New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-05-20
FOREIGN NEWS GOSSIP.

The shah of Persia has recently given $500
to the erection of Presbyterian church in
|. Lamadin. "
Lord Vernon is engaged to marry Miss Law
renee, an American woman, whom he met at
Pau last winter.
Middleton sends Lord Melgund:: to Ottawa
with dispatches to the government It's be-
ieved that he wants more troops
The earl Of Dudley, who died recently, was
ashrewd coal dealer, and monomaniac, con-
stantly imagining himself en- ceiute. H. 3,
Gen. Middleton had another fight with the
rebels at Batoche's Crossing, but there seems
to- be some doubt as to the actual result + ~
A lot of Russian emigrants to Dakota were
kidnapped across the line by Canadian Pacific
agents, and it cost them 81, 900 to get back. s-
The large gap in the Canadian Pacific rail
road on the north shore Of Lake Superior,
1. forty-two miles long, was closed recently.
The three Italians at Chicago arrested for al
legged participation in the murder of Caruso,
practically confessed to the preparation Of the
murder.
Sir John Macdonald got so mad and viole1i
in the dominion house, the other day, over thA
to order.
It has been decided at a special cabinet
council to Immediately begin the partial evac-
uatlon Of the Soudan This movement is to be
made deliberately, and for the present an
effective garrison is to be maintained at Saukilu
and a strong force retained at Wady Halfa.
Bismarck will close the chateau of Schon.
hansen, keeping the Varzin and Tried
ricksruhe estates as his sole residence: Since
receiving the gift of the Schonhausen estate
he has become nesof the richest proprietors
in Prussia, his yearly income being $4,000
a The ultamontane newspapers in Prussia
raise a great cry that Prof. Mommsen, the
great historian of Rome, while studying code
in the Vatican library, kept his seat when the
pope passed through his library, while the
rest of those present either fell Oh their knees
or bowed deeply
The Northwest will get the bulk Of the
emigration from Germany and the Scandina-
Wan countries this year. The tide. from Eng
land is setting toward Washington Territory
and British Columbia. The emigration to
Manitoba is said to have. practically closed,
One day, recently, the empress of Austria
left the Santa Cecilia, Lord Alfred Paget'
steam yacht, at Deal and walked from thence
to Dover. On arriving at Dover she went by
train to Follzstone, walked back, and then re-,
joined the yacht, having walked no less than
eighteen miles during the day.
The Princess Louise Northwestern commit
mittee, in London, England, issued its first APP
peal to the public for subscriptions few days
ago. Princess Louise is president of the COM
mittee, which comprises a large number Of
leading bankers and inanciers. The utmost
dispatch will be shown in sending surgeons
and materials
The imperial council of war at St. Peters
burg has ordered the transfer of military and
medical stores from Kornovad to Askabad,
and have instructed the naval department to
equip 1900 men, The Berlin papers have
changed their tone and are now dwelling upon
the amicable relations between England and
Germany. The Paris Journal des Debats
and Temps praise MIR. Gladstane for securing
peace. The papers to be published on the
Afgan question will not contain the terms of
the frontier convention. which will not be
made public until the convention has been
concluded. Grave doubts are expressed as to
whether the government will adhere to the
decision to resign if defeated and the result
will depend upon the Parnellites.