Mesa free press., 1898-02-04
FROM FOREIGN LANDS
Bread riots continue at Rome.

Bread riots continue at Rome.
Japan has modified her naval
forces in Chinese waters.
Senator Tabarrini, President of the
Italian Council Of State, is dead.
Third-class railway fares in India
are less than half a cent mile.
The Belgian government has issued
invitations to sugar conference.
Sir Morell Mackenzie's medical IL
brary is to be sold at auction in Lon
don.
Since 1892 there has been a decrease
Of 1000 students in the Scotch univer-
stiles.
The attendance at public schools in
Italy in 1870 was 201 ,632, while now it
is 2,471,65S
Bodies of fifty victims Of the Char
koff, Russia, gas explosion, have been
recovered.
There have been serious floods near
Valencia, Spain, and thirty houses
have collapsed.
By cables breaking, fifteen miners
In a cage at Washers, near Brussels,
were hurled to death.
Excitement continues at Havana
over discovery of an alleged plot to
overthrow Gen. Blanco
An Athens dispatch says: A great
fire at Trikhala has done damage to
the amount of $4,000.
A Berlin dispatch says: The con-
dition of the health of Empress
Augusta Victoria excites concern.
A private cable from London an
nounces that Ethel Barrymore is to
marry Lawrence Irving, son of Sir
Henry Irving.
Gen. Billot, the French Minister of
War, has made formal complaint
against lola for his open letter on
the Dreyfus case.
A Rome cablegram says that King
Humbert has signed decree reducing
the customs tariff on cereals from 71a
to lire until August 80.
No further riots have occurred in
Paris, though the anti-Jewish feeling
continues among the Students Zolas
residence is guarded by military.
Bjornstjerne Bjorsen, the Norwe-
gian novelist, writes to lola heartily
commencing the French writer's
course of action in the Dreyfus mat
ter.
The French Dreyfus and anti-Drey-
fus partisans are making good prog
resS toward revolution. Rioti1g
grows daily more violent and wide
spread.
Persistent rumors are in circulation
to the effect that Gen. Calixto Garcia,
the famous insurgent leader, had been
killed in recent engagement with the
Spanish troops.
The United States cruisers sailed
for Havana in great haste January %,
and there was great excitement over
reports about violence to Consul-Gen-
eral Lee and other Americans.
Rt.-Hon. Charles Pernam Villiers,
member of the British Parliament,
and known as the Father OF the
Commons" having sat continuously in
the House since 1885, is dead.
Oriental mail advices state that
Russia is keeping up her policy Of
aggression in Korea. The appoint
Korea was taken advantage Of by the
Cars government.
1t is rumored that Lord Salisbury
will soon retire from the Secretary
ship of State for Foreign Affairs, al
though retaining the Premiership.
Lord Cromer or Arnold Foster will
probably succeed him.
A Chicago syndicate with $1,000,0OO
capital, has just purchased the Lopez
ranch, the largest in North Mexico.
1t embraces 100000 acres of land,
and contains valuable deposits of as
phaltum. Thirty thousand head of
cattle are included.
Sig. Nicolini, husband of Nine
Adelina Patti-Nicolini, died at Pvau,
France, recently. The late Sig. Ernest
Nicolini married Nine. Patti in Wales
in 1886. She had been divorced from
Louis Sebastian Henri de Roger de
GahuZac, Marquis de Caux.