Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-07-20
FOREIGN FLASH ES.
Bull Fighting at the Exposition-The
Panama Canal-A Royal Marriage
Queen Victoria's Wealth.

Queen Victoria has subscribed e200 TO
the Volunteer Equipment fund.
A 61-pound salmon has been fished out
OF the Severn by Mr.. Ffennell.
Queen Victoria has announced that she
never again will sit to sculptor.
Gladstone was presented with the free
dom OF the city Of Cardiff On the 9th.
The Paris Chamber OF Deputies was
! the scene OF disgraceful row on the Eth.
The Art Jury of the Paris Exhibition
has awarded to Mr.. Sergeant a medal OF
| honor.
The French Chamber OF Deputies has
passed the Act increasing the army to
1900, 900.
Propriety won the Cumberland plate
at the Carlisle meeting in England, the
| 10th inst.
The Philadelphia cricketers defeated
the Gentlemen OF Scotland, at Edinburg,
on the 9th.
Mr.. Loring, the United States Minister
to Portugal, has been received at Lisbon
by the King.
Emperor William will sail for England
from Antwerp. At Antwerp he Will meet
King Leopold.
| The SULTAN OF Morocco has sent the
Emperor OF Germany Il valuable gift
MoOre's poems.
The French Senate Committee has ap-
proved the bill for the relief OF the Pana-
ma Canal COmDany
Queen Victoria is the richest woman
in the British Kingdom. She has accu-
mulated $40, 100000.
The Russian government proposes to
raise new loan, to be usnd in the build
ing OF strategic railways.
The making OF horse car line from
Cairo TO the Pyramids is likely to be
completed fact before long.
Russell Harrison, who is in England
on business, attended Salisbury's garden
party at Hatfield, last week.
1t is stated that Emperor William has
| forbidden the officers of the German
army to visit the Paris Exposition.
An English Radical cynically observes
that the Shah of Persia is almost immoral
enough to be an English nobleman.
S. Hirsch, the new Minister for the
! United States, to the Ottoman court, has
arrived at Paris from Constantinople.
Evictions continue on the Clanricarde
estate in Galway, Ireland. The houses
oil the evicted tenants are demolished.
The Irex defeated the Valkyrie in the
last race at Glasgow There is talk OF a
match between the Valkyrie and This
| tie.
Many of the friends of Henry George
are urging him to become a British sub
iec. and enter Parliament for Scotch
district.
Cheap pirated editions OF American
books are said to be among the best sell
ing books offered at the railway stations
in India.
Eight persons were instantly killed
and eleven wounded near ROchemOOs,
Germany, en- the Frankfort express the
other day.
The prospects of the Rhine vintage are
most favorable, and, il all goes we'll the
next four months, this will be the best
year since 1868.
In India the river Indus has overhowed
its banks and the country is under ten
feet of water. Forty persons were
drowned at Larkhana.
The testimony OF Charles Wood, an
English jocky, in recent lawsuit,
brought out the information that he had
earned more than $4,000.
The marriage of Lord Fife, whose
title will he raised to Duke OF Inverness,
TO Princess Louise will take place at
Buckingham Palace July y.
Fourteen thousand girls are attending
the London School Board cookery CEN
ters. Still further facilities for increas-
ing this number are being made.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gladstone's golden we'd
ding will be celebrated July 26th Great
preparations are being made by their
intimate friends to celebrate the day.
The paying visitors to the Paris Expo
sition in the month OF may numbered
=, ,2OS ,045, or 93S, $40 more persons than
during the first month OF the exhibition
OF 1878.
The Prince OF Wales is as popular in
Paris as in London. This is a good
augury for the future relations of France
and England when he shall ascend the
! throne.
The Liberation Society, embOldened
by Mr.. Gladstone's Plymouth speech,
are organizing an extensive series OF dis
establishment meetings i'll town and
country.
The new Vicery Of Ireland, the Earl OF
Zetland, rubs along on an income OF
$375, 900 year. He will naturally have
a feeling of pity for the starving irish
peasants.
Thomas P. Gill and Joseph R. Cox,
Nationalist members OF the British Par
lament, have been arrested in London.
They afterward left for Drogheda in
charge OF officers.
A dispatch from Brussels to the Lon
don Times saws: England and Germany
nave initiated an African conference
here. The Congo State, Belgium, France
and Italy approve the proposal.
Prince Nicholas, of MingreIla, formerly
a candidate for the Bulgarian throne,
died in the Caucasus The extinct dy-
nasty which he represented claimed di-
rect descent from King David. OF Israel.
Sir George Chetwynd's resignation
has been accepted by the London Jockey
Club, with statement that the club be-
lieved he had fully exonerated himself
from the scandal charges Of Lord Dur
ham.
It is stated that the Indictment against
! L. po,,lnnc advises the arraivnmnnt