Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-11-21
CABLE SPARKS.

DEEP distress prevails in tie valley Of he
'egiou.
! nlGMUND S0aIMERFELD and his son FeliS
the Berlin bankers who shot themselves be-
cause Of financial troubles, are both dead
New York sent q, 2i4 to Archbishop Croka
OF Cashel, for the relief of persons who were
suffering through the failure Of crops III ire
THE Spanish government viii Immediately
! adopt measures 10 reduce the premium on
gold ami to improve the condition of the bank
\ of Spain.
1 RAPESEED, oil eeds and all pulse and len
ills will not be effected by the decree Of the
Russian government in prohibiting the expor
I tatlon OF grains.
1 The authorities of the Russian war Office
have resolved 10 construct line of forts
along the Chinese frontier and to increase the
number of officers in Central Asia.
ONE hundred persons were injured, twenty
OF them perhaps fatally, by the collapse Of
tiers OF 5 ats in the circus at Castel-a Mare, on
the Bay Of Naples, during bull fight.
SERIOUS trouble is likely TO follow if
France remains sleaifast in the determination
to take possession of the oasis of Touat, n
the Sahara desert. The Sultan of Morocco is
hrm III his claim Of sovereignty over the land.
A CYCLONE pa, sed over Andman Islands,
British convict settlement in the Bay Of
Bengal, 10 which East Indian criminals are
transported, and during the storm steamer
used 10 convey prisoners 70 the island ioun.
dered, "a Of the crew being drowned.
Two families in county Cork, Ireland,
quarrel ed over tenan ship of farm and
tnen went to fighting over the question. Crow
bars and farming implements were largely
used, with the result that five persons had
their skulls fractured and are likely to die.
THE socialists are preparing ii is said, to
make warm attack in the Reichstag upon
any measures proposed in pursuance OF the
/ Emperor Wiiiam's new hobby of enforcing
personal morals by law. They charge the
Kaiser with attempting to assume loo much
authority.
SIR JAMES FERGUSON, Postmaster-General
of Great Britain, states that there is no hope
OF establishing universal system Of penny
postage between the Englsh-speakingp peoples,
but that there will shortly be q substantial
reduction in the postal rates on newspap rs,
books and patterns.
THE police Of Prague, believing that the
anarchists of Bohemia had some plan ripe for
/ execution. made Il rad On the resi- fences of
the most prominent members of the party who
live III Prague and arrested six persons, who
are said to be the riugeaders of the supposed
plot, among them female agitator.
THE German government viii introduce q
bull in the Reichstag propo,ing loan Of
/ 10000, 600 marks for military naval and
I railway department s. besides supplementary
loan for the purpose OF fortiying Heligoland
An estimate of the expenses of le govern
ment for the coming fiscal year exceeds. that
for 1881 by 10000, 0c0 marks.
AT conference Of the Liberal. Union st
Association 1t Manchester, England Sir Henry
Jones, who was Encouragement during Mr..
| Giadstone'S last administration, declared that
the loyal minority in Ireland could never be
handed over 10 despotc government OF
clerleals, and the DIXIE of Argyll described
Mr.. Gladstone as # natic who is incapable
Of argument"
OWING 10 the corruption prevailing among
oticia and the strained relat ons between
landlords and tenants, the spirit of insubordi-
milton among the people in the distressed
districts of Russia S becoming so intense that
1t is feared serious troubles will result, eua-
/ mlnatng in an open revolt Of the peasantry
early in the winter. a governor of one of
the ADMINISTRATION provinces was Giscoyered
who had been realizing large profits By re-
selling grain purchased on government credit
WHILE terrific storm was raging off the
Ahti"otiiftt AoRdHrf tair pri sTtASibritt u Aiic
East Indies a convict ship was wrecked and
crew and passengers were thrown into the sea
number OF female conviets On the islani
( who saw the wreck formed human life line
each woman gfaspng the others hand and
forced themselves against the storm into the
sea. The wom4n al the bead of the line would
grasp a struggling man and with the assistance
Of her C, mpanions drag him ashore In this
1 way the women saved many lives.