Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-05-25
FOREIGN FLASHES.
King Alexander to be Crowned in June
-Emper or William G yes Audience
to the Oh nese Minister.

The Greek Government is concluding
a loan of s5,000,00 in London.
The attendance at the Paris Exposition
thus far has averaged II 900 daily.
The cash deficiency of the Melbourne
Exposition is over million dollars.
There is no improvement in the mental
condition of the Empress of Austria.
The American delegates have arrived
at Berlin to study the German river
system.
William O'Brien, NJ. P, has obtained
a writ against Lord Salisbury on charge
of libel.
The newest word in London is ''omni-
boat" 1t describes the river steamers
and IS a success.
An enormous landslide occurred at
Spiesback, Switzerland, destroying cattle,
villages and forests.
Duornovo, Director of Charities, will
succeed the late Count Tolstoi as Russian
Minister Of the Interior.
Lord Lonsdale says that he saw in the
Artic country a cataract 200 feet high and
two and half miles wide.
At the York, England. spring meeting
Ring-master won the great northern
and 500 sovereigns.
Emperor William gave audience last
week to the japanese Minister OF the
Interior who is making tour of Europe.
The Joneses are at the head of the
English clergy list with $50 representa-
tiyes, while the Smiths follow with 31S.
Miss Sybil Sanderson appeared at
the Paris Opera Comique in Esclarmonde
last week, and her friends predict great
success.
Emperor Francis Joseph has paid
Crown Prince Rudolph's debts. They
only amounted to the trifing sum OF
E4S0, 900.
Houstholm, Jutland, has the worlds
biggest electric light. 1t is OF 100000
candle power, and has range OF twenty
six miles.
The Roths"hilds have arranged for
Russian conversion loan of $240 900, 900
in conjunction with the Disconto
1t cost the English government $170,-
1873 to keep the royal palaces in order
last year, and $445, ,065 for royal parks
and gardens.
Some of the boulevardiers are wearing
Eifftl Tower waistcoats, covered with
figures of the great tower a couple OF
inches high.
1t has been arranged that the young
King Alexander of Servia shall be
crowned at the monastery OF Zissa in the
month OF June.
Instead of encouraging emigration, as
hitherto, the authorities Of Ireland are
it, the people are leaving
the country so fast.
The authorities in Holland have de-
creed that women cannot serve on a
School Board. In Sweden it has been
decided that they can.
Ten thousand weavers employed in the
cotton factories at Thizy, Department OF
Rhope, are on a strike. 1t is feared the
strike will extend to Lyons.
p. O'Connor says that the Prince Of
Wales never pays tailor bill. The
his patronage affords is all
the remuneration Poole wants.
In the British House OF Commons a
motion in favor of the disestablishment
OF the Church of Wales was recently
rejected by vote OF 284 to 23l.
Already a great deal of diplomacy and
intrigue is said to be on foot in order to
get the post Of Poet Laureate when Ten
nyson dies. The salary is f72 year.
A rich bed OF pure coal, computed to
contain about 225 100000 pools, has
been found at place called Pendshakata,
on the line of the Transcaspian Railway.
Boulanger, who has hitherto been
mostly ignored by London society, dined
recently with Baroness Burdett- COutts,
various dukes and duchesses meeting
him.
Nearly $9,O00,OO have been appro-
priated from time to time by the French
Legislature for the Paris Exposition, and
the buildings and parks occupy space
of nearly two hundred acres.
The death of King John OF Abyssinia
and the assumption of the throne by his
rival. King Menelek of Shoa, promise to
be of advantage to Italy in her efforts to
secure firmer foothold on the Red Sea
littoral.
The street-car drivers who have been
on a strike in Vienna, and who have
finally succumbed, average about 60
cents in wages for a day beginning at I
in the morning and ending at midnight
or l a. m.
The London Times says: The Samoan
Conference has come to an agreement IN
regard to the Land Commission question
also, regarding restriction on the sale OF
firearms and spirits to the natives. The
election of a King is to be left to the
Samoans.
Prominent clubs were raided in Lon
don last week and several Earls and
Lords and Barons were among those
found at play and arrested. The Field
and the Adelphi Clubs were the principal
places raided, and the stakes played for
were high.
Young French priests will before long
be liable 10 military service in France il
the new Military bill goes through, as ii
is thought it will. 1t is alleged that
thousands of young men enter the
seminaries every year in order 10 avoid
the army.
Merchants discovered during the recent
Fair at Nizhnee-Novgorod, Central
Russia, that the turquoises offered tol
sale by Persian traders were nearly al
false. These rogues have been imposing
paste upon customers the last SIX OF
seven years.
Emma Nevada has been detailing to q
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