NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 447, 29 April 1890, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

[by electric telegraph—special to STANDARD.)

BRITISH. AND FOREIGN.

Serious floods have been experienced at Louisana.

The anarchists of Paris have assumed a threatening attitude. The news of thedefeat of the Dahomeyans by the French troops has been confirmed.

Succi, who was well on Friday, was to conclude his forty days’ fast yesterday. An expedition, under the command of Emin Pasha, has started for the Lake. At Moscow five girls who had identified themselves with thecause of Nihilism committed suicide in order to avoid arrest.

In the libel action Sala v. Harry Furness, carricature artist of “ Punch,” plaintiff was awarded damages.

Dowager Empress Frederick has gone on a visit to Darmstadt to meet Queen Victoria.

The carpenters on strike have appealed to English and German tradesmen to desist from supplanting them.

The Protestant and Roman Catholic Bishops of Prussia have appealed to the clergy to try and repress socialism. Owing to the strike of employees of the Great Southern and Western Railway Company, Ireland, traffic has been completely paralysed.

The Pall Mall Gazette refers to the Opposition as being “ all at sixes and sevens,” and’describes them as a “ veritable Ephesian mob.” In reply to questions Mr Parnell has stated that he has no intention whatever of amalgamating with Mr A. J. Balfour in bis land purchase scheme. All the European Powers with the exception of Hungary have declined to allow their employees to take part in the Labor demonstration on May 1. Owing to a split among London workmen it is now estimated that the immense meeting in Hyde Park on May 4th will be under 100,000.

A report is in circulation that the Due D’Orleans will marry the Princess Chartres, and that the ceremony will take place in the prison where the Duke is confined.

After a reception, extending over a week at Brussels, Mr Stanley has arrived in England. Both at Dover and on his arrival in London he was greeted with great enthusiasm. The frozen mutton by the steamer Star of Victoria, from New Zealand, arrived at London tn good condition. Her shipment of beef has been stored though the market is rising. New Zealand hind quarters are quoted at $d per lb. During the course of his trial for libel O’Donovan Rosas declared that anything was justifiable to secure relief from the British yoke. The strikes which take place on Ist May will affect 12,000 firms, employing in the aggregate 200,000 men and 24,000 women. At the London wool sales on Saturday crossbreds and best greasy merinos were sligetly in buyers’ favor. All other sorts were from I%d to 2d below the prices realised at February sales. Quotations for frozen mutton and beef unchanged. A few carcases of lambs per lonic were condemned. Many of the carcases of mutton were spotted, some badly, while afew were condemned. In the House of Commons Mr Gladstone opposed the Irish Land Purchase Bill, and said that there could be no satisfactory settlement of the question while coercion debarred combination for political purposes. In his speech at Bradford, Mr Cecil Raikes, Postmaster General, referred to Mr Henniker Heaton as the fly on the wheel seeking for notoriety in connection with a popular cry, and added that his (Mr Heaton’s) foolish agitation for the further reduction of the postal rates to one penny would prevent the colonies accepting Mr Goschen’s present proposals. A procession, comprising members of eighty trades in London, will parade the Victoria embankment on May 4th. Their manifesto demands that the Government and the local governing bodies shall adopt the eight hours’ system. In the House of Commons G. C. T. Bartley, M.P. for Islington North, withdrew the motion tabled by him on the 18th of March, that a select committee be appointed to enquire into and report on profit-sharing system between employers and employes. He explained that Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, President of the Board of Trade, had given a promise that the Board would enquire into the subject. During the debate on the question that leave be given for the withdrawal of the motion, Mr Bradlaugh strongly denounced labor agitators. The Socialists have presented to the Reichstag a petition bearing three million signatures, urging that the eight hours system be adopted throughout the German Empire. Germany remains neutral on the eight hours’ labor question, but will protect th workers against any action of the non workers.

Woodruffe, the waggoner, who confessed to complicity in the murder of Dr Cronin, and implicated Alexander Sullivan, head of the National League of America, whom he alleged shadowed the murdered man, has been discharged from custody. He has made a confession that the allegations against Sullivan were without foundation.

Further enquiries confirm the suspicion that Schmidt betrayed the plans of the fortresses of Cronstadt. The report that he had been shot proves to be incorrect, he having been committed to penal servitude in Siberia. It is asserted that he disclosed the plans of Cronstadt to a British officer in addition to doing so to the German attache.