NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 556, 13 January 1891, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

[by electric telegbaph—special to STANDABD.] BRITISH AND~FOREIGNA revolution has broken out at Valparaiso, ond the telegraph wires are cut. Professor Virchow has discovered that inoculation with Dr Koch’s lymph generates a new affection. Thirty thousand Russian Jews are emigrating to Brazil. The British Admiralty are increasing the naval forces by six thousand officers and men. The President of America is in favor of free coinage. The butter by the Doric brought U2S to 115 s pat cwt., but a few choice kegs redi-ed 118 s. A Cape loan of over a million has been issued, with the minimum at 96. Mr Balfour’s fund for Irish relief has reached £l l,OOO. Next month France will renounce all commercial treaties except connections based on the most favored nation clause. The Recorder at Plymouth has decided that strikes to prevent non-Unionists obtaining employment are illegal. The Queen of Portugal and her friends are arranging a mass for the success of the Mozambique expedition. The Mayor of Toulon has been sentenced to five years for procuring abortion. The North of England is to have a flour ring, with a capital of two millions. The tallow market is firmer. Fine mutton is worth 27s 6d, and good beef talllow 25s 6d per cwt. Germany denies the annexation of islands in the Gilbert Group. The German Australian Steamship Company have decided to send a steamer to Australasia every three weeks. The French committee of experts declare that the Koch cure bewilders the ablest physicians. The directors of the Railway Companies affected by the strike refuse to accept medialion.

An edical has been issued ordering all Jews to be expelled from the Caucasus provinces. The Indian outbreak in the United States has caused excitement among the Canadian Indians, who are purchasing arms, and dancing the “ ghost dance." St. James Gazette asserts that General Booth lent Mr W. T. Stead £s,ooo out of the Salvation Army funds to purchase Mr Newton’s interest in the Review of Reviews.

The Russian Government is supplying Servia with great quantities of arms and a sufficient number of pontoons to enable Serv‘a to throw 60,000 troops On the Hungarian side of the Danube in two hours.

Mr Dillon sails for Paris shortly. It is possible that he will act as leader of the Irish party during the term of O’Brien’s sentence. It is believed that Mr Justin McCarthy is anxious to retire from the leadership. The frost in England has now lasted 46 days. Intense cold is being experienced all over the continent, but in Southern Europe the weather is especially severe. Numerous cases have been reported of persons having been frozen to death. The shipping industry of Holland, Belgium, and Antwerp has been suspended as the harbors are closed with ice.