Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-03-09
FOREIGN FLASHES.
THE UNITED STATES AND COLON
BIA AT LOGGERHEADS.
The German Squadron Ordered to Sa-
moa-Grand Duke Vladimir's Dis
graceful Conduct-A Cana
dams Brilliant Idea.

! w. H. Gladstone, son OF the statesman,
is dying.
Scotland's wooden mills are running
over time.
The cost of the Paris exposition will be
$l0,00G,000.
The Empress Frederick has returned
to Germany.
OF the 100000 foreigners in Paris only
2302 are Americans.
Chile has passed a law excluding Chi
nese from the country.
! Germany has given large order to an
Austrian factory for rifles.
Canadian pork-packers have petitioned
TO exclude American pork.
Belfast, Ireland, will have an Interna-
| tiOnal exhibition next year.
The Sultan of Morocco has ceded 4
strip OF territory to Germany.
Oscar Wilde has published an essay
entitled The Decay OF Lying"
Cardinal Charles Sacconi is dead. He
was senior in rank of cardinals.
German papers claim that Klein, of Sa-
moan fame, is a German subject.
The Rothschinds are forming com
pany to work the Burmah ruby mines.
1t is intended to run Il new line Of
steamers between Leith and Baltimore.
The report OF the death of Hippolyte
and the routing OF his army proves to be
untrue.
The bank of England building, Lon
don, covers eighta acres and employs 1000
persons.
There are more than 100000 women
in Belgium who are engaged in industrial
pursuits.
Boulanger acknowledges that it is his
| intention to invade Germany within the
next six months.
1t is reported that General Des Bordes,
the French commander. has been muir
dered in Tonquin.
The French chamber OF deputies has
passed the bill to insure the freedom and
secrecy of the ballot
The London Mansion House fund for
/ the relief of sufferers from famine in Chi
ma, amounts to GS000.
Canada proposes to pass a law that will
destroy that country as the paradise of
/ booders and bank cashiers.
Marshal Won Moltke will, on March Sth,
complete his seventieth year of active
service in the German army.
Admiral Symonds and other English
authorities think England and France
well matched in naval power.
The Chinese Emperor was married
last week with a splendOr that contrasted
painfully with the famished condition OF
millions Of his subjects.
The Eiffel tower, Paris, will be finished
| April LIST. The tower is now 825 feet
high and weighs 1900 tons. There are
to be added 800 tons more.
VIM. X. Vanderbilt is seeking to OBJ
tain lease of the house now leased by
the Duke of Sutherland. The property
belongs to the royal family.
Countess Larish has been condemned
to perpetual exile because OF the part she
PLAYED in the events which led to the
death of Crown Prince Rudolph.
The statistics of suicides in Vienna
show that with its population of about a
million and a quarter it has had in recent
years about $50 suicides annually.
The Afghan forces are advancing from
Herat, and the Ameer of Bokhara is pre-
pairing to attack them. The Russian pa
pers have adopted war-like tone.
A statue of Edward the Confessor is to
adorn the great screen, now i'll course OF
renovation, in Winchester cathedral,
England The Queen will donate it.
Count Bombelli, chief OF the late Crown
Prince Rudolphs household, has re-
signed. The Emperor has bestowed upon
him the grand cross of the order OF Leo
pold.
1t is reported that the Gar is scandal
lied by the irregular life OF his brother,
and has ordered the Grand Duke Nladi-
mir to resign the commandership OF the
guards.
The cathedral of Seville is reported to
be in an alarming condition. Unless the
building is shored up and strengthened
the greater portion is liable to fall at any
moment.
Piggott, the forger of the letters in the
Parnell case, and on which the London
Times" based its chages against the
Irish statesman, committed suicide IN
Vienna Friday.
The German squadron in the Pacific is
to be strengthened, in order that punish
ment may be inflicted on the natives OF
Samoa for numbering German marines
and iniuring German interests.
A curious crop is a harvest Of 1000
sponges 1t was obtained by an Aus
trian savant as the result of an expert
ment OF literally sowing small parts OF
living sponges in a soil favorable to their
production.
4 member of the Dominion parliament
will introduce a resolution in that body
authorizing the purchase OF the Eastern
States of the American Union. 1t is
probable that an amendment will be Of
fered including the balance Of the earth.
The United States of America and the
! United States OF Colombia are in dipute
concerning the right of the latter govern
ment to seize several hundred tons OF the
Boston Ice company, because the exclu-
sive right to sell ice had been granted to
a Colombian firm.
| Collecting taxes in South Africa is
at times an unpleasant duty. A native
chief, in arrears, recently gave notice
that as soon as the collector came around
in his district the Objectionable official
should be seized, because e his head was
wanted at the chiefs kraal for medicine. I"