The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1890-05-21

HERR:N WAREHoLD, Haspelmath and
Leuby, officers of the German navy,
have been convicted of receiving brides
from contractors and have been sen.
fenced to terms in prison.
EXPLORER STANLEY has been present.
ed with the freedom of the city Of Lon
don.
MAJOR WIssMANN bonn barded Lindi
May 10 and captured the town.
A PARTY of Albanians attacked
and plundered Montenegrin provis-
ion train which was on it's way from
Trek to Cettinje. A woman who was a
passenger on this train was killed and
several other persons were wounded.
The Montenegrins were greatly excited.
MINING riots are reported in Portugal
and Spain. The whole province Of
Biscay has been placed under martial
law.
The Austrian Agricultural Exhibition
opened at Vienna on the 14th, the En-
peror presiding. France and Germany
were we'll represented.
THE Parnellites snatched victory in
the House of Commons on the 14th, the
second reading of the Irish Agricultural
Laborers' bill being agreed to without a
division. The Governments usual sup
port was absent when the measure was
sprung.
THE ocean steamship Partisan ran
full into an iceberg in fog off New
fOundland, but was not seriously in
jured. A panic was narrowly averted.
A PLAGUE of locusts is devastating
trans-Caucasia. A quarter of million
of acres of agricultural land at Tifis,
Ellisavetpol and Baku have been raw
aged by this insect.
THE striking miners at Bilbao, Spain,
iudulged in another riot on the 18th.
THERE was small outbreak against
the Brazilian Provisional Government
at Porto Allegro recently. 1t was sup
pressed after a number of persons had
been wounded.
The case against James Campbell,
president of the Window Glass Union
for Importing English workmen in vio-
lation of the Alien Contract law resulted
il an acquittal.
The Irish tenants defense fund has
reached EGO, 900 and has been closed.
County Cork people subscribed $4,000.
THE Independence Beige denounces
Minister Terrell for his action in the
Anti-Slavery Conference as tending to
increase slavery in Africa.
A BERLIN dispatch says that France
and Germany have agreed in order to
avoid disputes on the frontier to strip a
wide space CT ground on either side OF
the boundary line and place at frequent
intervals large stones marking the line
of delimitation cOnspicuously.
THE Berlin Tageblatt says it is a Sig
nifcant fact that visits of foreign news
paper writer's and other recognized WIS.,
itors to Friederichsrue have been very
frequent of late.
On the river Oder, near Ratisbon, ST.
les:a, a ferryboat loaded with passen-
gers was crossing, when it suddenly
capsized and thirty-six of the people
were drowned before assistance could
reach them. All the passengers were
children who were returning home from
confirmation service.
IT is said that Henry NJ. Stanley is
engaged to Miss Dorothy Tenant, a
young English artist.
ToMsKI, in Western Siberia, has been
almost destroyed by flood and fire.
CUBA is troubled with drought.
THE French Board of Trade returns
for April show an increase in imports of
more than million dollars and an in
crease in exports of more than four
millions.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended May Is numbered
212, compared with 2O9 the previous
week. The failures for the correspond
ing week of last year were 242.