Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-09-28
FOREIGN FLARHES.
Good Templars in Iceland-The Tiger
Plague-Endeavorin to Break
Down the Cotton Conner.
Mrs. Mackay is in Paris.

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Socialism has lately spread rapidly in
Galicia.
Rismarck's law makes strikes con-
spiracies.
Hanover has warmly received the
Czarowitz.
The mackeral catch i'll the south OF
Ireland is failure.
Mr.. Gladstone speaks very highly Of
the Paris Exposition.
Switzerland has an electric railway up
a ,331-foot mountain.
Famine prevails throughout Tigre,
province of Abyssinia.
1t has been decided to close the French
Exposition October 3lst.
Anti-German agitators in Alsace-Lor-
raine have been expelled.
1t is stated that King Leopold Contem-
plates trip to the Congo.
Evangelist Moody will hold services i'll
London during the coming winter.
The market for the Congo products is
now regularly established al Antwerp.
Mr.. Gladstone thinks the Irish Catho
lie University will die before it is born.
Queen Charlotte, the wife of King
George l., ruler OF the Tonga Islands, is
dead.
The whole of the sewage of Paris will
soon be used for the purpose OF market
gardening.
Edison, before his departure for Berlin,
gave 10000 francs for the benefit OF the
poor OF Paris.
The Bimetallic Congress at Paris will
submit no proposal to vote. 1t will
adopt no resolutions.
The Irish police have been ordered not
to shadow English members OF Parlla-
ment travelling in Ireland.
Christine NilIson writes to the Figaro OF
Paris to say that she is not suffering from
deafness or loss OF memory.
A curious feature of the theaters in
Melbourne is that they are mostly all
equipped with billiard-rooms.
Miss Lincoln, daughter of Minister to
England Robert Lincoln, has become an
acknowledged belle in London.
NJ. Barbedienne, the famous bronze
founder of PARIS, exhibits at the ExpOsi-
ton clock that is valued at $4,000.
There are nearly twelve thousand
pleasure e-boats, including house boats,
used on the upper ranches OF the Thames.
DR.. Fricke, who was with General
Gordon at khartoum, has returned to
Berlin after fifteen years spent IN Africa.
Mrs. James Brown-Potter cables from
Europe canceling all her American
engagements, giving illness as the cause.
The defense of Adriano de Vale, the
would-be regicide, at Rio de Janeiro,
who is to be tried soon, will be drunken
ness.
Liverpool authorities have voted an ap-
preparation OF ESQ, 900 for the establish
ment OF petroleum storage at isolated
points.
The latest report from Stanley, the
African explorer, ls that he expects to
reach the eastern sea coast by the end OF
October.
The Emperor Of China has had court
astrologer beheaded for making false
prediction. The Emperor is very pro-
gresslve.
Lord ZetIand will be sworn in as Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland on October 1st.
He will make his state entry into Dublin
Oh December Sd.
The Young King of Servia has written
to his mother, ex-QueeA Natalie, implor-
ing her to return to Belgrade, and she
has determined to go.
Portions of Java are being deserted
owing to the tiger plague. The total
population is about 100000, and in 1887
sixty-one were killed by tigers.
Captain Wissmann has set price of
e., 900 on Chief Bushirl's head on ac-
count OF the threat of the latter to attack
missionary stations in the interior.
The six hours which make the working
day of the British Civil Service will be
extended to seven if the recommendation
OF the Royal Commission is adopted.
English operatives are endeavoring to
break down the cotton corner that is par
alvzing the trade OF Lancashire. The
weavers and manufacturers propose a
combination.
Berlin merchants complain that Mr..
Edwards, United States Consul, subjects
exports to trivial vexatiOns in the matter
of verifying invoices, thus hampering
trade with America.
Over three thousand French deserters
who have been living in Geneva have
been benefited by the late Amnesty law,
and have left with their families to re-
turn to their country.
A Siberian explorer has left Peking
with the intention of penetrating Thibet.
He is accompanied by Chinese escort.
The route will he along the Great Wall to
Lanchow and Lake Koko Nor.
1t is announced that the son OF HppOo
Tib has arrived at Zanzibar in order to
act as ''peace-maker" between the Ger
mans and the natives inhabiting the
towns and villages along the coast.
Mrs. Julia D. Grant, the widow of the
General. who has been spending the
summer in Vienna with her son, the
United States Minister, expects to return
to this country and pass the winter in
Washington.
The pilgrimage which the Empress Of
Austria expe, ted to make on loot to the
famous Spring OF the Virgin. at Marlezell
in Styria, has had to be abandoned owing
to the unauthorized publicity given to
her intention.
Colonel James Reid, Lieutenant in
the Seventy-eighth Hilanders at Water
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