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Show LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH LAST NIGHT. r;-i --t- C : it f, : til .-t -f.:I ty THE WAR N EUROPE ! The French Crossed the Frontier. Suicide of the French Minister Min-ister ut Wahin?ton. A Hanoverian General Seized as a Spy. Turkey Calls Out her Reserves Re-serves and Destroys Telegraph Tel-egraph Communication. Communi-cation. Formidable lrih .Demonstration .Demon-stration iu favor of France. GENERAL Eulcldc f the Fremh Mlntvter. Washington, 20. Prevost Paradol, the new French minister, committed suicide this morning ly shooting himself him-self with a pistol. He had heen very busy since his arrival, and yesterday his mind appeared wandering, though he continued to give aitention to busi ness during the ai'ternoou. It is presumed pre-sumed he was laboring under temporary insanity, induced by the heat. Iiitftructtone to AYasfiburu. Secretary Fish telegraphed to Minister Min-ister Washburne to-day, at the request of the North German government, asking ask-ing the consent of France to permit the American legation to extend to German Ger-man subjects the same personal protection protec-tion as was extended to French subjec ts in Mexico by the American legation. 'Secretary Fish has not telegraphed any instructions to our European legations to observe neutrality during the war. Two Fearful Fire. San Francisco, 20. The loss by the Payton, Nevada, fire is over a hundred thousand dollars; insurance light. I'ogtown, California, wa?- entirely destroyed by tire yesterday. |