Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-02-28
FOREIGN.


Eight supporters OF Boulanger were
elected in France on the 10th inst
Late news from Brazil says political af-
fairs are quiet and business is reviving.
Germany is alarmed because OF the prom
inence given TO great social problems by
politicians. not only in that empire, but
throughout Europe generally.
The carriage containing q bridal party
was upset at Pontroy, France, the other
day, and the whole party participated into
the river. The bride aud groom and 10 Of
thsis friends were drowned.
Ferry one persons were killed during the
recent revolt OF Siberian exiles. All Rus
STA is greatly excited, and the car has sent
an officer to Siberia TO replace the governor
in charge of the prison where the revolt oc-
CURED, and ordered the deposed governor
to report in ST. Petersburg.
Parnellities will endeavor to make the
government pay the costs OF the Parnell
commission inquiry.
Cardinal Manning has written letter
saying that the condition OF the wage work
erS is a standing menace TO every state in
Europe, and that the German emEeror's
rescript is the wisest and worthiest act
that has proceeded from any sovereign OF
the present time.
Emperor William says that all German
soldiers must be treated by their officers
in legal, just and worthy manner; because
such treatment is essential 10 lnculcating
them with devotion to the profession OF
arms and love towards and confidence in
their superiors.
Count Andrass finance minister OF Aus
tria is dead, aged IS years. He was
acknowledged to be one of the foremost
statesmen in Europe.
The Rotterdam steam ship Brinio collid.
ed with the steamship Coral Queen from
Gottenburg, of the river Dees, and is pass
engers on the Coral Queen were drowned
Forty American students at the Berlin
have been expelled for disgraceful con-
duct
1t Is stated upon good authority that
Bismarck will resign his connection with
the Prussian ministry, in order TO tighten
his burdens
Dom Pedro's nervous trouble increases,
and is affecting his mind. He expects to
be recalled 10 Brazil and does not realize
the precarious state of his finances. He
refuses to reduce his imperial suite
and maintains his expenses on a grand
scale.
The court at Brussels, TO which NJ. Cor
vellain, proprietor of the cartridge factory
that exploded ut Antwerp in September,
appealed, has confirmed the sentence of
four and half years Imprisonment and
100 francs fine for homicide, and
added eighteen months to the term OF i'm
prisonment.
Joseph ellis Beggar, nationalist mem
Der OF parliament, died in London Feb. 10,
IT heart disease He was in his seat in the
l.cuse of commons the night before his
death. His death is great loss to Ire
land.
A serious colliery explosion took place
the other night near Decize France.
torty-three bodies have been thus far re-
covered. The total number OF victims is
not known, but it is thought nearly 100
lives were lost.
The victims of the railway accident on
the Grand Trunk railway at St. George,
near Hamilton, about year ago, have be
gun suit in Toronto for damages against
the railway company, consolidating their
suits, the aggregate amount OF which is
$40, 900.
The Irish members of the English parlia-
ment have demanded an investigation of
the poisoning of John DAILY, confined in the
prison at Chatham for life for political
reasons. DAILY was nearly killed by taking
an overdose of belladonna, administered by
one OF the prison physicians
Later advices state that Mime Segida, the
unfortunate Siberian exile, did not CON-
nit suicide, as at first reported, but died
from the effects of a logging. Her death
caused the other female prisoners to take
poison, rather than endure the torture to
which they knew they would be sub