Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-06-10
THE OLD WORLD.

No progress has been made during tho
past week in allaying the discussions in the
British cabinet. The government is on the
verge of disruption. Mr.. Chamberlain, am
bilious to become an English premier, and
Sir Charles Dixie, radical, still stubbornly
refuse to assent to Gladstone's announced
policy of renewal of the Irish crimes act.
1t is true that the ':grand old man. retreat
ed from his original position on this ques-
tion far enough to admit that the govern
ment now was only to renew the bill modi-
fed, but the rebels in the cabinet insist that
there exists in Ireland to-day 10 reason and
no prospect Of any reason for renewal in
any form. While neither Mr.. Chamberlain
nor Sir Charles Dixie has personally stated
in npublic that he will resign from the cabinet
if the premier persists in his renewal policy,
tits generally understood, though they have
not actually threatened to do so, and it is
not believed that the modified policy an
nounced yesterday has in any way altered
the threat.
The Pail Mall Gazette says: We are
glad to be able to state upon the high
est authority that the long standing ques-
tion Of difference between England and
has been finally and satisfactorily settled.
A definite agreement has been arrived at
on all questions of principle. The commits
sioners will forthwith commence to mark
precisely the delimitation. They are nov
on the spot. The Penjdeh incident will be
referred to the king of Denmark, who has
informally agreed to accept the office of
arbiter. The arbitration will be rigidly
confined to the Interpretation of the sacred
covenant of March 16.
Princess Lidi Dolgorouki, daughter of the
late cars morganatic widow, has caused
quite social sensation in Berlin by ap-
pearing as public performer on the violin,
in gardens, concerts and exhibitions Her
conduct has disgusted her family and
society friends. The princess is an i'm
mense card and she never fails to draw
crowded houses.
The SANDER case of Charles W. Adams
against. Lord Coleridge has been comprom-
ised. The compromise or settlement re-
quires that Lord Coleridge shall give to Mr..
Adams $4,000 on the occasion of the mar
riage of Mr. Adams to Stildrid, daughter of
Lord Coleridge.
Herr Interbach, prominent journalist O.
Berlin, died, it was supposed, of ofhemorrhage
of diseased lung. Just as he was about to
be buried, it was found that he had been
killed in fight in restaurant. The muir
derer is unknown. The matter causes a
sensation.
Dispatches from Rome state that the
Catholic bishops of Erie, Nebraska and
Dakota, have left the city for home. Bish-
op Richter of Grand Rapids, Mich, and
the Bishop of Cleveland have arrived at
Rome, and been received by the pope.
Richard Lesclede, Hugo's private secreta-
ry, is about to publish volume of Hugo's
table talk. 1t will take fifteen years to pub
lish all his works, plays and correspondence
left in MSS.
The death rate in the Valencia cholera is
doubled. THE people are fleeing from the
infested districts. Notwithstanding any
statement to the contrary it is absolutely
certain that there is genuine cholera in
Madrid.
Three hundred houses and fifty shops
and three mosques, in the steamboat quar-
ter of the city, were destroyed by fire on
Sunday. One person was killed and many
were injured.
The Turkish government has sent 100
troops to Salonica on account Of the
threatening attitude of Russia on the
Belgium frontier.
The French man-of-war Renard, with a
crew of ninetytwo souls, is believed to
have foundered in the Red sea.