BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 548, 23 December 1890, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

A Mexican Jack the Ripper is credited with eight murders. An Ohio river bridge collapsed under the weight of a train, and four people were killed and ten injured. It is proposed that Brisbane be the first port of call and Sydney the terminus of the Van Couver mail service. The Czar refuses to receive an English deputation in reference to ill-treatment of Jews in Russia. Colonel Wissman, in command of the German operations on the Shire, has recalled Emin Pasha owing to the latter’s habitual disregard of orders. The Judge has refused the application of Gabrielle Bompard, accused in Paris of the murder of M. Giroffe, to allow her to be publicly hypnotised. Twenty persons were killed and many injuted by <he collapse of a store in the native quarter at Bombay. An express train from St. Joseph to Quebec was deraded, and the carriages fell a distance of 20 feet. Five persons were killed, and many injured. Roman Catholic priests are making a house to house canvass against Parnell’s tak^‘tflace°d N °" h - take place daily between the opposition tain order/ ‘ r °° PS ar ® arrivin S main•i^u 7 ' S f exton , declares that his party will hereafter demand assurances from Mr Gladstone beyond the points obtained Rule Mr W “ h regard t 0 Home The Tipperary tenants are now paying eir rents, and the plan of campaign shows signs of collapsing in that country.