Berlin, 23rd April. anal P. S. Wannowsky, has suddenly Jeussian Minister for Education, {son dismissed. (Wannowsky was one of Een ign earn influential nton in St. Petersburg Aide-de-camp of the Czar and the oldest member of the Committee for the Siberian Railway, of which the Czar himself is the resident. Apparently the dismissal of general Wannowsky has som- relation to the latest troubles and riots of the Students. From 1881 to 1897 Wannowsky was Minister of War; he then retired into private life at his own request. Two years go, when the Students were rioting in Moscow and other cities the Czar appointed Wannowsky Minister for Education. Wannowsky, who is now 80 years old, was during the Turkish-Russian' War Chief of the Staff of the Grand Duke, later Emperor Alexander II.—The Editor "0. A. L."
It is reported from Herhertshohe (Bismarck Archipelago) that the wife and a child of a trader have been killed! by the natives of the village Parparatava (N-w Poramerania, late New Britain), The village was punished severely; no signs of troubles, Berlin, 25th April.
A deputation of the Bundesrath, headed by the Chancellor, Count Biilow, went to Karlsruhe, to felicitate Granduke Friedrich of Baden on the day of the 50th anniversary of his ascension to the throne. Addressing the Granduke Count Billow spoke with great praise of his unforgotten efforts to bring about the unity of the German Empire.
M. the Emperor had also gone to Karlsruhe to congratulate the Granduke, his uncle.
The agreement of the new Transatlantic Steamship Trust determines that the British ships are entirely controlled by the American Concern, and that the German Companies keep the clo-est possible relations with the American trust, but have reserved to themselves aboshute independlence and the full ownership of their steamers, The dismissed Tussian Minister of Education, General Wannowsky, will be succeeded by M. Senger
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