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Day
16
Month
March
Year
1888
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Public Domain
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Telegrama from Tangier report that the Moorish officials there attacked the house of an American protege, seized his family and earriad them to prison, and eonflscathis property. An American man-of-war is en route for Tangier, and when she arrivés the American consul will demand a restoration. Advices received from Hong Kong say that the imperial commissioner who was especially appointed to investigat the loss of hfe in the Yellow Kiver inunda tions sends an official report to the emporer of China that the total numberof persons drowned is over 100,000, and the number of destitute 1,SOO,'JOU, apart from those whom the flood had driven into other districts. ï'orty persons wero killed by the explosión of the Mul stouiuer Kafail Keyes in the harbor at Carthagena. Thu Britieh bark Lanoma, from Launceton, Australia, for London, with a cargo of coal, has been wreo.ked near Weymouth. 'i hi' captain and 11 of the crew were drowded. Fmperor Krederick III and the Empress arrived in Berlin on the lOth inst. Tue Priuce and Princess of Wales celebrateil the twenty-fifth anniversary of t ln'ir marriage on the lOth inst. 1 ussia's government ordered all rail ways centering in Kre v to hold tranportatiou fucilities at the dispoaal of the government. Troops are to be moved in large numbers to the liulgarian frontier as soon a- spring breaks. A ISpanish republican conspiracy has beon discoverod at Valencia, and the leaders have been arrested. Tiiomas Jones, a Michigan Central brakenum, was instantly killed at St. Thomas the other niorning. The Pope has been seriously ill for some duys, and grave lears are expressed that his recovery is extremely doubtful. Disastrous floodsare reported in AustroHungary. Rumored that Ihs Canndiangovernment witl pub ïsh a bla.klisj of American firma in the habit of enterin dutiable goods tinder false pretensos, thus escaping the taxes. The Gc-rman troops have taken the oath of fldelity to the new emperor. The late emperor's funeral occurred on Cridar, the I6th inst., with full state ceremonie.

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