Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-24
FOREIGN NEWS.
Desperate Fighting Between the French
and Eoyas.

LONDON, March 23d.-The African mail
steamer, which arrived at Plymouth to-
day. brings Dews of desperate fighting be-
tween the French and Hovas in Madagas-
ear. About the end of February the
Hoyas, under General Willoughbv. at
tackled 5000 French troops. routed them
with heavy loss, and pursued them TO La
matine. The French houses and stores in
Lamatine were shelled by the Hovas and
destroyed. The Hovas then returned to
the capital. Their losses were small. A
few days later General Sherrinston sur
prised 1000 Sakalavas, preceded by $50
Freuchmen and their machine guns. The
Sakalavas were routed, forty being killed
and many wounded. This is the first news
of French rupture in Madagascar. and
has created a great sensation.
Vehement Speech from Gladstone.
NEW YORK, March 23d-The Heald's
London special to- day saws: Gladstone. in
the House of Commons last night, looked
unusually weak, weary and perplexed.
While only listener during motion of
Howard Vincent TO increase the estimates
tor the volunteers, Gladstone's face flushed.
and he appeared to be laboring under great
excitement. This broke out in his answer
ing speech which was vehemently deliv-
cred and with many personalities He
however, beat the motion. bat by the mar.
row majority of 81 The telegraph calls his
speech lecture and "a sound cas,gation
adminlsted to the luckless Howard Vim
cent, and an opposition almost too much
astonlshed to groan.n The Tory Post is
bitter on the speech, describing the Pre-
mler as violating etiquette in not allowing
the War Minister 10 answer Mr.. Vincent.
and using the g language of passion, sar-
casm and abuse Even the Liberal NelCs
describes the speech as one Z" of extraordi-
rary yehemence"
Pasteur's First Failure.
PARIS, March 23d.-Nineteen Russians
arrived here and were placed under Pas
teurs care, on March 18th. All had been
attacked by mad wolves and terribly lar
cerated Pasteur willingly undertook to
treat them, and at once placed them in his
hospital. The man who died last night
mad been carefully operated on, and regu-
iariy lnoculated with virus twice a day
since he arrived. His terrible death, with
all the symptoms of hydrophobia in its
worst form, has seriously shocked public
confidence in the effectiveness of Pasteur's
discovery. The first positive indications
that the patients system was resisting the
treatment manifested themselves on Sun
day, after he had been in the hospital five
days. he soon afterwards became the VIC
TIM OF most terrible suffering, and this
seemed to increase hourly up to the time
OF his death, which occurred while the
man was mad and wild with physical
torture. The corpse has been removed to
Pasteurs laboratory, where it will be made
the subject of experiment by scientists. NJ.
Pasteur Is much annoyed by the upfavor.
able comments caused by the failure of his
method, but he insists that it establishes
nothing.
Leading Anarchist Dead.
BERLIN, March 23d-Herr Knaurhause
leader OF the German-speaking Anarchists
in London died Saturday. at the Middlesex
Hospital in that city. After Herr Most had
gone TO New York Knaurhause, by work
ing secretly with untiring energy, managed
to dispatch to the continent hundreds of
copies of Most's paper the Freihet