Foreign and Domestic News
In the early part of July the British bark, Dumfriesshire, bound from Dunedin, New Zealand, to Nehone, New Caledonia, with a cargo of nickel ore, struck on a reef. The captain and crew, feeling sure that the vessel was a hopeless wreck, abandoned her, and were picked up by another ship. The next morning the Dumfriesshire was nowhere to be seen, and it was supposed she had sunk. But she had not. She backed off the reef with the rising tide, sailed fifty miles around the island into a little harbor called Pourer, where a white settler, to whose very door the boat had come, boarded her, threw out her anchors, and claimed her as his own. She is worth about $75,000. He is now waiting for his salvage money. The French Minister of the Interior has issued a circular letter to all communes in Brittany, urging upon them the necessity of bringing about a halt in immigration to Canada and the United States. The minister calls attention to the fact that in some parts of Brittany this foreign drain has all but stripped the country of peasants, so that there are not enough left to harvest the crops, and in consequence the farmers are losing heavily. Colorado seems to be an experimental ground for practice in the art of military rule. Only a short time ago it was deemed necessary to call out the militia to put down the union miners; now the union men are trying to turn the tables, and get the national troops to make the other parties keep order. Russian nihilists and revolutionists are persistently circulating the report that the child recently born to the Czar of Russia was in reality a girl, and that the child of a Russian peasant woman has been substituted for it to be heir to the Russian throne. Anent the big "Ship Building Trust," and its tremendous swindle, it is now declared that its documents, on the evidence of which it could be successfully prosecuted, have been stolen or lost, so that criminal prosecution is impossible. The fierce tornado which visited St. Paul and Minneapolis caused the death of sixteen persons, and caused damage to property to the extent of $3,000,000. Russia has now called out considerably over half the first-class reserves of European Russia, and practically all the reserves in Siberia.