The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-23
Foreign.

A PRELIMINARY sitting of the Interna-
tional Industrial Conference was held at
Madrid, Spain. Ssnor Moret was elected
President.
The State Treasurer Of the Canton of
Ticino, Switzerland, has been arrested on the
charge of embezzling 1000, 600 francs.
A FIRE at Santiago de Cuba, in the build
ing occupied by the Chamber Of Commerce,
resulted in the destruction of a dry goods
store and its contents, and the burning to
death of two white women and colored
girl.
A SLAVE dhow has been captured on the
African coast by the British warship Sultan.
JAMES LEE, Charge d'Afaires Of the
United States in Brazil, has presented Cen
eral Deodoro da Fonseca, the President, with
the congratulatory motion adopted by the
United States Congress and approved by
President Harrison.
AFTER a chase Of two years Detective
Pinkerton has arrested in Spanish Honduras
Edmund Sturgis Crawford, who stole pack
age of S41, 900 in bills sent by the American
Exchange Bank, of New York city, to the
Adams Express Company. Crawford con-
fessed and implicated others.
A REVOLUTION has broken out near Igna-
la, in the State of Guerrero, Mexico, the Gov
ernment of which is unpopular.
THE British expedition recently sant out
against the Somalis, East Africa, having
failed to accomplish its mission, another ex-
pedition has been started
NEGOTIATIONS looking to the withdrawal
of British troops from Egypt have begun be-
tween England and Turkey.
THE Emperor of China accompanied by
Ii Hung Chang the Chinese Grand Chan
cellor, and retinue numbering 10, 600 persons,
has started on visit to the Eastern Mauso-
lea.
GENERAL CHINcHl. LA, the new Captain
General Of Cuba, has arrived in Havana.
THE French Government has ordered the
construction of thirty torpedo boats in
private yards.
MAJOR SERPA PINTO, the Portuguese
African explorer, has started for Lisbon.
The American Consul at Plauen, Ger
many, has been robbed in hotel Of jewels
valued Mt $4,000.
SIX persons were drowned at Kleinlun-
fenburg, on the Rhine, Germany, through
the capsizing of a boat.
PRINCE BISMARCK has been granted pen,
sion of $3.50. He has disposed Of the dia-
! monds in his St. Andrews cross and his
Russian decorations to jeweler for $50, 900.
EMPBGoR MENELEK, of Abyssinia, has writ
ten letter to Prime Minister Crispi author
zing Italy to represent him at the Brussels
Anti-Slavery Congress- and affirming the IN.
tention of Ethiopia to follow the example OF
civilized Christian nations and to repress the
slave trade.
RICHARD DAVIES, who, together with his
younger brother George, was sentenced to
death for the murder Of their father, has
been hanged at Crewe, England. George
Davies was respited by the Home Secretary
few days ago.
A MEETING of representative workmer
was heldat Often, Switzerland. Two hundred
and forty-seven delegates, representing
12O, 900 workmen in various trades and call
ings, were present.
MISS ETTIE SUAREY aged seventeen years
and Miss Tres. Huffman, aged nineteen, We're
crossing the river in small boat at Dresden,
Canada. accompanied by a young man named
Charles Hart, when the boat was swamped
and the young ladies were drowned.
JUS1us MORGAN, the distinguished Ameri
can banker, and the partner of George Pea
body, the philanthropist, died at Monte
Carlo, Italy, from the effects of injuries re-
ceived in runaway accident there. He was
seventy seven years old.
A RIOT of striking and unemployed work.
men in Vienna assumed serious proportions
and was only quelled by the military after
several persons had been wounded.