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8
Month
July
Year
1887
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Public Domain
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The Etnpress of Austria is sojourning in England. The Pope has excommuaicated the Rev. Dr. McGlynn. The Sultan of Turkey rofuses to sign the Anglo Turkish treaty. Parnsll is sufferini; f rom diabetes, and ia sojourning at Carlsbad. Jiun. James (i. Blaine delivered an address in London on the 4th. The Marquis of Winchester, premier ninr'iui.-. of'England, is dead. England and Austria are still disagreeJ on the Afghan boundary question. Nationalists óf Dublin have nomínate i Thomas Sexton lord mayor of Dublin. A wife for thej Kmperor of China ha been sclected and the forthcomiui; mar. riaee duly announced. Joseph Thompson of Kingston, Ont., vst hit on the head by a sky-ro ket on thj lst nat, and instantly killed. In honor of tbe American national holi day, flags of all nations were displayod in nearly every city In the world. Sevnn persons were instantly kille. l by an explosión of naphtha in a drug store at Antwerp the other morning. An accident occurred on the Canadian Pacific railroud near Galt. Ont., the other day. A number of persons were seriously iujured. Three sons of a widow named Moffatt, aged respectively 17, 15, and lü, while Imthing In the river near Fenton Falls ünt., a few days ago. Negotiations will bsopened in November lietween the Vatican and Portugal for the establishment of a Catholic hierarchy in the Congo county, similar to the East I ndian hierarchy. The British house of lords has passed 'lie so-called land bill - a method calculated to soothe the consciences of the British lieople, while the government sconrged lroland with the coerción act. Charles Storm, one of the worst tbieves auada has ever known, has been eonvicted at Borhn of liorse stealing. Heconfess" es to ha ving stolen 19 valuable horses in one townsbip in Canada alone. A largo meeting in favor of commercial uuion with the United States was held in i ort Hope, Ont., on the4th, at whicli time addresses were delivered by Hon. Ben. Butterworth, Erastus Wyman and others. Quceu Victoria laid the corner stone of the Imperial institute on the, 4th imt. l'wenty thousand persons were present and much entbusiasm was manifestedThe Queen replied to an address of thanks in a firm and audible tone. On the 4th inst. the Count of Paris held a reception on the Isle of Jersey, and was greeted by bis admirers who carne over in thousauds from the Frencu shorn with shouts of "Vívele Soi," which he had the caution to summarily suppress. An action has been Instituted against the mauagere of the American exhibition at London to restrain the rille shooting done by the Wild West combiuation durrig their performances, the comp!ainants ulleging that the shooting is a nuisance. While a dotachment oL soldiers were heilig drillnd at Jasz Berany, the capital of Jaszygi, Hungary, the instructiug olli cr threw away a lighted fuse which feil npon a ((uantity of dynamite. The dynamite exploded, killing 7 men and injuring 48 others. Between the 7th and 16th of June, 21 persons were tried iu St, Petersburg on the charge of being active members of the society ca-lled the "Will of the People,1' of complicity in several murders, of participating in a number of robberies, of having assisted in general dynamite out rnge9 and of baving taken part in the startling of unlawful secret printing offices. Three were acquitted. The others were all sentenced to deatli. The death sentences were, however, commuted in the cases of two to eqile in jaibería nnd in those of the others to imprisontnunt at hard labor.

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