The National tribune., 1885-01-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The News from All Parts Of the
World.
ABROAD.


Monday evening of last week. Although the
mortality at Malaga from the earthquake has
been small. the panic is extreme Many people
sre iii from pure terror. AT nightfail people
forsake their houses and congregate IN the gar
dens in the suburbs. Trade is at standstliI,
and many shops are closed. Orders have peen
issued that vehicles pass through the streets
slowly, for fear the Earring effect of their
passing cause the weakened buildings to col
fapse. The towns in the Province of Malaga
sutfered much more than the city itself. Many
villages are destitute of food. The clergy and
the religious bodies have shown great GOODNESS
and bravery and have done much to allay the
panic During the week shocks OF more or less
violence have been felt. On the 9TH sharp
shock of earthquake occurred at Lo)a, winch
damaged 800 houses and injured seven persons
Fifteen thousand persons have already left
Grenada The peope are of opinion that the
end of the world is at hand, ana are asking
dissolution from the priests. The village OF
Gueyear is slowly sliding downward to the
valley. An opening has appeared IN the noun
tain at Otivar, from which smoke is reported
TO be issuing. The subterranean rumbllngs
and detouations are fearlul.-China is act
lively continuing her recruiting, and is fortiiy-
ing strongly all exposed points. She consid-
eys that the prolonged negotiations, in advance
of open hostilities, viii prove "a greater drain
upon France than upon her own resources.
China also counts upon German attack upon
France when the latter becomes deeply In
yolved. German officers many of whom are
travelling under aliases or as missionaries,
continue 10 arrive in China and are engaged
actively in drilling Chinese troops.-lt is
stated that France and Germany have come TO
an agreement in regard to Egypt. France will
next week reply TO the English proposals re-
specting Egyptian finances, stating her oblec-
tions to them and presenting scheme OF her
own England, it is expected, will refuse 10
sccept the French scheme, and Prince Bismarck
will thereupon propose a conference OF the
Powers Gladstone, the English premier,
is in bad health. and it is feared he will retire
from politics before long He has had fifty
continuous years of public life.-Prince Al
bert Victor the elder son of the Prince of
Wales, attained his majority on the 9Th inst
Madame Clovis Hughes, who shot the black
mailer Norm, for traducing her, was acquitted
In Paris on the Sth inst.-Gen. Stewart
started from Gakdul last week with 1000 men
to march TO Mctemneh, on the Nile, near
Shendy The Ameer Of Sangars, the MahdTs
Lieutenant opposed to Gen. Stewart has been
REINFORCED by tribes sent by Osman Digna
from the Eastern Soudan. These REINFORCE
ments raise his number TO 5000 men. The
odds thus presented are not considered more
formidable than existed at the battles of the
Teb and Tamanieb little less than year ago.
The Mahdi has Calling guns, 20 cannon, some
300 skilled artillerymen, and altogether from
10000 to 10000 tribesmen, many Of them armed
with rifles. 0sman Digna has become alarmed
at the British advance to Shendy, and is vainly
trying to rally the rebels TO oppose them. 1t
is officially stated that messenger arrived at
Khartoum on the 9th uit bearing a letter from
Gen Lord Wolseley to Gen. Gordon. The mes
senger left Khartoum on the 2Sth, but was
captured and beaten. The papers intrusted TO
him by Gen. Gordon were taken from him,
with the exception of a small note which was
In his clothes, and which said that all was we'll
st khartoum.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
The steamer Belle Of Shreveport. from Gin
cinnati to New orleans went down near Island
No. &C. She had 100 cabin passengers on board,
but no lives were lost.-Maj. Chas. B. Brady,
of 81. Louis who was one Of Gen. McClellan's
boGy-guar1, committed suicide Thursday night
OF last week by shooting himself through the
bead.-William Pearson, of Chepale, W. L.,
an ardent SpiritGalist, under the delusion that
he had received divine command, killed his
infant child last week, and then together with
his wife,-asilnilar crank, COMMITTED suicide
On the 9Th inst. John Varek, the track
walker on the Lehigh Valley Railroad between
Newport and Faryiew, was attacked by tramps,
robbed and beaten nearly to Thomas
Phelan, so-called Irish agtator, was stabbed,
and probably MORALLY wounded, in 0'Donovan
Rossa's Office. New York City, by a man
named Barker. Phelan was suspected of hav-
ing betrayed some of the nefariouS plots of the
Gynamiters.--Seyen men were frozen to death
on the Aiobrara River road in Nebraska last
week. Two of them, frozen still and sitting
upright in their buggy, were brought Tito
station by the horse.-The Carmichael Manu-
featuring Company's two mills at Richmond,
3. l. were burned on the 6th inst. Loss, $751;
000.-The striking miners started riot at
Angus Iowa. on the 9Th inst They drove all
the miners who were at work out OF the town,
beating and kicking them badly. One man at
Keystone Mine, No. 2, defended himself, and
was killed. Six others are reported to be seri-
ously wounded. The town is in possession of
the strikers, and there is no telling what the
result will be.-Wm Bergman, of Baltimore,
Nd, blew out the gas when retiring on the
9TH inst. and was characterization Nc
Farland, of Talbot Co., Ga, died last week
from the effects of a bite from a rabid dog
about month ago The boiler Of the steam
tug Mike Dougherty exploded at Elizabeth,
Pa, on the 18th inst, killing two of the crew
and seriously injuripg fve.-Lewis Carl
stabbed and killed his son Charles aged 81
years, near Seldersville, Pa, on the 9th inst,
FOR interfering in a quarrel between father and
mother.
INDUSTRIAL.
The Chicago RaiiicGy Age states that the
1854 was Is, with total mileage of 40 miles ;
bonded debt of 1851 900; capital stock, 3d.
$4,000. There has been q steady decrease in
the number of railway foreclosures during the
past nine years. During that period 306 roads,
with aggregate mileage of nearly 26.000
miles and sl.500O00,0O0 in bonds and stocks,
have been sold under foreclosure The num-
Der Of roads placed in the hands of receiv-
ers during 1854 was g. with mileage OF II 900
miles, a bonded debt of $407, 100000, and a
capital stock of 1907, 100000. These figures
indicate nearly nine per cent. of the present
railway mileage of the United States, and
nearly II per cent. of the total bonded debt
by the suspension of work by the Red Ash
Coal Company of WiIkes-Barre, Pa, on the
18th inst. nearly 1000 men and boys will DO
thrown out Of employment.
POLITICAL.
Senator Vest has been nominated for re-clec-
ton % the u 6. Senate by Democratic causus
IT Jefferson City, Mo-Scnator Walker, of
Arkansas, has declined 10 lie q candidate for re-
election TO the y. S. Senate.-Hon. John p
Jones has been nominated by the Republican
eancus OF the Nevada Legislature to succeed
himself rs q. 5. Scnator.-President-e
Cleveland resigned tie Office Of Governor of
the State Of New York on the 9th inst
MISCELLANEOUS.
The annual meeting of the Veterans of the
War of 1872 was held in Philadelphia on the
sth inst. Col. Zalmon Ludington, who is over
81 years old, delivered stirring speech
Is said that Gov. Coburn, OF Maine, has left by
his will 100000 in public requests in that
Satisfactorily officers in Philadelphia
Oh the 9th inst seized several thousand dollars
worth of brandies wines LIQUORS cork and tile