The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-02-01
NEWS BY CABLE.
Chronicle of Happenings In other Part
of the World.

of the World.
London, Feb. IA telegram from
Egbom, in the Middle Niger region.
dated Jan. %. says that the column OF
the Royal Niger companys expedition
against Emir Of Nupe. arrived in good
order, after IL days march OF 200
miles. The men were, at times. COM
PEELED to march single file through the
bush. The power of the Fulahs in the
re, ions of the South Niger river has
been utterly destroyed The liotilla and
a detachment accompanying the expedi-
ton surprised ana destroyed the south
ern Fulah capital OF Ladi. This town
was q depot for stores. and the Fulahs
were retreating In that direction when
IL was captured. Twelve hundred slaves
were rescued. Most of these slaves were
elderly men. all the women and the chill
dren Of both sexes having been sent to
the capital at Bida.
A recent telegram from Lagos gives
an account OF the expedition sent out
by the Royal Niger company. This ex-
pedition consisted Of 500 Hausa troops.
six maxims. 20 mounted European Off
GERS and 900 carriers. The Royal Niger
company's notilla OF armed stern
wheeled steamers was ordered 10 patrol
the Niger for the purpose Of cutting off
the retreat Of the Fulah forces OF Bida.
The London Times gives an account
OF this expedition and OF the strange
people against which 1t was directed.
The Times says:
The Fulah army has assembled at
Kabba. The Fulahs in the vicinity OF
Kabba are said TO number nearly 10000
foot and 2000 cavalry. and the troops OF
the company have an arduous and per-
ilous task before them. The enemy are
subjects OF the Mohammedan emir OF
Nupe, the most powerful OF the vassal
states dependent on the great Moham-
medan empire of Sokoto. The quarrel
between the emir of Nupe and the COM
pany is of long standing. 1t has been
his practice to execute wholesale raids
for slaves TO the south Of the Niger and
the Binue amongst the tribes under the
protection of the company. He was
warned i'm 1892. when Sir George Goldie
and Lord Scarborough visited Bida, his
capital, that il this practice was per-
severed in. he would have TO fight the
company, and for some years the raids
were discontinued. Last May he sent
the Prince Markum into the district
southwest of the Niger, with the object
of resuming the raids or of attacking
LokoJa, the military capital of the COM
pany, as soon as the land was dry
enough to admit of operations, and the
Markum had established himself at
Kabba. 1t was at this point, apparent
ly, that the troops of the company
planned TO attack him, while their fleet
OF armed sternwheelers and launches cut
off his retreat from Bida by patrolling
the Niger.
This plan The Times pronounced as
daring and subject TO many chances,
but, X added. If il succeeded, IL would
effectively break the most dangerous
and The most treacherous dependent MO
hainmendan power within the sphere of
the Royal Niger company.
The emigration office. acting upon in
formation furnished by a. j. Vansit-
tart British consul at Chicago. has is
sued a warning, advising Englishmen
against emigfating to South Dakota.
The official weekly bulletin regarding
the situation in India shows that light
rains have been general throughout the
provinces, Bombay and Madras alone
excepted. Spring crops have improved.
Prices for all products are slightly lower.
A dispatch to the Daily Mall from st.
Petersburg says that the cars recent
appointment of two new body physi-
clans, one OF whom Is DIR. Pavlbv. the
well-known physician, has been made In
view OF the inevitable operesion neces-
sary for the removal OF the exostosis or
| unnatural protuberance OF the bone
from the head OF his majesty, the result
Of injuries received at the hands OF
Japanese fanatic while on his tour
around the world
A dispatch from Brass. West Africa.
says IL has been learned that the origin
| of the recent massacre by the king of
! Benin OF the British expedition. under
| Consul General j. H. Phillips. is found
N the fact that the king was performing
a ceremony involving the annual butch
cry of slaves. and that hc did not want
any white men present at the time. ON
| this account, Consul General Phillips
and the officers accompanying him were
Slaughtered without mercy. This an
nual kirlnE festiVity Is a custom which
has prevailed fer many years i'm Benin
sty The king of Benin calls Il max
ng his father" ON account Of this
rstom end other murdcrous habits OF
De natives. Benin city has been called
the city OF blood
The Times announces that Lady
Henry Somerset hns undergone an oper-
alton. This treatment by physicians
Mas made necessary by the recent car
| iage accident. In which Lady Somerset
vas Injured. Eer present condition Is
pronounced favorable. but it is an
iounced by the doctors that prolonged
'est Is imperative.