Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-11-28
Foreign News.

| LoND0E, Nav. % The cleo ion In D Or.
| aas to fill g vacancy IN toe HOUSE, OF Com
mons WAS bald yesterday. The candidate
ofths conservatives, Mr. Humphrey Ssurt,
waa elected ovsr iha Glsdstonisu candidate,
Hon. Pks,o. G!yn.
PAEI5, Nov. 2S.--La PGiz Gays that the
Shah OF Persia hs5 appointed ex.King Milan
commander CT tie Persian cavalry, and that
the sz. King viii shortly prccetd to Teheran
to organize the cavalry forcss oithe Shah.
L1VEsPcoL. Noy. % 1t les been learn.
ed thet The s.eama; that was Ia collision
With too bark Harmonic, which was au-
oho,ed CT the bar llghtship yesterday with
her mae:e gore end hall damaged, was the
Helen Crsig, bound from Garston for Belfast.
The repor: that the s.asuer had aunk and
the. al On bosri OF her wsrs lost proves
unicunded and probably arose from
the Disappearance Of the steamer In the fog
which prevailed 81 .hs time OF she collision.
The steamer is safe Though seriously dam.
aged. No lives wers losS In the collision.
VIENNA, No7. ga ssptuagenarlan
WIS admitted to ho:p;ts hers to day. Il
Is said tina! tha msn vas reosntly attacked
With religious mania, and became Impressed
with the idea that be was called upon to
make ssoridse. IA therefore secured sew
eRal nsils, each three inches long. and ham
mere1 them Into his skull. When he was
fol 70 hrcr FOL he
from his head sid he presented a most
dreadful appearance. Everything possible
VAS dols 10 relisve the terrible agony from
which ha suffered. and to make his death
easy. The hospital doctors, of course, do
not eltertan the slightest hcpa of bis re-.
covesy.
PANS, No7. 2S.--The oossqnles Of the Rt.
Hoa. Edward Ba,Waf Lytiop, Earl OF Lyt.
to1, ;he British Ambassador ct Paris, who
died suddenly In this cltg on Tuesday last,
1eEe he'd today ir ;hs English church.
The ca,emonie5, which wsre very Impres.
slVe, we're attended By en- iumenss number
OF people.
LONDON. Nov 2S.-Tne Times this morn.
ing publishes dispatch from Shanghai
watch confirms the reports that the troubles
in China are not clone baEe1 on AMI foreign
feeling entertained by some OF the natives.
The underlying reason FOR the discomfort
which perysdes msny districts of China Ia
the fact that the natives OF the country be.
lieve that the time Ia rips to overthrow the
Msnchu dynasty and to establish egaln the
ne!iye dynasty Ssh ca was overthrow In 1914.
TIA latest dispatches from China have re-
ported the killing off number Of priests and
native christians, and burning and pilaging
of the Christian missions. Dispatches OF to-
day show that tia troubles ara not due to
predatory incutsicDs of MoDgclIans. The
movement has In view the driving OF the
preeens Emperor from power and The plao.
ing oie native Chinese ruler upon the !hrore
Tho rebels have already captured the town
of Cnaoyang. They are rapidly gaining ac
csBsioas to their ranks, and have quite for
midab!e army. They are marching on to
the capital, Pekin. Tle imperial forces are
preparing to mes. them, and II Ia believed
that desperate battle will coon be fought.
LoNDoE, Nov. 2S.-The propeller OF the
steamer Oriental, to-day str1ok a boat con-
tanning customs officers, instantly killing
thrfe OF tue Aye men In the boat.
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