River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-03-28
FoREIoN INTELLIoENcE,


/ SENIOR MoRET, Minister of the Interior, said
/ in the Spanish Senate on the 2Uth that the
/ Government had no knowledge of the
| scheme to sell Cuba to the United States
/ and declared that there was not money
| enough in the whole world to buy the
/ smallest portion of spanish territory.
| The American fishing schooner W. II.
/ Foye was seized at Grand Manan, n b.. on
/ the Goth for violation of the customs laws.
The cotton mills in the suburbs of
/ Stuttgart, Germany, were destroyed by fire
I on the 10Th, causing loss of 3, coo 600 marks
/ and throwing six thousand employees out Of
work
OS the 10Th steamers carrying an aggre-
/ gate Of two hundred thousand seals
arrived at st John. n B., being an UNI
usually early arrival from the fishing
/ grounds
IL London on the alst fourteen of the
/ largest paper makers in England formed a
| syndicate for the purpose of raising prices.
/ The capital of the syndicate is 100000.
I THE Canadian Minister of Finance said on
/ the 2lst that the Government had under
/ consideration the ACCESSIBILITY of excluding
/ American lard, by mere sing duty or other
I wise on account of the extensive adultera-
ton practiced.
4 PAPER at Genoa stated on the 2lst that
/ so far this year there had been fifteen duels
and sixteen suicides at Monte Carlo.
THREE of the finest business blocks at
| Brownsville, Ont, were burned ON the 2lst.
Is Shangtunk China, the number of
/ deaths caused by the famine was on the I'D
| said to be appalling. and many of the clti-
zens We're committing suicide rather than
/ die from starvation.
THE Mexican Government had taken
steps ON the 22d to prevent the introduction
/ into that country OF American lard, owing
/ 10 the reported adulteration in that article.
+ II many parts of Prussian Silesia serious
/ floods were prevailing on the 23d, several
4 small towns being submerged and the peo-
/ pie made homeless.
FIRE nearly destroyed the town of
4 Pinska in West Russia, on the 23d, and six
persons were killed and a great many
others injured.
CHOLERA was raging on the 23d at Fam
branga in the Philippine Islands, and vel
low fever was fast becoming epidemic in
Cuba.
IL an interview on the 23d Sir George
! GRAY, Ex-Governor of New Zealand said
/ that America would become the leading
Anglo-Saxon race, and would displace En-
gland from the position she now holds.
Is a storm on the 22d French torpedo
boat folndered off Cherbourg and her
captain and fourteen of her crew were
drowned.
THE Canadian Government on the sd de-
cided to renew the issue of licenses to
| American fishermen. under the modus
/ viyendi in connection with the fishery
treaty negotiated 1t Washington last year.
4 BOAT containing seventeen persons en-
| ioying . sail on 1 axe Chapala on the 18th in
the state of Jalisco, Mex was capsized by 9
/ gale and all We're drowned
Is hospital at Florence, Italy, sixty
/ sudden deaths have occurred and the
authorities on the 18th were trying to find
ont whether bad food or cholera caused
| them.
ALL over the Isthmus commercial inter
ests were on the 18th reported as being vir-
tually wrecked by the stOppage of work on
1 the Panama canal
FIRE in Alderman Manierre's warehouse
in Chicago on the night of the 18th caused
a loss of 500, coo.