The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-07-01
NOTES ABOUT EUROPE.
Facts Political. Medical, Military, Fiscal,
HiJiancgnI and OtIIcrwise.


Financial and Otherwise.
Italy IL apparently doomed to mis-
fortune in connection with everything
that she undertakes In Africa. Two ex-
petitions recently dispatched into the
interior from the. northeast coast Of tho
dark continent have been massacred by
the natives, and now there IL fresh
deadlock botween Italy and Abyssinia
in consequence Of "a dispute with regard
to the correct Interpretation of the stip-
ulations OF the recent treaty OF peace
which concluded the war between the
two countries. The Abyssinians insist
OH one meaning and the Italians upon
another, and inasmuch as the recent
conflict between the two nations origi-
mated precisely in dispute Of this char
acter the outlook is regarded at Rome
with considerable amount OF anxiety.
An international conference on lep-
rosy will take place in Berlin in Octo-
ber and will remain in session at the
Offices Of the imperial health depart
ment from Oct IL to Oct. 16. The prin-
cipal purpose Of the congress is to bring
about an international agreement for
the scientific treatment Of leprosy, and
it will be attended by the leading ex-
perts and specialists Of Great Britain,
France, Russia, India, Japan and Italy.
The plague which has recently been
raging with so much virulence In In
dia. and especially at Bombay, has
now reached Jiddah, which Is the sea
port and landing place Of pilgrims from
all parts of the world for Mecca and
Medina, the holy places Of Islam. This
is very serious, as 1t IL now almost GER
tain that the plague will be spread BY
the returning pilgrims to the four quar-
ters Of the globe. True, the Ottoman
authorities are stated to have increased
and elaborated tho quarantine preoau-
tions at Jiddah, but orientals are 30
careless about such matters and 90, in
different even to the most elementary
rules and regulations Of sanitation that
no reliance can be attached to anything
that the sultan's medical authorities
may do or not 10 In the matter. :
No more striking illustration of the
relatively blOodless character Of the re-
cent Turco- Grecian war can be given
than that afforded by the official returns
recently issued. according to which the
number Of prisoners taken by the rival
armies amounted TO 200 men each, while
in the Greek hospitals there has through
ont the campaign not been a single
Greek soldier treated for q saber, bayo-
net or lance wound, the only injuries
being those inflicted by rife bullets or
by theexplosion of shells. This is equiv
alent to O demonstration that there was
no hand to hand fighting and that.the
troops never really came to close quar-
ters throughout the struggle.
A letter has just reached the governor
general at Algeria from the governor OF
the French colony Of Senegal by way Of
Timbuktu. The dispatch was carried
by Arab couriers on dromedaries, and IL
constitutes the first known instance on
record Of Europe and official oommuni-
cations having traversed the great Sa-
hara desert.
According to news received in Eu-
rope, the Japanese seem bent OH running
all trade and industry in Formosa, fo1
they have applied to the island the same
barbarous and uncivilized law that pre-
walls in Japan prohibiting foreigners
from living anywhere in the interior,
restricting them TO certain seaports on
the coast. In Formosa the whole of the
trade and industry is in the hands of
the Chinese, who number nearly a, 900,
900 and who are now being expelled as
fast as possible from tho interior.
A great sensation has been created at
Odessa, and, indeed. throughout south
the Rev. ID. w. Ford, the we'll known
chaplain Of the Anglo American church
at Odessa, has committed suicide for no
known cause by hanging himself in the
sacred building, which is not to be used
for divine service again until it has
been sulemnly reconsecrated by bishop
sent out from England for the purpose.
The discussion in connection with
the renewal of the charter of the Bank
of France. which has just been prolong
ed by the national legislature until the
end of 1920, has brought to light the
measures that were adopted during the
war of 1870 for the preservation of the
specie and valuables confided to the
care Of the institution to the extent Of
over 800, 900, 900. It seems that the