Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-04-05
CABLE SPARKS.

Influenza is ravagiug New Zealand.
Ii is reported that yellow fever has broken
put in Brazil.
y number OF towns in Spain were shaken
y AL earthquake.
The French government will suppress the
P..ris mutual betting agencies.
TIL ship carpenters 1T Stettin, Germany
cave struck !or higher wages.
Emperor William has presented the Car
With an album containing views oil Berlin.
y report is current at London TINT Emin
Fnsha will withdraw from tue Egyptian SER
vice
Tic damage done by continued foods
iaiou5hout Italy, is estimated at 4.o1o,ooo
iraLcS.
Taomas Hope, of New York, has be-
lu.aiEe ESQ 90 TO found n hospital ct Ling
IL NJ, Scolissad. where he was born.
General Won Capriv, the new German
chancellor, has informed tn. ambassadors or
',is country that he will continue B:snurckS
policy.
The dock laborers' strike in Liverpool and
Liar of tue miners In 2 ttin2hGnishr re, Eng,
is practically ended, uud the men are resuin-
Ing work.
Th4 customs committee of the French
Ciainb of Deputies has agreed upon u
tar II on molasSes OF "a francs Per lOO Iilo-
gramm's.
i auction Of Mr. La ouchereS in the Brit
is:i House of Commous to abolish hereditary
representatives in Parliament was rejected
by vote OF pol TO lS9.
President Carnot, of France. has ahan.
;loned the idea OF visiting Algeria, but Will
II Ike tour OF the Mediterranean III April,
.rn-pitcr al Corsica for 81 Short visit.
4 fre broke out in the village of Gampel,
Switzerland, and before the flames could ba
controlled three-fourths of the village was
destroyed ard MANI persons injured.
Ata French post OF Ubungus, in tine Congo
C untry, ten natives under an european
agent were massacred because on European
abducted tue wife OF native chief.
The International Labor Conference has
a opted IL resolution favoring the prohibition
OF ID. employment of children under twelve
years OF age in the fac:ores I'D mines.
at letter written by George Washington
as PHILADELPHIA, in lG93 introducing Win
stnrley, the painter to he commander at
GEORGETOWN, was sold in Lonlcn for seven
Euineas.
1ne governor of the province of Rio Grande
do Sui, in the Brazi ian republic has resign
cd, und it is rumored the PROVISIONAL govern-
nant will prolong line dictatorship Tor five
years.
AZ Kopenecl,, Germany. two soldiers we're
inju ell while trying 10 disperse number Of
worknen who were excited b speeches made
70 them, and who were acting in rio;ous
manner.
Two Russian ARTILLERY officers have been
arrested at ST. Petersburg OH the charge of
.icng nihilists. aul the night patrols OF Cos
sacs and gendarmcs in the city have6een III
creased.
Tne Beers have informed President Kru-
ger, of tbs Transyal Republic, that they ara
wiling TO rise iu n body to avenge the insult
offered % lhe republics flag atJohanesburg
in t5at country.
la the House Of Commons tina British gov
errmsn5 was defeated on Q motion complain
ng Of encroachm.nts upon the right OF way
in Scotland, ali asking that the laws be re-
formed aad that the matter be entrusted to
county councils.
Advices at Paris from D .homey arc that
reinfcrcepents have reached the French gar-
risen at Kotonou, on the Blight of Benin,
which place is being besiegei Gy u 9 King of
pAhoney's troops.
At meeting of the conservative members
of tie British Parliament, held III London,
LORD Salisbury scolied tories for allowing
government candidates for seats IN the HOUSE
of commons TO be defeated.