The Progress., 1889-02-23
FoREIGN.

years. 81
FOREIGN.
AsEvERE shock of earthquake was fe1t 81
Naples on the 11th, in consequence of which
Mount Vesuvius was in q violent; state nf
eruption 5,sl
REAR-ADMIRAL CHANDLER, comm ander If
the Asiatic station, died on the l1th at Hong
Kong Of apoplexy.
DISPATCHES Of the l1th say that q gold
smith in Vienna poisoned his five children
with cyanide of potassium, and after admin
istering the poison to the children he took
some Of it himself and died in great agony.
The new constitution of Japan was pro-
mulgated from the throne on the 10Th bv
the Mikado. The constitution establishes q
House of Peers with three hundred mem
bers The right of suffrage is given to men
of the age of twenty five years and over
who pay taxes to the amount Of twenty five
dollars yearly. Liberty of religion, freedom
Of speech and the right of public meeting
are established.
1t was discovered on the 18th that barbed-
wire was patented in France, April 10, 1865.
which, under a ruling of the United States
Supreme Court, would inyalidate the Gid
den and other patents z
INDIANS at Cold Lake, Manitoba, on the
suffering from a peculiar epidemic which
was fatal. The muscles Of the throat and
neck swelled rapidly preventing the swal-
lowing Of food. It was feared that the en-
tire tribe would be exterminated
PANAMA advices of the 18th state that
much anxiety prevailed there owing to al
increase of crime, which was attributed I'd
the presence of the thousands of laborers
whom the stoppage of operations on the
canal had thrown out of work
GENERAL KoMARoFF, with strong force.
arrived at Bokhara on the 18th. The Ameer
had circulated the report along the from
tier that he was advancing for the purpose
OF making war upon Russia. 1t was alleged
that he was causing three hundred persons
to be beheaded daily and greatly interfer-
ing with frontier traffic.
ADvICEs Of the 18th from China say that
the famine in Anhui and Kianqsu was worse.
In one province three hundred thousand
families were starving, and altogether sew
eral millions were suffering from famine
caused by drought two years in succession.
DOLORES CoRDoNEs mulatto girl at
Havana, Cuba, was covered with petroleum
and burned to death on the 14th by man
whose attentions she had refused.
ADvIcEs Of the 14th say that during re-
cent earthquake not a single house in Costa
R1ca escaped injury and many were totally
destroyed. Whole streets were blocked
with ruins. Losses in San Jose amounted to
more than 100000, while all the principal
edifces in Alajucla were damaged At La
Lagunn the earth had assumed the appear
ance Of a rough sea.
ALL the members of the French Ministry
sent their designations to President Carnot
on the 18th.
ANOTHER tragedy was enacted on the 14th
at Lake Starnberg, near Munich, when two
persons drowned themselves in it's waters.
Since the suicide of King Ludwig eleven
persons had drowned themselves in the
lake.
ADyIcEs of the 18th say that yiscount
Arinori More, Japanese Minister of Educa-
tlon, had been assassinated at Toxic by a
religious fanatic. The victim was formerly
Minister to Washington.
ADEN advices of the 18th state that the
Russian flag had been hoisted on territory
which under an Anglo-French agreement
belonged to France.
THE Republican GeneraL Villa Campo.
died in prison at Madrid on the 18th.
The schooner Hippomenes, which sailed
from Yarmouth December for Barbadoes
laden with fish and lumber, and with crew
OF five men, was on the 18th given up as lost
with all on board
LEPRosY was on the 18th said to be dying
out In Canada. The report of the Agricult-
ural Department showed that there were
nineteen patients, eight males and eleven
females, in the LazaretGo at Tweedle, N. B.
--LATEST NEWS.
ONE Of the most rrible tragedies ever
recorded in any civ lied country was per-
petrated in the toMl of London, Freeborn
Co., Minn.. during the late hours of the
night Of the 18th Joe Chemeleck, aged 10
years went o the house of his half brother
Philip Chemeleck, spent the evening and
then left as supposed for the night He