Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-03-19
CABLE SPARKS.

THE copyright convention between Ger
many and the United States has passed its
second reading on the German Reiehstag.
THE North German steamship Elder has
been lifted off the main rock OF Atherfie.d
ledge, and final effort to float her will be
made this week.
THE police Of laramie, Italy, have arrested
1873 persons suspected of being members OF
the notorious society known as the Malavita,
the principal object of which is brigandage.
HAVING been apprised that .nihilists are
trying TO smuggle into Russia quantity Of
dynamite stolen recently from the French
quarries, Russian officials are detsining and
examining closely all persons crossing the
frontier OF their country.
EDWARD PARKER DEACON, the American
who was under arrest at Grasse, France, for
shooting and killing Emile Abelle, an at
tache OF the French consular service, whom
he found in his wife's bedroom in the Hotel
SpIendide, at Cannes, has been released on
10000 francs bail to stand trial
GREAT numbers of workingmen are out
Of employment in the Australian colonies A
delegation Of the men are urging the authori-
ties of Adelaide to expedite the construction
of public works so as to afford labor for those
unemployed. The labor bureau at Melbourne
has found work for 800 and there are still
/ 500 unemployed in the city.
A HURRICANE which passed over the Por-
iuguese coast did much damage 10 property
and to the harbor works of Lis on. A number
ofhouses were unrooied, chimneys blown down
and trees Frustrated. SIX persons who wete
passing along the streets OF the city were
struck by the flying debris and killed
Mis-. ANNIE MARGARET MoNTAGU, of
Coleraine, Lon onderry, Ireland, daughter
in-law of Lord Montagu, who is charged with
manslaughter, growing out of the death of her
three-year-old daughter who was found
choked to death, has secured change of venue
on the ground Of public feeling in the pro-
vince of Ulster and the case has been trans
ferred TO the Dublin Asszes for trial.
liz the German Reichstag it was stated by
Herr Kayser that an English syndicate had
offered two million francs for the purchase OF
the concessions of the Hamburg syndicate in
German Southwest Africa. Baron Won Bieber-
stein, the imperial German minister Of for
'eigu affairs said the German government
would not sell any of its colonial possessions
THE residence in Edinburg of Prof Raph
Copeland, astronomer royal for Scotland, and
a member of the faculty of the Edinburg u j.
versty, was burnett The professor and has
family escaped from one Of the upper floors
by twisting sheets aud blankets and tying the
ends together, thus making q rope, down
which they slid. A valuable library Of ns.
tronoinical works which had been bequeathed
to Scotland by the Earl Of Crawford was dam
aged by water.
A PARTY of forty klbanians, armed with
rifles, who were es, 6rting a wedding process
sion through the town of Kolasohina on the
frontier Of Albania, fired salute just as they
met number of Montchegtin laborets Who
were employed in bui ding bridge at Tara.
One of the rifles in the hands of the Alba
mans was unknowingly loaded with a ball
cartridge which struck workingman. The
Montenegtins were so insensed they poured
volley into the Albanians, killing and wound.
ing 10 of them