The Warwickshire Herald. — 1892-05-12 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

ABROAD. The Prcr. if steamer Chili has been totally lost. The passengers were saved. Herr Curt Ehles, the African taveller. has sent information to the Berlin Vogfische Zeitung. dated Zanzibar. March 13, that Emin Paella has become totally blind. A fire has been raging with great fury at Farcille, opposite St. John's, New Brunswick. Forty-five dwelling-houses have been destroyed, and there is great distress among the people, who have lost their homes and goods. A duel with pistols took place at Meudon at 4 o'clock on Monday afternoon between Mr. Sherard. an English journalist, and M. LeonJaworski. Two shots were exchanged, but neither combatant MU hit. The duel arose from a dispute of a private nature.  - - - -I The Portuguese Official Gazette announces that the : contract for the laying and working of the projected cable to the Azores, which was recently tendered !I for by a British and a French company, and has since formed the subject of much dispute, is to he again offered for public tender. The two men who have been tried for the murder of Dr. Vulkovtitch have been convicted and sentenced to death. The two br.dhers N3Olllll and Nicholas Tufekchieff, who are in Russia, have be-n condemned in their absence to 15 years' penal servitude for having instigated the crime. The funeral of M. Ilainonol, wlio on Friday succumbed to the terrible injuries which he sustained in the explosion at the Very Restaurant, Paris. took place on Monday morning at PereLachaise cemetery. Paris, and partook of the character of a public demonstrati,n a sympathy with the victim of Anarchist vengeance. The Berlin papers state that at Monday's military inspection the Emperor called from the ranks the soldier who, when on sentry duty, shot two men in the Wrangelstrasse, killing one and wounding the other, and alter shaking hands with him complimented him before the whole regiment. In view of the general discontent with the present instructions to sentries the statement has created a very unfavourable impression. Intelligence has been received at Zanzibar that the Wabura tribe, in the neighbourhood of Teita, recently pillaged some native caravans. Mr. BerkeleV, administrator of the Imperial British East Africa Company, accordingly sent Captain Nelson, superintendent at Kikuyu, with a force to inquire into the occurrence and settle matters. The Wabura attacked Captain Nelson, but were repulsed with heavy loss. The company's loss only amounted to one killed. A fire broke out on Tuesday morning in a pine forest near Bordeaux, and intense excitement was caiked owing to the proximity of the National Powder Magazine, which it was feared might be reached by the flames. In view of the danger to which the magazine was exposed every effort was made to combat the fire promptly and effectively, and after strenuous exertions the firemen and volunteer helpers succeeded in overcoming the flames. All the trees covqring 1113 area of about 500 acres were destroyed. Alarming reports have been received at New Orleans concerning the Morganza levee, which is said to have been carried away by the flood. The Morganza is the most important levee on the Mississippi River, and the largest levee in the woild. It is reported that a break occurred at Brook's Mill on Monday night, that at 2 o'clock on Tuesday morning a crevasse 250 ft. wide had formed, and that 7,000 acres oh land were already under water. Such a break it would be impossible to close, and 13 parishes will inevitably be inundated. The breach is reported to be steadily widening, and a deplorable loss of life is likely tio occur among the negro popu riots. The strike of the Vienna cabmen already over It only lasted from Friday midnight till Sunda. afternoon.  The drivers and conductors of the tramways in Lisbon struck work on Sunday and all locomotion by these conveyances is in consequence suspended. Tne total number of earthquake shocks felt in :intl. Japan, from October 28th, to April 18th, was 3 631, over 28 shocks sometimes occurring in eon 2giv.  '; Jr' ; - • .•• , . . . ,