GENERAL SUMMARY.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 151, 1 June 1886, Page 3

GENERAL SUMMARY.

(European dates to May 6th) Nova Scotia is moving to dissolve for connection with the Dominion of ; -Canada, and with New Brunswick a^d * Prinoe Edward Islands to form a maritime confederation. A resolution •6 this effect was introduced in the Legislature at Halifax on May 7. The stock of Patterson, Kessock, »nd Co., of Montreal, valued at £420--000, was seized by the" Customs authorities on the 7th May for smuggl- : ing. ?•-'. Sills have been introduced^ into the f. New York Legislature declaring boyv cutting not to be a conspiracy or :;: misdemeanour. -- > Cardinal Techeran, of Canada, is::«ued a pastoral on April 28 condemn- • ling the Knights of Labor, as inimical f > to the interests of religion and good .^morals. j ;r<: Henri Rouhefort and M. Portalis bought an. ineffectual duel with pistols - a«ar Paris on May 7th. I . ; The cholera is spreading at Venice, ificenza, and Buri. I ■■■ -: The -Mormon Missionaries were seTerely beaten in Switzerland on May 7th by the friends of Swiss girls who \ had been badly treated in Utah, s New* from Austria states that the j town of Friedlakd in Moraha, and the • towns of -©Wow, 'Lancy, Bizenerce, ;'- Chigrong, and Lanok have been destroyed by fire. One man was arrested in the act. • -".'"■. A greair 'many Mormon, families, English, are emigrating: into 3 Mexico from Utah, to avoid porsecu- j ./aion under the United States Anti-j j .?:; The Dublin Nation, the organ of; -the Lor&: Mayor,- denies that Irish! ■ lAmerioa'n dynamiters-w ill continue to worry "England unless an absolute reparation of Ireland and Great Brit*in is obtained! Mr Gladstone's .measures, says Nation; mean peace .;, io^tbe Irish throughout the world. ; .;■ The Earlof Derby published a letter -4f& May 6 denying the moral right of 4h» present Parliament to decide the irish question. '' . r.t sA. : qnantitj of dynamite was dis■oovered on April 25 in a deserted -bookseller's shop in Harrow road, Xendon. The Times connects the .discovery with the recent attempt to Wow up I«ndon bridge; and the disappearance of two men' connected with it. ■:■-•■>••',■'.. ,•'•■- --.: -Mr Oladstone came out On the 30th •of: April -with a demal-of the report that he had decided to join the Koman Church. •■"'••' ;.:,iTh« : Prince of Wales has been preselected Gr&nd'Maater of the Freeauasozis of Eugfeiid< '■-* - ' ;-, • * '; c; : 'Twa!" albums, each containing all ibeuHonie Bole editorials of the American Press, are%i ; course xti pre- • paraiion in New Ybirfc. One will be forwarded to Gladstone, and the other 4o>Fai&eU.- - . ' v .-■ " .'. ' ;';. -Tha meeting on the sth of the National Liberal Federation of Great Britain, .: endorsed Mr .Gladstone's policy amid the wildest enthusiasm, .., Jefferson Davis made a sort ol triumphal progress through the South?' *&&. States- of America lately. The people went wild with excitement. Ten thousand persons stood in the rain to welcome him. In Montgomery the way to his rooms in the hotel was «trewn with.roßes. The National liberal Federation of ;Bc6sland adopted resolutions on April r^ifcfayoriug MrGiadstonejs bill. ~JMx Mills, the : managing director of the ._ Union .- Steamship Company of 2&W Zealand, was interviewed on his - du^iral in San Francisco, en route to JBnrope. -He spoke hopefully of the «aMo ., project to.*<oonnect California -wijfch New Yealand*. Four hundred Catholic priests attended a meeting at Durigar, County Tyrone, on May *6th, called to give expression to their views on Mr <Had*sone's Home Eule policy, in with the Premier's invita-iioE-to $11 bodies in Ireland to take Action in the matter* The Most Eev. J)aniei Macmealten, D.D., Archbishop <of Armagh, presiding. Resolutions -were adopted endorsing Mr Gladstone's policy. . ;.; . The Nihilists attempted to burn the Imperial Park at livadia on -May 7th by firing the neighbouring forest, but failed. ' The Clear- and family were at .. Xivadia. /

* A terrible Socialist fight took place *t Haymarket, Chicago, between: the -poHee and Anarchists on the 4th May. Bombs were thrown among the police, Inlling six and wounding others. A {unlade of revolver shots beliJt'in the parties. The police fought gallantly, and .at hut dispersed the Socialists. It ia impossible to get at -the number of lives lost among the snob. Many fell, and as they dropped were at once carried to the rear into many d^irk alleyways by their friends. The police think that 50 were wounded. The drug stores in the vicinity were «row3ed with persons who were hurt, And surgeons were telephoned to in all directions. The statidn house, where th* dead and wounded lay presented a shocking sight.