Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-04-27
The Foreign Budget

Ten persons were killed by an expao-
sion in a mill at Mataro, Spain.
NJ. de Gandolle, the noted botanist,
died at Geneva, Switzerland.
Rumor has it that Charlie Mitchell, the
prize fighter, will enter the ministry.
The Belgian strikes are spreading. Sew
eral collisions between strikers and gen.
darmes occur.
The town of Vesprem. thirty miles
from Bwia Pesth, has been almost COM
pletely destroyed by fire. Several per-
sons persisted and many others injured.
Henry Willard has placed SIP 900 in the
hands of Count Caprivi which will be
used to pay the expenses of worthy
young Germans to the worlds fair.
Samuel l.. Clemens Mark Twain) has
arrived at New York en- route to the
worlds fair. He amused all on board the
steamer with his story telling.
Paul Dana, son of Charles A. Dana.
of the Sun, has been reappointed one
of the park commissioners of New York
for a full term, ending in May, 1897.
Marion Crawfords wife is daughter
of Gen. Berdan, and the first wife of
Oliver Z. Morton was the late inventors
sister.
John Hay is engaged in collaboration
with j. G. Nicolay in editing the COM
plete works of Abraham Lincoln, which
will be published in a few months.
Workmen at Brussels engaged in
universal suffrage riot, attacking the par
liamentary buildings. Several sharp ell
counters occurred between police and
rioters.
The governor of French Cochin China
telcgraphs that the French troops took
possession on April i of knone island.
i'll the Mckong river. The Siamese with
drew without offering any resistance.
Excitement has been caused in Quay
aquil Ecuador, by the discovery of
eighty cases of arms which had been
landed there without the knowlenge of
the government.
The trial of Pierre Jean Francois and
two other anarchists named Bricon and
Delange. on the charge of having been
concerned in the explosion in the Cafe
Very on May last, is on at Paris. The
public showed but small interest in the
trial.
The chamber of deputies. by vote of
115 to 26, has rejected the motion in
favor of universal suffrage, thus virtually
declaring that the chamber is not i'll
favor of removing all restrictions from
the franchise. The result is u great dis
appointment to the socialists.
Researches of the American school of
archaeology at the temple of Hera, near
Mycenae, Greece have just revealed the
foundations of the ancient temple men
toned by Homer as having been burned
423 B. G. Many priceless antique works
of art have been unearthed.
In consequence of the news that has
been received at Moscow to the effect
that China is gathering arms and other
war-like material in Chinese Turkestan,
adjoining the Pamir country, Russia has
sent force of Cossacks and artillery
to reinforce the garrison at Tiolcha.
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria is de-
voting his time and money to prepare
tons for maintaining a magnificent court
in Sofia after his marriage to Princess
Marie Louise, daughter of the duke of
Parma. He has bought 700 gala liveries
for lackeys, several gala coaches, eighty
horses, and many valuable paintings.
The famine in the European part of
the government of Perm is worse than
ever before. The poor are dying by
hundreds. In the smaller villages the
people have ceased trying to bury all the
DOuleS. AeldtNeS VI Tic uedu are ollcIl
too weak to provide burial for their dead,
and 50 leave the bodies on the roofs of
the houses.
The researches of the American school
of archaeology at the temple of Bera,
near Biconi, have just been rewarded by
an important discovery. The excavations
have revealed the foundations of the
ancient temple Mentioned by Homer as
having burned 423 B. G. Many other
priceless antique works of earth have
been unearthed.