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Show FOREIGS FACTS What They Are Doloe aod Talklas About Abroad, London, 29. A Rome correspondent correspon-dent telegraphs that Sicily and southern south-ern Italy have been visited by a great storm on Sunday, whicb carried away raiy bridge between Ciro and Cracoli, ha. ling a passeneer train into the torrent. The engineer was killed and all the passengers more or leas iDjared. A Eerlin diipatcb eaya Gortschakcfi baa viaited Experor' William at Baden Baden. Eastern Siberia U menaced with famine. Grain is dearer tban ever before, and the poor are euflering severely. se-verely. The harvest waa very bad. A dispatch from Geneva eaya the district 0 Larocbe, in the Canton of Fribourg, waa visited by a waterspout water-spout ou Friday last. Twelve bridges were destroyed, and bouses, fields and vineyards flooded. London, 30. A Vienna dispatch Baye: It is now certain that Prince G.TtscbakoS will visit Berlin, although al-though tbe date is not yet fixed, The prince acta on his own initiative yi makiDg the visit, the object of which is to conau't Bismarck oa hie recent journey to Vienna. A correspondent at St. Petersburg reports that twenty-five imperial polit ical prisoners will be tried in that city in October, Among them are M irske, Gen. Orentetnes, and the coachman who drove the assassin ol Gen. MesentzS and Weimer, and Bogdanovitch, who were connected with Saloviefi, the man who fired at the Czar. A Vienna dispatch aaya the Em peror of Ru?eia ia sufleriog from mental men-tal f.itigue, and is daily getting worse. Rinderpest ia raging in Russian Poland with great violence, and lur-ther lur-ther precautions have been taken to prevent its introduction into Germany. Ger-many. Special dispatches from Tchikislar and St. Petersburg givoa difJereut account ac-count of theGeok Tepe affair from the official report. A Tchikislar telegram merely eaya there was a severe engagement, en-gagement, and the Russian loss was 2C0 killed. A St. Petersburg tele gram says the engagement resulted in the temporary capture of Geok Tepc. The opinion prevails at Boku th:u the expedition will return and winter at Tchikslar in consequetna of sickness and the scarcity of provisions. General Fergukasofl bad arrived at Tchikislar, replacing General Lonia-kin Lonia-kin in command. Count Schouvslofl will quit the Russian Rus-sian embassy in London at the end of October. Paris, 30. The foreign office U considering the expediency of creating cre-ating a French chamber of commerce abroad and giving most important consulates the assistance of commercial commer-cial agents. Prince Orloff. Russian ambassador at Paris, returning from Copenhagen, where he had been in attendance upuu mo waiuwimu nun jueuneiuj, where he waited upon the Empress, wiil meet here on October 10th Grand Dukes Contantine and Nicholas, the Czar's brothers; Grand Dukea Alexis and Yelademir, the Czar'a sons; Grand Duchess Marie, and Christine, and Count Schouvalofi, Russian ambassador am-bassador to London. Political gossip will inevitably associate euch assemblage assem-blage with rumora. |