CABLEGRAMS
London, April 25. General Boulanger quitted Brussels very quietly. He expects to remain in England for two months. The indictment preferred against him includes the charge that he, when a Minister of the French Cabinet, transferred the monopoly for the sale of tinned provisions from the Australian contractor to Count Dillon, and the latter resold the monopoly at a profit of 4,000,000 francs.
The Conference at Nottingham represents 250,000 colliers, and has been appointed to consider as to a strike, and an advance of ten per cent, in wages. Several naval officers have been arrested for complicity in the plot against the life of the Czar. The attempt was to be made during the Easter festival, but the route taken by the Czar was suddenly changed. It was intended to have used poisoned bomb shells.
Vienna, April 24. The strike among the tramway hands has ended, and the men are resuming work.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 291, 27 April 1889, Page 3
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153CABLEGRAMS Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 291, 27 April 1889, Page 3
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