Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 84, 5 January 1893, Page 3

Cable Brevities

Considerable excitement has been caused in Berlin by the action of four soldiers in firing on an escaped deserter in a crowded thoroughfare. Fortunately none of the shots took effect on anyone During the height of the gale in which she was caught, the Umbria poured oil on the woter with good effects. The passengers behaved: splendidly, and showed no sis;n of panic. Tne insurances on the vessel and cargo amounted to over a million sterling. The Spanish Government lias demanded from Brazil an indemnity for subjects killed in the Rio Grande rebel* lion. w The Marquts oF Salrsbnry has reduced the rents of his tenants in Kssex by 2l) per cent. Two French companies hare offered to connect Samarkand and Khookand by rail, with a branch line to Taskend, the line eventually to helong to Russia Skating fatalities continue, and in the last four dajs 32 persons Imye been drowned in England. The River Thames is frozen over between Maidenhead and Windsor. : Foot and mouth disease has again made its appearence in London. The Emperor William hints that there will be a dissolution of the Reichstag if the Army Bill is rejected. Twenty-six thousand miners at Saarbruck have struck work. There is much disorder in the town and the militaiy have been summoned. Two million!; and a half of the Russian peasantry are unemployed. The Government propose to remove population from the congested districts, with a view of granting relief. Babel, the Socialist leader, declares that he possesses proofs of the Guelp i bribery, and that 100,000 marks were distributed during the time ot Prince Bismarck's term of office. Many documents, he alleges, were burnt, but some are left ... Many intimate friends of Prince Ludwig of Bavaria are said to he implicated. The explosion at the Prefecture of Police is attributed to anarchists. The infernal machine was worked by a clock , which was concealed in a coal box. Anarchists in Spain are displaying a violent attitude. They threaten to bap' tize the new year in blood. There are 100,000 unemployed in Barcelona alone. Mr J. Morlej, Chief Secretary for Ireland, intends to disarm the In>li Constabulary, replacing bayonets with batons.