The Globe-republican., 1891-03-25

GENERAL.
Coz. MAPLEsoN, the English impress
sario, was married recently to Mrs.
Laura Schirmer Byron at the British
embassy in Paris
THE Wilkes linen works at Kirrie-
muir, Scotland, were partially de-
stroyed by fire. The loss is estimated
at EGO, 900.
THE British steamship Utopia, with
Italian emigrants on board, collided
with an iron-clad at Gibraltar on the
18th. 1t was SAID that 200 of the pas
sengers were drowned
The wreck of the Utopia at Gibraltar
proved fearfully disastrous. 1t was
found that SO lives were lost, most of
them Italian emigrants, bound for
America The vessel was wrecked by
plunging on the ironclad Anson's ram
during heavy sea- Acourt Of inquiry
was ordered.
MAURICE HEALY has accepted Par
nell's challenge to resign for the pur-
pose of mutually testing the feeling OF
the Cork constituency.
THE embargo on American beef has
been removed at amburga as an expert
ment
WHILE the members of a committee
appointed for the purpose werecrossirg
foot bridge to examine site for the
annual cattle show which is held at
Cagliari, Italy, the structure gave way,
carrying the whole party with it. Five
of the committeeman were killed and
several others were injured.
THERE were reports that summary
measures were to be taken against
Germany for the exclusion of American
pork. The reports were denied
The board of guardians of Navan.
County Meath, Ireland, have rescinded
their vote of confidence in Parnell.
A DELEGATE from the Chilian revolu-
ticnary party has arrived in Paris. He
states that two-thirds of the people
were in favor of the insurgents party
and that the latter had already a per-
manent hold on the northern provinces
and their valuable resources of nitrate
and guano.
The privy council of Great Britain
has confirmed the right of the colonial
government of Victoria, Australia, to
prevent the landing of Chinese immi-
grants.
AT meeting of the institute of ma
val architects in London, Mr. Biles, a
member of the council, warmly praised
the latest American naval constructions,
saying that they quite ,equaled and
sometimes surpassed the European con-
structions of like character.
MARION CRAWFORD, the author, has
withdrawn the charge of plagiarism
preferred by him against the managers
of the opera in connection with the pro-
duction by them of LIE Mage" the
story of which Mr.. Crawford asserted
was taken bodily from the 'Zoroaster."
1T is understood that the responsible
ity for the loss of the Galena is placed
upon the officers of the tug who failed
to respond to the orders from the Ca
lena in the matter of directing the
course when breakers were seen.
SLIGO was recently the scene of a
conflict between anti-Parnellites and
Parnellites. The Parnellites were
holding a meeting, when they were at
tackled by anti-Parnellites, who sue
ceeded in breaking up the meeting.
The nti-Parnellites also stoned the
police, who came to the assistance of
the Parnellites, and general scrim-
mage ensued
The Vienna correspondent of the
London Times, in spite Of official de-
malls, reiterates that Princess Eliza
beth. of Hesse, the wife of Grand Duke
@ e a
to join the Russian church.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended March 10 num-
bered 275, compared with 2zs the pre-
vious week.