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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume X, Issue 894, 21 March 1891, Page 2

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♦ Home and Foreign. «;0r ■;<!}'■ London, Maroh. 17. The recent advance oa Tokar is regarded as part of a plan for th© recapture of the Soudan, and the advance on Khartoam to counteract the Italian advance on the Nile. • It is reported that the libel action brought by Sir W* Gumming wiHTesult hi da apblogy being wifhoufc any attempt to prove the chargoa, jeaving the Jury to.assess^tjie, damages. It is said that this- coufte will be taken owing to ; the pressure of , the JPrince of Wales. 1 Writs of habeas .corpus-, have been granted for the purpose of enabling AlWjKrs Dillibn and O'Brien to appear as witnesses forthe-defence m the; case* of Daltoh and others at Op^kj on "Saturday • The Press ! unanimpiii$ ' ' opinion is titat Mr JParnell' is^ coiducting the champaign with; energy, and effect, fanwasting strongly with the spiritlean display of his antagonists. '/ ;„ " Thedeath-.is announced of' 'Sir Joseph William Bazalgette,.., Engineer . to : the Metropolitan Board of Works.',- ' '.(."•-■ }::■',< .-.,>;,., v . . . ■■■■•■ '■ .■ ; ■ ■:■■■' ■ L . : NEW ORLEANS, March 16; The foreman of the Jary has 'been expelled from the city. . ' • Public, sentiment m the States sustains the conviction felt m New Orleans. that the Jury Tver© corrupted. The President deplores the outbreak of popular feeling, and will take measures toprevent farther bloodshed, Tbe Mayor of New Orleans declares that Parkinson, who is alleged to be the chief leader of the lynching party, was quite right m the action he took. In explanation, Parkinson states that while' the Maifa Society confined its action to killing its own member*, nobody interfered ; but directly they murdered Detective Hennessy, American liberty was endangered. The "iVew York newspapers reiterate the statement that the Jury were bribed, and state they have no doubt that the Sioilians were guilty of the crime of which the' Jury acquitted ,themJ: . "■ ■'-■■ ; ■-■■■ paris, March 17. The French ambassador at Berlin haa been recalled. This step ■■ is belived to haye some donnectibn with' the,; recent visit of the i" Dowager Empress to Paris. . „ 7 new york, March 17. Seven hundred Italian residents of New Orleans have fled from the country, fearing further bloodshed. LSs%]F' ll3 r -Smith,- hag ; refused tosnar women reporters m the Hojiise of jOcw3imQns^ aF f _ An epidemic of influenza is spreading; : m "Ofcicagfr,. land ; luliy - jifty thousand of, the residents! arej affected, by it. ■< It if* estimated Jim one-tenth of the Chicagopolice are also' affected. ■. . , ..-■■•<* mv" w^sHiNGTo^ March 17. •-.'.., The American ; Press, condemns Mir ParneH's . recent manifesto, rand; ad-, vises ; the 1 public hot to support his [.mission. | „:.,.^.;; j t, . -3^,JdV^°^iM^r'ohlß,. , j rnnce Napoleon^ who had been m 'indifferent %aJLtih ;ior some time past, died to-day. ~~ - ' ■