The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-12-20
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Stanley Settles Many Questions of
African Geoe
Warlike Actions.

l., - Ill poiidi eulcC IOrDlds applause IL
the theaters OF St. Petersburg.
The Hong Kong market is over
stocked with American importations.
The miners in thirty-fve collieries q
Essen, Germany, have gone out on i,
strike.
The Calcutta Public Health Societ,
mas reported strongly in favor of lepe
legislation.
Marie van Zandt will receive $500 fo,
each ct twelve performances at Barcelona
and Lisbon.
The London press commented a
length on JEFF Davis career, in variet,
OF opinions.
The poet Sheiley's son, Sir Perc,
Florence Shelley, is dead in London. a
20 years of age.
The Russian government, it is said
has resolved to abolish the import duty
on seaborne coal.
An ice palace, according to the Ame1i
can and Canadian style, is to be erected
L
An exciting personal encounter tool
place in the chamber OF deputies al
Brussels. No blood was shed.
The Salvation Army in Scotland has
increased by twenty-eight corps during
the year, making total of 123.
General F. w. Palfrey, the war veteran
and historian, whose home was i'm Bos.
ton, died at Cannes, France, last week.
A movement has been started in Lon.
don for avoiding all the poulterers' shops
at which dead larks are known to be-
sold.
Heavy snowfalls are reported through
out Austria Hungary. 1t is stated that 8
score of persons have perished in the
snow.
There is talk of an American tour bv
Christine Nilsson, just to show that all
reports of her physical and vocal failure
are wrong.
Chinese troops have suffered a rather
severe defeat from savages in South
Formosa, three or four hundred of them
being killed.
Mr.. Gladstone says he believes that il
an election was held now the country
wOnld return a home rule majority in
parliament of 100.
All the garrisons in the towns oil
have been REINFORCED
lately, aud new barracks and fortifca.
tions are being built.
Russia not only continues the massing
OF her troops on her western frontiers
but it is being carried on with renewed
energy since the Czar's return.
The French railways during the six
months Of the exposition earned So OOO..
900 francs over the earnings during the
corresponding period of last year.
Vienna is showed up again. Provis
ions are from Is to % per cent. dearer on
account of the impeded communications
The postal service is done on sleighs.
A sugar mill in the village o.
Swalenceweo, near Prague, in which
1900 tons of sugar was stored, collapsed
Eight persons were killed and many in
jured.
Jules Fleury Husson, better known by
his non de plume of Champfeury, dice
at Paris He was a journalist, and one
of the most voluminous of French
authors.
Though the anti slavery congress now
sitting at Brussels was opened with &
great flourish and many promises ot
wonderful results, very little is now ex.
pected OF it.
The Arshian government has discov-
cred the existence of an extensive rims
OF officials and others who have for some
time bren engaged in defrauding the Gus
toms service.
The Seryian government is said to bt
bent on confscating the salt monopoly
held by the Anglo. Austrian bank under
a contract which has still fourteen and 6
half years to run.
Upon Stanley's arrival at Bagomoyt
the town was decorated and Wissman's
force and the German vessels fired ga
lutes. In the evening there was a ban
quet, at which eloquent addresses wer'
made.
Manchester, England, is only hal
lighted. The men in the municipal ga
works threatened to strike and wer
locked out and replaced by non-uniol
workmen, who are fed and lodged in tn,
works.
Queen Victoria, it is said, has a mum
Der of unpublished manuscripts in he
possession which may see print after hel
death. Their nature is not known, bu
it is understood that poems and shor
stories form the bulk of the collection.
Recently a mob attacked the Chin.
Inland and Methodist Episcopal mission
at Nauk. China, and destroyed boil
chapels and an opium refuge, and stone,
the officials who attempted to interfere
The missionaries and ladies took refug
in Yamenen.
Five persons perished in the snoy
during storm which prevailed at Mag
West Hungary. As means of communi
that destitution aud loss of life resultin,
from the fearful snowstorms of the las
we k, have been widespread.
Two hundred thousand miners EN-
ployed in the treasury coal mines in ths
Star district, Germany, have petitioned
the kaiser to intervene in their behalf
They complain that even an unmarried
man cannot live on the wages they nov
get, as all things are very dear.
Stanley's latest correspondence throwI
a food o. light on many disputed ques
ton of African geography. he finds ex
plorer Bakers conclusions with refer
ence to lake Albert Nyanza greatly il
error. The Blue mountains, said to b;
so high, he finds only 5000 feet in alti-
tude. The highest peak of all, an inn
mense square summit, snow-capped
Baker did not report at all. The proba-
bility now is that the true source of the
Nile, Congo and Lonwa is in the heart