Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-05-10
CABLE SPARKS.
EMPEROR WILLIAM will likely visit Eng.

EMPEROR WILLIAM will likely visit Eng
land in August.
GERMANY has assented to the scheme for
the conversion of the Turkish debt.
COLD weather has delayed the Egyptian
cotton crop, but the plants are healthy
A REVOLUTION has broken out in Paraguay
and number Of persons have been killed.
ADvIcEs from Lagos West Africa, state
that Capt. Zeuner, the African explorer, is
dead.
DAHoMIANs are telling the palm trees
around Porto NoVo, thus destroying the crop
for several years.
BARON HAMMOND, son of George Ham
mond, first minister from Great Britain to the
United States, is dead.
TIE Delogoa Bay Railway has been com.
pleted to the frontier of the Transyaal Repub-
lie and Is open to traffic.
A FRENCH ministerial council has decided
TO make retrcnchments in the budget to the
extent of 100000 francs.
TUE Italian Senate has approved measure
prohibiting the clergy of Italy from belonging
to charitable organizations.
THE Berlin Kclonialblatt publishes an Off
cial edict sanctioning the coinage of silverand
copper on account Of the German East Africa
Company.
A RECEPTION in honor of Stanley, the OK
plorer, was given in London by the Emin
relief committee, and the Prince of Wales
presided.
A RUSSIAN Jew in Sofia shot and killed
commissary Of police who, with number of
soldiers, attempted to search his house for sedi.
tous documents.
THE Baptist Union of Great Britain has
adopted a resolution declaring that the time
has come to abolish all fees at the public ele.
mcntary schools in Great Britain.
THE Vossische Zeitung says that the Ger.
man army peacc-iooting bill increases the in
fantry by 5000 men and the artillery by 5000
men and adds 81 batteries to the field artillery.
THE provisional government of Brazil has
granted the petition of Balkans asking that
the present Governor of Bahia be recalled and
that President Fonsica's brother be appointed
Governor.
THE Expedition under Mr.. Jackson, an Off
cer of the British East Africa Company, has
arrived at Uganda and concluded treaties With
Mwanga and other chiefs, placing Uganda ex-
clusivcly under British influence.
WHILE attending the opening ceremonies
Of Edinburgh electric exhibition with her
husband u lot of valuable jewclry belonging
to the Duchess of Edinburgh was stolen from
ner rOolllS III lle OuliuoIal l1otcl, GulHuutSH,
Scotland.
THE Shah of Persia has cancelled the con-
,ession obtained by Russian company for
the construction of n railway from Reshed, in
the province of Ghilan, to Enzellee, the sea-
port of the former place, 16 miles southeast Of
Reshed.
As THE result of Gen. Simmons negotia-
lions with the Vatican it has been arranged
that Malta shall be centre whence to dispatch
Catholic missionaries to places in the Eastand
tn Africa, hitherto in the hands of foreign
missionaries.
4 DISPATCH from Lisbon to the London
edition of the Nca0 York Herald says that the
Portuguese government favors the proposition
10 arbitrate the questions arising from the
seizure of the Dclagoa Bay Railway, and that
It has promised the British and American
ministers at Lisbon speedy reply to their
suggestion that the matter bearbitrated.