The Portland daily press., 1888-02-01
GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.
What 1t Costs to Plot Against the
Cxar Of Russia.
ireland Sends the Usual Budget OF
Persecution and Suffering.
Pope Leo Erecting Buildings to Con-
tain His Presents.

ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 31.-An Official
messenger announces that the Senate, In
special session for the consideration OF State
crimes, has condemed TO death seven pris-
oners whose sentences were afterwards com-
muted as follows: Petrowsky and Seigida,
citizens, penal servitude for life; Alexandrin.
nobleman, IS years. TchernOff Cossack cap
tain, 10 years; woman named Trinitat-
skaja; wife OF an official, ~ years imprison-
ment, woman named Seigida, wife OF citl-
zen Se.gida, eight years, a woman named
FeodOrowa, eight years. The trial Of Ors-
yich was postponed owing 70 his illness.
The prisoners were charged with belonging
to secret society having In its possession
bombs and secret printing press.
In the Universities.
After quiet is restored at the universities
the government will remove the chiefs Of de-
partments who have proved obnoxious to the
students Among those to be retired Is n.
Delianoff, minister Of public instruction, who
will be succeeded by M. kaponstine, curator
Of the Dorpat University.
Ireland's HardshIps.
DUBLIN, Jan. 3i.-The people Of Kidysart
and the surrounding neighborhood gathered
this morning and, headed by priests, marched
toward the court house where Mr.. Cox. NJ.
p, was to be tried. They were charged by
the police who used their batons freely and
succeeded in clearing the streets. Many per-
sons were injured The people collected
again and finally the police decided to allow
them to remain. The court room was niled
with priests.
The magistrate who sentences Father Nc
Fadden, OF Gvedore, TO three months im-
pris0nment will remit the question as TO
what treatment he shall receive In prison, 10
the judge who hears the case on appeal.
A man named Fitzmaurace who recently
took farm near Tralee, Cosnty Kerry,
from which two brothers had been evicted,
was shot fatally by the brothers today.
Timothy ID. Sullivan viii be released from
TullamoTe jail tomorrow. bis wife, and
large number Of friends have arrived to wei
come him. Preparations for his triumphal
progress are being made at the towns through
which he will pass on his way to Dublin.
Numerous addresses and floral gifts are ar
irving at TullamOre for Sullivan.
The prison officials have made no change
In their treatment of Wilfrid Blunt The
distinguished prisoner Is still confined In
cell, Notwithstanding the advice OF the .pris-
on doctor that he be sent to the hospital.
The Pope's Presents.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 31-The correspondent
of the Baltimore Sun in Rome has furnished
his paper a description Of the gifts to the
Pope ON the occasion Of his jubilee. He says
the gifts have come in so rapidly that two
additions have already been made to the
building in which they are to be exposed.
So far, seven thousand cases Of articles had
been handled. Up to January Is presents to
the value Of ten millions Of dollars had
passed through the hands Of the Vatican i'm
spectors. Even that sum has been exceeded
in money. The United States has outstrpped
every other country In cash donations.
Foreign Notes.
1t is rumored in Vienna that Turkey has
asked the Russian governmental 10 explain the
massing of troops upon her frontier.
At a political meeting In Dundee last night
the UniOnist candidate for Parliament, was
hissed and hooted, and the meeting broke up
in disorder.
Mr. William o. Brien has left ireland for
the South Of Europe to recuDerate his
health.