The McCook tribune., 1897-12-31
FOREIGN NEWS NOTES.

The United States gunDOat NN"
port, with the members of the Nlcara-
guam canal commission on board, mas
arrived at Greytown, Nicaragua. AlE
the members are we'll and reported
that the voyage had been pleasant
and enjoyable.
The Paris correspondent OF the Ga
zette telegraphed his paper week
ego that in spite of the protests or the
Chinese, the British ship Daphne en-
tered the inner harbor at Port arthur.
apparently uncertain to ascertain III
there were Russian ships there.
Jimmy Barry, of Chicago, the ban
tam weight champion, who was ar
rested in London in connection Win
the fight of December 8, which re-
suited in the death of his antagonist,
Croot, was released from custody, the
public prosecutor refusing to take up
the case.
Charles Helmbold, son of the late
Dr. Helmbold, of New York city. the
well known patent medicine proprle-
yor, has been locked up in London
and is awaiting trial at Brow street
police station on charge Jf threat
ening to kill United States Consul
General Osborne.
A special dispatch from Brest says
the French cruiser Jean Bart has been
ordered to proceed Immediately TO
China. The Jean Bert is rated as :.
second class cruiser. II mounts four
six-inch quick firing guns. six five
inch guns. fourteen two and i've
tenths-inch guns and has nine guns or
smaller caliber. Its crew numbers 352
men.
Several thousand Arabs who have
been making Il denomination outside
the gates of TripOli have been sur
rounded by Turkish troops. The shops
of the city are closed and me Arab
agitation against the government IS
increasing. There were disturbances
on December II at ArmuS, near here.
All the houses inhabited by Hebrews
were pillaged. Thirty of the rioters
were arrested by the troops.
II Sorriere Della IsOlla tells
shocking story of i'll treatment of %
Pr.>cess Di Carini. who is separated
from her husband. 1t appears that
with her blind daughter she has been
shut up for the past five years by her
trustee and has only just succeeded in
sending a letter to the police, reveal
ing the fact of her Imprisonment. The
police have liberated the princess ana
the trustee has been arrested.
The Cubans in New York say Of the
battle at Yacta Ford that the Cuban
loss was 106 killed ana about 800
wounded. General Rabis men found
200 Spanish dead, and General AldaVe
said his wounded numbered 900. The
Cubans believe they inflicted much
more damage; that the Spanish
troops carried away many OF their
dead and minimiZed the number OF
wounded, reporting only One-fourth.
The funeral OF William Terriss, the
actor who was stabbed to death ID
London by a super named Prince, took
place at BromptOn cemetery, an I'M
mense crowd of people being present
The principal mOurners were the two
sons of the deceased. Mr.. and Mrs.
Seymour Hicks (the latter Eleine Ter
riss, daughter of the murdered mani.
Messrs. Gatti, Henry Irving, Charles
Wyndham and George GrOssmith. The
floral tributes were very numerous.
According to a special 1h5patch
from Shanghai the BRUSH SQ'iltTON
will make a demonstration at Chee
Foo, on the north coast of the Chan
Tung promOntory, as a warning. it Is
supposed, that Great Britain intends
to oppose the division of China with
out being consulted. 1t is reported
there that Russia has offered China n
loan to pay off the indemnity OF the
war with Japan, and it is believed, says
the dispatch, that Japan and England
are acting in concert TO preserve
China from disintegratiOn, faForinE
the idea of protectOrate Over Central
China, with capital at Nan King.
A German-Chinese commission has
been arranged. according to a dis
patch from Shanghai to the Daily
Mail, to settle the boundaries Of the
occupied district at KiaO Chau, and Il
is evident, therefore, that the Occuna-
ton will be permanent. The same
dispatch says it is rumOrec in ShanG-
mai that the British intend to occupy
Talien, south of Port Arthur. The
Daily Mails correspondent at Toxic
SAYS there is no excitement there over
the news from Port Arthur. The press
IS calm and the public Indifferent. II
Is rumored, also. the dispatch alleges,
tnat a large Russian military force Is
coming over from Siberia.