Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-07-26
CABLE SPARKS
KE11EY. the poet of Of Zurich, is dead.

KELLEY, the poet of of Zurich, is dead.
INTENSE heat prevails in Central Austria.
THE American riAemen are at oberlohn-
stein.
THE condition of the crops in Ireland is
good.
THE premium on gold in Buenos Ayres is
Isl per cent,
THE Russian government will shortly con-
struct harbor at Kaffa.
0NR hundred and twenty-five Turkish lum-
Der merchants were ruined by fire.
THE bill ceding Heligolaud to Germany
passed its third reading in the British House
of Lords,
tbs Tunisian Holy man has defeated the
Mahdi and captured Fl obeid. the capital Of
Cardofan.
THE Universal Peace Congress was opened
in London by Mr.. David Dudley Field, Of
New York.
RUSSIA has purchased for a little over one
million francs the Worms Island in the Baltic
Sea for eoaling station.
unk1.anr pfsov~ ssss -y,st--.>-S 20 tvs
weeks imprisonment in London for stealing
Mr. Stanley's wedding gifts.
THE floods in Southern Hungary have
caused much damage along the Danube. Ten
persons have been drowned.
THE Opinione, Of Rome, says that England
has assured Italy that she does not intend to
abandon her rights in Tunis.
BARON GRAvENRFuTH has been appointed
temporary German commissioner IN East At
RIGA, Baron Wissman being ill.,
THE Portuguese House of Peers has adopted
the report Of the budget committeGapproving
general increase Of six per cent in taxation
THE one hundred and first anniversary Of
the fall of the Bastile was celebrated in Paris
by professions and review at Longchamps.
FoRTY-FouR deaths from cholera have oc-
Cured among the members of battalion Of
Ghoorkas stationed at Dharmsala, in the Pun
jaub.
THE Dublin Freeman's Journal says that
O'Donovan Rossa's period of Outlawry will
expire next winter and that he will visit Cork
in January.
THE correspondent Of the London Times at
Madrid telegraphs that the reports that chol-
era prevails in the city Of Valencia are abso-
lntely false.
THE Rev. DIR. Storrs Of Brooklyn will de-
liver the inaugural sermon at the Interna-
tional Council Of Congregationalists to be held
in London in 1891.
THE fete in Brussels in honor of the sixth
anniversary Of Belgian Independence and the
twenty-ffth year Of King Leopold's reign
promises to be splendid affair
The Portuguese House OF Peers mas ap-
proved a bill freeing the government from
responsibility for the dictatorial measures
taken ut the beginning of the year with the
view Of maintaining order.
THE Berlin Reichsanzeiger says that the
convention for fixing sugar premiums is not
likely to be ratified before the first of August,
and that any increase in the sugar duty must
depend upon the decisions Of that convention.
The returns issued by the board Of trade OF
Paris show that during the month of June
the imports increased 100000 francs, and that
the exports decreased 1907 900 francs ae com.
pared with the corresponding month last
year.
OWING to the conviction 81 q Hebrew in
Paris, who was connected with the nihilist
plot organized against the Gar, there is bit.
ter feeling in Russia against Hebrews, and an
editor Of newspaper belonging 10 that race
has been ordered to leave the country.
THE Paris Steele after stating that Sir
William Nhiteway, premier Of New Found
land, has informed England that New Found
land will admit the right Of France on the
French shore, provided France will abandon
the idea Of bounties declares that France will
never consent ty anything Of the kind.