The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-08-30

Japans Treaty With Russia-The Congo
haiiway-On the Pay Roll Eighty
One Years-Wants .he Cup.

krupp's statue has been raised a
Essen.
There is to be an American theatre il
Paris.
Emperor William will visit Madrid il
September.
Emperor Francis Joseph has lef
Vienna for Berlin.
A large emigration from Scotland i,
now going to Chile.
Lord Dunraven is mentioned for tn,
Governorship of Bombay.
Bull-6ghting is getting a footholc
among French amusements.
The Anti-Slavery Conference a
Lucerne has been abandoned.
Owing to lack of sugar the Greenocl
Refinery OF London has shut down.
A National Temperance Congress is tt
sit for five days at Bi mingham, England
in October.
An International Congress for photo
graphing the skies will meet at Paris or
the 22d inst.
The funeral of Felix Pyatt, the poiitica
agitator and writer, took place at Paris
without incident.
There have not been so many Ameri
cans in Stratford-on-Avon for years al
there are this year.
The inquiry into the Kiel navy frauds
proves that corrupt practices have beer
In operation since 1884.
The funeral OF the late Italian states
man, Benedetto Carroll, took place a
Naples with great pomp.
Sydney Buxton has undertaken to sub
NIT motion to Parliament next sessioI
in favor of free education.
Prince Alexander of Battenberg hal
been appointed to the command of al
Austrian regiment at Styria.
In memory of the late Lady Kinnaird
a proposal has been mooted to establish
a wOmen's hospital in India.
Japan has concluded a treaty witt
Russia, similar to those concluded will
the United States and Germany.
A new restaurant in London is to bt
run so as to furnish travellers of every
nation with tn ir accustomed food.
The Radical party in the Italian Parlia
ment is agitating the question OF the
cession of Trieste by Austria just now.
William Scott, an employe of a LondoI
publishing firm, who died recently. hac
been on their pay roll eighty-one years
There is much growing in IRELAND
over the action of the Irish members o
Parliament in voting for the royal grants
A verdict of death from tight lacinf
comes from Birmingham jury, express
ed as a verdict of death from pressure
round the waist"
Suicide among German officers in
creases shockingly. Du,ing May twenty
three shot themselves, and the number
for June was larger still.
It is runored that the Queen has a
last yielded to her physicians and vii
take long sea trip, perhaps to India, q
possibly to Canada and the United States
A report is current that the Russian
Cover nment is pressing the Regents o
Servia to expel ex-King Milan from tha
country.
Heale House, near Salisbury, famous
as having been the hiding-place for ter
days of King Charles Ill, was solo
recently.
William E. Gladstone's speech on th'
royal grants was caught by phonograpf
and Will go down to posterity just as h'
delivered it.
Sufficient subscriptions have been re
ceived to enable the projectors to DegiI
the construction OF the Congo railroad
Immediately.
The Black Diamond business, which
produced momentary excitement III tn
English press, seems to be already To-
gotten in London.
The Russian Government has pro
hibited the sale of the Century Magazine
in Russia on account OF George KEENAN,
Siberian articles.
The mistress of Boulanger has writer
to Louise Michel certain disclosures con
cerning the General which are OF an i'm
portant character.
The report that Italy had withdraw
from the international blockade OF tn
East African Coast is officially declared
to be without foundation.
Letters of Boulanger produced befor
the French Senate tend to prove tha
Boulanger shared with Bouret the com
missions paid by army contractors.
The Congo State will ask the Belgian
Government for an annual subsidy O
e6O. 600 for ten years to insure the con
tinuance of the whole Congo railway.
Dr. Schneider, chemist OF Cologne
has discovered an explosive more power
full than dynamite, and at the same TIM
cheaper and safer. He calls 1t 'petraslt.
DIR. Brown Sequard's new elixir OF lif
was considered at a recent meeting OF tn
French Biological Society, and M. varla
told OF some very successful experiment
made by him.
L w. Smith, of Los Angeles, wa
arrested at London, England, and fine
e5 and costs for carrying a pistol. III
arrived from America with his father an
brother last week.
The Porte, in view Of the Russian
movements on the Armenian frontier
will expedite the new fortification work
at Erzeroum. A host of men are alread
constructing red0ubts.
A popular practice of the abandone
Whitechapel, London, women is to de
mand money, and upon refusal charg
the man who refuses to be "stood up" a
being Jack the Ripper.
It is rumored al Glasgow that the so
of North. the Nitrate King" is negotis
ting for the purchase OF the yacht Thlstl