Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-08-10
FORElGN FLASHES.
Denmark's Foreign Trade-Threatens
to Run he Telephone-Tiied Her
Engines With Success.

Siam has begun the issue OF pape
money.
Railroad management in Bavaria is in
bad shape.
Millais is painting his third picture OF
Mr.. Gladstone.
A new life OF Bruno is to be prepa, ed
| by the Vatican.
The Crofters Commission is reducing
rents and arrearages.
Efforts at phonetic writing are active
both in France and Germany.
Buffalo Bill gave dinner to Russell
| Harrison AT Paris on the 9th.
The infantry branch of the Austrian
army has been increased by 1900.
Peru observed its sixty-eighth ami
versary OF Independence on the 10Th.
Extensive thefts OF arms have been
carried on for years in Bombay arsenal.
An epidemic of typhoid fever is said to
be raging in the Ternes district of Paris.
Denmark's foreign trade has grown to
tremendous size, mainly with England
Shares in the proposed American Salt
/ Trust are already selling iii London at a
/ premium.
! A German peasant has been detected
in tapping telephone wire to cure his
! rheumatism.
The silver jubilee testimonial! to Cardi-
nal Manning now amounts to Il total OF
over 10000.
August 4th is the date fixed for re-
burying the French Revolution heroes in
the Pantheon.
A German firm has made contract to
reconstruct the port Of Odessa at a cost OF
over $5,O00,OO0.
The Portuguese who fired at Dom Pedro
declares he was instigated by the Repub-
lican Association.
DR.. Schmelzkopf, Surgeon -in-chief OF
| Captain Wissnann's African expedition,
has been drowned.
An Erzeroum dispatch states that
Russian troops are rapidly massing neal
the Turkish frontier.
Brunn, the Austrian center OF textile
industry, is suffering under a general
strike OF $1,000 operatives.
Ryan, a seaman on the Jabez Howes,
, was drowned at sea on June 18th. Ryan
was a native OF San Francisco.
Much curiosity has been excited by
the approaching production at Brussels
OF Salambo, new opera by Reyer.
None OF the railroads in India are
equipped with baggage cars and no
traveller is allowed to carry trunk.
In recent domestic rife competition
at Wimbledon Sir Henry Halford, shoot
ing for England, made 2l0 out OF his 23l.
George S. Ladd OF San Francisco, a
prominent electrician, is lying danger
Ously i'll in house in Piccadilly, London.
London, excited by the success OF
Paris, appears 10 be very much in earnest
in her endeavor to found grand exhibi-
ton in 1891.
Bankers in London do not care for the
papers OF the Prince Of Wales. The
Prince has not much OF reputation as
business man.
The English Government threatens to
run the telephone since the business has
| been left to ne company. France has
already done so.
On account Of heavy aud repeated falls
of snow among the Alps, the season for
mountaineering promises to be late this
year in Switzerland.
I A dispatch from Rome says the Nati-
can and Quirinal are doubly guarded on
receipt OF information OF plot to blow up
both with dynamite.
| The report that Nine. Nelson has lost
| her hearing and memory is pmphatically
denied. She is suffering from her old
| trouble rheumatism.
| A Guide to the Churches of London"
shows that the number OF metropolitan
churches has increased between 1883 and
! 1899 from 92S to ole
1t is stated that at the rate the popula-
ton is leaving Norway tor the United
States, III the next fifteen years not one
will be left in that land.
The "Heavenly Foot Society" has
been started in China by the women,
in rebellion against the venerated fashion
that congresses their feet.
1t has been decided in Russia that
women may be physicians; but they
must confine their services to children
and adults of their own sex.
British reports OF the inland fisheries
show that out OF 1890 salmon captured
in seventeen districts 2,744 were taken
bv the rod The others were netted.
1t is stated in London that Germany
and Austria have instructed ex-king
Milan to restore the supreme power IN
Servia in order to check Italian intrlgues.
party OF 800 Hungarians who left
Vienna recently for the Paris Exhibition
proceeded, bg way OF Torino, to call on
Louis Kossuth, the great Hungarian
patriot
Grave fears are felt at Zanzibar for the
safety of the Upwapwa missionaries.
The Bushiri have murdered an officer Of
the East African Company, named
Nielsen.
The Duke of Newcastle is expendlng
nearly 100000 in building church IN
the grounds at Clumber, his place at
Notts. 1t is a beautiful edifice in tine
Gothic style.
One Legitime's Generals had agreed
to surrender portion OF the defensive
! rks at Port-auPrince to Hippolyte9.
2 plot was discovered and an ambush
ed thirty OF Hippolyte's men.
Fwo hundred and thirty-one foreigners
e expelled from Belgium between the
of February, 1888, and the 9TH OF
5rlary, 1899 Three expulsions only
+e ordered for political reasons.
he largest ship in the British Navy,
TrofaIoar launched two wears ago,