Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-06-01
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Christians Massacred-The Labor Con-
gress-A Scandinavian Opera
Bee Keeping in Germany.

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General Boulanger contemplates a visit
to Wales.
William O'Brien's libel suit against
Salisbury is for 100000.
Vienna tramway employees won THEN
demand for tweve hours.
Oldham, England, is to have new
0,000-spindle cotton mill.
In Germany bookkeeping is taught in
many of the public schools.
Fortv-five persons have lost their lives
through floods in Bohemia.
The interest on money in London is
per cent on permanent loans.
Christians are being massacred by the
Turks on the MOntenegrin frontier.
Two sisters of Piggott, the forger Of the
Parnell letters, are nuns in Ireland.
The English court is in mourning for
the late Dowager Queen of Bavaria.
Princess Beatrice, wife of Prince Henry
Of Battenberg, has given birth to son.
The extraordinary session at the Peru
Wan Congress, opened at Lima last week.
In Great Britain, last year, 919 persons
were killed and 1896 injured on the rail
ways.
The German Emperor and Empress
will spend the summer chiefly at Reich
enhall, Bavaria.
The trouble with the mines in West
phalia is being settled, and the miners
are resuming work.
The public authorities at London an
nounce that they will suppress all gamb-
ling clubs in the city.
The Teresa Central Sugar-grinding
factory at Manzanillo, Cuba, has been
burned; loss, 100000.
Dhuleep Singh, the Indian Prince, was
privately married to Miss Ada Wetherell
in Paris, on the 18th inst.
The Gar will dismiss Gourko from the
of Warsaw, owing to his
administration.
The proprietor of the Field Club in
London has been fined $500 for per
mitting gambling in his rooms.
Phyllis Broughtons suit ior breach OF
promise against Lord Dangan is expected
to come up in couple OF weeks.
The ship Sutlej at Havre, from San
Francisco. was slightly damaged last
week in collision with the quay.
1 Hoan9 r has apasJR9t RQefs5 Wis tRRqt RRq8tfte emRdH Rd 2ha t.
m. to II p. m. for 80 and 70 cents per
week.
1t is reported that Sir Charles Russell,s
fee for acting as counsel for the Parnell-
ties before the special commission IS
$1,000.
The bill to legalize marriage with de-
ceased wife's sister has again received ITS
usual defeat in the English House OF
Lords.
One hundred houses have been swept
away in the Pilsen district, Bohemia, and
ninetv-one persons have been drowned
by the floods.
The Partisan papers unanimously com
pliment Sibyl SandersoD, the American
prima donna, upon her success IN Mas
senets new opera.
There is much dissatisfaction among
the operatives in the lace factories at
Nottingham, England, and general
strike is impending.
A Berlin correspondent OF the London
Standard saws the Samoan conference is
cementing the friendship between En-
gland and Germany.
The anarchists are fermenting land
agitation in Lombardy. There has been
serious rioting and a number OF houses
have been ransacked
ENGLAND Gets her ice from Norway. 1t
sells in London at from 5S to 81 cents per
loo pounds. England used to buy large
quantities from Boston.
In the British House OF Commons
last week, the bill providing for addI-
tional naval defenses passed third read
inc by vote of 1873 to l0l.
The police at st. Petersburg, Russia.
have discovered that the ringleaders OF
the recent plot against the Gar belonged
to the garrison at Cronstadt.
Emperor William has accepted the in
vitation of Emperor Francis Joseph to at
tend to autumn maneuvers Of the Aus
trian army in Moravia and Bohemia.
The French Socialists have secretly in
vited their German brethren to take part
in congress of Socialists, which it is
proposed to hold in Paris on July l4th
is reported that Eegitime has con-
cIuded treaty with France, by which
the assistance of the French Government
is given in the suppression OF the rebel
lion.
Sir Frederick Cowen has signed a con-
tract in London to compose an opera
1lpon a Scandinavian subject for the Carl
Rosa Company. Zennett is to write the
libretto.
It is stated on the Continent that Ed
glish physicians found General Boulanger
suffering from diabetes in an advanced
stage and ordered him to 90 to Vichy or
Carlsbad.
The French Government has given its
sanction to the Labor Congress, which
has been proposed by the Swiss Federal
Council, to be held at Berne or Geneva
in the summer.
Lord Dunraven has practically accepted
all the conditions attending the challenge
for the America Cup, but suggests slight
notifications, which he deems OF more
convenience to himself.
Two French fishing vessels, the Ella
and Four Brothers, which left France
some time ago for the Newfoundland
fisheries, with fifteen men, have been
lost and all hands drowned.
Louis Conlon Of Montlucon, France,