Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-29
FOREIGN NEWS

Able List, the pianist, is dangerously i'll
at Bayreuth.
l. The Spanish government has decided to
free the remaining 10000 slaves in Cuba.
+ The Car has written an autograph letter
| to the Sultan expressing amicable senti.
ments.
The total number of victims Of the Am.
stsrdam riot is twenty five killed and ninety
wounded. iris
A farmer named Whelan has been murder
ed near Callan, in Kilkenny county, lre-
land, the result Of agrarian troubles.
The theatre at Tinnevelly British India.
has been destroyed by fire. One hundred
Hindoos were killed and many we're injured.
The crofters of Three, Scotland, have no.
solved to offer no resistance to the force OF
marines sent to restore order on the island.
The Commercial Cable Company is about
to lay third cable, with the object of do.
| ing business at maximum rate Of one
shilling per word"
The police Of Warsaw have discover.
ed wide spread revolutionary socialist
conspiracy, having branches at Paris and
st. Petersburg, and have arrested the lesd-
ers in the plot.
Herr Schwartz has been compelled to ter
inmate his explorations in the CAMERON s
country, owing TO the hostility of the ma
! lives. He has succeeded in securing Ger
man protectorate over part of the country.
The Board of Trade of London, Eng. has
awarded silver cup to Captain Ringk, of
the steamer Fulda, for services at the time
of the sinking of the Oregon. The members
of the crews of the Fulda's boats also re-
ceived medals.
Many of the important Offices in the new
British government have been filled. Lord
| Randolph Churchill becomes chancellor Of
the excheuuer and leader in the House OF
Commons, the Marquis of Derby viceroy of
Ireland, and Sir Michael Hicks Beach chief
secretary for Ireland.
A convention between England and
| China has been signed at Pekin. BY the
terms Of the convention China agrees TO the
occupation of Burmah by the English, and
promises to encourage trade between China
and Burmah. A commission is being FORM
ed to delimit the Burmese frontier.
Fraulein Pauline Won Sonklar, of Inns
bruck, who, in company of four gentlemen
and another lady, had set out recently from
Heiligenblut in the Gross Glockner district,
for an exploration on the Alps, unfortunate
y stumbled over a stone, and, losing her
footing, was dashed on the rocks below and
| killed.
The installation Of the Peruvian Congress
Look place yesterday afternoon. DR.. Gar
cia Calderou was elected president Of the
Senate, DR.. Alexandra Arenas president Of
1 the Chamber Of Deputies. Yesterday was
the sixty. fifth anniversary ofthe indepen-
dence of Peru, and was celebrated with
much enthusiasm.
Citizens of Dublin are indignant ut the &C
ton of the band of the 4th Dragons in omit
ting TO play "God Save the Queen" at the con-
cllsion of public performance. This is the
| first time in the annals Of the British Amy
that the national anthem has been expune-
ed from the musical programme. The band.
The HYMN TO please the disloyal crowd. An
ipqury will be made into the matter.
At Penzance, England. yesterday man
named Hawke SHOT and killed his sister,
her husband, another woman and himself, a
Gaping. Hawke wss from Australia, and
was q man of temperate habits and socable
disposition. No motive can be assigned for
the crime. He was chatting pleasantly
with his relatives, when he suddenly drew
a..revolyer and tiled, with the above result.
! great sensation was caused on tho
Paris Bourse and boulevard yesterday by q
report that the Emperor William of Ger
many was dead, and crowds of excited men
could he seen everywhere discussing the ru
NOR. Rentes fell to 50 franc, - confines,
but OH the report being officially denied the
market recovered. A dispatch from Gas
tein Gays that Emperor William received
his Official reports, drove and bathed yes
Iterday and that the rumors OF his ill.health
arc uniounded.