Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1898-02-11
FROM FOREIGN LANDS.

FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
Italy has made reduction of the
tariff on cereals
Two persons were KILLED in bread
riot at Genoa, Italy.
Gen. Sir Daniel Lysons, Constable
of the Tower of London since 1890. is
dead.
DR.. jameson, the former leader OF
the Transvaal raid, has arrived in
London.
Many fishermen on the Nova Scotia
Coast are reported to be in starry.
ing condition.
Northwesterly gales have driven the
Arctic ice foe in upon the northern
coast of Newfoundland.
A special dispatch from Shanghai
says that four German sailors have
been murdered by the Chinese.
President Pereira OF Brazil,
who is accused of completely in the
latest revolutionary plot, will be ex
lied.
The eclipse of the sun was success
E
companied by a rapid fall Of tempera-
ture.
Feeling in Japan against Europeans
has reached such a limit that imperial
edicts are necessary to preserve thu
peace.
1t is reported that Lord Salisbury
informed the Cabinet that China mad
practically accepted the British ofFer
loan.
Bishop, the assassin of Gen. Betan-
court, the Brazilian Minister Of war,
last November, has committed suicide
in prison.
Kurds are devastating Armenian
villages in the neighborhood of Rus
sian villayets and the. Armenians are
retaliating.
Spain@w will return the compliment of
the Names visit to Havana by send
ing her biggest cruiser to make call
on New York.
Details of an attack by Chinese
pirates on the European settlement of
Haiphong have arrived. French troops
charged the rioters, capturing ten.
The British fleet at Esquimalt is
ordered to prepare for trip to China
on forty eight hours notice. Japanese
vessels are also headed Chinaward.
In West Africa British troops have
occupied Okute, in Borgu territory
The possession of the Borgu is dis
puted between France and Great
Britain.
It is understood here that the SUI
preme War Council will sentence
lLieut.-Gen. Weyler to- two months.
Imprisonment, but that the govern
ment will grant him a pardon.
England has explained that instead
of saying her policy would be to throw
the Chinese ports open to the COM
merce of the world, she meant tnat
England would never allow herself to
be shut out.
Russia is about to make a new de-
mand upon Turkey for G2S,000,OOO IN
demnity, due from the Russia-Turkish
war. 1t is thought this demand will
make Turkey more docile on the
Cretan question.
Advices from Honolulu state that
American planters on the island are
prepared to abolish contract labor in
order to remove a stumbling block to
annexation. The move is fought by
foreign planters and interests.
The Mexican government has leased
the Tehauntepec Railroad for period
of fifty years to Sir Westman Pearson
& Son, to take effect about April /,
The contractors will build harbors at
both the Atlantic and Pacific ends.
Spanish warships have been ordered
to concentrate at Cadiz, to be headed
for Havana If events shall demand
such a course. Insurgent Gen. Aran-
gueroH was killed, and the body was
reported dressed in the clothes of the
executed Ruiz.
Three troops of Spanish infantry
and one of cavalry were sent to way
lay an insurgent general while he vis-
tied his mistress. The soldiers sue
ceeded and Gen. Arangueren, aged 20.
and his girl are dead, which is chrbni-
cled as Spanish victory.
The committee appointed to draw
up proposals for the better regulation
of relations between Norway and
Sweden, has been unable to reach an
agreement, indicates that the tension
between Sweden and Norway is fast I
approaching the swapping point, and J
It is stated that on the frontier the
arming of both parties is rapidly proc
crossing, both sides preparing for war