Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-04-12
CABLE SPARKS.
Emperor William will visit Russia during
the coming summer.

Emperor William will visit Russia during
the coming summer.
There is a movement in Berlin to erect
monument in that city to Prince Bismark.
Carboso, the explorer of the Nyassa and
Shire districts of Africa has returned TO Lis
bon.
Owing to meat famine in Berlin the res
taurants of that city will raise the price of
meat 20 per cent
1t is rumered in London that Queen Vic
toria is seriously considering the step of alb
dicating the British throne,
Price Albrecht Waldeck a cousin of the
Queen of Holland, has published the reigning
Prince of Waldeck as a liar.
Munich brewers have raised the price OF
beer two pfennings per glass and as a conse-
quenee a riot is expected there
The young Duke of Orleans will be re-
leased from prison this week, and secretly
conducted across the French frontier.
Mr. Parnell has filed his bill of denial to
the allegations in the 0Shea suit for divorce,
and the case will be heard next autumn.
a Hungarian lottery company was swinaled
out of one million forms but the plotters
were arrested, tried and sentenced to prison.
Dueing has been forbidden in the German
army except in cases where council of men
OF uNtlOT uttlut llldt CIRCUMSTANCES warrant
duel.
Tho miners employed in two coal pits at
Dortmund have joined the strike. Work is
proceeding quietly in the mines in the Essen
district.
A verdict for l,14S,000 francs damages and
the costs of the action was returned in the
suit of Gibbs Sons in Paris, against the
Societe de Metaux.
The Sultan of Turkey has signed an trade
providing for new negotiations with England
for a convention based on the withdrawal of
the English from Egypt.
The Hamburg-American Steamship Com.
pany is considering the ACCESSIBILITY of having
the steamers of their New York line call at a
Thames river port on their outward voyages.
The Mill Owners Association of India has
resolved TO close the spinning mills eight DAYS
every month, and the weaving mills four
days every month for a period of three
months.
The Emperor William of Germany has pre-
sented prize cup ornamented with antlers
and figure of Diana, goddess of the chase
to be shot for at the federal rife competition
in Germany.
Prince Bismarck is compiling memoir for
publication which will comprise the last
twenty-five years of his official life. Emperor
William has promised to pay him visit at
FREDERICKSBURG.
NJ Etienne, minister of the French col
onies, says that the French forces in Dahomey
Will shortly make an attack upon Whydah,
the coast town of Dahomey, where the Daho-
mians obtain their arms
The Spanish and Swiss delegates have sub
mitted to the Industrial Conference in session
in Madrid a project for the repression of false
marks of origin on industrial products The
American delegates approve the project
There is great excitement in Dresden over
the publication in a newspaper that Bismark
informed delegation of citizens of that city
that he did not retire from the office of Ger
man chancellor of his own choice.
The Pope and Gen. Sir John L. Simmons,
the British special envoy, have signed a pro-
tocol for the regulation of the appointment of
bishops on the islands of Malta and Coco.
They have also signed protocols for the regu-
lation and mixed marriages., and for the CON
duct of seminaries for the lucation Of priests
on those isl>nds.