Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-06-29
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Mormon Missionaries in Liver rPool-The
Prosecution of Boulanger-An-
archy In Crete-Railroads
Building in Africa.

The Spanish war-ship Paz has found
cred off Cape Trafalgar.
The French senate advises the imme-
diate prosecution Of Boulanger.
Princess Matternich is revisiting Paris,
and great attantion is paid to her.
Russia threatens the Shah of Persia ii
he makes concessions to England.
Complete anarchy prevails in Crete.
Outrages and murders are frequent.
A dog tax OF France gives the State an
annual revenue Of about 81 500, 900.
The sailors strike at English and Scot
tisE ports is on the eve of collapsing.
In England check reins are now en-
tirely out of use, being forbidden by law.
There are three leprosy cases on Cape
Brenton, n. S.: two women and one man.
Smoking during service is said to be
customary in some of the rural churches
in Holland.
England and Ireland are overrun with
Americans travelling in parties OF from
forty to 400.
William Walter Phelps has sailed from
Europe with the Samoan Treaty in his
possession.
A plan to connect the Siberian rivers
by canals is projected by the Russian
| Government.
Another woman has been murdered in
one of the compartments of an English
railroad train.
Kaid Mclean, a Scotchman, is Com
mander-in-C Chief of the Army of the Sui
tan of Morocco.
In Prussia the State railroads make
special concessions in favor of poor peo-
pie in ill-health.
Buffalo Bill at Paris, recently, gave a
benefit for the Conemaugh sufferers, and
$4,000 was realized.
Mrs. Maybrick has been committed at
London, for trial, on the charge OF. muir
dering her husband.
Official reports concerning the pros
poets of the Russian wheat crop this sea-
son are unfavorable.
Two Americans are suspected OF rob-
bing jewelry store at Leipzig Of goods
valued at $4,000 marks.
Dowager Empress Augusta OF Germany
has subscribed 1000 marks in aid of the
Pennsylvania sufferers.
Proceedings will be continued against
the friends of Boulanger, who were ar
rested in Angouleme, France.
The Paris lie Temps asserts that Ger
many is negotiating with Belgium to lay
cable from Osted to Portland, Me.
The great industrial exhibition at Ham
burg, Germany, which has been in pre-
paration since 1887, will shortly be
opened.
The police at Paris have seized a num-
Der of letters from General Boulanger to
the Boulangist National Committee in
| the house OF Nine. Bonlou.
1t has been decided in Russia that
women may be physicians; but they
must contine their services to children
and adults Of their own sex.
The Gar has bestowed a dowry of
| 100000 rubles on Princess Militia OF
Montenegro, who has been betrothed to
NITdDu IcIer Ol huSSia.
The water-power OF the Rhine is about
| to be utilized to work electric dynamOs,
which will distribute electric-power and
light over a radious of fifteen miles.
In Paris, the Saccharine, or sugar made
from coal, has been unanimously con-
demned by the medical profession, be-
cause it seriously troubles digestion.
Rents in Scotland are getting lower
and lower. Four farms recently relet in
the South for the approaching term,
| brought less than half their former rent.
1t is believed that three of Lieutenant
Wissman's steamers have been lost on
the African coast. Four German war
ships have been dispatched to look them
up.
The Russian army is to be provided
with breech-loading rifles which will
carry distance of 5000 feet. Noiseless
powder will also be used in the future by
the army.
Four hundred Silesian lace-makers
have been at work for five weeks on a
magnificent veil for the sister of the Ger
man Empress, who is about to marry
Prince Leopold of Prussia.
The Belgrade correspondent of the Lon
don Daily News upholds the accuracy OF
his statement that Russia has proposed
| the immediate conclusion of a military
convention with Servia.
Mormon missionaries are circulating
broadcast from the Millennial Star office
in Liverpool a summary of Congressman
Springer's report in favor of the admis-
sion of Utah to the Union as State.
In sunny Italy the Royal Family suffer
from chest diseases. The King has never
wholly got over the attack of congestion
of the lungs to which be nearly succumb-
ed few years ago, and the Crown Prince
has tendency to consumption.
Large subscriptions are reported to-
ward building a railroad between Lower
Falls, on the Congo river in Africa, to
Stanley Pool, about two hundred and
sixty-two miles. There are about three
thousand miles OF navigable water above
Stanley Pool.
The Belgium Government is adopting
every means in its power to frighten the
enlightened and wealthier class from any
disposition to yield to the popular clamor
for universal suffrage. This was shown
in the recent trial of men arrested fol
conspiracy at Mons.
Rukhmabai, the Indian lady whose re-
fusal to live with her husband, to whom
she had been married when an infant
created SO much interest in India, has ar
rived in England with view to entering