Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-08
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EUROPEAN EVENTS.
GENERAL and POLITICAL NEWS BY
CABLEGRAM.
English Proposals for Peace Rel acted by
King CetewayO-The Case of Lieut.. Carey
Charged with Cowardice In Allowing the
Killing Of the Prince Imperial-Advance
in Wheat In London-The Tariff Contest
in Ge rmany-Miscellaneuu
GERMAN TARIFF.

GERMAN TARIFF.
LONDON. July IA dispatch from Berlin
says the prospect now regarded as certain of
the early adoption of high protective tariff
has caused merchants to import large guam
titles of goods in advance, SO as to escape
increased duties, hence great falling off in
trade is feared after the new tariff shall be-
come law. Bismarck, in the face of these
seri. us objections, insists upon an increase
in the duty on foreign corn. Another cor
says the second reading of the
tariff bill being finished, the third reading
will be merely formal, and measures will
probably be completed by Saturday next,
when it is intended to prorogue the reichstag.
The liberals and socialists made desperate
stand against the duties on coffee and Pc
troleum, Herr Belief declaring they would
breed much discontent and furnish fresh
stimulus for social and democratic agitation.
PANAMA CANAL SCHEME.
LIVERPOOL, July THE Courier says an
agreement was signed Saturday on behalf of
the original promoters of the Panama canal
scheme, vesting their rights in De Lesseps as
representative of the future shareholders of
the Inter Ocean Canal company. Subscrjp-
tons of G75O,OOO in twenty pound shares
will be opened in London, Paris, Frankfort
and New York simultaneously in about a
fortnight.
CONFEDERATION AT PORT AU PRINCE.
KINGSTON, July 7.-Advice from Hayti
says that the Port au Prince is in flames;
blocks of building are in ashes. The custom
house has closed on account Of revolution.
N1Hm1sM AND THE CORN BEETLE.
LONDON, July IA correspondent at
Berlin draws gloomy picture of the state
of Russia owing to the Nihilists, the future
of crops and the ravages of corn beetle.
Fifty thousand roubles have been appropri-
ated to the determination of the beetle.
ACCESSORY BEFORE THE FACT.
LONDON, July THE person who sup
lied the pistol to Alexander SoIovief, with
which he attempted to assassinate the EN-
peror of Russia on the 14th of April, is q
physician from Weimur, Germany, who is
also proved to have procured the poison
with which Solovief attempted suicide after
his failure to kill the Gar and to have
owned the horse by means of which the as
sailaints of Gen. Mesendeff attempted to
escape. A telegram from St. Petersburg,
authoritatively states he has been sentenced
to be hanged shortly.
EGYPTIAN ARMY.
CAIRO, July The strength of the
Egyptian army has been fixed at $4,000 men.
A large quantity of war material has been
ordered sold.
SUBMERGED szEGEDIN.
PEsTH, July I'm consequence of con-
tinued high water Szegedin cannot be re-
built this year. The inhabitants will live in
wooden barracks during the winter.
KING ALFoNso's MARRIAGE.
MADRID, July THE marriage of King
Alfonso with the Archduchess of Austria is
again talked of.
V1oKsBuRG, Miss, July Capt. Wilker-
son, we'll known in river circles, suicided this
morning by shooting himself through the
right temple with pistol. Cause, financial
trouble.
BURNED.
ST. PETERSBURG, July IA fire at Irkatsk
the 4th, burned 400 houses. The officials of
Tux have received letters threatening the
burning of that town.
EXCESS OF DUTIES.
BERLIN, July LIN the reichstag, to-day,
Won Bueler moved an addition to the motion
of Frankenstein, adopted June 25th, that the
yield from customs and tobacco taxes in ey-
cess of the fixed amount annually, shall be
RENTED to the federal States in proportion to
their population. The addition being that
the above provision shall come in free in
April, 1880, and that the amount obtained
from duties and taxes named from October
1879, to January, 1880, in excess of the sum
of 80, OO0,0 600 marks, shall be deducted from
the contributions of the several States ia
proportion to population. This motion is
believed to be the outcome of the motion of
the bundesrath, yesterday, in reference to the
same subject.
The appointment of Herr Bitter, under
secretary of the interior, to succaed Van Ho-
brecht as minister of finance, has been ga
zetted.
LIEUT.. COREY AND THE PRINCE IMPERIAL.
New YORK, July IA dispatch from Cape
Town, June l!tb, to London, says that the
cuort OF inquiry convened for the purpose of
examining into the conduct of Lieut.. Corey,
in command of the scouting party to which
the prince imperial was attached at the time
of his death. The friends of Lieut.. Corey
did not understand the position in which he
stood toward the prince and were not awsre
ne was expected to exercise any special guar
dianship or care over the prince. The
court, however, goes on to censure
him for proceeding upon his reconnaissance
without sufficient escort and for holding and
dlsmountiDg on dangerous ground, as to
which betrayed deplorable want of military
prudence. The court reports that no at
tempt was made by Lieut.. Corey to rally his
escort, and to confront the enemy. After
the court OF inquiry court martial was Or
canned to try the Lieutenant, but Corey sets
up IN his own defense that he was not in
charge of the party when tho prince was
killed, and the evidence thus far submitted
somewhat clears him of cowardice.
ADVANCE IN WHEAT.
LONDON, July THE advance in wheat is
attributed to unfavorable crop advices from
Europe, and the fact that the ssshorts'' are
covering on all months, even for September.
There are also large European orders to buy
here.
CITEwAYo OBDURATE.
LONDON, July IA long telegram from
Lord Chelmsford, states that King Citewayo
has not yielded to the proposals made him.
GERMANY AND SAMOA.
A dispatch from Berlin says the new
German consul general to Samoa has re-
celved orders to abstain from all interference
with internal affairs. The suggestion of
certain interested parties that Germany
shall annex Samoa finds no favor in high
quarters.