Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-05-24
CABLE SPARKS.
THE total amount of subscriptions to the
Irish tenants, dnfpnsn fund rns Elil lll0

] THE total amount Of subscriptions to the
! Iufsh tenants defense fund was 100000.
{ THE international Prison Congress will
! open iii ST. Petersburg on Monday, June 16.
| THREE former cabinet ministers of Portu-
| gal are about to start OIL tour of the African
/ colonies.
Two officers Of the German navy have been
sentenced to prison for receiving brides from
/ contractors.
| AFBRRY boat on the river Oder, near Rati-
| Dor, Silesia, capsized, and thirty-six children
/ were drowned.
/ IN Hamburg employees of the gas works of
! that city who are on u strike, attacked tram
/ cars with stones and wounded q number Of
| passengers.
R1cHaRD CROKER, the Tammany Hall
\ leader, hvho is ut Wiesbaden, hus recovered
sutii9cAtly from his recent illness to dispense
withshis doctor
| TIE German minister of war, Gen. Verdy
! du Vernois, and Field Marshal Won A1oltkc
+, arc Urging the recognition Of the military
system Of their country.
/ NOTWITHSTANDING the fact that retrench-
(! menA amounting to 2G,0O0,000 lire have been
made in the Italian budget, there still remains
deficit of90OO,O0O lire.
(, AN order has been issued suspending the
j admission of students to the Agricultural
Academy Mt Moscow until 1898 because of the
recent disorders among the students.
| IIsis officially announced in Rio de Janeiro
{ that fhc new brazilian constitution will be
! prolau gated by decree, and afterward will be
, SUBMITTED to the Assembly for ratification.
| TEE local taxation bill introduced by the
government i'll the House OF Commons pro-
/ poses that part of the sunSyllottcd to local
! finances be used to purchase licenses for So
| loons
AT5Porto Allegro, in the province of Rio
! Grau6c do Sui, there was al uprising OF the
peoplt against the provisional government Of
Bra1al, in which II portion OF the troops fra
tepiized
G6l;Mo, the man who was arrested in Paris
on Suspicion Of having murJerously assaulted
! Marie Gaynol i'll her room i'll that city, has
been rele8sed. The police say that his arrest
was ami s'gSe.
INtha iser house Of the Austrian Parlia-
mcnt! Co6 SSehoenborn, minister of finance,
rcplyingtlE Astions by members Oithe Young
s G1Ss paG a siang b iIs ahs
ARTA UEs TON, solicitor, charged with
conniving %St justice by assisting in the
escape of IL S9 of persons accused OF CON-
nlicity in thsy land.street scandal in Lon
don, pleaded S to the charge.
IN the housG3i Commons, Sir James Fer
gusson, under ~ ign secretary, denied that
! he had informed the German government or
any other government that the sugar conven-
ton would not bc.observcd by England
THE Gmin Sacha expedition under Ger
man auspices, which started from Bagamoyo,
! April Is, for the interior Of Africa, his been
delayed ut IL point distant five days march
from the coast by the death OF portcrs and de-
sertion of others.
liz the French Senate, n. Ribot, minister of
foreign affairs, during debate OH the New
foundland fisheries question, said that France
| had received formal assurance from the British
government that her rights i'll the Newtound-
| land fisheries will be respected, and that the
terms of the treaty will be fulfilled.
CHANCELLOR Won Caprivi, Of Germany,
says that his nation cannot retreat from its
policy in Africa while Stanley, the explorer,
says heis wearied by England's apathy, which,
| ifcontinued, will give Germany paramount
influence on the Dark Continent. Emin
Pssha, in letter to friend hints he has in
formation concerning Stanley and TjpPoo lib
which, il published, would create great sen
sation.
THE president of the British board of agri-
culture, in reply to Sir John keuloch, who
asked in the House Of Commons that cattle
from Virginia be allowed to enter English
ports because they were always free from
rleuro.pneumonia said the British govern
ment could not except Virginia Cattle because
there were infected districts near that State, q
cargo of diseased cattle having arrived at
Deptford in March last from Baltimore.