Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-11-22
CABLE SPARKS

TaE Wellington barracks, in London, were
destroyed by FIRE.
JOSEPH SAvoRY was installed as lord
mayor of London.
ARMED Armenians raided Kurdish villages,
killing i've persons.
VICE-ADMIRAL oBRY, commander Of the
French Levant Squadron, is dead.
SEVERAL persons were killed at Rosario
Argentine Republic, in election disorders.
DURING the past three months 100000 Rus
sian and Polish peasants have lett Russia for
Brazil.
PROF. Koch will found hospital in Berlin
for the treatment of consumptives by his
method.
PRESIDENT CARSoT, Of France, hrs been
elected an honorary member Of the Bunker
Hill Association.
By the burning of a tobacco factory in
Madrid, Spain, ten thousand persons are
thrown out Of work.
MRS. KING, widow Of Thomas King. Of
Georgia, and mother Of the Marchioness Of
Anglesea, is dying in Paris.
Two hundred Portuguese patriots have
sailed. from Rio Janeiro for Lisbon to reinforce
the Portuguese troops in East Africa.
NJ. DERoULEDE and NJ. Lagourre fought
duel in a wood near Monceau, France, with
pistols, but each failed to wound the other.
A SCHOOL boy in Vienna who found great
difficulty in mastering the third declension ia
a Latin grammar killed himself In despair
A FERRY boat, overloaded with men, wagons
and horses, capsized in the river Waig,
Austria, and tfty-ive peasants were drowned.
THE newspapers of Russia hail with ap.
proval the pacific declarations made BY Lord
Salisbury at the lord mayors banquet in
London.
THE roof Of house in Prague COLLAPSED.
demolishing scatfold upon which number
of men were working. Several Of the men
were killed.
TX speech from the throne opening the
Prussian Diet Emperor William announced
that bill to tax incomes would be introduced
in that body.
THE lord mayor OF London has called
meeting of representative Englishmen to dis.
enss the subject of the persecution Of the
Hebrews in Russia.
THE Norwegian ship Terpsichore, from
Quebec for Newcastle, Eng. was sunk by
collision with the British steamer Casa, in
the English channel.
w. S. GILBERT and poly Carte are friends
again, aud they will elaborate with Sir
Arthur Sullivan ia the production of an opera
at London theatre.
IL the town of Args, France, burglars
fractured the skull OF parish priest killed
his housekeeper. woman of sixty.6ve years,
and then robbed the house.
THE police of Galway, Ireland, and the
military stationed at that town had fight, in
which the police were routed aud chased to
their barracks by the soldiers.
THE Paris Steele says that Signor Antonell
will visit Abyssiuia in order TO prevent King
Menelek from again protesting to the powers
against Italian domination in his country.
TwEYTY-oSE of the pictures illustrating
the works OF Rabelais which were seized by
the London police at'an art gallery in that
city are to be destroyed by order Of court
A LONDON newspaper states that the basis
Of negotiations between Great Britain aud
France for the settlement of the Newiound.
land fishery dispute is that France shall
surrender to Great Britain the French shore
Of Newfoundland and shall be compensated
therefor by the cession Of one Of the British
West African colonies.