River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-04-04
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

IT was decided by the Holland Ministry
on the 18th that King William was no longer
in a condition to reign and announced that
a regent would be appointed
The steamer Ocotian, having large ex-
cursion party on board, foundered recently
ON Lake Gaudalajara, Mexico, and over fifty
lives were lost.
II was stated by the Governor of Lower
California on the Goth that the discoveries
at the Santa Clara placers had been exag-
gerated, and only practical miners were
finding gold.
OFF Manila on the 25th the Spanish mail
steamer Mindanic was sunk by a collision
with another steamer, and thirty of her
crew and passengers were drowned
On the 21th the United States Consul at
Colon reported that work along the Panama
canal had entirely ceased
IL was said on the 9th that the population
of the province of Quebec, exclusive of Mon
treal had decreased 2i9, $40 in five years
The death of John Bright. the emine Mt
English statesman. occurred in London on
the morning of the 27th, at the age of
seventy-eight years. In August, 1851 Mr.
Bright was elected to Parliament from
Birmingham, which borough he had since
continued to represent He was especially
distinguished as a speaker of remarkable
elOquence and power. He was during the
civil war in this country warm and
avOwed friend of the Union cause
The Marquis of Salisbury. speaking in the
/ House of Lords on the 2Sth of the late
/ John Bright. said: lie had special quail
ties for which he Wi be admired and noted
/ ia history. He was the greatest master of
/ English oratory in the present generation.
! He possessed a singular rectitude of char
/ acter lie was inspired by pure patriot
I ism from the beginning of his career to its
/ close "
/ ZASzIBAR advices of the 2Sth say that a
/ party landed from the German man-of-war
/ Schwalbe and burned Kondutchi after a
/ conflict with the natives. Opposition to the
/ Germans was everywhere decreasing.
The discovery of the illicit manufacture
/ of bombs at Zurich on the 2Sth furnished a
clew to a gigantic plot existing throughout
/ Russia for a new series of attempts upon
/ the life of the Gar Numerous arrests had
/ been made.
President DIAZ. of Mexico, said on the
| 18th ult that the dispatch about the alleged
error in the boundary line between the
/ United States and Lower California was a
/ "canard unworthy of attention"
| AT Clongorey, Ireland, thirteen tenants
were cvicted from their holdings ON the
| 18th ult, and after the tenants had been
| driven from the houses twelve of the
buildings were destroyed by the agent
| OK the 18th ult the French Cabinet de-
! cided by a unanimous vote of its members
/ to prosecute General Boulanger.
! ADvICEs of the 18th ult from Samoa say
| that the American men-of-war Trenton,
1 Vandalia and Nipsic and the German men
| of-war Adler, olga and Eber were driven on
/ a reef during a violent storm and totally
! wrecked of the American crews four Off
/ GERS and forty-six men were drowned, and
/ of the German crews nine officers and
| eighty-seven men lost their lives.
SAMOA advices of the 30th ult confirm the
report of the loss of the American ships OF
war Yandalia. Nipsic and Trenton, and the
| German naval vessels Eber, Adler and Olga
/ in a recent hurricane. The Vandalia lost
four officers and thirty nine men, and the
/ Nipsic lost seven men. All on board the
/ Trenton were saved Ninety-six German
/ officers and sailors were drowned.
/ THE Eiffel tower in Paris, which will be-
/ one of the principal feat ues of the exposl-
| ton in that city, was opened officially on
the 30th nit. 1t is the tallest structure in
/ the world
The City of Mexico Board of Health hav-
ing declared all American lard to be adul-
terated, the Mexican Government ON the
/ 3Oth ult announced that the entrance of
that product into the country would be pro-
I hibited
orr Dunkirk, Belgium, collision oc-
/ Cured on the 30th ult between the steam
er Countess of Flanders and the Belgian
mail-boat Henrietta The captain, first
lieutenant. nine sailors and three passen-
/ gers Of the former vessel were drowned.
| Prince Jerom. Bonaparte was among the
/ res -ueti