Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-11-15
CABLE SPARKS.

THE Belgian Anti-Slayery Society will send
hree new agents to Africa.
THE Duke of Nassau has taken the oath as
regent OF the grand duchy of Luxemhurg.
THE establishment of the British protector
ate over Zanzibar has been formally pro-
claimed.
FEARING nihilist plots, the police precau-
tons at all the Russian Imperial palaces have
been increased.
CHANCELLOR Won CAPRIvI, of GERMANY
is in Milan, itnly, where he hnd n conference
with Premier Crlspi.
THE Emperor Of Austria and several Aus
TRAN archdukes greeted the Czarewitch on
his arrival in Vienna.
AHEAyY storm prevailed throughout Great
Britain and ireland, and considerable dam
age was done to property.
CHIEF Secretary for Ireland Bafour has
gone Oh tour over the routes of the proposed
railways in Donegal, Ireland.
NIsCOUST CANTELUPE, eldest son and heir
Of Ear De In War;, WAS drowned in Belfast
Tough, Ireland, during storm.
Mr. GLADSTONE claims that it would have
cost the British Government f2A,G0 900 t.
purcaas forfeited licea es from puhicans.
=. MADAME PATTI. tie celebrated singer, 4
, III at Leicester, England, from the effects OF
emil con. racted at a concert at which she
sang.
DURING a debate on the foreign estimates
OF France in the Chamber of Deputies of that
country member advocated an alliance with
| Russia.
JAMES GILHooLY, a home-rule member of
the British Parliament for West Cork, Ire
land, was thrown from his horse and seriously
injured.
The Russian government has appointed
commission to frame code of laws in har-
mony with the existing Russian system tos
use in Finland
A PASSENGER train and train loaded with
| gunpowder were in collision near Bockum,
Germany, and the explosion that followed
/ was heard for miles around
! BOMB was exploded in front Of the monu.
| ment erected in Trieste TO commemorate the
| hYe hundredth anniversary of the union of
Trieste to Austria, but no damage was done.
PARIS newspaper hes confirmed the re.
port that Millet's celebrated painting 1.-THE
Angelus," has been purchased by the French
| government from the American Art Associa.
ton.
WHILE Mr.. Balfour, chief secretary for Ire.
land, was at Omagh, county Tyrone, ireland,
number of nationalists cheered for Glad
stone and O'Brien, and were attacked by
unionists.
OWING to the mental condition o. the King
]
| OF governing, the Duke of Nassau will he.
come Regent of the Grand Duchy N Luxem.
burg.
THE French minister of foreign afflirs
stated to the Chamber of Deputies of this
country that the army OF France was being
placed In position in which it would be-
ready for every emergency
LAMBERT, the Canadian pugilist, and
O'Nelil the Lancashire man, who were ar.
rested at Liverpool just before they were to
take part IN prize fight at the Lyceum in
that city, were arraigned before a magistrate
and bound over to keep the peace.
THE fear of famine in the West Of Ireland
has been acknowledged by the officials OF the
Brlis1 treasury department, who have or.
dered number Of new railways to be built at
once in the impoverished districts for the pur.
pose OF giving the peasants work.
AN Italian in Glasgow, Scotland, was muir.
dered on his wedding might by one of his
countrymen, who was not invited to the cere-
money, and whom the bridegroom and some
of his irienls were trying to eject from TIE
house where the marriage WAS solemizvd.