HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7865, 16 May 1891, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Received May 15th. 10.20 a.m,

RESCUE OF A MAN-OF-WAR. London, May 14. The French warship Seiguelay was stranded on a sandbank off Jaffa, iv the Levant. Her position was supposed to be kopelesa, but Lord Charles Bereaford, who coxxuxLCLXicis feiie TJn.paiiaii m i mir Mffir"? pug iv the teeth of a gale, and extricated the ship after fifty-two hours' work. REVOLT IN DUTCH GUINEA. A revolt has broken out in Dutch Guinea of an alarming nature. The lower classes are rebelling against the dominion of the upper c'ass. TAXING RACECOURSES, Paris, May 14. The Chamber of Deputies has adopted a Bill giving the Government power to supervise and tax racecourses. Received May 15th. 10.35 a.m. THE MAFIA IN NEW ORLEANSWashington, May 14. The Italian consul at New Orleans claims that he is preventing the Italians from killing the Mayor and Lawyer Parkinson, who headed the mob and other leading ly nohera. Received May 15th, 10.30 a.m. OBITUARY. London, May 14. Canon Cadman is dead. • MR GLADSTONE. Mr Gladstone is improving. THE RITUALISM CASE. The hearing of the Bishop of Lincoln's appeal in the Privy Council against the decision of the Archbishop of Canterbury in the ritualistic case has been postponed till the 10th of June, RUSSIA AND THE JEWS. The Times denies that the decree expelling the Jews from Russia has been suspended. THE CANADIAN PREMIER. Canada, May 14. Sir John Macdonald, Premier, is seriously ill. FOREST FIRE. New York, May 14. Four thousand acres of forest in Pennsylvania are on fire. Received May 15th, 1.30 p.m. ENGLAND AND PORTUGAL. London, May 14. The modus vivendi with Portugal has been extended for one month. li«o«ived May 16th. 1.15 a.m. MURDER IN NEW YORK. New York, May 15. Towards the end of April, a woman named Brown was found murdered in the streets of New York, under circumstances which suggested that the crime had been committed by "Jack the Ripper," who committed the murders in Whitecbapel, London, and a man known as "Frenohy," engaged as a drover in conneotion with the shipping trade, was taken into custody on suspicion of being connected with the crime. The coroner's inquest on the victim was concluded to-day, when the jury brought in a verdict of murder against "Frencny."