The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-10-18

Her Presence Ignored by the Govern
ment-Puts the Blame on the Gov
ernment-Fatal Explosion.

oannen@r atal Explosion.
Europe is adopting smokeless powder
Vienna is threatened with a waite
famine. ~
Ireland recently sent 1O, 900 tons of ba
con to Paris.
The next Lord Mayor of London vii
be Hebrew.
Last year ,356 persons died of deiiriun
tremens in England.
Emperor William is investigating ex
ecutions by electricity.
The Sultan of Zanzibar has Joined the
Warfare aeaiRekslayey.
Ihe German Emperor has given his
portrait to Lord Salisbury.
A large paif u Naples was recently
hooded during . terrific storm.
Rev. George Porter. S. j., Catholic
A1chbishop of Bombay. is dead.
English noblemen are beginning to in.
YES! largely In real estate in Australia.
The Landore Steel Works at Swansea
Wales, were destroyed by fire last week.
The English postal clerks are forming
a union to press their claims to better
pay.
Gladstone expresses his decided oppo-
sitlun to Land Naturalization and Bimet-
allism.
Twelve hundred and eighty-fve deaths
from cholera have been reported in Mes.
sopotamia.
George Eliot's grave at Highgate Gem
etery is neglected and ovegrown with
grass and weeds.
The Coroner's jury at Quebec, puts the
blame for the landslide disaster on the
Government.
Twenty thousand pounds have been
raised in London for DR.. Wanzen's North
Pole expedition.
A balloon trip across the Straits OF Glib
raltar Will be attempted by a British
officer this month.
Minnie Palm er is to play the title role
in cinderella" the next pantomine al
Her Malesty's Iheater.
The crew of the Spanish vessel cap
tured by the Riffsns off the Morocco
coast have been released.
The Irish National League held a con-
vention at Manchester, England, last
week. The membership is $50, 900.
jay Gould is said to be planning to
place $50, ,OO0, 900 of New York Elevated
Railroad stock on the London market.
Joseph Chamberlain predicts the early
collapse of the Gladstone party, and
fayoYs the formation of a new National
party.
The captain of the Spanish crew recently
captured by the Moors has died from the
effects of the ill-usage to which he was
subjected.
Upward of twenty-eight large bales of
human hair were brought to France in a
steamer that arrived the other day from
the Orient.
Lady Vaudeville threatens to 60 On
the stage unless her father-in-law, the
Duke of Manchester, shall pay her hus-
bands debts.
The prohibition of the import of swine
across the eastern frontiers OF Germany
has caused great dissatisfaction among
the poorer classes.
An English plasterer has been stag
gered with a fortune Of 81, 400, 900, left to
him by clergyman who emigrated and
prospered in Sydney.
Buffalo Bill has become so fascinated
with Paris that he is in lined to make
that CITY his home when he abandons bis
calling as Snowman
The Russian Minister of War has or
dered that military races shall be In
dulged IN from time to time as means
of improving the cavalry.
The French Government has decided
that defeated candidates may contest Id
the second ballots without Infringing the
Multiple Candidature Act
Fifty persons, mostly girls, were in
iured by an explosion In an ammunition
| factory at Spandau, prussia, last week,
from which several will die.
Typhus fever, which some months age
threatened to cause great ravages In the
epyirons of Cairo and elsewhere, has
been completely stamped out.
Advertisements in London journals In
dicate that the purchase OF cast-of courl
suits. artificial teeth, ETC., "for export,
il ouite a considerable business.
A bomb was exploded behind the Ayete
Palace at San Sebastian, spain. last week
where Queen Christina is staying. Nc
one was hurt and no damage was done
General Boulanger's autograph was
worth two weeks ago 9s In France. Ii
had fallen to half-price, owing to the Gen
eral writing SO many letters. Now 1t IL
valueless.
| RouIanger is being urged to return to
Paris before the second ballots. Hl. l1
presence, his supporters believe, VII
bring great wave OF popular sentiment
to mis- support
Mr.. Neville, the London banker, was
offered and refused $4,OO0, 900 for his
business shortly before his death. In
earJv life he failed, and had his accounts
settled by the Bankruptcy Court.
Princess Victoria of Prussia viii &C
eompany the Empress Frederick to Ath
ems. and they viii pass the winter II
Italy. after which the Princess VIII 60 u
England on long visit to the Queen
A letter from General Boulanger ha,
been published in Boulogne, in which
the General asks his supporters In INA
city to transfer their votes 10 tne ION
seryative candidate.
TIE PARIS ExPosTIION.-lt has JUS
ll.,,-. ofs;cialIx announced that the Waltel