St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-26
BREVITIES BY TELEGRAPH.

Louise Michel has announced her inten-
ton of founding nlhlllst colony IN
America.
The Mexican Official Gazette publishes a
contract with Woodrow & Co. tor postal in
surance.
The experimental telephone line between
Paris and Calais has proved success. An
other line will soon be constructed between
Paris and London.
The British cabinet has decided to drop
the licensing clauses of the local taxation
bill, but has postponed its decision regarding
the Or oposal of the license money.
While Prince Ferdinand. of Bulgaria, was
crossing the river near Rustchuk aboard a
steamer one of the masts of the steamer was
struck by lightning. The prince had mar
row escape.
Holland refuses to sign the general anti
port duties in the Congo state be expunged.
If this is not done she threatens to nullify
the conference.
Prince Bismarck proposes forming at
Schonhausena museum of the many gifts
that have been made him. The place OF
honor in the collection will be given TO O
portrait of the present emperor.
At council of Turkish ministers, the
khedive presiding, it was resolved to pro-
hibit the cultivation of tobacco throughout
Egypt, and to increase the import duty on to-
bacco from IA to 20 piastres per kilo.
The English parliamentary committee on
he Suspension of bills Includes Mr.. Goschen,
Balfour, Lord Harrington. Chamberlain,
Gladstone, Sir William Vernon Harcourt.
Morley, Labouchere, Dillon and Sexton.
Mendelssohn, Orloff and Demski. three of
the nihlists recently arrested in Paris, nave
been liberated. The seven others will be
tried. Louise Michel intends to leave
France. She says she will join the nihilists.
The emperor and empress OF Germany ar
rived at Hamburg yesterday and were re-
ceived with mnch enthusiasm The streets
of the city are decorated in their honor, and
last evening there was grand illumination.
The Russian newspapers are angry over
the cession of Heligoland 10 Germany. They
fear that the possession of the island by Ger
many will hamper Russian naval operations.
Many of the papers assert that sectet de-
fensive alliance has been formed by Eng
land and Germany.
An important French Royalist conference
is in progress at the Hotel Albemarle, in Lon
don. The Due Ia Rochefoucauld. the
Duchesse Dues, Comte Lacquemont Arthur
Meyer,and several of the chief leaders of the
party. are present. and others have been sum-
moned from France.
By the collapsing Of foot bridge leading
from steamer stage to the steamer Saint
Jean, at Brest, Yesterday, 700 persons were
preeipitated in the sea. Seven bodies have
been found anu many persons are still miss,
ing Divers are searching for The bodies OF
others who are believed to have been
drowned.
A gang of robbers attempted TO derall a
train between Aguacate and Sabanderoble,
Cuba, yesterday. The train safely passed
through heavy fire from the bandits. The
lattershave sent threatening letter to the
government authorities and another to the
manager Of the railroad. The government
has taken measures 10 secure The capture OF
the bandits. -
NJ. Deloncle advises France to submit the
Anglo German convention to special con-
ference of the powers. He expresses his
belief in the existence OF secret Anglo
Italian agreement ceding Somali and the
ports Of Bravo, Marka and MagadoX, Italy.
M Deroulde will retire from politics and
will publish an photographed novel.
According to the Cassel Stadt Zeitung,
Prince Bismarck in addressing deputatiOn
from Cassel, said, with reference to the
Anglo German agreement, that England
time the English would treat the German
merchants in Zanzibar in friendly fashion,
but sooner or later they would try to GUST the
Germans. Speaking of Heligoland, he said
that the possession of the island had always
been the wish of German patriots. but there
might be various opinions as to the price
that had been paid for 1t.
The interview with Louis Huller published
IN the American press is not regarded in the
City of Mexico as of any significance. The
assertion that Mexico might exchange
strip between FL Paso and Yuma for Lower
California is declared to be preposterous as
the proposed change would be unconstltu-
tional. Huller, since he was released from
prison, has been almost stranger to Mexico.
The concession to Gonzalo Esteva for a
railroad from Guadalajara to Chamela, on
the Pacific coast Mexico, is published in the
Mexican Official Gazette 1t guarantees
per cent profit annually for thirty-tive years,
with capital guaranteed, the percentage to be
paid semlannuaIly in gold by the financial
agent of Mexico in London. This is the
most valuable ncession ever granted by
this government