The record-union., 1892-03-15

Mob-Portions of Rome and Flor
ence Threatened With Inundation.
Special TO the RECoRD-UNIox.
LONDON, March 14.-Fifteen thousand
coal miners are idle in north Stafford
shire. Unless they resume work in a few
days the potteries will be compelled to
close down, throwing $4,000 men out of
work.
Flintshire, in Wales. appears to be the
only place where the order of the Miners
Federation to quit work has not been
obeyed by the members of the associa-
ton.
From the latest estimates the number
OF miners now idle is $50, ,000 Owing to
the closing down of other industries on
account OF the strike, fully 200, coo men in
other employments have been thrown
out of work.
The Northwestern Railway Company
has stopped many OF its trains because of
lack of fuel, and large number of en-
glneers at Crews have been temporarily
dismissed for the same reason.
In the Leeds district the strike is Sc
yerely felt, nearly all the large mills re-
ducing their employees or suspending
work altogether.
The members of the South Wales Min
ers' Association will limit the output of
mines i'll which they labor and not work
overtime during the strike elsewhere.
The iron works at Bolton are idle. The
FurnesS Railway Company has given
notice OF dismissal to the bulk of its en-
ployes.
The London gas companies are reported
to have coal enough to last month.
Plot to Assassinate the sultan.
LONDON, March IA dispatch from
Constantinople to the Exchange TeIe-
graph Company states that great excite
ment has been caused there by what the
police claim to be the discovery of a plot
10 aSsaSslnate Sultan Abdul Hamid H.
Every effort has been made to run the
conspiratoTs to earth. Yesterday they
were rewarded by the capture of two men
believed to have been selected by the
conspirators to carry out the design
against the Sultan. No doubt is enter
tanned that 1t was their intention to assas-
slnate the Sultan.
The Famine IN Russia.
ST. PETERSBURG, March 14.-The
Council OF the empire has ordered that in
future two grain depots be established to
every 500 peasants huts, and that from
these depots seed corn be distributed in
the spring to peasants, who must return
1t in the autumn. Special bureaus Will
be established 10 report annually as to
the condition of the harvest so as to en-
able the Government to adopt measures
to avert famine in the future.
Gould After a Mexican CoatIe.
CITY OF MEXICO, March 14-It is re-
ported on good authority that Jay Gould
is negotiating with the Government for
the purchase of the Chapultepec Castle,
and has offered seven million dollars for
it. If the deal is closed Gould will make
the castle his winter quarters. The cler-
ical papers here assert that his reported
designs are tact and strenuously object
to the Government disposing ofthe castle.
Condemned to Death.
RANGooN, March 1.-THE celebrated
Dacoit chief, the Minlaung Prince, leader
of the revolt against the British near Ar
rakan has been condemned to death.
Five others who took part in the revolt
have also been condemned to death, and
the father of the Dacoit chief mas been
sentenced TO penal servitude for life.
Grand Duke of Hesse.
BERLIN, March 1.-THE Emperor has
| ordered the army into mourning for three
days, owing to the death of the Grand
Duke Hesse.
LONDON, March lin consequence of
the death of Grand Duke Hesse, the
Queen has postponed until Saturday her
departure for Hyeres.
Excitement In Ecuador.
PANAMA, March IA. Hermann, the
German Charge d'Affaires at Quito,
Ecuador, was assaulted by a mob. The
trouble was the outgrowth of the political
situation. 1t is feared he is seriously in
Jured. There is great excitement and in
dignation among the German residents.
Threatened With Inundation.
ROME, March 1.-THE River Arno is
rising, and portions of Florence are
threatened with inundation. The Tiber
Is also swollen, and the authorities of
Rome have warned the inhabitants in the
low quarters that those portions of the
city will probably be flooded tonight.
Native Attack on Troops.
MOZAMBIQUE, March Ia. News has
been received here of q native attack
upon Fort Johnson, in which Officers
King and Watson and six soldiers were
wounded. Two Sikist and two Xanzi-
baris We're killed.
Chile's Ministry.
SANTIAGO DE CHILE, March 14.--Senor
Borgogne has been appointed Minister OF
War and Marine, ami Senor Riesco Min
ister OF Public Works.
French Bark Sunk.
LONDON, March 1.-THE French bark
AchilIe was sunk in collision with an un-
known steamer in the English Channel.
Five of the bark's crew were drowned.
Decision Concerning Public Schools.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 14.--Attorney-
General w. H. H Hart has rendered an
opinion in matter which for months
has greatly agitated many counties of the
State, particularly Stanislaus and Mer-
eed. There has been quite concerted
endeavor on the part OF many people in
those counties to extend the usual pri-
mary and grammar school education
from nine to eleven years. The Attor-
ney-General has declared that it is
| Illegal to increase the term TO any period
in excess OF that fixed by law
Hefinds no just objection to the intro
duction OF new studies, but they must be