Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-06-04
FOREIGN JOTTINGS,

| says French warship at St. Georges
bay refused to allow Americans to take
| or to buy bait there. Under the treaty
| of 184S Americans have the same rights
as the British on the French shore, and
they have never before been interfered
with by the French. The French have
| no right to prevent the Americans TAX
ing bait, as the British government de-
MED to the French any Jurisdiction in
the territorial waters concerning the
| occurrences in the same bay last year.
1t has not yet been made clear to the
state department at Washington whether
the warship has prevented our fishermen
from buying bait or whether 1t has pre-
vented the French inhabitants from
selling it. These are two very distinct
and different propositions. In the first
case it might be taken as an assertion
OF authority over the American citizens,
while In the second case the French
authorities might be exerting undeni-
able authority over French subjects.
Until the real state of the case is known,
there is nothing for the state depart
ment to do in the matter.
Mr.. PAKNELL will certainly marry Mrs.
O'Shea in July. Those best informed
declare that the tenacity with which
Mr.. Parnell has chung to his position as
leader of the Irish Nationalist and the
desperation with which he has fought
the battle with his political OPP
ponents are largely due to the in
tiuence of the divorced wife of Capt.
O'Shea. Should she win the probate
suit now pending regarding the disposal
of the legacies of her aunt, Mrs. Wood,
she will become possessed of e1OO, 900.
1t is also rumored that after his mar
riage and the propagation of parliament
Parnell and his bride will visit America.
The cruiser Charleston reports to the
navy department that she has arrived
at Callao, Peru, and has seen nothing of
the Itata. The Charleston will join the
squadron under Admiral Mccain in
CHILEAN waters, and it is surmised that
a report will at no very distant date
come thence announcing the peaceful
surrender by the insurgents of the
elusive craft, which the United States
government will libel and perhaps for
felt for violation of our neutrality laws.
M. DE PoPIEDoNAsTAFF, Chief of the
Holy Synod, St. Petersburg, has sub
mitted to the council of the empire an
ordinance forbiding Hebrews to observe
the Hebrew Sabbath by closing their
stores or business places or by refrain
ing from work, and compelling the
Hebrews instead to close their stores as
other places of business Sunday and
other days which are observed by the
orthodox Greek church.
BARON HIRsCH in an interview said
not Uruguay but the Argentine Repub-
lie would be the site of the proposed
Jewish colony. The baron intends to
buy 100000 acres for this purpose. The
commissioners sent to Buenos Ayres to
investigate have returned. They re-
ment. Baron Hirsch may afterward
buy land in Canada, but he says the ini-
tial experiment must be made in a
warmer climate.
The international Templars confer
ence at Edinburgh, Scotland, discussed
the status of the Catholic members and
resolved that it is not violation of the
Templar obligation for member to
communicate the work of the order to
the clergy under the seal of the confess
sional.
IT is understood that the Canadian
government has decided to grant re-
bate on all sugars manufactured in
Canada for export, which will place the
Canadian refiner in the same position as
the American refner to trade in foreign
markets.
ADvICEs from China state that nine
teen cinnamon were beheaded at Kow-
loon City by order of the authorities
Nine of them were known to have par
ticipated in the Namoa piracy tragedy.
LAKE LINEN, in the government of
Novogoro, Russia, has been the scene
of terrible hurricanes. Nineteen timber
vessels have been wrecked and all their
crews drowned.
A LOCKOUT of London carpenters has
begun. Fifteen thousand men are idle
The employers threaten to lock out the
men in other branches of the building
trades.