The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1876-05-13 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

FOREIGN NEWS.  Multitudes crowded the city of Philadelphia, to witness the opening of the Centennial Exhibition.  While five persons were de3cending a coal shaft at Brown's Station, in Missouri, the other day, the rope broke and they fell to the bottom, a depth of over 100 feet. Three were killed, the other fatally injured. By the Hamburg and American steamer, which arrived at. Plymouth on Sunday, we learn that a fearful explosion took place, on the evening of April 26th, at the Government torpedo manufactory, at New York. It is sum,o-ed to have been caused by nitrate of silver falling, but the cause is necessarily obscuro. The ten sufferers are all girls, and the bodies of some of them were frightfully mangled. The other employes made great efforts to escape from the upper portions of the buildings, fearing file:ll3r explosiona, and their sore ims were fearful. The serious riot at Salonica on Saturday, which led to the murder of the French and German Consuls, wis promptly followed by a simultaneous demand on the part of the French and Gelman Ambassadors at Constantinople for satisfaction. The outbreak is ascribed to an attempt of a body of Greeks to take forcible possession of a Bulgarian girl who wished to abjure the Christian and embrace the Mahometau faith. The Mussulmans not only resisted the attempt, but assasinated the two Consuls who had gniots to the Mosque, presumably to intervene in the cause of order. The Porte has, it is said, promised every satisfaction. A correspondent at Whylah, writing on the 7th April, says :—" The King of Dahomey sent a special messenger bearing his 'stick,' and accompanied by a numerous retinue of headmen, die., to this place. a few days ago, with his answer to Commodore Hewett's demand of a fine of 500 puncheons of palm oil, or the blockade of the coast as an alternative. The King states in substance that he will pay no fine; that he does not recognise the power of th., Commodore to inflict it, or to interfere in any way with his Majesty punishing any person who may break the laws of his country. The letter has been forwarded to the Commodore at the river Congo, and his decision, or that of the British Government, is looked for with great anxiety by all the Europeans en the coast. The King has further intimated that he thinks very little of our power, and thut our punishment Ilf his neighbour ot Ashantee was so trifling that he cares very little whether we go up the ,country or not, as we for fever too much, and are only fit to burn houses and then run away. The traders, who are all Frenchmen, with the exception of the one who was punished, are 'in a great state of anxiety about their property and the debts owing to them at Whydali, and they say that when they signed the document requesting the interference of the Commodore they did not properly understand its meaning.  "Killing time "—" Instant" execution. THE EASTWETZ AND THE GAINSBORO, the Tie of the Season, at Dewranop's Shia, Tie, and Collar Warehouse, 4 and 5, Paxton-terrace, Duke-street, the Shop with the Clock and Gaslamp over the door.—Aovr.  The extraordinary and rarely.accomplished feat of walking a thousand miles in a thousand consecutive hours has been performed at Wrexham, John Whatton, who styled himself a young novice pedestrian, completing his thousand mile walk at a quarter past eight on Sunday night, having commenced on the 27th of March. Ile declared that he was quite fresh at the end, . and walkel ai extra mile, carrying a child.