The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-07-12
NEWS ITEMS.
The ministry of Chill has resigned.

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Five large cloth mills at Leeds closed
down, throwing two thousand people out
of work.
General plan for the movements of the
North Atlantic squadron has been an
nounccd
Charles B. Serley, of Baltimore, had a
narrow escape from drowning i'll the surf
at Cape May.
Statistics of the Interior Department
show that there are 24s, 255 Indians in the
United States.
The craters of Etna and Vesuvius are
again active, and villages in that vicinity
are threatened.
Attorney General Harmon received from
Special Attorney Mckisick the record in
the Stanford case.
Lieutenant SchuctZe has been ordered
to Norfolk to inspect the hulls Oft the mon
itors Ajax and Lehigh.
The observatory Romano says Cardinal
Gibbons expressed his approval to the
Pope of Satolli's course.
The bimetallic leaders in Germany eX-
press the hope that the Bundersrath will
authorize an international monetary con-
ference.
The agreement to issue the f16,00O, 900
sterling four per cent. gold loan to China,
| under Russian guarantee, was signed at
st. Petersburg.
| By an explosion of gas on the British
steamer Barbadian at Swansea, Wales, the
second engineer was fatally injured and
three tiremen burned.
| The German exports to the United States
for the quarter ending July show large
increase the average increase for all con-
sular districts being about sixty-five per
cent.
Emperor William is on yachting trip
along the coast of Sweden. The Empress
has been i'll from a miscarriage brought
on by over-exertion during the celebration
at Kiel.
| The French Chamber of Deputies adopt
ed a motion that the government open ne
| gotiations with the United States for the
conclusion of a permanent treaty of arbi-
tration.
Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales
| received in Windsor Castle Gardens the
American Railroad presidents who have
been attending the International Railway
| Conference.
Severe earthquake shocks nave been
experienced in the Caspian and Ural dis
tricts. Many houses have been DESTROYED
at Usunada; Astrachan and Astrachan an
Krasnovodsk.
A telegram from Michigan City, Ind,
states that the schooner May Brown cap
sized near the life-saving station. The
crew of three persons were saved in the
surf boat
Various railroads have petitioned the
Interstate Commerce Commission for an
extension of the time in which they are re-
quired to equip freight cars with certain
paraphinalia.
United States Minister Taylor at Ma
drid called upon the Spanish Minister of
Foreign Affairs and officially denied the
purported interview with Ambassador
Eustis at Paris on the affairs in Cuba,
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Secretary Herbert has directed Com
mander Bradford to go to New London.
Ct, and lay out course in Long Island
Sound for the trial of the torpedo boat
Ericsson, which is still awaiting her final
trial
In battle between Spanish troops and
Insurgents, near Manzanillo, 2SO of the
latter were killed and fifty of the former
killed or wounded. During this month
10000 Spanish troops will leave Spain for
Cuba.
Col. Peter c. Hams, the successor of
General Craighill in charge of the i'm
provement of the channels of the Pataps-
CO and James rivers, has made report
bearing upon same. Some important sug-
geStiOns are made.
A formal petition has been presented to
the civil-service commission by the fire
men in all the departments in Washin gton
requesting that they be placed under the
protection of the civil-seavice laws. The
petition has been referred to the Presi-
dent
Consul Monaghan at Chemnitz, Ger
many, has made a report to the State De-
partment upon armor and projcctilcs for
naval warfare, in which he saws that naval
nations have begun to think of abolishing
heavy guns for guns of lighter caliber and
stronger construction.
The Associated Press correspondent in
Armenia tells of the betrayal and capture
Of a party of Armenian revolutionists bv
the Turks. The condition of the Armen-
ians is reported worse than ever. The
wretched people are desperate, and likely
to rise any time in final revolt.
The British House of Commons passed
the appropriation bills on Saturday, and
Parliament was formally prorogued until
July "a The Marquis of Salisbury, in the
House Of Lords, replied to the speech
which Lord Rosebery recently delivered,
and in which he attacked the House of
Lords
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