Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-12-06
FOREIGN NEWS.

FOREIGN NEWS.
Mrs Mary 4. bradshaw, an actress Of
| former days, who had the distinction of
being the Ophe'ia of 'Uncle Toms Cabin
| at its first New York performance, died in
London, Can. recently at the age of II.
The Messrs. Keudlcr the famous bankers
of Vienna, have failed with liabilities of
! two and half million llorins.
Charles Colby, the first American who
ever entered the Dominion cabinet, has been
sworn in as president of the privy council in
| place of Sir John Macdonald, who becomes
minister of railway. Already the Canadian
press are attacking the Dominion govern
lnent for taking United States citizen into
| tions with that country. Mr. Colby was
! born i'll Vermont, but for several years past
has represented the county of Stanstead
| Que, iii the Dominion parliament
Referring to the progress of the home
| rule Ca to fcdcrae England, Scotland, Ire
| land and Wales, Lord Salisbury said he
| considered the application Of such a scheme
| to Great Britain as utterly chmcrical.
The Pacific Mail Steamship company's
new 81 000.000 steamer the China, went
| aground near Yokohama, but was foated
| Off and proceeded without having sustained
| any apparent damage.
In Scotland 1900 Clyde engineers are out
on strike. Eighteen firms under pressure
of contracts, have been obliged to concede
| the strikers demands.
Hon, George H. Pendloton, late United
minister to Germany, recently died at Brus-
sells.
| The steamship India, with $40 Mohamme-
! dan pilgrims on board, has been sunk in the
| 4Egean sea, and of all on board only the
| n1nt1in and two cnrYivn.
Edison's patent in Canada on his incan-
| descent lamp is declared valid by the Cana
dian deputy commissioners ofpatents.
Mr.. Martin Farquhar Tupper, author Of
that well-known work, "Proverbal Philos-
| ophy," recently died in England He wrote
number OF Cther books, both in prose and
verse, but his philosophy" was the one
| that made him famous In 1851 and 1876
! he visited the United States, an in 1875 he
wrote drama in honor Of the centenary of
| American Independence. Born in London,
England, July II, 1910, and graduated at
| Oxford in 1881, he first studied law, but
never practiced that profession. He was
! the owner OF fine country seat at Albury,
| Surrey.
A plot to assassinate Herr Tisza, the Hun
| garan prime minister, by the use of dyna-
mite, has been discovered and frustrated.
The Russian government has abolished
the provincial council of mobiles of the Bal
| tic provinces, and substituted ordinary as
semblies colleges and private committees,
whereby the ariStocracy, which has hitherto
ruled the populace independently of the
government, will be suppress ed.
King Leopold has sent telegram to
Henry NJ Stanley congratulating him upon
to visit Brussels - - - Inv ''i'''
Mr. George Frederick Watts, r. A., pro-
! poses to donate to the British nation his
| portraits of eminent men, among them the
| portrait Of Motley, the historian.
Tire president of Hayti has granted full
and complete amnesty to all citizens charged
witt political offences.
Norway has 1910 Catholics
Among the 100000 worth of presents
which the Sultan gave to Emperor William
and his wife was a diamond brooch with
pendant of pearls and diamonds, for the en-
| press which cost $4,000. Count Herbert
| Bismarck also is said to have carried away
| from Constantinope some 100000 worth Of
diplomatic plundcr.
Annie Pushkin, the granddaughter of
| RuSSia's greatest poet is confined in the
! prison Of SIS. Peter and Paul at St Peters
burg ON acharge of completely in a Nihilist
] conspiracy. She is Is years old beautiful
and talented, and her arrest effected during
| the recent absence of the czar, is sad to
have been caused by the Grand Duke
| Alexis. The czar, since learning of the de.
I tails of the affair, is furious against all con-
Cerned in ii.
All of the Havana cigar factories belong
| ing to the so-Called trust, with the exception
Of the Cabans factory are in operation.
The emperor Of Germany ha, conferred
upon Count Won Moltke the exceptional
honor of the crown and brillantS.
The reported revolution in Cuba was con-
| fined in its scope to the shooting of q Span
ish civil officer in the San Cristobel riot at
| Cardcnas and a street fight between two
| Spanish regiments stationed at Nlatanzas.
The Right Hon. Peter OBrien, now at
| torney general for Ireland succeeds Sir
Michael Morris as lord chief justice of Ire
| land, Mr.. Madden, now solicitor general,
becomes attorney general, and Mr.. Atkin-
! son becomes solicitor general and crown
prosecutor.
Peru is offering large bounties in land and
privileges for the construction Of railways in
| The country.
The French Under Secretary for the
Colonies speaking at a banquet in p Ms
said that all the European nations reCUg
nized the necessity of colonial expansion, in
the face of a possible American Iollvcrein.
| ronquin, he said, was a fortunate acquisi-
| lion, and France must rStein it baaouee
through Tonquin lay The route 10 Chino
| Tts acquisition would be an eternal honor
for NJ Ferry, and Europe would soon envy
France its possession.
King Carlos of Portugal has had the
Necessidades palace prepared for the recep.
ton of his uncle, Dom Pedro, although he
is not certain that the exiled emperor will
reside there.
Two hundred and fifty miners were en-
tomhed in a flooded mine at Reckling-
hausen, in Westphalia, Germany, but have
all been rescued.
Mrs Booth wife of the Salvation Army
general, is slowly dying of cancer.