Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-07-07
CABLE SPARKS
DR.. Fothergill, the author of number Of
medical works, is dead.

DR.. Fothergill, the author OF number Oh
medical works, is dead.
The speech Of Emperor William is favor
ably received throughout Europe.
Attn meeting of tho Sacred College the
pope declared himself opposed to Catholics
participating in political elections in Italy.
A jury in Paris has acquitted N. Haber.t,
who was charged with killing NJ Dupuss In
duel. The four seconds were also ncqult-
ted.
The town of Sundsvall, on the Gulf of
Bothnia, the centre of tho timber trade of
Sweden, has been almost destroyed by fire
Tho Hon. Michael Herbert, brother OF the
Earl of Pembroke, is botrotlied to Miss Belle
Wilson, sister Of Mrs. Ogden Goelet, of Now
York.
The vote of ccnsuro on the Tory Govern
ment for their Irish policy was rejected. inter
sharp debate in the House OF Commons,
by 3G6 TO 273
1t is reported that Emperor William has
renowned the idea of browning himself ana
his consort ut konigsbcrS. No further am
nesty DEGREES will be issued.
a French copper syndicate has bought for
three years The output Of two OF the leading
copper mines in japan, amounting to seyen-
Fights of the total Japanese output.
The Russian committee OH tho price Of
corn recommended that IL tax of huff copek
per pood be levied OH exported corn Inns
proposal will lie submitted TO tho imperial
council.
The Post says that Prince Bismarck, while
conycrsing with prominent members or the
Upper House of the Prussian Diet spoke
hopefully Of tho prospect for permanently
peaceful times.
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organ, severely crtlcizes Dr. Alackenzie's
statement that he suppressed his condition
that Emperor Frederick had cancer i'll order
to prevent u regency and demands oh expla-
nation
Prince Tichnowsky, the German envoy to
the vatican to announce the accession of
Emperor William, was received with great
ceremony by the pope. Mgr. Galimbert
will proceed to Berlin with u letter from the
pope to Emperor William
The Society of Authors, of which Lord
Tennyson is president. has resolved to invite
Mr.. jus. Russell Lowell and oil other Amer
lean authors in London To public banquet
on July %, in re ognition OF the efforts
made in behalf Of international copy right
The Berlin correspondent of the 81 James
Gazette states that General Won Capriyi,
chief OF the imperial admiralty, has rendered
his resignation of that office us well ms the
Office lie holds in the army. The resignation
will doubtless he accepted. The correspond
ent also states that other changes will follow.
The monsoon rains are q fortnight overdue
in the region OF Calcutta owing to the de-
Election of the current to Burmah, where
heavy rain has fallen for ten days. The crop
prospects in Bengal especially us resurcls
rice, arc extremely serious Oh account Of
the drought Prices are rising.
a dispatch from Shanghai says feeling
of uncnsness prevails among the Foreigners
in Corea on account of the threatening attl-
tude of the natives All the foreign consu-
lltes are guarded by soldiers. An American
man-of-v'a" has been sent to give assistance.
Atan & of French students it was de-
cided to challenge ten students of the Hasso-
bornssi Society to measure swords with ten
French students OH neutral ground in Switz-
erland i'll consequence of an insult Which
Freiburg College stu Tents olr'red TO French
tourists in Baden. The leader of the Frei-
burg students was sentenced to three weeks
Imprisonment and his nccomplices to lesser
terms for the insult referred TO, and all were
heavily fined