LATEST NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXIV, Issue 4053, 25 August 1881, Page 4

LATEST NEWS.

San Francisco, July 30.

The State troops have had to be called out in Wisconsin to oppose the striking lumbermen and millmen. The latter assembled in mob 3of 1000. A collection of American histories, including the Virginian Colonial records, and autograph letters of Washington, wsb sold at auction in London recently for22lsdols. Guaranty, a noted bookseller, purchased the Earl of Hard wick's estate. A Bill to enable bankruptcy trustees to pay that nobleman's debta had passed the Houbb of Commons. It was ascertained there had been 45 insurances on his life, the whole amount being nearly 1,000,000d015. The premiums were nearly 30,000d01s annually. Canada shows a population increase in ten years of 680,498, * George Hazel, champion of England, defeated Charles Price, ex-champion, at a ten mile race at the Polo Grounds. Haze ran the ten miles in 53mins 23£*eca An immense aerolite fell at San Francisco on the 30th instant. It struck the waters of the bay in the vicinity of the gaol off Goat Island,

Hartmann, the Nihilist, now in New York, proposes to lecture on Russia and her prospects. The Chinese Ministers (Chin Tin, ( Chan Law Pai, and Yong Win?), have been recalled from the United States much against their wishes. It is proposed to send Carl Shurz as American Minister to Berlin. The Aleuts, natives of the Island of Alaska, are dying in numbers from an epidemic of typhoid-pneumonia fever. O'Donovan, connected with the Fenian movement some 15 years ago, and now a prisoner at Merv, is writing letters from that place to the London Daily News that attract a great deal of attention. He is the son of Dr O'Donovan, a famous Celtic scholar, and since his banishment has been a soldier of fortune. Domingo Santa Maria, has been elected President of Chili. An alliance between Germany, Austria, and Italy is spoken of as likely. No reply has yet been made by the United States to the representation of the British Government in regard to the incitement to outrages by the American Press. France and Italy are negotiating a Treaty of Commerce. It is reported from London that the well known Viotoria Woodhull is about to marry a rich banker; and the Baroness Burdett Coutta, as well as the prima donna (Mdle. Alboni), will soon be under the necessity of retiring for a Bhort time from public life. Baron Von Geyse, a young officer of much promise, has been shot dead at Berlin in a duel with a brother officer. George Barrow, author of " The Bible in Spain," is dead. The Duke of Argyle, it is said, will marry the widow of the late Hon. Augustus Anson. The lady iB the daughter of the Bishop of St. Albans. Further steps regarding the murder of Captain Elliott and Magistrate Malcolm in the Transvaal will not be taken. The total cumber of petitions presented in the Commons, praying the? House to reject any change in the law which may be provided for admitting an Atheist into Parliament is 1392, with 23,595 signatures ; and the number praying for the alteration of the law is 673, with 15,541 signatures. The Land Bill finally passed the House of Commons on the 29tk mat. Parn ell's amendment, adding to clause 44 a proviso that action for rent pending at the same time as an application for fixing judicial rent shall be suspended until the latter is determined, was accepted. A majority of Conservatives, and some Parnellites, including Parnell himself, abstained from voting on the Bill ; also, Goschen, Henage, and some other Liberals. The Prince of Wales has visited Don Carlos in a friendly way. The Foreign Secretary has issued a notification that in future no more British subjects, captured by brigands, will be ransomed by Government. The two treaties between the United States and China have been formally ratified and exchanged. Chinese students, numbering 100, are to ba withdrawn from America, and sent for education to France, England, and Germany. Just now there is a mania for killing officials in the United States. The Governors of Pittsburgh and Minnesota and Governor Connell, of New York, have had narrow escapes from murderous lunatics. The United States has declined to join in the proposed General Representation on the subject of the treatment of Jews in Russia, on the ground that it has already instructed its Minister to Russia on the subject. The infernal machines shipped to England from America have created quite a scare here, and almost equal excitement in the United States. The Secretary of the Treasury, Windora, has addressed a communication to the Collectors of New York aud Boston, with instructions to use every means to find out the names of (he consignees of the deadly packages. The representatives of steamship companies are especially agitated on the affair, and have deprived O'Donovan Rossa of a sub-agency he held in the Allan Line. The city editor of the National Democrat, Peoria, Illinois, states the infernal machines were made in that city, and gives the name of the Btreet. Besides, a reporter of the paper has been invited to an exhibition of the machines' destructive power. The New York Tribune, replying to the matter, says if the American authoritiss do their duty, the Irish revolutionists will not be long able to plan their hellish schemes in America. The New York Times published a communication from Eliflha A. Allen, Hawaian Minister at Washington, denying that Kalakalua wants to sell his kingdom as reported. Such an idea, he says, would be abhorrent to him. In Abyssinia, a Catholic missionaries' station has been captured by the natives, who burnt a church and the mission house, robbed ten prisoners of their clothes, and sent them into the interior.