The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-09-04
NEWS FROM ABROAD.

A Spanish gun-boat has been dispatch
ed TO try to rescue the eleven members
Of the crew Of the Spanish ship that fell
into the hands of Moorish pirates a lew
DAYS ago while engaged in trading be-
tween Cape JUDY and Rio Deoro: The
name of the vessel captured Is the 1eard,
not the Jacob. as the first reports OF the
affair enormously stated.
Lord Salisbury. the ex-premier, has
left England 10 seek the serenity OF his
pretty chalet at Dieppe where the Mar
chi0ncss has beer staying for some days
past to prepare the house for her hus-
bands coming His Lordship looks quite
hscgard since his defeat, but France,
with it's sunshine and flowers, will, no
doubt act as sOlace to his impaired
health and spirits.
Last Sunday at Fontarabia, Spain,
Senior Sarasate had a narrow escape from
death He was going 10 a bull fight
with a large party. and desiring TO CON
verse with friend. he jumped out of his
carriage and changed 10 the second We
hicle A few moments afterwards the
horses of the carriage he had just va
Gated took fright, upset the passengers,
three Of whom were seriously injured
and one immediately killed
The Vienna correspondent OF the Lon
don News SAYS: 1t is reported from Merry
that .. Afghans were killed in the
last battle with the revolving Hazaras.
A dispatch from Simla says: "A noun
tain battery and several battalions Of
pmiaub infantry and cavalry have been
ordered to hold themselves in readiness
10 reinforce the troops in the Wana Go
mnl Valley in the event of the Amer OF
Afghanistan failing to recall his agents,
who are disturbing the peace Of the In
dian frontier
4 dispatch from Madrid says that
hitch has occurred in the negotiations
between Spain and the United States for
commercial treaty. The dispatch adds
that Mr.. Foster, the American Secre-
tary of State, has asked that there be
included among the articles favorably
treated on their introduction into Cuba a
number of others which are produced in
Cuba as well as In the United States.
Senior Robledo, the Minister of the Colo
MES, has refused TO grant the request,
hence the hitch.
A most extraordinary marriage took
place Thursday in Brussels. The well
known aeronaut, Georges Thiel, welded
a pretty young girl, Burgomaster Bulls
officiating, and expressing the hope that
the Young couple would succeed In soar
ing above the miseries Of life and avoid
ing its tompests. Immediately after the
ceremony the welded pair got into a bal.
loon shristened La Lune de Miol' and
started 10 spend the honeymoon moon
ward. Amid great laughter and cheer
ing the balloon took the direction of Lou
vain.
The disaster in the Agraffe coal mine,
in Belgium. referred to yesterday, was
caused by heavy coal fall that blocked
the galleries of the mine and entombed
many of the miners. Nearly all the men
who wera at work ut the time of the dis
aster have been accounted for. Some
escaped uninjured. Twenty-Five bodies
have been recovered and eight. men,
alive, though very seriously injured, have
been taken from the mine by the rescu-
ing parties. This makes the, fourth dis
aster that has occurred in the same pit
since 1S4S, and the total number of
names ON the mines death roll Is now
five hundred.