The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-08-02
FOREIGN FLASHES.
The Wimbledon Shoot-Off for Egypt
The Congo Railroad-D stroyed
by Earthquake-Yachtin


Russell Harrison dined with Queen
Victoria last week.
Queen Victoria is suffering from lum-
bago and rheumatism.
There was fall of four marks in sugar
at Hamburg, on the 18th.
Montreal is wrestling with the question
of level railway, crossings.
Emperor William has been to Norway
sightseeing among the glaciers.
The Canadians are carrying off the
hOnors at the Wimbledon shoot.
Lauer and Thompson, French deputies,
fought a bloodless duel recently.
The French Senate has passed the null
tiple candidate bill by vote of 213 to "a.
The estimated losses in Egypt to the
Dervishes, in killed and wounded, are
1000.
Half of the town of Djarkend, in Sem
iretcliinsk, has been destroyed by earth
quake.
Owing to the recent storms, the fruit
and wine crops in Northern Bohemia will
be a failure.
In Norway they build all winter, using
unslacked lime, and the work is superior
to summer construction.
Two more British regiments are off for
Egypt and it is ascertained that others
will be speedily required there.
Sir Carroll Mackenzie is strongly op-
posed to the use of tobacco and alcohol by
people who use their voices in public.
NJ and Nine. Nolle have been extra
dited by France. Nolle is Paris en-
bezzler. The couple was in New York.
Viscount Ddnlo, aged 20, heir of the
Earl of Clancarty, has been married to
Belle Billion, a beautiful Music Hall artist.
The general opinion of yachting au-
thOrities in London is that the Valkyrie
has no chance of winning the America
cup.
The Irish tenants declare they will die
tate terms, feeling confident tnat the
Irish Tenants Defense League can secure
them.
The French Chamber of Deputies
won't appropriate money to buy "The
Angelus," and America will probably
secure the picture.
The Searle-O' 'Connor boat race at Lon
don, England, will come off September
9th and the stakes are $500 a side.
Searle is the favorite.
A mysterious message to the Russian
Minister at Berlin, from the Gar, has
created much curiosity and speculation
at the German capital.
The yield of gold in Queensland during
the past half hear amounted to 1000
ounces. This is an increase of 166,00O
ounces over the preceding half year.
The International Socialist Congress is
| in session at Paris. Eighty-two of the
delegates are Germans, eleven of whom
are members of the German Reichstag.
/ Now that it has been settled that a
daughter of the Prince of Wales is to
marry the Earl of Fife, the question be-
| fore Parliament is how much they must
pay the fifer.
The Chinese Emperor has issued an
edict ordering the building of the Tung-
chow Railway. The Marquis Using has
been appointed Director General of all
| Chinese railways.
The success of the parcels post in En-
gland is demonstrated by the fact that
| the number of parcels carried has in
creased from 100000 the first year to
40. .000,00 last year.
In the French Chamber of Deputies, by
an almost unanimous vote, SO, 900. 900
francs was appropriated for the purchase
ar construction of ironclad war vessels
| for the French navy.
| Jesse Grant and Russell Harrison
called upon Minist r Lincoln at London,
few days ago. The meeting of three
sons of Presidents of the United States is
Iare and noteworthy.
In the shooting at London on the 18th,
for the national challenge trophy, the
English team won, their score being
| l748, the Scotchmen 1903, the Welch
1851 and the Irish 1878.
Empress Frederick and her daughters,
after visit to England, following the
Emperor's visit, intend to go to Athens.
They will spend the winter in Italy, by
invitation of King Humbert.
A bee belonging to swarm that Dor
setshire farmer was attempting to hive
got down the mans throat and stung
him, and, the throat swelling very rap
| idly, the man died of sufocatiOn.
/
Some important excavating work will
be undertaken at Salamis Gan island OF
Greece) next spring, under the auspices
of the Hellenic Society and the British
School of Archaeology at Athens.
| Since the phylloxera has so ravaged
France, Turkey is looming up as wine
producing country. Some OF the south
ern provinces are said to be excellent as
wine-growing districts both for climate
and soil.
The huge cantilever bridge over the
| Firth of Forth has been completed all
but the bridging of the 350-foOt gap be-
tween the sections. The connecting CIR
der will be fifty feet in depth and will
weigh 800 tons.
Rows between the London police and
the Salvation Army are frequent, for al
though they have been forbidden to par
ade they often attempt to do SO, the result
being an open-air disturbance on q
It'Donnybrook Fair" scale:
In England convention representing
25O, 900 coal miners agreed to accept an
| other advance of s. per cent on July LIST
and similar increase on October 1st.
| There is talk of sliding scale OF wages,