The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-13
WHAT EUROPE TALKS ABOUT,
Personals and Politics From the Great News
Centers of the Old World.

The diseased American pork at Crefeld,
Rhenish Prussia had already been officially
certified as sound before its real condition
was discovered. The rules of inspection
are being made more stringent.
AT Sassari, IN Sardinia, a discharged con-
vlct named Derosas, actuated by desire
for revenge shot and killed DR.. Usini and
male and female peasant, all Of whom
had been witnesses against him in the trial
at which he had been convicted.
dispatch from St. Petersburg states
that at the time of his arrest at Berdicheff
In the government of Kieff, Russia, Mr..
Joseph Pencil, the artist employed by the
Illustrated London NeUs and the Scr bners,
was engaged in making sketches of the
various Russian prisons and forts in the
Vicinity aud surrounding country.
Howard Vincent, who is travelling ronnd
the world in the interest of British feder-
alton and fair trade, has arrived in Japan,
having passed through the United States
and Canada. He thinks the Mckinley
tariff will further hurt the trade between
Canada and the mother country. He COM
mends the activity of the United States,
and deplores the inaction OF England in
pushing their commercial interests.
The Paris Figaro declares, in connection
with the recent decline of Prussian and
French bonds, that Baron de Mohrenheim,
the ambassador of Russia to France, teIe-
graphed his government that prominent
Paris bank was promoting the downward
movement. The Russian ambas sadon then
called upon NJ. Ribot, minister of foreign
affairs, and repeated his statement. Sub
sequently, acting on the suggestion of M.
Ribot, the minister of finance, Nj Bowler,
examined the banker whose name had been
given by Baron de Mohrenheim. The
banker repudiated the statement made by
the Russian ambassador and asserted that
he had issued orders 10 his bank to support
the funds mentioned. Hence yesterdays
recovery.
The Swedish inspector of ordnance has
gone 10 Essen to discuss with the Krupps
the matter Of the burstin Of one of their
great guns, which was at the time being
tested in Sweden. The inspector will also
demand that he be permitted to inspect the
process OF casting new guns and TO learn
the method of their manufacture. Should
the inspector be denied--this privilege,
Sweden will buy its guns from other
manufacturers.
a Madrid dispatch says that a duel was
fought between Admiral de Beranger. the
Spanish minister of marine, and the editor
of a Madrid newspaper, whose name is not
given. -Four pistol shots were exchanged,
neither man being injured. The matter
was then arranged by the interference of
the seconds. The same dispatch states
that Immediately after the conclusion of
the duel Admiral de Beranger resigned the
marine portfolio.
The st. James Gazette says that the
English Liberals are greatly exercised
over the question of the succession of the
party leadership on the retirement of Mr.
Gladstone. So critical is the condition of
Sir William Vernon Harcourts eyes, the
sight of one eye having b6en temporarily
lost while that of the other is threatened,
that it is not thought he can become the
successor to Mr.. Gladstone or act as leader
of his party in parliament
A man named Grant, one of a gang of
forgers who have been engaged in
swindling the London and Westminster
bank by means of forged checks, was to-
day committed for trial During the
preliminary examination the prisoner
became very violent and he had to be
forcibly removed by the court officers. A
fund for the detection of the rest of the
forgers has been raised by number of
banks.
The number of deaths at Altoona, from
trichinosis caused by eating diseased PORK,
Is now reported as thirty. An investiga-
as to the origin of the meat is in progress
Herr Klein, son of prominent Judge of
Wurtember, who secently robbed the civic
treasury of Blaubeuren of $4,000 marks,
has been arrested at Rome, where he was
found living with mis- tress and support
ing an expensive establishment. Thirteen
thousand marks of the stolen money was
found in his pockets.