Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-07-05
CABLE SPARKS,

THE new constitution Of Brazil has been
promulgated.
THE American riaemcn had cordial re.
ecption at Hamburg.
SEVENTY houses have been by fire
in olccnburg Germany.
FRANCE aud ENGLAND have reached an
agreement with reference 70 Zanzibar.
Chancellor Won Capriyi has requested the
Reichstag toadournirom July S TO November
THE Duke Of Clarence took the oath of
otiice and his seat rs peer in the British
House of Lords.
IT is reported at Cairo that Osman nirna
has left Tokar and is marching nurthward
with large force.
Serious conflicts are reported between Ar.
menianS and kurdS, in which many have been
killed ON both sides.
The government Of Brazil has established
quarantine against all arrivals from Spanish
and African ports ON the Mediterranean.
mob attacked a voting station at Kaloosa,
Hungary, aud wercdriven oi by soldiers after
three Of the attacking party were killed.
SARAH BERNHARnr. the French actress
being unable toSccp took ls0 grains Of chloral,
which was an overdose, and nearly killed her
self
{ The Sultan has parlonod all prisoners con
victed under the common law In the Island
Of crete whose sentences do not exceed three
years.
Emperor William, ofGermany. has bestowed
the decoration OF the order of the Black EAGLE
upon Count Won Hatfield, the German am.
bassador to England.
TUE North German Gazette says that Lord
Salisbury and Count Won Hatfield the Ger.
man ambassador at London, will sign the basis
ofthc African agreement.
PRiNcE Bismarck tolda depntatiou Of B.r.
lin citizens that he would express freely his
opinions regarding public events la Germany.
and he would not give way even II he stood
alone,
TuE Australian government subsidy To the
san Francisco mail line will cease after No.
vemberneNt unless the American government
suhscribes toward the expense OF maintaining
the service
THE government Of Berlin has arrived at
an agreement with the parties ia the Reich.
stag not 10 discuss tse Anglo-Gcrman agree.
ment during the third reading Of the last
Africa estimates.
EMPEROR Francis Joseph, Of Austria, has
sanctioned the first compromise bill passed by
the bohemian Diet in May last, which divides
the provisional education az council into two
sections German and Czech,
TUE volksraad of the South African Re.
pubnc mas passed. hill providing that the
Legislature Of the republic shall consist al
two chambers instead Of only one, the Volks.
raad, as ~ present.
TnE Liverpool Board Of Trade, which ia.
veSugated the Amber Line steamship CITY of
Home, which ran ON Fastuct rock, finds that
the failure Of Captain Young 90 attend the
warnings Of the lead caused the trouble
TlIR municipal council Of Rome broke up
in a row over the hill introduced into the
Chamber Of Deputies by Prime Minister Crispi
TO assist IN the reorganization ofthc munieipal
financial affairs, and all the members of the
councils except Mcnnoiti Garibaldi resigned
as protest against the proposed measure.
THE committee Of the London Board ~
Trade, which conducted the inquiry into lie
cause Of the accident 10 the lnrnan Line
steamer City Of Paris, while that vessel was
on voyage from New York 10 Liverpool in
March last has rendered aycrdict attributing
lhe casualty 10 the wearing Of the propeller
bearing.