The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-08-10
NOTES FROM ABROAD.

Nocs;cro, Del Val has been sent 70 Spain
he The Pone 10 present portrait OF hihseh
Ia the Oueen Regent OF Spain.
M So, ,f Kzecze in Russia mas beeh
daa,rorod hv FIRE. Fourteen persons were
killsd sixteen injured and 2,o0o people
made homeless.
Fo,r nersons in one family died OF cholera
SATURDAY in Paris. Six other deaths from
the same disease are reported rom 'no
suburbs Of Paris.
The Russian Minister OF toe Interior has
asked for a credit 90 assist In the return oi
Russians who emigrated 10 America anu
failed 10 find work there.
Mora rioting is reported 20 have taken
- n tbe Spanish provinces. AT Selye
maay houses were burned and seYerAl VII
layers we're seriously wounded.
Thu nrisoner arrested on his own confess
sion In Glasgow for completely IN the muir
ders OF Lords Mountmorres and Leltrin mas
been identified as James Anderson.
The sultan Of Morocco has appointed
EIGHT delegates to resume the negotiations
for commercial treaty with Sir Chaiies
Fran smith. the British Minister TO NO
rocco.
There was an alarming renewal SUNDAY,
Of the activityOf Mount ktna. boud an9
continued subterranesn rum blings are hearo
and the streams of lava lowing down Tue
slopes are steadily increasing.
Sir William Henry Houldsworth, BARI
Hon. Mr. Charles William treenhntle' a
q Il. and Mr.. Bertram Currle have oeeb
nominated az British delegates 10 tue lAtei-
national Monetary Conference.
The Paris Temps prints dispatches from
MADAGASCAR 10 the effect that diplomatic
relations between the Government and the
French residents have been suspended, oW-
ing to the intrigues Of British missionaries
Amsterdam was en- fete Friday when
the young Queen, assisted by her InotHef,
the Queen Regent. opened the new section
of the new Meerwede canal. 1t will soon be
nayicabe for large vessels from Amsterdam
to the Rhine.
Almost every country in Europe IS adopt
ing stringent measures 10 head on choiera
The Austrian Government yesterday issued
an order directing that all vessels arriving
at Austrian ports from Turkish ports shall
be subjected 10 weeks quarantine anu
thoroughly disinfected.
cable from Slmla received in London
saws that the Afghsns are skirmishing with
both the Russians and Chinese on the
Aliohur Pamir and hove taken number OF
Kirehiz prisoners. A force of 200 Russians,
under command OF Colonel Yanoi1, armed
with mountain guns, have reached Ahtash'
The police Of Paris have discovered
placard calling upon Anarchists 70 XIII the
iuries and ludges who have respectively
convicted and condemned members OF
Anarchist societies. The authorities nave
learned that hundred thousand OF these
placards have been printed for eircuiaI'oh'
Some miscreants Sunday placed an iron
box filled with gunpoWdeT outside the PuO-
lie room of a hotel in Rathkeale, Ireland
and. after igniting the fuse attached 70 the
box. made their escape. The explosion
smashed the windows Of the room and
wrecked its furniture A number OF persons
in the room sustained slight injuries, but
no one was seriously hurt. The outrage IS
believed TO have been perpetrated by mem
bers of the Parnelite faction OF the irish
party as an act of revenge against the hotel
keeper. who is a vigorous supporter OF the
McCarthyite branch Of the party.
The terrific destruction OF the forests OF
Bavaria by the caterpillars OF moth known
as the ''nonnen" have caused much anxiety
in that beautiful country. In l890alik pest
infested these regions and the damage zone
was such as TO cause loss OF +4O,OOO from
the revenues yielded by these forests.
From foreign Office report published IN
the Kew Bulletin. however. it will be seen
that method of combating the pest has
been discovered IL was noticed that,
though the insects passed their lives in the
upper part Of the trees. about ~ per cent.
OF them fell or crept TO the ground at some
time in the course of the twenty-tour hours.
Consequently il has been found possible. by
means Of lime rings on the trees 70 stop
them in mass and kill them by thousands.
The cost Of the campaign has been. up to
the present, about 100000. but 1t IS be
leved that IL will eventually result III she
total eXtirpatiOn OF the plague.