Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-07-12
CABLE SPARKS.
A CRISIS is reported in the Spanish cabinet.

A CRISIS is reported in the Spanish cabinet.
Mr.. JOHNSON, chief justice of Quebec, has
been knighted by Queen Victoria.
THE Duke of Connaught has received the
grand cross of the order of the Bath.
FRANCIS BENNocH, of London, Eng, a
friend of Hawthorne, Longfellow and Dick
ems, is dead.
0'CoNNoR, the Canadian oarsman, was de-
feated in second race with Stansburry of
New South Wales.
In THE House of Lords, Lord Salisbury
said that the inhabitants of Heligoland would
be subject to German laws.
QUEEN VICTORIA has presented lock Of
her hair to Miss Dorothy Tenant, who is to
marry Stanley, the explorer.
THE Tribuna, of Rome, states that 0sman
Digna led the dervishes, who were defeated
by the Italian allies at keren.
THE Prince of Wales has given twenty-five
guineas to the Stanley fund for placing a
steamer on the Victoria Nyanza.
THE National Bank of Buenos Ayres has
suspended payment of the quarterly dividend
which was approved at the last annual meet
ing.
THE American rihemen who visited Ger
many toparticipate in the international shoot
ing contest were received in splendid style in
Berlin.
THE bill providing for Germany's share of
the cost of maintaining the Judiciary in
Somoa passed its second reading in the
Reichstag.
Mr.. GAME, formerly a liberal unionist
member of Parliament, who was defeated at
the Barrow-in-furness election, has returned
to the Gladstonian party.
THE lifeboat Storm King, which sailed from
London to Cape Town, Africa, and from the
latter place to Albany, West Australia, has
completed the long voyage in safety.
DEPUTATIoNs representing the whole of
Europe and one deputation from America
were present at the refinement of the Polish
poet Mickiewicz's remains in Cracow.
STRIKING employees at the Leeds Eng
land) gas works attacked policemen who were
endeavoring TO preserve order, and in the
fight many on both sides were injured.
AT THE request of America, Germany and
England, the King of Sweden has nominated
Conrad Cederkrantz an assistant judge in
Stock holm, to be chief justice of Samoa.
IL THE trial in Paris of the nihilists ar
rested in that city the accused maintained
that they were engaged i'll the study of chem
istry and not in making dynamite bombs
Mr.. NEW, United States eonsul-general TO
Great Britain, presided at banquet at the
Century Club at which Paul Du Chaillu,
Moneure ID. Conway and Commander Cam
eron made speeches.
AT A meeting of the German Colonial So
ciety, held in Cologne, resolution was
adopted regretting the conclusion of the
Anglo-German agreement relating TO the diyi-
sion of territory in East Africa.
IL THE Chamber of Deputies Of France. NJ
Rouyier, minister of finance, accepted the pro-
posal for an immediate debate Of NJ Laur's
Interpolation of the government reparlino
the affairs of the Credit Foncier.
THE committee having in charge the cree
ton o. n monument at Berlin to the late En-
peror William have decided 20 leave the final
settlement of all matters in connection there
with, including the selection of a site, to the
Emperor of Germany.
LATER adviees regarding the shooting of
French inhabitant of Cobroy, near the French
frontier, by II German sentry, show that four
of the residents of that place had gone 3I5
metres into French territory when the sentinel
fired upon them, wounding one OF their num-
Der man named Claudel. whose wound,
however. is not serious.