The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-19
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Labor Org In q Ballon-
The Fast steamship Line-Beg-
gary as Profsssion-Notes.

Bishop Lambrecht of Ghent is dead
Wnkie Collins has had stroke of par
alyses.
Copious rainfall in Cuba has rejoiced
the planters.
Labor organizations are making rapid
progress all over Germany.
Russia contemplates a new loan for
strategic railways and forts.
Fears in Russia of bad crops have been
dissipated by favorable weather.
Queen Christena went up in an army
balloon 1000 feet at Madrid, last week.
The railroad to be built from Joppa to
Jerusalem will have American coaches.
Herr Hase1clever, formerly a leading
socialist member OF the reichstag, is dead.
The three missing steamers belonging
to the Wissmann expedition have arrived
at Zanzibar.
Garter won the Midland Breeders
stake at Fair Oaks, Birmingham, En-
gland, on the Sd.
The Shah was received by Queen Vic
toria at the state entrance at Windsor
castle. on the Sd.
1t is predicted that the number of
Americans visiting Paris this summer
will exceed 100000.
There are eight ladies of title in En-
gland who carry on the business OF dress
and mantle-making.
Paris has no flies. The Parisians say
that it is on account Of the thorough
cleanliness of the city.
The American team did the best shoot
ing at the 200, 500 and 600-yards shoot
ing at London on the I'd.
Sir Lepel Griffin proposes to colonize
Cashmere with 5000, 600 Englishmen as
bulwark to the Indian Empire.
The Russian army is to be equipped
with new rifles of small caliber. The
weapons will be manufactured in France.
The British bark Ecuado, Captain
Hughes, from Buenos Ayres, April 23d,
for Barbados, has been lost with all hel
crew.
voted the Urgency Panama Canal Relies
bill. and later passed it by vote OF 3Ss
to 58.
A London paper says 500 Cornwall
families are reported to be wearing Grape
for relatives lost in the COnemaugE
Valley.
The new Duchess of Portland ranks
eighteen in the list of peeresses, and the
American Duchess of Marlboro takes pre-
cedence.
Last year the number Of visitors tt
Shakespeare birthplace was 1880
Americans constituting one-fourth OF the
number.
The National Amalgamated Sailors anc
Firemen's Union of Great Britain and
Ireland is now reported to have 40,0Ot
members.
A subscription bar is soon to be opened
at Berlin, where for $3.50, paid In ad
vance. a man can drink all he chooses az
often as he chooses.
| Porto Perraio, Napoleon's landing
place at the Island of Elba, is now usee
| by the fleet of steamships which bring
| iron ore to American.
Princess Louise Victoria Alexandel
Dagmar of Wales, eldest daughter OF ths
Prince and Princess Of Wales, has beer
betrothed to Earl Fife.
| Russia has readopted the law which
| forbids heirs to the throne contracting
marriage with persons not members
the orthordox Greek Church.
London is SO crowded with American
that those who have not engaged theI
rooms in hotels beforehand stand chanc
of having to sleep in Trafalgar Square.
The Gossips of Europe tell great yarn
about the Shah of Persia's grandeur.
is said that the prescious stones i'm
bedded in his throne are worth $50, 900,
600.
Arabi Pasha, the Egyptian patriot
complains that his Incarceration at Cey
Ion is killing him. The climate is to
damp and he is tortured with rheums
/ tism.
M. Meyer, Paris finanGer, has bee
sentenced to imprisonment for one yea
and to pay fine Of 5000 francs for bein
connected with the Society Mobihez
frauds.