Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-03-29
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FOREIGN.

Ecuador's insurrection has been sup
pressed.
Ii Hung Chang, the Chinese peace en-
voy, is confined on board his ship at
Shmonscki Japan. 10y illness.
Rev. DIR. Tullcy, of New York, on his
way to GreytOwn. is detained at Colon
by n decree of the Nicaraguan Govern
ment that ministers of religion shall not
enter Nicaragua.
A dispatch from Shanghai says that the
Japanese fleet Las taken possession of
Fisher Island, one of the largest of the
Pescadore group between Formosa and
the mainland of China.
The Duchess of Leinster. who died at
Mentone. France, had engaged suite
of rooms at Il Santa Barbara, Cal, hotel
for herself and twenty-six persons. She
intended going there April 10.
A report is in circulation of a terrible
explosion of dynamite at Oberwesel on the
Rhine Twenty-Five persons are said to
have been killed, two ships are reported
to have been destroyed and many houses
wrecked by the explosion. Oberwesel is
a town Of Rhenish Prussia, about nine
teen miles from Coblentz on the Rhine.
Its population is estimated TO be about
twenty-five hundred.
The Madrid FL Emparcial says the
report that the wreck of the missing
cruiser Rcna Regente has been discov-
cred is utterly without foundation. The
Alfonso NIL, which was sent out to
search for the missing ship. has, the paper
asserts, returned from her cruise without
having obtained and news regarding the
fate of the cruiser. The government still
entertains hope that the Reina Regcnte,
having run short of coal has been blown
into the Atlantic and may yet be heard
from.
Advices from Peru are to the effect
that President Caceres has resigned and
that the Provisional Government formed
after the conclusion of the armistice be-
tween the Government and the in
srrgents, which preceded Gen. Ca
ceres resignation. consists of represent
atives of both the belligerents The Pro-
visionai Government will issue a decree
ordering the holding of new elections.
a dispatch to the Times from Lima says
the loss in killed and wounded or both
sides in the fighting about the capital
was 1000. Nc foreigners were killed.
The city is now quiet.
Depredations by the Government forces
marked the opening of hostilities on Tues.
day in Lima. The troops sacked the
Union and National Clubs and many
shops Then diplomats and the papal
nuncio. Mgr. Mach, interviewed. An
armistce was arranged for twenty-four
hours TO give an opportunity to bury the
dead and remove the dead horses from
the streets, as there was danger of pesti-
lence from the bodies Toy were col
lcted i'm n pile and burned the Plaza
dies Armas. AS result of he three days
fighting more than 1870 combatants
were killed and wounded on both sides.
During the fighting all of the foreign le
cations were exposed To the firing. The
United States legation was III a particu-
| larry dangerous situation. Mrs. Mcken-
zie, wife of the United States Minister,
narrowly escaped being shot. More than
| fifty refugees sought an asylum in this
| legation.
The House of Commons ut London by
a vote of 116 to los adopted the resolu-
ton offered by Mr.. Allen providing for
the payment of members. No more rad
zeal measure probably has ever passed
the English House of Parliament. For
centuries n seat in the House has been
| open only To those who had the social
| position To insure successful canvass
and the money 10 enable them TO live in
| an expensive part of London the greater
| part of the year This has been the prac-
| teal situation until five years ago.
| Wealth was the one thing necessary;
ability or popularity went for nothing,
| for il took a handsome income TO be a