River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-07-02
Foreign Gossip.

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S. L. Phelps, ex-United States minister
to Peru, dies at Lima,
1t is reported in London that Miss Marie
Van Zandt is engaged to be married to a
Russian grand duke, who met her in St
Petersburg and followed her to London.
dispatch from Rome states that Rev
DR.. Walsh, president OF Maynooth college
has been appointed by the pope archbishop
OF Dublin, to succeed the late Cardinal Arch.
bishop McCabe.
The London Standard in an editorial on
Ger. Gordon's diary, says: 1t is such
| crushing Indictment OF Mr. Gladstone's pol
icy that there is hardly room to feel regret
for the few expurgations made.
Berlin has serious strike OF stone
masons. The efforts Of the strikers to pre-
vent other masons from working on build
| ings in process of erection have led to riots,
and many arrests have been made.
Mr. Goshen, in an address before the Man
chester (Eng) chamber of commerce, said
there would be no hope OF removing the in
security OF trade with silverusing countries,
until we know what the United States viii
do regarding the Bland bill.
Private advices from Berlin state that
| the Emperor William is worse. He cannot
! talk or listen TO the reading OF reports, or
do the least work without fits OF sOmno-
| lency, which are most frequent during the
| day, while at night heis restless.
The reception given United States Misis-
ter Pendleton by Emperor Wilhelm was OF
very cordial character. They conversed for
a short time in very friendly terms The
emperor expressed the best feeling toward
| both America and the American people.
The Vienna municipal authorities failing
! to obtain an offer from the government to
| buy the town hall for use as a public office,
! have decided to demolish that structure.
| 1t was erected in 1888, and the press con-
dennis its destruction as an act of Nandla-
| ism.
| At Funfairchen, Hungary, Her Lisch, the
/ inventor Of new dynamite patents, which
! have been sold in America and elsewhere
! was killed by a dreadful explosion which
occurred in his house while he was packing
boxes. His mother was also killed. The
roof OF the house was blown off.
Charles Warren Adams and Miss Mildred
Coleridge daughter Of the lord chief justice
of England, were married recently. A ma
ternal uncle was tho officiating clergyman.
Lord Coleridge was asked by his daughter
| to attend her wedding. He refused, and in
| consequence no other members of the
family Of Lord Coleridge were invited.
! The following appointments have been
made: Sir Henry Holland, secretary to the
| treasury; Right Hon. Robert Bourke, under
/ foreign secretary; Charles Dalrymple, under
| secretary of the home department; the
| earl OF Mount Edgecombe lord steward the
| earl of Latham, lord chamberlain; the earl
| OF Bradford, master of the horse; the mar
| quis of Waterford, master OF the buck
| hounds; Messrs. Dalrymple, Herbert and
| Walroud, members Of parliament, junior
| lords OF the treasury and Rowland VIM,
| patronage secretary.
| In reply TO the manifesto by Cardinal
! Pitra supporting the intransigent Catholic
press in stating that the church 10 going to
| wreck and ruin under the present pope s
| direction as compared with that OF the
| former pope, Leo has written to Cardinal
| Guilbert strongly asserting his right to en-
| force uncOmDrOmisug obedience to the
| reigning pontiff The letter has created a
| sensation Cardinal Pitra has written to
! the pope a humble, submissive apology.
| The Liberal press receives the pope's letter
most favorably.
The queen has conferred the order OF the
| garter upon Earl Reinberly, and the grand
| cross of the order OF the Bath upon Wis
! counts Everslev and Sherbrook. Her mai
| estv also made r. w. Hamilton, Gladstone S
| private secretary, companion of the order
| OF the Bath. Sir Reginald Welby, assistant
| financial secretary, will succeed Sir X. r. w.
! Luigon, as permanent secretary iii the
! treasury, the latter having been raised to
| the peerage. Sir Harry Verney and Sir Ar
| thur 0thway, members ofparliament, have
been appointed members OF the pfsEy coun