The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-07-23
Foreign Gossip.

Paris celebrated the anniversary Of the
fall of the Bastile by general holiday and
festival.
Miss Medora Hensen. an American So
prano has made decided success in Lon
don in concerts.
| Queen Victoria has raised to the peerage
Sir Robert Lindsay and Mr.. Reginold Bret
members OF parliament.
The Empress Augusta OF Germany offers
prize of 81 900 for the best portable hos
| pital tent for war or epidemic use.
Students having threatened to storm the
Belem penitentiary, CITY Of Mexico, and re-
| lease the imprisoned editors and students,
the government has placed q gordon Of pc:
lice around the building.
| Dispatches from Russia state that the
] harvest prospects throughout the empire
are the gloomest experienced for many
years. and that unless there is a general
! rain forthwith the whole crop will be lost.
The Russian government has ordered all
the students IN HussiaG universities to wear
a uniform obligatory on all solemnities,
festivals and official assemblies. The cap
and coat are dark blue and the trousers
are dark green.
London Cable A dispatch from Rome
states that a French officer and a soldier
| have been arrested by the italian authori.
ties at Fort Demonto, in the province OF
| CORN, Piedmont, with plans and copious
notes OF the Italian frontier in their pos.
session. The soldier has been conducted
beyond the frontier and released, while the
officer has been kept under arrest until the
matter can be inquired into.
The London Standard, referring to the
difficulties occurring in connection with
transfer Of certificates of the American rail
| al, ho 10 nf
the United States, says. ut is time that
| the stock exchange committee devised meas.
ures to avoid such troubles. It's trea tment
| OF American railway securities has hitherto
been too lax in every respect, as unfortu-
nate investors have found 10 theiF cast,"
In European circles at the City OF Mexico
there is talk Of favoring policy Of COM
mercial and financial ALLIANCE with England.
1t is believed that London capitalists would
like to SECURE control of the Central and
National railroads 1t is reported that the
English goyarnmentis not overwise to max
| ing strong friend OF MexiGp the policy beY
ing to built up the country and secure grow.
ing trade now being diverted to the United
| States,
! In the British house ai commons Ben,
| tipck, Conservative member for Whiteha-
ven, asked whether the Pail Mall Gazette 8
charges against the London police in con.
nection with that papers revelations OF in
iquity we're true. Sir Richard Assheton
| Cross, home secretary, replied that if tho
| facts were as stated by the Gazette, the full.
est inquiry would be made, and that he con,
sidered it his duty to go to the bottom OF
| the charges.
| In the house Of commons Lord Randolph
Churchill, replying to q question by Sir
| John Lubbock in regard to the reported
Russian advance in Aighanistan, stated
| that the government had heard Of the
movement. Speaking OF the hasty retire
ment OF the members OF the British Afghan
! frontier commission in the direction Of
| Herat, lord Randolph said that the Heratis,
fearing that the Russians contemplated q
descent on Herat, have invited Colonels
| Yates and Peacock TO enter tho city, and
the request had been complied with.