NEWS OF THE WORLD.
[ar electric telegraph—special to standard.] BRITISH AND”FOREIGN. CZAR CONDOLES WITH BISMARCK. THE AUTOCRACY YIELDING. GREAT LABOR REVOLT IN AUSTRIA. BULGARIA AND SERVIA SNARLING AT EACH OTHER. Spain has adopted universal suffrage. Two hundred lives were lost by the American cyclone. Bulgaria is arming. Her official Press defies Servia. A Victorian loan of two millions is announced.
The Argentine wool clip is 50,000 bales short, but of a superior quality. A ship canal has been commenced between Brussels and Antwerp. The Liverpool dock dispute has been referred to arbitration, and the strikers have resumed work meanwhile. The Metropolitan Gas Company decline to employ Unionists because of some Unionists leaders having threatened to strike without giving notice. A students’ rising at Odessa was provoked by cruelties to political prisoners in Siberia.
The murderess of 45 infants in Warsaw has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment. A Nihilist, chosen to kill the Czar, committed suicide, and left a letter divulging his accomplices, many of whom have been arrested.
Fifteen thousand masons are on strike at Vienna for the principle of nine hours’ labor.
The Unionists at Catalonia (Spain) are on strike for a reduction of hours.
Bishopj Barry is in a critical state of health. The British Board of Trade returns for the year show a revenue of exclusive of £5,185,000 transferred to local taxation.
The revised Republican U.S. Tariff Bill shows a reduction in the revenue of 45 million dollars and imposes 15 per cent ad valorem duty on hides. The Czar and Czarina inspected the military prison at St. Petersburg and gave orders for the release of sixty prisoners, and reduced the sentence of the remainder.
Scbebrekova, who was arrested for writing a letter to the Czar, demanding a reform in Russia, has been released by order of His Majesty. ’
The Brazilian authorities have arrested certain persons for sending alarmist cablegrams, and ordered the accused to be tried by martial law. A descent of the Greeks on Crete is expected. The Czar has written condoling [with Bismarck.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 437, 3 April 1890, Page 2
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340NEWS OF THE WORLD. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 437, 3 April 1890, Page 2
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