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Foreign News.

Foreign News.
For ten days past Paris has been
in mortal terror on account of the
threats and attempts of anarchists
to destroy many prominent people
and great properties with dyna-
mite. The Government has en-
acted a new law which makes the
destruction of property with dyna-
mite a capital offense. This, it is
thought, will check the red flag
friends.
Emperor William of Germany is
still in bad health, and there is
great uneasiness regarding his con-
dition. The recent riots, the resig-
nation Of Won Caprivi as Prussian
Minister and the red hot row over
the Ecclesiastical School bill has
aggravated the Emperor's trouble
greatly. He refused Won Caprivi's
resignation as Chancellor of the
Empire after it had been twice
presented. The Emperor would
like to have Waldersee in the
Office, but fears to appoint him as
it would be an affr0nt to the Gear
of Russia.
By the burning of a petroleum
barge in the harbor of Barcelona,
Spain, the harbor was covered with
burning oil, and seven vessels were
destroyed. Among these was the
Italian man-of-war Lepanto, the
pride of the navy. She was built
in 1884, was 402 feet long, 70 feet
beam and had a displacement of
1880 tons.
The Marquis de Mores and NJ.
Isaac, the Sub-Prefect of Fourines,
have fought duel, in which the
latter was seriously wounded. The
fight was with swords, with which
weapon Isaac was unfamiliar,
while his adversary is an expert
swordsman. De Mores is we'll
known in the United States, where
he lost a million dollars a few
years ago in wild speculation.
England and Turkey are at log
gerheads over the rights of the Sui
tan in that country, and the former,
Britain, has sent a fleet of nine
ironclads to make demonstration
before Turkey, to neutralize the
Sultan's proposed firman of inves-
ture of the Khedive. The Turk
will probably back down, and Eng
land will continue her work of alb
sorbing Egypt.
Prof. Edward Augustus Freeman,
the famous historian of the Norman
Conquest, is dead.
The American people are still
sending shiploads of food to the
starving Russians. The first cargo
has arrived and been received with
great enthusiasm.
The French Bank Of Industry
has failed for 100000 francs.
One of the directors has committed
suicide, two have absconded and
one is under arrest. The failure is
fraudulent one, due to reckless
speculation.
Franz Schneider, the Vienna out
RACER and murderer of servant girls,
has been strangled to death, &C
cording to the Austrian custom.
His wife, who was his accomplish,
is to be imprisoned for life.
It is rumorad that one of the
largest ship-building firms of Eng
land will remove it's plant to this
country. Rockefeller, the oil king
of America, will join the enterprise
which will have a capital Of
100000.
1t is reported that Prince George
of Greece is engaged to marry
Princess Alice of Hesse.
Louise Michel, the high-priest-
, ess of anarchy, declares that
France is nearly ripe for another
revolution and advocates the use
of dynamite to secure the rights Of
, the down-trodden people.
Mandalay, the capital of Bur.
nah, has been swept by fire. Over
$4,000 families are homeless, 250C
were injured and 200 burned tc
death. The entire business por.
. ton of the city, the palaces and
government buildings were des
troyed.
A dispatch from Warsaw states
that the German War Department
) has succeeded in constructing ar
air-ship which is under absolute
control of the engineer even in 6
; strong wind. The ship is used fol-
) spying on the Russian frontier.
There is armed rebellion against
the British in Burmah. Severa
encounters have resulted in which
the natives were worsted.
, The Warspite Not in Trouble.
, MONTEREY, March 3O.-It has
| been learned to-day that the report
that the English warship Warspite
was in distress off Point Sur was
l caused through a mistake in inter
= preting her signals. She was not
: in trouble, but had signaled to the
Bonita, offering her assistance in
5 the work Of rescuing a seaman who
I ! had baan Uachad ovarboard fron-