LATER EUROPEAN NEWS.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 194, 12 March 1887, Page 8 (Supplement)

LATER EUROPEAN NEWS.

A conflict occurred on February lGth between a force of police oa their way to cjcecate a number of evictions and a part ci: the population of Denglin, Co. Kerry. The people barricaded the roads, and in .<-:itue places they built stone wo,lb across thorn. The palice was at first driven away. They ro- formed, and attacked the people with baton 3 and clubbed rifles, forcing thorn te give \*ay. A numbor of men and womeo "wore injured.

The Panama Cas3.il. The latest reports from this woik are to the effect that it is not beinc; proeeuteu •with vigour at present, owing to a lack of labourers. The first dredger 13 IG mV.ce Inland from Aspinwall, on tbo Atlantic ; bat the channel will have to bs vitlonec. to twice its present capacify. Ground ia broken frcm ocean to ocean, and man a.-3a .-3 working at intervala alone: the entire survey. The heaviest and cr.ly cut cf moment i?" at Calebra, which la a'oou*- 11 miles in extent, andvhon tiniohea wil. 03 367 feet below the surface. Th».3 cut begins nine and one half miles from Panama, and Ie about one-quarter finished.

Dreadful Railway Accident The night express train rchich kit v^hlta Kivar junction, Vermont, bound ice S!jttreaV Canada, at 7 p. in , on the -kh February, met with a terrible accident ni-ar "Woodetock, on the Central VG/uiont Fairway, about 2.30 on the following morning The cars were filled with passengers fron Boston and New York goinp, to afciend Ire ice carnival in Montreal. A rail broke, &ud the engine, one baggage ear 3 two paasecper coacheß, and two sleeping car- plunged over the bridge, falling 70 feet on the ico beie<*\ Before the engineer or anyone could get to the wreck the cars had caught fire, an'! rapidl}' burntd. The bridge wr;a alao burned, and in?ide twenty minutea all v/sra destroyed, Fifty persona were klilad and burned. The briige was thirty or fortj feat above the water. The scenes wars heart- rentling. Many of the unfoituuata passengera, pinned in the debii^> of the cars could not ba extricated, and were bjrnsa aJivo,

The Warlike Siiua'ioßi. Tbe Berlin "Nachrichtn." of F?i,. IG, eays:-The threatening character of (ho situation acro-a the western frontier i- becoming much inoro acuta. la vi:-v, of the fact that forta havej auoauj been constructed to alioUor 100,000 mow, and preparations made to shelter a similar number around Belfort, Me have, be^ona doubt, to deal with no tiling ebe than the strengthening cf tho French line to enable thorn, at the ccm mencement of hostilities, to tL.iow a la ge force acroes the frontior, and thu3 t"r-^?te: the field of operations to Genr.an ter.it^iy. A London cablegram of Fabruaiy lGbb eaya that a general war is regarded by tLo four Great Powera as .inevitabla, Aid ii-Down'ng-fltsoat tho Eifuaticn us IL-3 c.i absorbing topic. Tho jtr.go e'oa.SLt oppose a!:y v gcheino for tho hCutiaLt.) of the Sue?., that will jrrovtafc £ -;. Heh ironclnda reaching the East i.i ujis "of war, 'Ihoy prefer fighting for tho 1 c'.ov. tion ol the delta to allow in£ ths cai:.\L tz> pass out oi Eritish handa, aud will c ihe Hl3 French (enitoriaicompensailo'. <?L-3vYL&~e,

A Cloud Bur ,:, A teriible cloudburst or vraterepoub occurred at Susanville, Ohio couLty, California on February sth. Tha inhabitants of a canon near tbo pUco Earned were startled about four o'clock in tho after noon by a dull, heavy roar, and on running to their doors, were aatoniahed to see the culon rapidly filling with water. TPhe rain was pouring in torrents. but realising their danger Uie villager Isf fc their houses and sought higher grouau. Hardly had the frightened peoplo gained a place of safety before an imraenao volurno of water came down from a dark cloud hanging over the .mountain, carrying everything before it, and leaving destruction in ita track. Two persons were drowned and many houses washed away,

Cholera. Great excitement prevail throughout Cfaili at the appearance of cholan* on its boundaries. Strict quarantine was enforced against vessels coming from buepocted ports, and the Andean passes on the Argentine frcntior wore closed, but the disease, according to the latest dispatches, had surmounted all barriers and reached the Pacilio shore. A correspondent writing from Chile, a^ya ; **Time and space would fail aae were I to attempt to discourse upon the clouds of decrees relative to the preservation of the pvbiic health which have lately been issued. Erom the Argentine Republic telegraphic awe for some days past has been

of an exceedingly alarming character and in Mendez, at the foot of the Cordilleras, on the other eide, and its neighbourhood, no fewer than iorty cases havo been reported in one day. They speak of bodies un buried, of houses abandoned, and of children attacked by the disease, and left to perish on the wayside by their relatives, who were fleeing southward for safety. The plague in Mendoza was equal in i horror to anything that carao from Marseilles while the cholora wag their. The poorerclassos were swept away. The victims perished after six hours of moat fearful suffering. The lazaretto more crowded with corpses than with patients The, streets wore noisy with hearses and carts laden with dead bodies, which passed and ra-pasaad the whole day. The sight would i drive a man mad. Blind terror was everywhere seen. i