The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-26

Bun Fighting at the Exposition-r,e
Fanama Canal-A Royal Marriage
Queen Victoria's Wealth.

queen Victoria has announced that sh,
never again will sit to sculptor.
Gladstone was presented with the free
dom OF the city OF Cardiff cn the 9Th.
The Paris Chamber of Deputies wa,
the Scene of disgraceful row on the 9th
The Art Jury of the Paris Exhibition
mas awarded to Mr.. Sergeant a medal o.
honor. "
The French Chamber of Deputies ba,
passed the Act increasing the army t6
100000. -
Propriety won the Cumberland plate
at the Carlisle meeting IN England, the
10th inst.
The Philadel phia cricketers defeatet
the Gentlemen of Scotland, at Edinburg
on the 9th.
Mr.. Loring, the United States Ministe,
to Portugal, has been received at Lisbon
by the King.
Emperor William will sail for England
from Antwerp. At Antwerp he will meet
King Leopold:
The Sultan of Morocco has sent the
Emperor OF Germany a valuable gift
Moore's poems.
The French Senate Committee has an.
proved the bill for the relief of the Pana
ma Canal Company.
Queen Victoria is the richest woman
in the B itish Kingdom. She has accu
mulated $40, 100000.
The Russian government proposes tt
raise new loan, to be usnd in the build
ing OF strategic railways.
The making of a horse car line from
Cairo TO the Pyramids is likely to be a
completed fact before long.
Russell Harrison, who is in England
on business, attended Salisbury's garden
party at Hatfield, last week.
1t is stated that Emperor William has
forbidden the officers of the German
army to visit the Paris Exposition.
An English Radical cynically observes
that the Shah of Persia is almost immoral
enough to be an English nobleman.
S. Hirsch, the new Minister for the
United States, to the Ottoman court, has
arrived at Paris from Constantinople.
Evictions continue on the Clanricarde
estate in Galway, Ireland. The houses
OF the evicted tenants are demolished.
The Irex defeated the Valkyrie in the
last race at Glasgow. There is talk of 6
match between the Valkyrie and This
tie.
Many of the friends of Henry George
are urging him to become British sub
ject. and enter Parliament for a Scotch
district.
Cheap pirated editions of American
books are said to be among the best sell
ing books offered at the railway stations
in India.
Eight persons were instantly Killed
and eleven wounded near ROchemOOs
Germany, on the Frankfort express the
other day.
The prospects of the Rhine vintage are
most favorable, and, if all goes we'll the
next four months, this will be the best
year since 1868.
In India the river Indus has overfowed
it's banks and the country is under ten
feet of water. Forty persons were
drowned at Larkhana.
The testimony of Charles Wood, Al
English jocky, in a recent lawsuit
brought out the information that he had
earned more than $4,000.
The marriage of Lord Fife, whose
title will be raised to Duke of Inverness
to Princess Louise will take place al
Buckingham Palace July n.
Fourteen Thousand girls are attending
the London School Board cookery cen.
ters. Still further facilities for increas
ing this number are being made.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gladstone's golden wed
ding will be celebrated July 26th Grea,
preparations are being made by theil
intimate friends to celebrate the day.
The paying visitors to the Paris Expo
sition in the month of may numbered
2, ,2O8, ,N45, or 93S,37O more persons than
during the first month of the exhibition
of 1878.
The Prince of Wales is as popular in
Paris as in London. This is goOC
augury for the future relations of France
and England when he shall ascend the
throne.
The Liberation Society, emboldened
by Mr.. Gladstone's Plymouth speech
are organizing all extensive series OF dis
establishment meetings i'll town and
country.
The new Vicery of Ireland, the Earl d
Zetland, rubs along on an income O
1919 900 year. He will naturally have
feeling of pity for the starving lrlsf
peasants.
Thomas P. Gill and Joseph r. Cox
Nationalist members OF the British Par
liamert, have been arrested in London
They afterward left for Drogheda IL
charge of officers.
A dispatch from Brussels to the Lon
don Times says: England and Germany
have initiated an African conference
here. The Congo State, Belgium, France
and Italy approve the proposal.
Prince Nicholas, Of Mingrella, formerly
candidate for the Bulgarian throne
died in the Caucasus. The extinct dy
nasty which he represented claimed di
rect descent from King David. of Israel
Sir George Chetwynd's resignation
has been accepted by the London Jockey
Club, with statement that the club be
lieved he had fully exonerated himself
from the scandal charges Of Lord Dur
ham.
It is stated that the indictment against
the Boulangists advises the arraignmen1
of Boulanger, Count Dillon and Roche
fort before the High court OF Justice to-
conspiracy against the safety OF the
State: