The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-29
FOkEI&N FLAsHEs.
The Deposition of the Brazilian Er.
peror-Hawaii Seeking q
Closer Alliance.

them.
Two hundred whales were recentl,
captured In the vicinity of the Orkne1
islands. ~ = W.
1t is authoritatively stated that th,
papal see will not remove the ban from
secret societies.
The Statue of William III of Orange
was unveiled at Belfast, in the presence
OF 10000 Orangemen.
A committee of five engineers will sal
from Paris next week to examine anr
report On the Panama canal.
While on his way to the sessions o.
the Parnell commission, Justice Day
was Knocked down and in njured.
The New York Herald will send an ex.
pedl'lon from Zanzibar to meet and re.
lleve Stanley and Emin Pasha.
Eight persons were killed and twenty
lnJured by an explosion in the roya]
powder house at Honaw, Prussia.
lhe anti-slavery congress is in session
at BRUSSELS, Prince D. Chimay, Belgian
minister OF foreign affairs, presiding.
At the promised strike of London
bakers, only $50 went out, the others
having compromised their difficulties.
Secretary Tracy is considering the
proposition to purchase site and estab-
llsh coallng station at Pago, Samoa.
The sultan of Zanzibar is ouarreling
with the East Africa company over the
settlement of losses in the recent revolt.
The German consul at Hong Kony
telegraphs that a typhoon has ravaged
the country between Hong Kong and
Saigon.
Mourra Bey, the Kurdish chief.
charged with perpetrating o,,trages upon
Christians in Armenia, is on trial at
Constantinople.
The Russian government SAYS the
wheat crop of the empire is short 81. =
W 700 bushels, and the rye crop short
90, 100000 bushels.
According to a special cable from
kei1, the Russian government has de-
termlned to abolish banishlnent to Sibe-
ria as punishment to criminals.
Paris is excited over scurrilous at
tack made upon Miss Gwendolen Cald-
well, OF Philadelphia, whose recent en-
gagement with Prince Murat was broken
The new Brazilian republic STYLES
itself, "The United States of Brazil "
Meanwhile efforts are making for the
reinstatement of the monarchy and Dom
Pedro.
The price of beef has been so increased
in Germany that strong efforts are being
made to have the gov rnment remove
the restrictions on the importation of
foreign cattle.
The Princess of Wales refuses to ask
her majesty to interfere with pardon
for Mrs Maybrick. A petition OF over
1000 English and American women was
presented to her.
Lord Londonderry has granted the de-
mands OF the striking GOLFERS at his
Silksworth colliery in Durham and work
will be resumed at once. Three thou
sand men are affected.
A man was caught by the Frankfort
police in the act of numbering woman
on the streets, la Jack the Riprer." F."
The body was horribly muiilated. The
fiend gave the name of Bender.
1t is understood that G. G. Colby, M.
P, will enter the Canadian cabinet
shortly as president of the council, and
that Sir John Macdonald will become
minister of railways and canals.
The awards made at the Paris art ex-
position are the subject of acrimonious
discussion in art cir. les in Europe. One
prize has in consequence been with
drawn, and another is in jeopardy.
The bodies of man and three sons
were und in we'll near Rome. All
the members of a family residing in the
vicinity have been arrested. A feu1 had
existed between the two families.
An official investigation will be made
at Calcutta into the public and private
life of the Maharajah of Bhownnugger.
Charges are preferred against him of q
most revolving and scandalous nature.
Concession has been granted the rail-
road from Matamoras, Tehuantepec and
thence to some as yet not given point in
Yucatan, with branches to the Guate-
malian frontier and the City of Mexico.
A movement is on foot to evangelize
the West End, the fashionable part OF
London. All fashionahles will be per
sonally visited, even the Prince OF
Wales, who Will be asked to assist in
the propagation of religion.
The suit for criminal libel brought by
John A. Chandos, of London, against
Mrs. Bloomfield Moore, for allowing let
ters defamatory to his character to leave
her possession, has been dropped
Chandos pays the accrued costs.
A letter received at Washington from
Caracas, dated November 5, states that
| on October rs the statues of Guzman
Blanco, in that city were pulled down
| and dragged through the streets in
pieces. Similar statues in other cities
met a like fate.
Archduke John, of Austria, who has
been practically expelled from the roya
family on account Of his having insisted
upon reforms in the military system
will, by the permission of the emperol
assume the name of Johannes Roth. i
/ is understood he will enter shipbrild
ing yard in London.
H. A. P. Carter, the Hawaiian minis
ter, wants the United States to guarantee
the independence of Hawaii; to permi
congress to establish free trade between
the countries to make the present trea
ties terminabIe only after mutual con
| ference, instead of after a years per
emptory notice, as at present.
Colonel Ambrose Dudley Mann, wh'
was assistant secretary of state unde
President Pierce, and one of the join
commissioners sent to Europe by Jef1ef
son Davis in 1861 to secure recognition
of the confederacy, and who has re