NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 557, 15 January 1891, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

[by electric telegraph—special to standard. ] BRITISH AND FOREIGNThe Duke of Somerset is dead. A thaw has at last set in in England. Mr Balfour’s Irish relief fund has now reached £20,000. Dr Magee has been appointed Archbishop of York. Hanlan has challenged O’Connor to row a match. The New York Chamber of Commerce condemns free coinage. Emperor William proposes a conference to discuss the question of the general disarmament of Europe. An avalanch killed 17 people at Leona, in Bosnia. It has been announced in the Prussian Diet that Dr. Koch’s secret will shortly be made public. The French loan of thirty million was covered more than twenty times. Mr Parnell has served a writ for alleged libel on Dr Tanner, the member of MidCork. The North British Company are suing 220 strikers for leaving work without notice. A settlement of the railway strike is from present appearances remote. By a collision between two passenger steamers in the Firth of Forth thirteen passengers were drowned. Baron Hausseman, the re-constructor of Paris, is dead. The general feeling in America is that should England and Canada go to war with the States over the Behrings Sea dispute, the latter ought not to resist the bulk of opinion, which is against spilling blood for the sake of a few sealskins. Mr Parnell stated he was willing to retire if assured his opponents would promise four points, vii.—t. Charter for settlement of land or power to the people to settle themselves ; 3. Power to secure the interests of laborers and artisans ; 3 Control of the Irish police : 4. To concede the appointment □ judges and magistrates in Ireland. Advices from the North-west report that the Indians are marching towards the Pine Ridge agency, evidently with the intention of surrendering. The situation is critical owing to the difficulty of disarming them, and it is feared that the former scenes of massacre may be re-enacted.