WEST END SCANDALS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 87, 16 January 1890, Page 2

WEST END SCANDALS.

BEYpLUTION AT 810 JANEBIO. DB. CBONIN'S MUBDEB. ;".' A DESTBIJC3TVE TOBNADO. Received January 16, 12.20 p.m. , Losvov, January 15. ■\ Th<t charge of criminal libel preferred by Lord Euston against Mr Parkes, editor of the North London Press, for connecting ■ his name with the West End scandal i» proceeding, . -.•,■■.: i News by mail steamer from Rio de Janeiro states that in a revolutionary rising at that place in December last, one- ' hundred persons were killed, and twentyone executed. - It is announced that the danghter of an English clergyman, at present an in-; mate of a convent in Borne, will proceed to Molokai to take up the work of the late Father Damien in attending to the lepers there. ! The continental press •is unfavorably • contrasting Lord Salisbury's pliability towards Germany over the East African affairs, and his attitude towards Portugal' . . in the recent dispute. : ; --:":■:' N xw Yobs, Jnnnnry 15. The application for a new trial, made , by counsel for the condemned men, on a a charge of murdering Dr Cronin, has been > refused, except in the case of Kunze, who received a sentence of three years penal : l servitude. ; - A tornado swept the town of Clinton, Kentucky, and deraolishsd fifty-five houses. r Eleven perso.-.g were killed by the falling;, debris, and fifty-three were injured, '. . .