The Forrest City times., 1888-06-30
THE NEWS SUMMARY.
Condensed Photographic Reports of the Cur. rent Events of the Week at
 Home and Abroad
FOREIGN,

\ BERLIN, June 25.-The Reichstae was opened Monday with pomp and orlllaney. After divine service in the | court chapel the Emperor was escorted Mlth great ceremony to the White iiall ot the old castle, where he de ciared the session open. Throughout ms speech the Emperor dwells on Ger manys pacific disposition. He says her policy aims solely to ward off at tack, not to acquire military glory. The Empire, he declares. desires peace With all nations. The Emperor says further: "Germany will ad- here to her alliance with Austria, which public opinion supports as the basis of European equilibrium and an inheritance of German history. The same relations and national needs unite Germany and Italy. These re;a- tons will permit the careful cultiva- ton of the Emperor's personal friend ship with the Car and the main tenance of the pacific relations with Russia, which have existed for a century in consonanee with the Elm peror's feelings and Germany's in- terest."
 Stanley in Peril: The great explorer injured in a light and subsequently surrounded by savages LONDON, June 2l.-A dispatch from St. Paul de Lo- anda, dated yesterday, says, Several deserlers from Stanley's expedition have reached Camp Yambunga. They state that after trayersing Aruiwamwi stanley struck into a rough, mountain ous country covered with dense forests. The natives who were excited by re- ports spread by the Arabs, dispute the passage of the expedition, and there was continuous fighting. Stanley was severely wounded by an arrow. He was compelled several times to con- struct camps in order to repei attacks, and was obliged to use the reserve provisions that were intended for Emin Bey. The Soudanese attached to the force had all died or disappeared. The deserters intimate. that the car avan has lost one third of it's men, and they say that many of those remaining were ill, including the Europeans. stanley was encamped when the de- serters left. He was surrounded by hoStiles, and was unable to send news to Emin or directly to Gambunga.
 Mai. Bartellot has returned to 1ambunga where he was awaiting the men that MT. Ward was collecting to form a powerful expedition to go to the relief of Stanley. Fever ragged at Yambunga and only eighty of 125 Zan- zibari survived. Tlppoo lib received G25 men to form two caravans and started for the interior about the end of January. Ward left Bona on May 70 for Leopoldyille, where he was to embark men and provisions in the Con go state steamer, En Avant, for the Aruhimi. Earloy in May the steamer Stanley left Stanley Falls, taking Barteloit, the first reinforcement and supplies. Yambunga adyices reach the middle of April. The time the deSerters left Stanley is uncertain. Gov Jansen left the Congo on the 18th inst. on his way to Europe to consult regarding the sending of assist ance to Stanley. n-- Thousands of Lives Lost: Fearful rainfall in Mexico, causing death and ruin from floods. -John Dillon who was taken to Dudaik jail, has been taken to the in- irmary connected with the jail.-- Billy Porter and Frank Buck, two we'll known American burglars, have been arrested in London on warrant for burglary committed in Zurick.--A French company, with a capital of Sl7 coo, GOO, is sad to be waiting for permission from the Russian Govern ment to begin work on canal that will unite the Sea of Azoy and the Black Sea. The canal will be l1S kilo- meters long, will take five years to construct, and will benefit the south weste districts, which produce grain. salt, minerals, and fuel.--Oliphant Heard From; Lawrence Oliphant, the great traveller, IS now in New York. We copy the following from an inter view in the Tribune How is it, MT. Oliphant, that you who have lived so much in the very best of society and letters can content yourself in the soitudes of Syria:' "lt is because l have been 90 much in the world that l have no longer any desire for it" "Did your Palestine colo nization scheme prove successfully No. The consent of the Sultan could not be gained. His religious books tell him that the return of the Jews to Palestine would endanger his power. It is to be regretted that this was the case, for there is much good land on the east of the Jordan which would well repay cultivation. When number of Jews were driven from Rnssia l again applied to the Sultan, and through the influence of the French government and the Rothschilds ob- tained permission for limited num- Der. There are now eight small colonies of Jewish agriculturists in Syria, and they make very good farmers. At tone time I had to support some hundreds of them by giving each two pence day, which kept off starvation. l was not any more interested in the Jews than in any other persecuted race. At one time 1 saw 1000 of them on the borders of Galicia, who had been eX- peled from Russia, and they were literally starving. They thought l had come to feed them, and it was with great difficulty that the guards saved me from being torn to pieces.