CABLEGRAMS

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 244, 8 January 1889, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS

London, Jan. 5. Mr Gladstone modifies his recent utterances with regard, to tbe status of ths Pope. He state* he is not desirous of seeing the temporal power restored, but is anxious that the Papal prestige should be maintained.

The tenants who were besieged on Sir W. Oiphert’s estate held out five hours against the soldiers and police before they were induced to surrender.

Mr Myles Fenton, General Manager of tbe South-Eastern Bailway Company, has been knighted.

A lad named Stevenson, 19 years of age, stabbed a Glasgow prostitute iu the neck end abdomen. The woman was not killed, but is in a precarious condition. Tbe culprit admitted that the desire to imitate “ Jack tbe Ripper ” induced him to commit the crime. The Rev Mr Spurgeon, writing to the Sword and Trowel, says the Imperial Parliament, as a time honored institution, is degraded by the actions of obitructionists. The Economist says tfie Panama Canal is in a hopeless state. Mr Gladstone, in a letter to the press, asserts that the seven years’ duration of Parliament under the Septennial Act is the only cause which is blockading Home Rule far Ireland. Mr Westgai-th, the financial authority, recommends the issue of the projected Victorian four million loan at three per oent. He states that it will bring £9O, which is preferable to three and-a half per oent, evan if the latter brings £lOO. The crew of H.M.S. Diamond will bo paid off, and the vessel sold.

Berlin, Jan. 5. Dr Peters replaces Lieutenant Wiumaan in command of the German expedition to scarab for Stanley and Emin Pasha. The proceedings against Professor publisher of the late Emperor diary, have been abandoned 1 ) and he has released from prison. The Liberal press condemns the attempt of Prince Bismarck to blacken the character of the friends of the late Emperor, and e xults over the release of Professor Geffkan. Madrid, Jan. 6. By a colliery explosion at Oviedo a large number of lives were lost. Thirty bodies have been recovered already. Rome, Jan. 4. Tbe Pope has approved ot ths ceremonies te be observed in connection with the canonise tion of the Venerable Louis Chansl. They will take place at Futuna, in the Friendly Islands, where the rev gentleman was murdered in 1841. Baku, Jan. 4. A train on the Tiflis railway, south of tbe Caucasus, has been snowed np. Fourteen passengers are reported to ba dead and twenty dying. Two hundred people in all are in imminent danger of being frozen to death unleM rescued immediately. Scakin, Jan. 5 W The enemy are harassing the pickets stationed outside the town. New York, Jan. 5. The Chamber of Commerce hae invited Mr Henniker Heaton to. deliver an address in this city on the post tge systems. Washington, Jan. 5. Seven negro servants ot Colonel Paxton, of Arcola, Illinois, plotted together to rob the house and then burn it down. The better to oarry out their purpose they drugged the members of the household by tampering with their coffee, but tbe soporific proved ineffective, and in seme instances the victims awoke. The result was that the criminal* were all captured, and it is fully expected they will be lynched. The American Senate is debating resolutions warning the Government of France not to meddle with the Panama Canal. Toronto, Jan. 5. Sir John McDonald, Premier of Canada, speaking in this city, ridiculed the idea of annexation to the United States.