Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-08-22
D~YNAMITERS AT WORK.
THEY EXPLODE A BOMB IN A
FRENCH CONSULATE.

Concerted European Action Against
China. The MarbIed Sails for
Rome, Aug. 16.-A great
panic was caused in the city of
Ancona to-day by the explosion
of a bomb with a terrific report
on the stair case Of the French
consulate. The building Was
greatly damaged, but nobody
was seriously hurt. The consul
and his family we're absent from
town. The affair is supposed to
have been a protest against the
execution of Caserio, the assas-
sin of President Carnot, of
France, to-day being the ami
versary of his execution. A few
minutes before the explosion
some men were arrested for
posting an anarchic manifesto.
The police think they are the
men who placed the bomb on the
staircase
ST Petersburg, Aug. 90 The
Novoe Vremya publishes advice
from Vladivostock, showing that
the outbreak of cholera in China
Corea, and F'ormasa is becoming
serious.
Paris, Aug 16. The Figaro,
commenting to-day on the mas.
sacre of missionaries in China
says: We are nearer to- day to
a collective expedition of Euro
pean naval forces to the far
east than we were when the
japanese armies were resolutely
marching on Pekin.
London, Aug. 16. -The United
States cruiser Marblehead sailed
to-day from Gravesend for Mer-
sina, the seaport of Tarsus, Asia
Minor, to protect Americans at
the latter place, the scene Of the
recent disturbances at the Amer
lean school,
In the House Of Commons to-
day, replying to questions asked
on the subject, Mr.. George Cur
SOP, Under Secretary for For
eign Affairs, said that it would
not be advisable to raise the
question Of money compensation
for the murder of the Missionar-
les in China until punishment
had been melted out to the guilty
persons, which was regarded as
of preliminary Importance.
Warsaw, Aug. 16.-The town
of Przytyk, in the Radon dis
trict, has been entirely destroyed
by fire. A church is the only
structure in the place that was
not burned. Four thousand per-
sons r homeless and are camp
ing in the fields or about the
smoking ruins of their houses.
The fire Was of i~ncendiary or
igin.
London, Aug. IA meeting
of members of the House ofCom-
mons interested in the currency
question. including the Marquis
of Lorne and Sir William Henry
Honldsworth, was held to day,
and it was resolved to appoint a
Parliament committee to pros
mote the holding Of an interna-
tiOnal monetary conference in
accordance with the motion in
trodLced by Mr.. Robert L. Ev-
erett in the last House of Com
mons, urging the Government to
cooperate with the other power
i'll the calling of such a confer
ence.
The Field, tomorrow, in an
article on the Americas cup con-
test will say that the latest in
formation received from New
York concerning the Defender
appears to show that the New
York Yact club committee is
catching at straws in the hope of
continuing to hold the Americas
cup. The article cites as an in
stance of these tactics on the
part Of the committee the keep
ing secret of the measurement
of the new yacht and contends
that the fear that the Valkyrie
III, would profit thereby is i'll
founded, as nothing Can now be
done to alter her before the con-
test takes place.
In a letter to the author of a
book dealing with the relations
between science and religion,
thanking him for a copy of his
works, Mr.. Gladstone expresses
gratitude to science for all it has
done and is doing, but says that
Christianity does not need it. and