Show EUROPEAN EVENTS russian riots teutonic troubles french fighting pap papal politics lle lilan humanity from tho the heralds special cor EDITOR you have ong before e f this hi is writing it in I learned arned of execution but it may b be e news to you that there ia is serious talk in political quarters antho in alie german capital of a german ryssa kryssa koff koft the government of william I I ia seriously disturbed by ever increasing I reports of widely dely ramified conspiracies and the secret police are ped peeling ilIg their hundreds of argus eyes to find out a decisive cor corpus pus A few days ago acro in ill koenigsberg the home of th the e au fihe critique of pure rca itea son on a half demented student was arrested foi foz having uttered threats to shoot the kaiser another ben s report which may vavia have escaped tho the notice of american c correspondents tells of the intention of bismarck to have the capital of the german germah E empire ampire removed from the gay and turbulent spree metropolis to some som other eother city reich reichstag stag and corresponding respectively with your united states hoube of representatives and senate would would havo have to pull up stakes and locate where the man inan of blood and iron seea sees fit more Alor ethan than that even the residence of the imperial family aou would id follow in the wake odthe of the government hegira this move it is generally understood haa has long been planned as a punishment of the tile progressive municipality obber of berlin whose citizens arc are the most radical voters odthe of the new empire more serious and gloomy than tha n these tuse ilie seat of intel li gence are those from the dark earth of russia have learned that the tho nihilisms nihilists lists sent the czar theaon the contents of their latest proclamation of which you ou have undoubtedly received telegraphic information through one of their own bodar body one day a young oung bilan man called on oil t the e municipal commanding officer baranow with the request for an audience with the emperor for important communications admitted into the chars czars presence he be said he was an agent of the executive committee sent officially to notify his ma majesty 11 j esty orally gelie propositions of his barut party for ame restoration st of public order ar as they had adason reason to sus suspect eca that the emperor had received no intimation of the demands in the published proclamation cla mation for this reason the tLe nihilist emissary repeated the points contained ih iff ithe alie manifesto the strange interlocutor was at once ap pretended ended and placed in in the vaults of the tor fortress tress of st peter and paul but his identity has not yet been established the proclamation itself has been immensely circulated all over the country flood flooding I n cities and towns villages village geets from the golos I learn additional details of the horrible disturbances at Elizabeth grad on april 29 the cause of the troubles bubles tr was trifling the host of a tavern named struck a russian who had broken a tumbler whereupon age agen noral cral hand handt t to o hand fight ensued ansue d numerous populace from the adjoining taverns rushed to the scene with the cry cri they are are striking our people multitudes assembled on the streets and the mob commenced demolishing the houses shops and synagogues of the jews peasants from the surrounding country increased the disorder when the jews fired some shots the mob grew worse in the night 01 of the three companies of 01 uhland an and d a battalion of infantry arrived from rod and in the morning g the governor of cherson put in hi his s appearance from odessa a prosecuting government government overn ment officer was sent all tile the streets showed appalling signs of devastation do the feathers from the beds of the jews covered the streets like a layer of snow the tile sidewalks were rendered impassable by the ruins of furniture many houses had been torn tora down to the foundation of others only the walls and roofs were left standing over a hundred wounded pe af pf were counted about two hundred jewish stores and shops were demolished moli shed in lit tho the whisky wodai shops the barrels and casks had their heads knocked in at first the populace did lid not pillage except drink k all the whisky they could lay hands on which naturally did not allay their brutal fe ferocity ro c it no less than four hundred bundred w were ar refuted and no more peasants are permitted to enter the city precincts mentioning whisky reminds me of ahemad the late report of the austro hun garian government as to the production of malt liquors in 1879 from this official compilation I will transcribe the following figures per cap hectoliters liters germany 91 E egland united states 32 ausura hungary 30 prance france 24 belgium f russia Mt netherlands herlands 59 sweden 21 italy switzerland 27 norway 34 one hectoliter holds hold nearly 26 gal al U wine measure so that for the a countries named we get a beer consumption colnul ngi i on of about three and one third b billion gallons coming comin back on oil the subject of nihilists nihilisms lists I am sorry to state that the tile government of our muscovite neighbor seems to have havo lost its head the extraordinary brusque severity of the rulers causes redoubled reaction the tile more eo so as the re repressive inca measures by no means f fall on oil the really guilty parties but on the innocent masses of the apathetic people an especially offensive rigor is unfortunately and imprudently manifested in the matter of the public press exorbitant fines interdiction prohibition of retail sale of journals and other police measures cripple or rather extinguish every newspaper with the least semblance of a shadow of an independent breath the government supervision odthe of the press ia is relentless and all comprehend sive not even the telegraph offices are free to send any ines messages sages displeasing to the officials with the best wishes for your country the land of the free and the home I am yours CONRAD BERLT EDITOR HERALD in ill compliance with your request I will on endeavor now and then to gather up u what pearls of news I can snatch snatch from front the greedy jaw j ny of obi oblivion ivio nand and string etring them up tip for the edification of your u readers in alie shadow of the irocky rocky mountains the first thing coming to my in mind is an anecdote rich rare an and racy for whose I have substantial proofs the occurrence shows with what pertinacity and perversity the russian pol police tee trades tracks the tangled thread of revolutionary agitation into all the landd lands of this continent even into the idyl lie repose of our alpine vales madame edmond adam the very able editor of the rente new review who ma makes a strenuous point in her magazine of