NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 587, 26 March 1891, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

[by electric telegraph—special to STANDARD.]

BUITISJ AND FOREIGN.

Horrible details come to hand of the fightin? in Chili. It is stated that two hundred insurgents were tied together and were shot by cannon and rifle fire. Servian and Bulgaria are disagreeing about the delimitation of their frontier.

The mob hooted Tim Healey in the streets of Cork. Dalton, a strong Parnellite, followed Mr Healy into his bedroom in the Victoria Hotel and gave him a violent blow, breaking his spectacles into fragments, ano injuring his left eye. His cheek was also seriously cut.

Mr Maurice Healy, M.P. for Cork, will apply for the Chiltern Hundreds, as well as Mr Parnell. When the resignations are sent tn the Tories intend to nominate a candidate.

The defendants tn the baccarat case have applied for an attachment of the papers which alleged that a compromise had been bi ought about owing to pressure exercised by the Prince of Wales. An impression prevails that the boilers of all the Australian cruisers exhioit similar weakness to the Kan akatta’s, and are unable to stand a forced draught.

Colonel North, of nitrate lame, is speculating in Tasmanian silver shares.

The Court of Appeal has decided that ship owners are liable for thefts by stevedores and employees. Sir P. Lubbock urges inquiry by a Parliamentary Committee belure the issue of new one pound notes is sanctioned. Members of the Newfoundland Legislature openly declared they would separate from Great Britain, and were cheered by the audience. Mr W. H. Smith has agreed to delay the introduction of the Newfoundland Bill in the House ot Commons unlit April 16. In the mean time he has warned Str G. Whiteaway, Premier of the colony, that he must proceed with the measure unless Newfoundland legislates in the direction of fulfilling treaty obligations.

The United States Government have submitted the terms of the treaty with Hawaii, which provides for absolute free trade between the two countries.

The Irish campaign in Sligo is proceeding vigorously. Many Parnellites have been roughly handled.

Mrs O’Shea is disinclined to marry Parnell.

Three thousand cases of influenza are reported from Pittsburg, and several deaths have occurred.

Revelations have been made showing the existence of white slavery in the wilds of Virginia. The victims are chiefly Bohemians. The Bank of Philadelphia has failed for two million dollars.

Excited meetings of Italians have been held in New York, Philadelphia, and New Orleans, to demand vengeance for the lynching of the Sicilians at the New Orleans riots. O’Malley, the detective employed by the I tali <ns during the recent trials, threatens to expose the workings of the Mafia Society. He admits that six of those lynched were implicated in the murder ot Chief Detective Hennessy.