The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-08
FOREIGN FLASHES.
A Revolt in Crete-Wiu not Maize WA
Upon Germahy-Killed by a
Jaguar-On q Strike.

strike. ''o -
Italy has ordered 5O,OOO,OoO smokeles.
cartridges.
The Gar left Dantzic for ST. Peters
burg on the 18th.
Boulanger is writing a book ON Euro
pean military science.
The Princess of Montenegro has given
birth to her tenth child.
-Four persons were roasted at a fire ir
Mems, Belgium, on the 10Th.
The Marquis of Lorne has written q
biography of Lord Palmerston.
A Hungarian crisis is imminent and
Won Hsza's Ministry may resign.
Berlin and Paris streets are cleaned
Tree. The dirt is used as fertilizer.
The death of Lady Holland. it is said
closes the very last salon in London.
, All the new table china in London is
fiuted with very extravagant decorations.
Won Moitke approves the proposed
canal between Berlin and the Baltic Sea
Twelve thousand miners are on a strike
at Lens, France. The trouble is spread
ing.
Nearly $2,O00,0O0 worth of diamonds
was taken from the Kimberly mines in
August.
Wilkie Collins left no unfinished novels
except one, which he considered unim-
portant.
Gladstone will address a public meet
ing at Manchester On the evening of De-
cember 8.
Right Honorable John David Fitzger-
aid, Lord of Appeals in Ordinary, in Ire
land, is dead.
In Paris the remains from dissecting
rooms are now sent to the crematorv at
Pere la chase.
A clergyman in Wales has assaulted
several OF his flock with club for nom
payment of tithes.
The Chinese Government is negotiat-
ing for loan of $1,000, GOO for the con-
struction Of railways.
Il large quantity of ivory from the Up
per Congo is now being received by everv
steamer from Banana.
A woman has been found murdered
after the style OF "Jack the Ripper" at
Flensburg, in Schleswig.
Bismarck says the Czar assured him
he was man of peace and would not
make war upon Germany.
France proposes to double her forces
on the German frontier, also her railway
facilities in that direction.
The Russian lnen-of-war Naviedin and
Shah have foundered near Batoum. All
on beard are reported lost.
Mr.. Gladstone still plies his axe at Ha-
wa. den, aud while telling tree few
days ago, caught severe cold.
The King of Portugal was announced
t, be wors on the 18th. Gangreene has
get in and the patient is delirious.
Sergeant Nogues of the French Army
has been transported for life for offering
to sell the secret of the Lebel cartridges
1t is stated that Emperor William, at
the invitation of the Gar, has agreed to
attend the Russian Army maneuvers in
1890
A woman, while cleaning the cages of
the wild beasts at the Hamburg Zoologi-
cal Garden, on the 18th, was killed by a
jaguar.
Emperor Francis Joseph has agreed to
the official designations, "Imperial Aus
trian Army" and "Royal Hungarian
Army"
Four battalions of infantry in Crete
have revolted. Chakir Pasha, the Gov
ernor, is concentrating troops to suppress
the revolt.
Owing to drought and famine in the
Transvaal, at johannesburg, the great
mining camp, the price of food has risen
so per cent.
The German anarchists Kempf of Wur-
TEN burg Schmid of Baden and Puesch' |
of Hamburg. have been expelled from
Switzerland.
Some electric railways will be laid
along the rivers OF Northern Russia,
where the extreme cold endures during a
great part of the year.
It is estimated that the English cotton
corner which has just ended involved a
loss of half time to the operatives in 700
mills for month.
The latest Partisan novelty in gloves
has small purse inserted in the palm,
wherein women can carry their railway
tickets and small coins.
The Irish Parliamentary party held a
meeting at the Mansion House in Dublin
on the 25th. The object is to lay down a
programme for home e-rule welfare.
Walter Scott was the peculiar object of
the late Wilkie Collins worship. end he
probably never passed day without
taking up one of the Waverley novels.
The English postoffice mad 325 thieving
letter-carriers convicted last year OF steal
ing letters, and, Oh an average, three
postal officers are caught stealing every
week.
The earl of Meath does great deal for
the poor. He buys tenements near the
moor sections and tears them down to
build public parks which contain GYM
nastic machines.
It is stated at Berlin that should the
report of the election of Mataafa as King
of Samoa be confirmed, Germany will
protest. with the firm conviction that
England will back her protest.
It is officially announced that the uiar-
rage Of Primes Hatzfeldt and Clara Hunt
ington. the daughter OF G. P. Hunting
ton, will take place at Brompton. Those
present will be the nearest friends OF
both parties.
The fact that German and Austrian
bankers have loaned money to Bulgaria
is presumed to be the result OF the inter-
view with the Gar and Bismarck, they