Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-07-09
FOREIGN.

Prince Luitpold was formally sworn in
as Regent of Bavaria, June %.
A service of Thanksgiving for the birth
of the king of Spain, was held in Madrid
Juna %. The queen was heartily received
by the populace
\ servant in a family of Bucharest
murdered his master, mistress and five
children, stole 10000 francs, and then fled
TO Bulgaria.
Gladstone addressed the electors OF
Liverpool June 2S. The grand old man"
made one of the ablest speeches of his life.
Truth, justice and humanity were sound
ed as the keynote OF his home rule scheme,
and he assured his hearers that victory
was theirs despite the long purses of his
opponents
congress of the chambers of commerce
of the British empire will be held in Lon,
don, beginning July 6.
The emperor of Austria has presented
Consul Max Schamberg of Pittsburg, with
a diamond ring, valued at $500, for his
services to the Hungarians during the re-
cent strike in the ~' regions.
Ottawa contributed $4,000 20 the home
rule fund. Meetings are being held all
over Canada, and sums ranging from $500
to $4,000 are raised to help Gladstone.
1t is emphatically denied that the Do
minion government, at the instance of the
imperial authorities have relaxed their
measures for the protection of Canadian
fisheries. There has been no interference
on the part of the home government, and
ho mi ont Iata ipa1
to strictly enforce the law against the
United States fishing vessels found Of
Tending.
Godfroi Laurent aged II was fatally in
jured at Lord q Hardman's mill at Chaud-
iere Ont. While playing he wandered
near the main shaft, which caught his
clothing and whirled him around twenty
times, tearing both legs from the body and
breaking both arms. He died in terrible
agony shortly after.
Advises from Burmah say that fighting
between the natives and British troops is
of daily occurrence A number Of the
British have been killed.
NJ. Serve, an intimate friend Of the
Count de Paris, writing to the Soleil Of
Paris, says that the period of exile will be
" SDOIl tuab bHiOc anu "a hhiA
million votes given to the Conservatives
at the last election will soon develop into
six million Royalist votes, and that France
is weary of and disgusted with Republican
blunders and will return TO the monarchy.
The King of the Belgians has offered to
the Count of Paris for residence the roy
al palace at Ciergnon. The offer was de-
clined, but the Count promises to pay a
prolonged visit to Brussels in the autu mn.
Cholera is epidemic in the interior of
Japan.
Henry Ward Beecher reached Liverpool,
Saturday evening, June %. He was given
an enthusiastic welcome on his arrival.
Election riots occurred in Chilli recently,
and 81 persons were killed.
One car of Forepaugh's circus train has
been seized in New Brunswick for nfrac-
ton of the custom laws by incorrect re-
ports of contents.
S. f. Griffiths of Toronto, has in one
week lost the whole of his family, three
boys and one girl, from malignant type
of diphtheritic Group caused by bad drain
age. Three of them died within twenty
four k~urs of each other.
The Lord Mayor Of London entertained
the Prince of Wales at dinner the other
day. His royal highness said the one de-
sire of his life was to preserve the unity
and strength of the empire.
The first through train to Vancouver on
the Canadian Pacific railroad left Montreal
on the 2Sth ut.
The election in Prince Edwards Island
on the Both ult., sustained the local gov
eminent.
Miss Annie Monneth, the 17-year old
daughter tof wealthy contractor of
Ottawa has eloped with a horse-j Jockey.
The French Senate has authorized the
city of Paris to issue loan of S5O,0)O,OOO
for public improvements.
The London Fortnightly Review claims
that the expenses of the assassination Of
Burke and Cavendish, in Dublin, was ac-
complished by Parnellite money.