Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-05-31
CABLE SPARKS.

PRESIDENT CARNoT has gone on tour Of the
French provinces
THE Prussian General Edward Frederick
Fransecky is dead.
THE International Miners Conference is in
session in Brussels.
MAJOR WIssMAS will return from East
Africa to Berlin in June.
THE German government intends to form
labor information Office on the English model.
Miss CLARE WARD and Prince Chimay,
son of the Belgian minister of foreign affairs,
were married in Paris.
DIR. BAYOU, formerly French governor of
the Gabon colony, SAYS lie saw l27 prisoners
inundated in Dohomey.
A scuLLING match has been arranged be-
tween Kemp and MeLane TO take place in
July in New South Wales.
AT THE papal eorsistory to be held in June
the Bishop Of Geneva and the papal nuncio at
Lisbon will be created Cardinals.
IN duel between young doctor of Vienna
and Croatian girl whom he insulted the for
mer was twice wounded by the girl.
THE telegraph line eonnectinglronquin and
China by way Of Yunnan, capital of the prov
ince Of the same name, has been opened for
business.
SIR HENRY PARKEs premier Of New South
Wales. who was thrown from cab, is seriously
injured and will be confined to his house sew
eral months.
THE federal council of Switzerland has de-
cided that when an alteration of the constitu-
ton is demanded 10y $1,000 citizens the ques-
tons will be submitted to popular vote.
THE French government has asked the
Spanish authorities for the extradition of
Michel Eyraud, who was arrested at Havana
for ha r.la ofA in, Ba i'm Inlu
last,
A DAUGHTER of the chief dragoman of the
Russian embassy in Constantinople, while out
walking with her goyerness. was assaulted by
four Turkish soldiers, who were subsequently
arrested.
NJ. RIBOT minister of foreign affairs, and
the delegates of the Egyptian government
have begun the final consideration Of the text
of the decree fer the conversion of the Egyp-
tian debt
Mr. GLADSTONE, in a speech at Lincoln,
Eng, said he was confident the British people
would declare for Irelauds rights at the first
opportunity they might have to make their
voice heard.
ENGLISH liberal newspapers condemn Mr..
Gladstones comparison of the atrocities per-
petrated by Russian officials upon exiles in
Siberia with the shooting affair at Mitchels-
town. Ireland
THERE is report in Berlin to the effect
that the chancellor of Germany will introduce
in the Rcichstag bill TO tax all Germans in
eligible for service in the army and all Ger
man citizens residing abroad.
LIGHTNING struck a church at st. Mahlen,
near llildesh helm, Germany, while a congrega-
ton were praying for a cessation of hail-storms.
which did great damage, and four persons were
killed and twenty others injured.
A BANQUET was given in Lisbon in honor
of Major Scr2a Pinto and other Portuguese ex-
plorers, but no allusion was made to the An
lo-Portugesesdispute over African territory,
nor anything said which could give offence to
any foreign power.
ARTHUR NEWTON, the solicitor who pleaded
guilty in London TO the charge of conniving
20 defeat justice by assisting certain persons
charged with completely in the Cleveland street
scandal to escape, was sentenced to imprison-
ment for six weeks.
A MOB in which there were 1--WE hundred
women tried tofoTce an entrance into the town
hall of Couselice, Italy, crying, "We are starry
ing" and stoned the soldiers guarding the
building, who in turn fired on the mob, killing
several persons and wounding number of
others.