Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-09-07
WASHINGTON. SEPTEMBER 7, 1889.
FOREIGN FLASHES,
Cholera at Bagdad-Edison Banquited
at Paris-A Noted Swindler Ar
rested in Lodod-Notes.

oIuuauCe supplies.
Military preparations are said to be
active at Belgrade.
A cyclone is reported in the north OF
the island OF Cuba.
Parnell is coming to America for the
benefit OF his health.
An effort is being made to build tower
at London 2000 feet high.
Switzerland has built LOCO inns since
tourists began to visit her.
The Americans in London favor New
Yolk for the Worlds Fair.
1t is estimated that 20 900 dock laborers
are now striking at London.
The Dee bridge at Chester, England, is
finished after twenty-five years.
A thunderbolt struck the Eiffel Tower
recently, but caused no damage.
Russia proposes to tax Protestant
churches IN the Baltic provinces.
1t is said that it is American English
that salutes the ear all over Paris.
The London journals applaud the COM
mutation of Mrs. Maybrick's sentence.
Over 200O children under years OF
ago die annually in Paris of tuberculosis.
Lord Dunraven hopes that race with
the Valkyrie may be arranged at New
York in 1890.
Louis Won Moltke, brother of the Ger
man Field Marshal, died at Berlin, aged
So years.
A London dispatch says the report is
confirmed of Miss HuntingtOn's betrOthal
to Prince Hatzfeldt.
Severe hail storms passed over parts OF
Austria on the 22d. Many persons were
killed.
Baron Pereira of Vienna, descendant
OF the celebrated banker, has become in
sane.
Half the town OF Dubno, Russia, has
been destroyed by fire. The loss is enor-
nous.
The tennis ball now bounds in China,
though DIRT courts are more frequent than
grass.
The English ironcIad Sultan has been
floated and will be towed into the harbOr
at Malta.
Russian papers are abusing the Shah
for his friendly expressions regarding
England.
A dispatch from Montenegro says
famine is threatened owing to the failure
of the crops.
Boucicaut is stoutv resisting the claim
OF his divorced wife in London to E700
back alimony.
Queen Victoria is said to have expend
ed nearly $4,000, 900 on memorials to the
Prince Consort.
The Duke OF Bedford has parceled out
a lot OF land on the Henry George system
to test the theory.
A Japanese paper complains that there
are too few qualified physicians and dem
fists in that country.
London seems to be rather crowding
out Paris as the great purveyor OF femi-
nine taste for finerv.
The Grand Duke George Alexand-
rovitch, the second son Of the Gar OF
Russia, has arrived IN farlS.
Arrests continue to be made at Berlin
in connection with the recently exposed
frauds in the German navy.
There was severe earthquake shock
throughout Greece last week. Several
towns were seriously damage.
At Pembroke, Wales, an infuriated
crowd compelled two tithe bailitfs to
swear to abandon their calling.
Three thousand French deserters have
taken advantage OF the new amnesty law
to return from Geneva to France.
Emperor William and Empress Au-
gusts have visited Strasburg and were
welcomed with much enthusiasm.
The Countess OF Paris has been doing
splendid grouse shooting on the moor at
Moones, near Aberdeen, England.
1t is reported that at the urgent request
of his friends, Boulanger will 60 to Paris
and stand trial before the elections.
The Shah entertained at dinner at
Munich, recently, the members OF the
royal family and Bravarian nobility.
News has been received corrobeI ating
the reports of the death of Thomas Bryan
Cunning while crossing the mountains
into Chile.
They have trained lion at the Paris
circus that rides Oh the back OF horse
around the ring and does all the custo-
mary feats.
A banquet was given to Edison at Paris
on the 22d. In speech Premier 11rard
said France and America were united by
indissoluable ties.
Bloody affrays are still reported in var
ious districts OF Crete. The towns gen
erallv are tranquil, with the exception OF
isolated outrages.
The cholera is raging at Bagdad and
Bussorah, Asiatic Turkey. Orders have
been given to place military cordons
around the towns.
An unequaled number Of women are eX-
pected to take part in the coming grouse
season in England. The feminine shots
have increased enormously.
Balfour's Prison bill passed the House
OF Commons on the 23d by vote OF ll3I
to 60. Considerable discussion and abuse
OF Irish jails we're INDUCED in.
1t is rumored in Liverpool that the
Cunard Line has contracted for three
new twin screw steamers for the trans
atlantic feet, to be delivered before 1891.
A society has been started in London
to promote the development OF the
science Of mesmerism and OF the appll-
cation of hypnotism to practical medicine.
Great destruction OF property and loss
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