Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-13
FOREIGN NEWS.
The British ELECTIONS.


tions to-day. r. T. O'Neill CONSERVATIVE
is elected for Middle Antrim by vote of
1924 against 932 for McKelvy, his Parnell-
ite opponent. In the last election the dis
trict was given to O'Neil. Lord Ernest
Hamilton CONSERVATIVE is reelected for
North Tyrone over j. o. Wylie (Liberal)
by 3, ,229te 2S77 In the last election John
Dillon unsuccessfully contested this district
against Lord Hamilton. The vote then
stood 33z5 to 1922, III more than now.
]. O'Doherty (Parnellitel has been elected
for North. Donegal over Lieutenant-C Colonel
H. H. A. Stewart by a vote of 4 ,263 to "a.
The same candidates contested the district
at the last election when they obtained,
respectively, 4,597 and 952 votes The
Tories now have elected 291 candidates, the
Unionis.s 66, the Liberals 151 and Parnell-
ties "A.
What the British Conservatives Propose
to Do.
LONDON, July 12th.-Negotiations be-
tween Lord Harrington and Salisbury are
in progress. 1t is reported that Lord Hart
ington has pledged himself to support Lord
Salisbury's local government bill and to
reject al approaches of Mr.. Gladstone If
Mr.. Gladstone remains in Office, the first
wake af the. ltatQpists will be q vote of
shadowing the Conservative policy, bruUtI
said that the first measures would be to
suppress the Irish National League and
suspend the Irish obstructionists.
Tally One for Gladstone.
LoNDoN, July 12th.-The Gladstonians
won another consolation stake to-day.
They have defeated Albert Gray in the
TYNE side division of Northumberland,
electing w. B. Beaumont in his place.
Still Fighting the Battle of the Boyne.
DUBLIN, July 12th.-An Orange soiree
was given in the Rotunda this evening and
was attended by 1000 persons. The hall
was guarded by the police. Thousands of
Nationalists surrounded the building, and
many placards were posted with the in
scription 1--WE will pay your Orange dogs
in Irish coin one long debt, which Ireland
owes all braggarts of the Boyne."
At Armagh Major Saunders presided over
gathering of 1000 enthusiastic Orange
men. There was afterward procession,
the route of which was lined by 600 police
and soldiers. Business was suspended.
Criticism of Americans.
LONDON, July 12th-The Duke of Ar
gyle publishes in to-day's Times letter
concerning the United States and Ireland.
He says that, despite national sympathies,
| there is profound ignorance in England
and the United States respecting each
others Constitutions. He admits his own
ignorance, at the beginning of the Ameri-
can civil war, in sympathizirg with the
South. He SAYS the sympathy of Ameri-
/ cans for the Irish in their present struggle
arises from an error of thinking of Ireland
as an American State, and that the English
are Withholding from Ireland powers SINH
| lar to those possessed by the different States
! of the American Union.
/ Another British Scandal.
] LONDON, July 12th.-Baron p de Worms,
l who was parliamentary secretary of the
Board Of Trade in Salisbury's Cabinet, has
/ brought an action for divorce against his
wife on the ground of adultery He alleges
| that his wife made frequent visits TO Tyrol
alone. He suspected nothing at first be-
cause she is native of Austria, being a
daughter of Baron Won Todesco, of Vienna,
but he discovered that the object of these
visits was neither patriotic nor innocent,
but to meet in criminal intercourse Baron
Meron, who made appointments for her to
secretly receive him there Baron de
Worms then secured. evidence sufficient to
base his complaint on and make the Baron
surrender the correspondence. 1t is stated
that Baron Meron- and Baroness de Worms
| have concluded not to enter any defense.
Baron de Worms was the Tory member for
| the Toxteth division of Liverpool in the
| late House of Commons. He is 0years OF
age, and is a hereditary Baron of the Ans
trian Empire. His wife is handsome,
stately woman, possessing voluptuous
form, leader of fashionable circles, and q
general social favorite.
He Couldn't XIII the King.
ROME, July 12th.-A Sergeant OF the in
fantry garrison at Mona attempted to-day
to kill himself with a. rifle. Among his
effects was found letter addressed to the
King, stating that he had been depnted by
a secret society to kill the King, but pre-
ferred to die himself, and commencing his
mother to the Kings care. When taken
before a magistrate he adhered to the state
meats in his letter. but refused to divulge
the name of the society. King Humbert
oa reading the letter, said that man must
BE lunatie who wished TO create sensa-
sion by committing suicide
France. Arming Her Troops.
/ PARIS. July I2th-The Government ha:
/ ordered go 600 repeating rifles to be dis
tributed among the troops before August
This action is attributed to the conduct o
Germaay in arming her battalions in AL
SAGE Lorraine with similar weapons.
Russian decorations Restricted.
BRUssELs, July 12th.--Lc Nord, the r,
sian organ here, announces that RI -
hereafter will not confer Russian ord ~ /,
decorations on British, American o.. sw;
subjects or citizens, because their esnecti,
countries do not decorate Russis IN snbiect
Crops in German
: BERLIN, July i2ih.-oF .ciaI-reports 50
that while the prospects of the Prussia
crops, especially those of rice and wbea
t are generally highly satisfactory. the on