River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-05-30
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

CoAL-NINERs who were ON strike in the
Dortmund, BOchum and Essen districts in
Germany resumed work on the 2lst.
FoRTY-FIyE persons lost their lives
throuf the recent floods in Bohemia
Oh the 2lst the City of Paris arrived nj
Queen town, having made the run from
New York in five days and twenty
hours, thus beating all previous ocean rec
ords
The steamer German Emperor. from Lon.
don for Bilboa, ran into the steamer Beres
ford ON the 2lst, and the Emperor was sunk
and six of her crew were lost Both were
British vessels
The Ella and Quatre Freres, two fishing
vessels, which left France some time age
for the Newfoundland fisheries with one
hundred and seventy-five men on board
were ON the I'D given up as lost and all
hands drowned
ON the ed post of the Grand Army OF
the Republic was established at Ottawa
Can, and branches would be formed in
other cities There was said to be three
thousand veterans in Canada
CHINESE advices of the 22d say that eleven
Chinese were decapitated in the province
of Hupel for numbering a man who was
attempting to arrest one Of them.
The steamships Polynesian and Cynthia
miles east of Montreal on the 22d, and the
latter sank and nine lives were lost
On the 22d Robert T. Lincoln. American
Minister to England, reached London.
IL Vera Cruz, Mex, the spread of yellow
fever was very Alarming on the 22d
IL the Lauterbach district of Germany
nine persons were drowned or killed by
lightning during a storm on the sd
IN the Pressburg district of Hungary the
crops had on the eth been wholly de-
stroyed by floods Many buildings were
submerged and a large number of houses
had been undermined and wrecked
SEVERAL Frenchmen were arrested ON the
2ith by the German authorities at Saltzmatt
Alsace, ON a charge of treason.
QUEEN VICTORIA celebrated her Reventieth
birthday ON the 18th.
ROBERT L. LINCOLN. tho American Minis
ter. ON e 18th presented his credentials to
the Queen
FIRE destroyed several warehouses at
Lubbock, Germany, on the Goth, and S400,OOC
worth of property was destroyed
The late Mr.. John Rylands, Bap-
tist, Of Manchester, Eng, left nearly "a
million dollars in requests to various
institutions and societies The will
gives so. 600 to Regents Park College,
SIS 600 each, 10 the Baptist Missionary
Society, the Union Annuity Fund and
the Union Augmentation Fund, and
numerous smaller gifts.
Samoa, which is attracting so much
attention now. is generally regarded as
a savage island, but large proportion
OF the people are Christians. A mis-
sionary says: Il would guarantee to
take the first twenty men, women and
children that should meet with in
Samoa. and should back them il Bible
luOwledCo against any twenty / should
"a in this country"
Twelve years ago the Modoc In
dams were une.vilized heathens. Now
they are a community of industrious
farmers, with half their number pro-
/ Tossing Christians. 4 COS, the United
States Government Sl.S4S, 900 to care
for 1920 Dakota Indians seven years,
while they were savages. After they
were Christianized il cost, for seven
years. Sl20, OO0, Il saving Of SLIPS, 600.
Tho Church OF To-day.
Jonas G. Clark, who made his mill
I lions in lucky California investments
/ (Spring Valley Water stock and Ala
media land. has associated with himself
eight wcll-known citizens of Worces-
ter, aud charter has been obtained to
establish a university in WOrc"stcs,
Mass. Mr. Clark says that he had the
I project in mind many years. and visit
cd European universities for ideas He
| intends that tho new university shall in
time fairly rival Harvard in scope and
national reputation, and he has ample
funds to carry out his ideas
Tho kingdom OF Italy had, in 1886,
public elementary day-schools TO the
number of 5000. attended by 2,07j. =
94l pupils. This number is 7.29 per
cent. OF the entire population. and
so. So per cent Of the population six 10
twelve years Of age. As regards sec
ondaly education. there were in the
kingdom in 1882. secondary schools TO
the number OF 1855. with an enroll
mcut OF 97.059 students. The same
year She u universities Of the kingdom
were attended by 1j.5I7 distributed
among the fac,;,ties as follows: Juris-
prudence. 5254, philosophy and litera-
ture, 6SS; mathematical and physir al
sciences, I.7S6; medicine and surgery,
{, s. Education.