Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-10-01
FOREIGN.

Hon. Mr. White, Dominion minister OF
the interior, has sued j. +. Whelan for
$4,000 damages for libel, on account OF
serious charges against his integrity pub
lished in the Post.
William Stewart has been running a
fraudulent labor bureau at Toronto He
obtained 81 from each of 200 men as a de-
posit for sending them TO British Column
bia, where he promised them work
The Danish government has prohibited
the circulation in Denmark Of a newspap-
er, the Danish Piouoer. published in Omaho,
Neb no special reason is given.
Gladstone in an interview at Brussels
said his health had been greatly benefited
by the sojurn in Germany, and regarding
Parnel's land bill he said he did not think
the trouble would seriously begin until
the next session of parliament.
Father Fahy, a Catholic priest of Gal
way, is undergoing n six months inn
prisonment for alleged threats against a
landlord for having evicted one of the
priests Pensioners. The priest denies
the charge against him.
1t is reported that citizens OF the Cana
dian northwest territory are cutting tim
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wholesale and are floating it down to
Canadian territory, where it is cut into
lumber and sold 70 the residents OF the
northwest territory.
Mrs. Della Parnell, mother Of the Irish
leader, has gone to Ireland to visit her
distinguished son.
Reported that the French republic is on
the verge of bankruptcy.
German Socialists are propagating their
doctrines with increased vigor.
Parnells followers are laying plans for
vigorous campaign the government.
Willie Gordon, aged II, was tried and
acquitted at Winnipeg on the charge OF
stealing chickens, He felt the disgrace of
two days imprisonment SO keenly that he
committed suicide by taking poison.
\ st Johns, y. F., dispatch report, that
party Of five women from the village of
Carbonear were lately lost while picking
berries and two OF them died from starva-
ton and exhaustion before they reached
their homes
Prince Alexander has decided to settle
down in private life.
Three hundred houses in the town of
Kalus2. in Austrian Galicia, have been
destroyed by fire. The sufferers are in
misery and starving.
FL Coyote the celebrated Mexican ban
dit and reVolutionist, is dead.
Wilson Barrett. the English tragedian
sent g, 900 10 the Charlestown sufferers.
Mrs Rachel Saltwater OF Flushing L. l.,
celebrated her 10lst birthday on the 10Th
inst.
Pope Leo has issued an order that all
the debts left by the late Archbishop Pur-
cell shall be paid within five years. Arch.
bishop Elder visited Rome early in the
year to arrange for such an order, and the
plenary council at Baltimore issued an
edict looking to that end. The debts
amount 10 100000
A syndicate OF Paris and Berlin bankers
has subscribed COO 000,000 francs To carry
out scheme. sanctioned by the sultan,
for network Of railways TO connect the
Black sea with the Persian gulf under the
direction OF the Austrian engineer,
! Pressed.
a committee OF Partisan doctors has
challenged Succi the Italian faster to fast
| forty days in French hospital for stake
| OF 5 900 francs on condition that he reveals
the secret OF his elixir, for which patent
! is guaranteed, and that the experiment
be repeated by two other persons.
Work has been commenced on the new
penitentiary buildings i'm Toronto.
The House OF Commons rejected Par
nell's anti-eviction hill by a vote of 297 to
2o2. The Gladstonians supported the Par
nelites, the unionists voting with the
| government
Religious riots in Belfast are OF daily
occurrence.
Gladstone has published n letter denying
emphatically the silly stoyr that he 10
about to become Catholic.
officers implicated in the Spanish revolt
have been condemned to death.
An incipient revolution broke out in
Madrid the other morning. The uprising
! was illplanned and practically amounted
to little more than mutiny among the
troops stationed in the city. Prompt
action Of the authorities soon restored
order.
One hundred and fifty Irishmen who
were marching somewhat ostentatiously
through the streets of Belfast the other
day were attacked ut noon at Carrick
hill. A row ensued and volleys OF stones
were thrown by the combatants The
militia were called out and quelcd the
riot, but not until n number were injured.
Gladstone has returned from his summer
vacation. The old man is in excellent
health.
Emperor William is i'm poor health, and
bis friends are greatly alarmed.