The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-01

A New Steamship Line-Conference Be.
tween Bismarck and the Gar
Thinks Of Nothing but War.

a hotel to cost SLIPS, 900 is going Vi
IN Sydney, N. s. w.
Five hundred miners have struck a
Lens Arros, Belgium.
Italy has declared in favor of a protec
torate over Abyssinia.
The people of Japan are becomin
beet-eaters in s. eadily increasing mum
bers.
The Cadbury Brothers of England ar
the largest cocoa manufacturers in tn
world.
The Antwerp engineers and stokers O
Inc transatlantic steamers have gone OF
a strike.
1t is again rumored in England tina
Lord Salisbury's health is in a very un
satisfactory state.
1t is understood that ex-Queen Natali,
intends to build a mansion in Belgrad,
and establish court there.
De Freycinet, the French War Min
lister. has decided to strengthen six arm,
corps on the German frontier.
John Madison Morton, author of Bo,
and Cox and numerous other plays, is
lying dangerously i'll in London.
Certain Englishmen are still holding OF
to their Confederate bonds with the hope
that they will some time be paid.
Adrian Albert falkland, formerly .
member of the French Senate and Min
lister OF Justice, is dead, aged 70 years.
1t is reported that Boulanger dis
patched his trusted friend, Count Dillon
from Jersey to Belgium on secret mis-
sion.
An earthquake was experienced in tn,
region about Venice recently. Severa
houses in neighboring village were de
stroyed.
The London Times ventures the predic
ton that the International American
Congress will not have any practica
results.
NJ. Carnot, the President of the French
Republic, is an enthusiastic numismatist
considerable value.
A royal decree has been promulgated
at Brussels in favor of the American mis-
sion established in the Congo for the
evangelization of the blacks.
At the recent autumn maneuvres il
Germany the fortiiying of an intrencheC
position with barbed wire fencing was
found to be very eficaclous.
Samoan advices state that Mataafa ha.
been elected King. Upon the landing o
Malietoa Germany refused to recognize
Mataafa and desired Malietoa.
The house in which Schiller was born
though located in a remote little town OF
the Neckar-Marbach- visited this
summer by about 700 tourists.
It is believed that when Stanley, tht
explorer, does reach the African coast
he will bring with him enough ivory tx
support him during the rest of his life.
Emperor William of Germany thinks
of nothing but war. He conforms his
habits to those of Frederick the Great
and his court at Berlin has become
camp.
One hundred Englishmen of letter.
have signed a memorial petitioning TO
the release of Henry Vizetelly, the Lon
don bookseller, imprisoned for selling
Zola's works.
Florence Mustelier, the bandit wh'
has long been the terror of the Cubal
coast provinces, was captured and, at
tempting to escape, was shot and killet
by his guards.
The Central Railroad of Guatemala il
said to be in course of sale to French
syndicate, and contract has been signed
with the option granted to the purchaser
for final ratification.
The Emperor William has ordered
every branch of the German cavalry t.
be armed with the lance as it's chic
weapon, though neither the sword no
the carbine is to be discarded.
"Homicide by imprudence" has beer
added to the list of crimes in the French
Criminal Code. The offense is described
as causing the death of man by an.
foolish act not in itself criminal.
General Maclean lately made his forma
entry into Meshed as British Consul
General, and for the first time In th'
history of the Holy City the British fial
is now displayed within its walls.
Next month Joseph Chamberlain will
leave London for prolonged holiday
which will be spent on the Continen
and in Africa. He intends to go first II
Venice and thence he will cross to Egypt
Intending visitors to Venice during tn
coming winter will be glad to know tina
the reservations of the ducal palace ar
completed, and that the glorious oil
building will be thrown open to sight IL
November.
CAPTAIN McCalla of the United State
corvette Enterprise was the tirst mai
who ever took a foreign war-ship up tn
waters of Loeb Fyne, Scotland. Th
Duke of Argyll entertained the Captain
at Inverary.
t. ia believed that at the recent COZ
ference between Bismarck and the Cza
final settlement of the threatenin
Balkan question was effected. The basl
of the settlement was that Bulgaria be
longs to Russia and Servia to Austria.
James Prescott Joule, the distinguishe
scientist, is dead at London. He wa
the discoverer of the laws OF the evolr
tion of heat and of the induction
magnetism by electrical currents, an
also of the mechanical equivalent
heat.
| The Czar arrived at Kiel recently. ID
and his suite left the vessel under
heavy escort of marines and at once pr
ceeded to the railway station. Inc Czs
was closely guarded and none put ID
marines and soldiers were able 10 octai
a glimpse of him in the course OF MS III
from the yacht to the train.