Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-18
FOREIGN NEWS AND GOSSIP.

| lima Di Murska, the once famous singer
who returned to Europe from New York few
weeks ago, died in Munich yesterday. Hel
daughter who was heartbroken at the loss Of hel
| mother, committed suicide by taking poison
Nine. Di Murska was in extreme poverty, anc
her mind is said to have been affected. She
| came to this country last fall with the inten
| ton Of going on a concert tour, but had Il
| abandon her plan owing to i'll health.
The bankruptcy bill passed the French sen
ate yesterday. The measure has especial in
terest at the present time because it enable,
the Panama canal company to convert the ole
| organization into q new concern.
The prince of Monaco, who is o hypochon
driac, recently took to his bed in the convic
| ton that he had been poisoned because hi
cook made mistake in seasoning.
One OF the messengers sent from Suakin tc
| Khartoum early in November last has returned
| He was twenty-four days in making the return
| trip. He brings letter from a European,
which says that Lupton Bey died on May 5. Il
was reported that the equatorial provinces hat
yielded to the mahdi. Nothing was known Of
| Emin Pasha. Staten Bey and the other Euro
peans were well.
The German steamer Lubbock, from Samoa
| which arrived at Sydney, N. s. W., on Thurs
day, reports that all was quiet in Samoa ON the
| Sth inst.
Emperor William has ordered the dismissal
of all the French cooks employed in the palace
at Berlin. They will be replaced with Ger
mans.
The Scotch Mineral Oil association met in
Glasgow on Wednesday and agreed to continue
the agreement with the American companies
for another year. A committee was appointed
to confer with the American agent, and yester.
day the matter was settled. The result was
big advance in mineral oil shares.
Viscount Claudeboye, eldest son of Lord DUFF.
ferin, is earning a reputation in India as
| mighty tiger slayer. On a recent expedition
he shot six of the terrible beasts in two days.
grand scheme for conveying the sewage OF
Paris to a tract of land in the department Of
Seine-et-Oise, for subsequent use a fertilizer
was approved yesterday by the senate.
Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain Miss Endicott,
will be presented to the queen at the next
drawing-room. Her sponsor will be the Mar
| chioness of Salisbury.
The new ministry of New South Wales was
defeated yesterday on vote of want Of conf
dence.
The president of the Leipsic superior court
has resigned on account of Bismarck's structures
In leaving the bench he made a sharp protest
against Bismarck's unjust criticism, which has
created sensation.
great meeting in favor of the anti-slavery
crusade of the Cardinal Lavigerie was held in
Vienna yesterday.
The Princess Amelia. of Bavaria. who went
out of her mind the other night in the royal
box at the Munich opera house is likely to end
her days IN madhouse. The duchess is q
little, mercurial woman with shriveled skin
and could never have been at all pretty. She
wanted to throw chairs down into the pit OF
the opera house, and when she was prevented
flew into violent passion.
Henry Irving is quite unwell, and was unable
to appear at the theater last night A substi.
tute was obtained and the performance given
The grand prior of the Carthusian monks has
refused the London offer of three millions for
monopoly of the manufacture and sale of the
Chartreuse liquor.
The annual boat race between the Cambridge
and Oxford universities will take place March
80
Joseph F. Donoghue, the American skater
who won the fve-mile race for the ladies' gold
cup at Hamburg on Wednesday made the dis
lance in 1879 minutes, which surpasses all pre-.
vious records.