Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1889-10-26
CURRENT HAPPENINGS.
THE OLD WORLD.

The Russian revenue for 1888 was 34-
100000 rubles in excess of the expenditures,
which were 13.OOO,OOO rubles below the esti-
mates.
Another atrocity is reported from Ham,
burg. Germany, similar to that enacted
there last week. This time the victim is
1O-year- old girl, who was criminalIy abused
and treated in a most brutal manner. She
was then slain by the use of knife in the
cruelest manner conceivable. the mutia-
tions being horribly revolving. The
body was found in an obscure section of
Hamburg, and the criminals identity is as
complete mystery as that OF the ilend of
London whom he initiates No arrest has
been made. and the police department APP
pears to be entirely in the darG. The popu-
lace of Hamburg is intensely excited, and
may resort to dire vengeance il any posi-
tive clew should lead to the taking into
custody Of any vicious character.
The Russian police ut Odessa, Russia
have arrested two men, said to be Ameri-
cans, charged with circulating large
amounts of the new and dangerous forced
2J-ruble bills of the Bank OF Russia, Two
packages. purporting to b3 bales OF cotton
cloth, which arrived from New York few
days before, were consigned to one Of
these men, and on examination by the
custom officials they were found to contain
nearly 100000 rubes Of these counterfeit
bills. To avert suspicion from themselves.
they circulated none of the stuff in Odessa.
but st. Petersburg and Moscow and other
large cities have been flooded with it for
three months. The counterfeit, which is
undoubtedly of American manufacture, is
so perfect that it passes from hand to hand
without question and everywhere. except
at the counter of the Bank of Russia. APP
pears to answer every purpose Of the genu-
inc bills.
Cholera is still making frightful ravages
in the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates.
There have been 1000 deaths within the
past three months and there are as yet no
signs of abatement OF the scourge.
A Lisbon cablegram says: Luis l., King
of Portugal, is dead The King passed
away quietly. lie became unconscious
some time before he expired. and his life
| went out almost without Il tremor. Paraly
sis was the cause of his death. The Duke
of Braganza. who succeeds to the throne,
will assume the title Of Carlos /.
King Luis l. was born Oct 81, 1885 He was
! the son of the late Queen Maria II. and the late
| Prince Ferdinand OF xe-Coburg His royal
mother the first sovereign OF the line OF
| BragRnza to break through the custom, which
! had prevailed for two centuries OF keeping
up alliances with the reigning houses OF
Spain. Her union with Prince Ferdi.
nand resulted in the beginning OF
the house of Braganza Coburg the
frst sovereign Of which was her son Pedro V g,
at whose death in 1861, Luis succeeded to tn G
throne. The young King took to wife Pia, the
youngest daughter of King Victor Emanuel OF
| Italy. They married Oct g. 1862, when
the bridegroom was "a years old and the bride
| onlY.l5. From this union were born two sons,
the elder Of whom, Prince Carlos, Duke OF Bra
CANA, born in lS5 is Il cultivated man. Prince
Carlos married daughter of the Count de Paris,
the most formidable OF pretenders to monarch
ical rule over France King Luis has been a
wise and liberal King toiling to establish free
dom and education and encouraging railroads
and telegraphs, but the people appear to have
lost that enterprisng character which made
them SO active during the fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries.