The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-24

Queen Victoria's Birthdav-The r.uars
Edict-Three Missionaries Held
for 5000 Ransum.

Boulanger's presence in London is al
most unnoticed.
Gold commands premium of Sc pc
cent at Buenos Ayres.
Two new streets in Berlin are to b,
named Bach and Wagner.
The Zouave uniform is to be aban
doned in the French army.
Boulanger has been elected to ths
Municipal Council of Paris.
Count Tolstoi, Russian Minister of the
Interior, is dangerously ill.
The Paris bOuleyards are to be lighted
this summer by electricity.
Lord Cadogan is mentioned as next
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
The American pilgrims in the HOLY
Land have arrived at Nazareth.
Emperor William is opposed to the ap
polntment OF papal nuncio at Berlin.
1t is rumored that the Duke of New.
castle will soon be in the divorce court.
Searle, the Australian oarsman, sailed
for England May 10th to meet O'Connor
The houses of sixteen Boulangists al
Neuilly have been searched by the police
An International Anti-slavery Congress
will be held at Lucerne, Switzerland, in
July.
Queen Victoria will celebrate her birth
day Friday, May oath. She was born in
1919.
The Eaton, England, Steel Works is to
have shears that will cut nine feet steel
plates.
Thirty persons who were selling social
istic pamphlets at Hamburg, have been
arrested.
Sir Charles Dixie will soon deliver a
series of labor speeches in the mining dis
tricts of England.
Figaro says the kings of Belgium, Sax
ony, Greece and Servia will visit the
French exhibition.
Sir Morrell Mackenzie was offered
$50, 900 to treat an American patient.
He wants the earth.
The steamer Willard has arrived at
New York from the Azores, with the
Danmark's passengers.
A Kurdish Chief recently attacked an
American village and burned several
prominent citizens alive.
A London paper thinks that telephones
are more generally used in Sweden than
anywhere else in the world.
Three systems of elevators-two French
and one American-are used in the Eiffel
Tower at the Paris Exposition.
A storm has destroyed all the crops in
the Goerlitzen district of Silesia. Five
persons were killed by lightning.
The Pope has removed Father Agostino
for invoking the Divine blessing upon
King Humbert and the Italian army.
The Sultan of Turkey is about to build
a new palace, and has ordered the furni-
ture from Paris regardless of expense.
The revolt of the supporters of the
British government against the Sugar
Bounties bill gains in strength every day.
An exposition of agriculture and for
estrv is to be held in Vienna from the
middle of May to the middle of October,
1890.
President Carnot has received Thomas
A. Edison with extreme cOrdiality and
holds almost daily conversations with
him.
The chief of the Zanzibar insurgents
holds three English missionaries in his
power and schedules their freedom at
$4,000.
Belgium's zinc manufacturing business
has developed until one-third of all the
zinc used in England is made in that
country.
Emperor William proposes to make a
trip in the autumn to the North Cape.
He will be accompanied by Saltzmann,
the painter.
A project to place an export duty on
Swedish iron ore has just been defeated
in the Swedish parliament by a consider
able majority.
Russian petroleum is competing with
the American product in the Dutch East
Indies, which have been customers o1
the American companies.
Information has been received at Wen
ma from Rome that the Pope will bestow
the Golden Rose on the Dowager Grown
Princess Stephanie of Paris.
Alexander, the well-known collector o1
Chinese and Japanese works OF art, has
offered to give 100000 to build gallery
for national historical portraits.
The miners strike in Westphalia is
spreading. During the labor riots last
week in Gensen Kirchen, a miner was
killed and many persons were injured.
The Gar of Russia has issued an edlc1
forbidding members of his family to con
tract morganatic marriages. Hereafter
they must take their matrlmony stralgnt
Machinery is driving out hand labor al
last in the nail working trade in England
The machines have had monopoly o
the business in this country for many
years.
Tn spite of the attacks of Canon Taylor
and Mr.. Caine, the income OF the Churcf
Missionary Society for the year JUS
closed will be larger than In any previous
year. :,
The Comte and Comtesse of Paris vii
celebrate their silrer wedding on the 3Otf
of Nav. It is rumored that the COmtt
will issue manifesto in honor OF the oc
casiOn.
Edmund Yates observes revival o
coaching in England. There are thu
wear ten coaches running out of London
which is more than twice the number o
few years ago.
Three times as much coal as ever be
fore was imported into st. Petersburg
last year, and Russian government com
mission is investigating the Russlal
mines to find out what ails them.
The Czar has ordered Baron Mohren