NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 589, 2 April 1891, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGBAPK —SPECIAL TO STANDARD.] BRITISH AND FOREIGNThe cricketer Pilling is dead. A conspiracy has been detected amongst the Buenos Ayres police. Eighteen arrests have been made in connection with the assassination of the Bulgarian Minister. It is rumored that Lord Salisbury and Mr Blaine have settled the case of the seized sealer Hayward. There is an agitation in Italy to abstain from exhibiting at the World’s Fair in Chicago. Messrs Dillon and O’Brien, who were confined in the cells attached to the County Court during the trial of the Tipperary rioters, were safely removed when a fire broke out in the Court.

It is understood that the principal reason for the Pope desiring an interview with Archbishop Walsh was to obtain greater control over the Nationalist party, and render political assistance to England. The Canadian Government have requested the Marquis of Salisbury to prohibit Newfoundland discrimination in favor of America respecting the sale of bait.

Captain Walker, of H.M.S. Emerald, will appeal to the Privy Council against the decision of the Court, by which he was mulcted in damages for closing Baird’s lobster factory. One thousand deaths are reported in Chicago from influenza this week, and the deaths are occurring so rapidly that hundreds of corpses await burial. Dr Gentry, of Chicago, claims to have discovered an influenza microbe.

John O'Connor, one of Mr Parnell’s delegates to America, is at Boston suffering from influenza, and his condition is regarded as critical. The Italian Ambassador at Washington is to be recalled unless prompt action is taken by the authorities at New Orleans to have the lynchers punished. Some Italian navvies in East Virginia murdered a Scotch ganger for approving of the New Orleans lynching. Supporters of Mr Parnell stoned the followers of Mr McCarthy at Easky, a small village in the vicinity of Sligo, where Parnell is carrying on the campaign. The police fixea bayonets, but even then they wera quite powerless to protect McCarthy, who fled to Sligo, hotly pursued by a large number of opponents, who continued stone throwing. Mr John Pinkerton, M.P. for Galway, received a nasty wound on the head from a stone.

A Calcutta despatch of March 30 states :—Ghookas to the number of four hundred and seventy and eight British officers commanded by a Commissioner from Assam, were destroyed while attempting to quell a rising against the Rajah of Manipar. The Commissioner was summoned to Durban to secure the arrest of the rebel chiefs, and the following night the camp was attacked, but was successfully defended for two days, when the supply of cartridges became exhausted. The force then scattered. A few of the fugitives have reached Assam, but it is feared that the remainder have been massacred. A fresh expedition from Assam has been despatched against the rebels.