defending the new czar and t le I reforms attributed to him received a few days lays ago by mail a pasteboard box which contained under double wrapping filled with an oily liquid looking like nitroglycerine besides tj this Is rather ominous article the box contained a ft note with a certain name and address the tile box itself was pasted paste A together out of numerous visiting in cards some soine of which bore ge geneva e addresses addra gea madame adam did not venture to investigate by herself whether this was an all attempt upon her life or a mystification but handi landi handed landed cd ed the mysterious package to the police what their ingenuity has searched out in the matter I have not been informed yet I havelow aver received some hitherto dished information as to the manner in which the nihilist hunt extends also to turkey ci in the preparation all and execution of the last successful attempt on the tile life of alexander ilhan succeeded in making their escape into roumania across the russian frontier partly the police of the tile latter country had their attention drawn to the dangerous refugees by hints from st petersburg arg partly the new king showed in the first days how obsequious he was towards russia in acceding to lier her demands regarding the rest restriction fiction of the privileges of asylum be this as it may the fugitives resolved to evade an imminent arrest b by flight to turkey the police ot of constantinople was informed from bucharest and st petersburg of the impend ing arrival of the refugees refugee at the golden gate when the steamer aunts on board of which were the fugitive nihilists nihilisms lists arrived from at stamboul several officers of the secret police boarded the vessel at once an and arrested four men who were accod accompanied ni I b by three women and two chi children d ren alie lie steamer was secured secure dby by a garrison and the prisoners prisoners prevented from dis embarking the minister of police had an interview with the great vizier after which the latter was driven to the russian embassy shortly after the captured nihilists nihilisms lists were subjected to a trial in pr prison i on at which an interpreter of the russian embassy was pro present sent the rest is silence while we thus see the secular arm stretched out over land and sea to apar clieny the fanatics of a new order the holy roman chu church ach is active also in ill endeavoring to quench the spread of the revolutionary conflagration you will remember that at tile time of hoe dels and No Nobi bilings linga abortive attempts on oil the life of kaiser wilhe heim lm pope leo XIII issued an lit encyclical circular letter wherein he lie took the initiative for the suppression of socialism F from r on i the millie I see that cardinal jacobini lias has recently been charged cli arged to is sop pop tle question in this matter at the various cabinets in europe meantime tile vicar of christ or successor of peter pete feels a necessity to strengthen liis his policy in the tho quorum cardinals of whom olly 28 arc are favorable to liis his temporizing policy while 34 are tire still till s devoted to the extreme ultramontane i i c at strictly fic tj co conservative use r dative principles of p pius HIS YX IX for fo r this purpose a consistory is called to appoint several new candidates for the scarlet robe whose confirmation will lake take place in september Lo looking beyond our western frontier we sec cc our sister republic of sept e t 1870 france lias has several g irons in the firo fire just now no dat details 11 I 14 been received concerning the tile assassination of flatters expedition which was making studies for the sa sahara bara railroad than ill news comes from the sene gal colony col borgais desbordes who had been n sent out to lay out the track f for or a faila railway ay to to the niger and who had bad heretofore hereto f or e met no opposition on the part of the natives now is exposed to hostile attacks the black aborigines havo have several times cut off his provision supplies there lias been a skirmish in which pol and several of his men were killed these are indications little encouraging for the onward march of civilization in those parts Mar marseille the home of the I inspiring i national hymn of R rouget aget de do aisle auona en ants ac is agitated memoriam over a memorial memo to the late president thiers the liberator of the territory the quarrel is between t the he government and the municipal council which latter refuses its consent to the erection of a statue for the defunct journalist historian financier and statesman while alic the government is determined on having the memory of the illustrious it great little man honored notwithstanding the vainglorious boots of the grande nation about their success in africa some sonic little creditable reports are coming in in thus it will hardly add to the glory of france if all the tile ci civilized world learns that french broo troops asp after the first skirmishes with the krogmire Krou mire burned all theli tits odthe of the vanquished after having driven out the women and children at the point i it of the tile bayonet in the last ra days y s the tile french have penetrated into regions winch which although immediately adjacent to the med mediterranean er have never been entered b by y a europ europeans e alls foot for centuries because the fanatical superstitious a and nd jealous nations forcibly prevent all inroads all through the war the Krou mira proven themselves no mean antagonists even to tho the well drilled french soldier talking of frenchi cruelty abroad reminda reminds your correspondent odthe of the samo sarno attribute at home this is the reason season of catching frogs for the purpose I ir pose of obtaining their hind legs for for the numerous lovere lovers of this delicacy ica Y the manner of getting them is very inhumane and your mr henry bergh would certainly move heaven and earth for its legal suppression when the poor little croakers are caught their hind if legs e are torn out with a vigorous jerk and the animal thrown back into his native swamps the ignorant peasantry firmly believing that other hind legs will grow on the poor amphibians tast march no le less than pairs of frog legs were brought brou glit to the one market at strasbourg alsatia to cater to the depraved taste of epicures epi cures fortunately there the appears reappears to prevail a better spirit of humanity and charity among the three million inhabitants of the commonwealth mon wealth according to latest statistics there were made in the month of april alone legacies public charitable purposes to an amount of francs all through switzerland the amounts for the first four months of the year aggregating francs certainly no mean for a poor country with one third in arable mountain ground GENEVA switz may fth 1881 |