Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-12-30
Foreign.

Reports from Port-au-Prince indicate
that trouble is again imminent in Haiti.
An accident at the Southampton docks
Thursday did considerable damage to the
steamer Paris of the American line.
Fifteen persons were drowned off Am
sterdam during a fog yesterday the fog
being dense from the English coast across
the sea and throughout the Netherlands.
The Sicillan anti-tsx movement ap-
peared in several districts up to that
time quiet. most of the districts referred
to being in the provinces of Palermo and
Trahni
Two large petar1s were exploded yes
ter1ay afternoon just outside the bar
! racks in Catanla, Sicily, but little damage
to property, and none at all to persons,
vas done.
A dispatch to a London news agency
from Cape Town states that native run
ners have arrived at Fort Salisbury.
bringing confirmation of the reports or
the annihilation by Matabeles Of Captain
Wilson and the force commanded by
him.
Sogas. one of the Spanish Anarchists
arrested recently made statements to
the police duplicating Vanerini an Italian
Anarchist. i'm the latest dynamite plots, ana
VanerinI was arrested Thursday. The
number of Anarchist prisoners at Barce-
Iona Is now well above 200
Fifteen lives were lost through the
wreck OF the steamer Alert. from Port
Albert to Melbourne. which went ashore
off Jubilee Point, Australia. during ter
rife gale which swept over Port PhiHp
Thursday night. only one person on
I tIo ,t.ronLaI or hplmR saved.
Right Hon. William Il. Gladstone. who
was born December 29 1909, celebrated
his birthday yesterday by working hard
In his study, going to the House OF COM
mons. as usual, and in every other way
| religiously attending TO the duties Of his
position as Premier of Great Britain.
General Moralieu, who was expelled
from Gan Domingo and lately was re-
| ported to have returned TO lead the in
surgents against the Dominican Presi-
dent, Heureux, Is again in Kingston,
| Jamaica, and denies that there has been
| any Insurrectlon In San Domingo He
! intends to seek General Crespo's aid for
his cause.
| The attacks made by Henry Labouchere
in Truth, and in his parliamentary
speeches upon the conduct OF the South
African Chartered Company In their cam
| paign against the Matabeles, have moved
| the company to provide the House OF
! Commons with a list OF its shareholders
which list will be issued soon as Parlia-
| mentary paper
The principal Democratic newspaper in
Stuttgart publishes a remarkable anti
| Prussan leader. the writer saying: "As
| true Democrats and Wurtemburgers we
must be Particularsts, inasmuch as the
| Government of Wurtemburg Is more of
| constitutional government than that of
/ Prussia. A personal policy like that the
Emperor is asking OF Prussia would be
impossible here"
Admiral Da Cana, commander of the
| insurgent fleet at Rio. in the absence OF
De Mello, made a formal demand yes
terday upon the representatives of for
eign powers at the Brazilian capital that
the insurgents should be recognized as
belligerents, but the diplomatic corps,
\ having previously come to an under
standing on the subject, refused to accord
| the request of the lnsurgent admiral.
The Berlin Ger1ranla, organ Of the Prus-
sian Catholics. publishes this paragraph
| concerning the recent marriage of the
Princess Elizabeth. of Bavaria, and Lieu
tenant Freiherr Won Buettenhein: mo
| Ne1ulnB-CeTeIuOuy Was SoicHlihSed' A'p-
thing of the kind was attempted. The
young couple ran away, thus trying 10
| force the consent of the Princess Eliza
| beth's parents to the marriage by pre-
senting to them the accomplished fact"
Emperor William had a long conference
| Thursday with Chancellor Won CapriVi'
Financial Minister MIGUEL. and War MIN
| ister Observation-Disclosures on the line OF
policy to be followed by the German gov
ernment in the Reichstag when that pody
re-convenes after the Christmas hon-
days; the conference resulting In perfect
''entente," DR.. MIGUEL agreeing 10 post
pone the Introduction OF his financial-re-
| form proposal until the next session or
the Reichstag, so as to concentrate MS
| forces on the carrying OF the Russo-Ger-
man commercial treaty, and the Chan
cellor agreeing to limit the increased ex-
penditures to the sum absolutely 'neces-
sary to cover the increase in the army.