The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-05
FORElGN FLASHES.
mormon Missionaries in Liver Pool-The
prosecution of Boulanger-An-
arcby in Crete-Railroads
Building in africa.

The King of Spain has just entered on
his fourth year.
.Corke, Ireland, has raised $1,000 for the
Johnstown sufferers.
The Spanish war-ship Paz has found
cred off Cape Trafalgar.
The French senate advises the imme-
date prosecution OF Boulanger.
Princess Matternich is revisiting Paris.
and great attantion is paid to her.
Russia threatens the Shah of Persia If
he makes concessions to England.
Complete anarchy prevails in Crete.
Outrages and murders are frequent.
A dog tax OF France gives the State an
annual revenue Of about 81 100000.
The sailors strike at English and Scot
tlsL ports is on the eve of collapsing.
In England check reins are now en-
tirely out of use, being forbidden by law
There are three ieprosy cases on Cape
Brenton, n. S.: two women and one man.
Smoking during service is said to be
customary in some OF the rural churches
in Holland.
England and Ireland are overrun with
Americans travelling in parties of from
forty to 400.
William Walter Phelps has sailed from
Europe with the Samoan Treaty in his
possession.
A plan to connect the Siberian rivers
by canals is projected by the Russian
Government.
Another woman has been murdered in
one of the compartments of an English
railroad train.
Kaid Mclean, Scotchman, is Com
mander-in-C Chief of the Army of the Sui
tan of Morocco.
In Prussia the State railroads make
special concessions in favor of poor peo-
pie in ill-health.
Buffalo Bill at Paris, recently, gave a
benefit for the Conemaugh sufferers, and
$4,000 was realized.
Mrs. Maybrick has been committed at
London, for trial, ON the charge of muir
dering her husband.
Official reports concerning the pros
poets of the Russian wheat crop this sea-
son are unfavorable.
Two Americans are suspected of rob-
bling iewelry store at Leipzig OF goods
valued at 75, 900 marks.
Dowager Empress Augusta OF Germany
has subscribed 1000 marks in aid OF the
Pennsylvania sufferers.
Proceedings will be continued against
the friends of Boulanger, who were ar
rested in Angouleme, France.
The Paris LIE Temps asserts that Ger
many is negotiating with Belgium to lay
a cable from Osted to Portland, Me.
The great industrial exhibition at Ham
burg. Germany, which has been In pre-
paration since 1887, will shortly be
opened.
The police at Paris have seized num-
Der of letters from General Boulanger to
the Boulangist National Committee in
the house of Nine. Bonlou.
It has been decided in Russia that
women may be physicians; but they
must confine their services to children
and adults of their own sex.
The Car has bestowed dowry OF
/ .OOO. 900 rubles on Princess Militia OF
Montenegro, who has been betrothed to
Grand Duke Peter of Russia.
The water-power of the Rhine is about
to be utilized to work electric dynamos,
which will distribute electric-power and
light over q radious of fifteen miles
In Paris, the Saccharine, or sugar made
from coal, has been unanimously con-
demned by the medical profession, be
cause it seriously troubles digestion.
Rents in Scotland are getting lower
and lower. Four farms recently relet in
the South for the approaching term,
brought less than half their former rent.
It is believed that three of Lieutenant
Wissman's steamers have been lost on
the African coast. Four German war
ships have been dispatched to look them
up
The Russian army is to be provided
With breech-loading rifles which viii
carry distance of -6OO0 feet. Noiseless
powder will also be used in the future by
the army.