelphia on the |
sth inst. Every house in the city Is to |
be inspected. 1.-The Mayor Of Philadelphia |
last week issued orders 10 the police |
looking 30 the suppression of sparring with !
gloves in every place of amusement in the city. |
Judge Van Brunt has granted a motion for |
q commission TO England 10 take testimony in |
the case of Lucille Yseut Dudley, who shot |
ODonovan Rosa. Her trial is stayed until the |
return of the commission of the largest !
land and cattle trades ever made in America |
was closed at Fort Worth. Tex, on the 10Th |
inst. The property of the EspHela Land and |
Cattle Company. embracing 900 head of cattle |