Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-05-24
NO. 81.
CABLE SPARKS.


THE total amount Of subscriptions To the
lrish tenants defense fund was s6o0oo
THF International Prison Congress will
open in St Petersburg on Monday, June 10.
THREE former cabinet ministers Of Portu.
cal are about TO start on a tour Of the African
colonies
Two officers Of the German navy have been
sentenced TO prison for receiving brihes from
contractors
A FERRY boat on the river Oder near Rati-
Dor, Silesia, capSized, and thirty,siN children
were drowned.
Is Hamburg employees Of the gas works Of
that city, who are on strike, attacked tram
ears with stones and wounded a number Of
passengers.
RICHARD CROKER, the Tammany Hall
leader, who is &C Wieshaden has recovered
sufficiently from his recent Illness 10 dispense
with his doctor.
THE German minister OF war. Gen Verdy
dn Ncrnois, aud Field Marshal Won Noltke
are urging the recognition OF the military
system of their country.
NOTWITHSTANDING the fact that retrench.
ments amounting 10 9600a000 lire have been
made in the Italian budget, there still remains
detici; of 9,en9t0 lire.
AN order has been issued suspeuding the
admission Of students 20 the Agricultural
Academy az Moscow until 1893 because of the
recent disorders among the students.
IT is officially announced in Rhode Janciro
that the new Brazilian constitution will be
promulgated by decree, and aitcrward will he
submitted TO the Assembly for ratification.
TuE local taxation bill introduced by the
government Ia the House Of Commons pro-
poses that a part OF the sums allotted to local
finances be used 10 purchase licenses for sa-
looms.
AT Porto Allegro, in the province of Rio
Graude do Sui there was an uprising of the
people against the provisional government of
Brazil, in which portion OF the troops fra
ternizcd.
GARNo, the man who was arrested in Paris
on suspicion of having murderously assaulted
Marie Gaynol in her room in that city, has
been released. The police say that his arrest
was mistake.
Is the lower house Of the Austrian parlia.
ment Count Schoenhern, minister of finance,
replying toquestions by members OF the Young
Czech party, denied that the government
aimed at tiermanzug Bohemia.
ARTHUR NEWTON, solicitor, charged with
conniving to defeat justice by assisting in the
escape OF a number Of persons accused of COM
p1icity in the Cleveland street scandal IN Lon
don, pleaded guilty to the charge.
In the house of Commons, Sir James Fer
gusson, under foreign secretary, denied that
he had informed the German government or
any other government that the sugar CONVEX
tiou would not be observed by England
The Emin Sacha expedition under Ger
man auspices, which started from Baeamoyo.
April 2s for the interior OF Africa has been
delayed az point distant five days march
from the coast by the death Of porters and de-
sertion Of others.
IN the French Senate, NJ. Ribot, minister Of
foreign affairs, during a debate on the New
tonndand fisheries question: said that France
had received formal assurance from the British
government that her rights IN the Newiouud-
land fisheries will be respected, and that the
terms Of the treaty will be fulfiled.
CHANCELLOR Won Caprivi. of Germany.
says that his nation cannot retreat from its
policy in Africa while Stanley, the explorer.
says b. is wearicd by England sapathy which,
il continued, will give Germany paramount
influence on the Dark Continent. Emin
Pasha, in letter 20 a friend hints he has in
formation concerning Stanley aud rippoo lib
which, if published, would create great sen
sation.
THE president Of the British board of agri.
culture, in reply to Sir John kculoch, who
asked IN the House Of Commons that cattle
from Virginia be allowed to enter English
ports because they were always free from
pleuro-pncnmona said the British govern
ment could not except Virginia Cattle because
there were infected districts near that State, "A
cargo of diseased cattle having arrived az
Deptiord in March last from Baltimore.