Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-05-16
CABLE SPARKS.


| GREAT numbers of families in Northern
Italy ars emigrating to America.
GERMANY is negotiating with various
European countries for commercial treaties
| which, II concluded, will isolate France
| trade.
THREE hundred students and four hundred
other persons have been arrested in Warsaw
i9r taking part in an orderly celebration of the
Polish festival
The Archbishop of York, England William
Connor Magill, one of the greatest orators in
England; is dead, an attack Of the grip having
ended his life
THE tariff committee of the French Cham
Der of Deputies has decided to reduce the duty
on wheat to three francs, the reduction to hold
good for one year.
THE Gladstonans in the northwest division
Of Suffolk, Eng, won decided victory By
eiecting their candidate 10 Parliament over
the consef gative nominee
PRESIDENT BALMAcEDA, of Chill. has 70.
quested the United States government to act
in conjunction with France and Brazil, in an
effort to restore peace in Chilli
LORD James Douglas brother of the Mar
quis Of Queensbery, while in denented con
dition took his own life in London hotel by
cutting his throat with razor.
SIR James kitson, president of the British
Iron and Steel Institute, believes that the
United States is bound TO become a great
manufacturer of iron and steel
PRESIDENT BALMACEDA, of Chill. has re-
jected the demands of the delegates of the in
surgent party in that country, and as a result
the peace negotiations have been abandoned
The struggle between the two parties must be
fought out until one side or thee is utterly
crushed
BUSINESS in Moscow is disorganized, owing
to the sudden expulsion of Hebrews from Rms.
STA. The Hebrews quilted the city leaving
only property to the value of f130, 600 to cover
debts, and as q result thousands of persons
employed are idle, hundreds of notes are pro
tested daily, and many merchants in the He
brew quarter are facing bankruptcy
TWENTY thousand Boer farmers. who are
dead shots and capable of suffering the most
severe hardships without complaint. have de-
termined, despite the warning of the British
government that it will consider il an act of
hostility to the Queen Of England, to march to
the district which extends northward from the
Lunpopo river to the Zambesi river, in South
Africa, and establish republic.
A MEMBER of the lower house of the Aus.
trian Parliament, Herr Masaryk, intends i'm
terpelatiBg the Austrian government , to
whether it was aware that subjects of Austria
Hungary in the State of Virginia, United
States, were treated as slaves and if so what
measures the government has taken to ATTAIN
redress 1t is supposed that Herr Masaryk's
Interpolation refers to the report that Bohem-
ians employed on the extension ofthe Norfolk
and Western Railroad in Virginia were treated
cruelty.
RECENT events in Rome, particularly the
explosion of the powder magazine at Pozzo
Pantelee, two weeks ago, which is said to have
been the work Of anarchists, the incendiary
AFRO flint DESTROYED the bnrrncks Of tho city
which have arisen between Italy and the I'm
tied States have caused feeling of panic
among the public officials and the inhabitants
generally Of that city. Thousands of work
ingmen are out of employment. The people
live in daily expectation Of hearing of some
awful occurrence.