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Bruce Herald, Volume XX, Issue 2113, 5 November 1889, Page 3

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BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Coll, convicted of manslaughter during the disturbance at Gweedore, at which Inspector Martin lost his life, has been sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude. The others implicated have been sentenced to terms ranging from seven years to six months. Father M'Fad* den has been released on bail. It is officially announced that an Irish Land Purchase Bill will be introduced next year. Mr Treeves Edgcumbe, barrister, contends that Mrs Maybrick is entitled to an unconditional release, and he advises her friends to apply for a writ of habeas corpus, The high-handed treatment of British subjects, in Damaraland is creating irritation in the minds of colonists at the Cape. Further reports from Dakota district state that 100,000 persons are threatened with famine, owing to the failure of the crops. There is great mortality in sheep throughout the Argentine Republc. It is estimated that fully 20,000,000 have died. The wharfingers having refused to concede the terms agreed upon by the Mansion House Committee, it is expected that 700 labourers will go out on strike. Evictions on the Hon. Mr Olphert's estates in Ireland continue. A determined resistance is offered by the tenants, and four houses had to be set on fire to drive the occnpants out. It is reported that the outrages by the Turkish soldiery in Crete have been put a stop to. ! At the Cronia murder trial last Wednes- j day evidence was adduced to the effeot that j Major Le Caron, military organiser of thei Fenian Association, received 40,000d0l from the Clan-na-Gael for his mission to England. \ Evidence was also given, that after Major Le Caron's disclosures' before the Parnell commission in London a demand was made at Camp No. 20 that the four British spies in the Clan-na-Gael should be expelled. Thomas O'Connor then stated that the executive of the Clan-na-Gael were rogues, who had squandered a hundred thousand dollars to get the best men imprisoned in London through the assistance of Major Le C jron, and under pressure, Detective Coughlin, who Was subsequently accused of complicity in Dr Cronin's murder, demanded, the appoint- i ment of a secret committee to elicit the source of O'Connor's charges, and to this Biggs, the guardian of the camp, consented. Mr Charleß Bradlaugh has suffered a relapse, and his condition is oausinq; great anxiety to his friends. ; . >•: The municipal elections have resulted unfavourably for the Liberal party. Messrs Austen and Chamberlain were defeated for Birmingham. The Turkish Government have forbidden the entrance of Russian pilgrims into Armenia. The Emperor of Germany, during the course cf hiß eulogy on the British navy said, "We young naval nations must come to England atid learn from the first navy in the world." Cholera is spreading in Persia. Pnnißhrnent by the knout haa been abolished in Russia. The Sikhs bave advised the British authorities that Dhuleep Singh, who in February last issued a proclamation to Indian subjects promising that if provided with four million i sterling he would free India, has become reconciled to English authority. Mr Chamberlain, speaking at Birmingham, said that owing to the abuse he had been incessantly subjected to since he separated from Mr Gladstone, he had seriously contemplated resigning his seat in tbe House of Commons. It was only the duty he felt he owed his oountry that deterred him from taking this course. Sir Henry James, in the course of his speech before the commission, said the Irish agitation practically aimed at the separation of Ireland from England. He asserted that the Land League had a Fenian origin. After next week freights to the colonies will be raised 6s per ton. The dock charges have advanced on an average from . 8 to 10 per cent all round. At tbe Cronin murder trial Gilletts, a Winnipeg convict gave evidence to the effeot that Burke had confessed to him that he, Coughlin, Cooney and O'Sullivan decoyed Dr Cronin into a cottage and clubbed' him the moment he entered. The body, he said, was thrown into Lake Michigan, and afterwards taken out and ooncealed in the street sewer. An ex-cdnviot, who was examined, swore that two years ago Detective Loughlin tried to hire him to killDr Cronin. The trial is fnotj yet concluded. . ';j y/ y. y \*: During"* heaVy gale '■ oi Friday' a five-

storey factory in Glasgow collapsed, and in its fall crushed an adjoin ing carpet weaving shed, where 150 young girls were working. Forty of the girls were killed outright, and 18 were injured, while many are still to be accounted for. Numerous wonderful escapes are reported. H.R.H. the Princo of Wales has been entertained at a banquet at Cairo by the Khedive. The Russian and French Consuls although invited did not attend. The French press express indignation at the Prince of Wales' visit to Egypt. It appears that Mr Westgarth did Dot die a natural death, but lost his life nnder circumstances necessitating an inquest. It had been Btated that he was deliriouß and jumped out of a window, but from the evidence it seemed that he fell out of a ventilating aperture in an attic of the house into the area below. A verdict was returned to the effect of accidental death. On Mr Michael Davitt concluding his addresß before the Times-Parnell Commission Sir James Hannen, the president, said the court was obliged to him for his assistance. Sir Hy. James, one of the counsel for * The Times,' asserted that 'The Times' had been a consistent and able friend of Ireland, to whioh Mr Davitt ejaculated "Amen,"