The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-10-04
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Good Templars in Iceland-The Tiger
Plague-Endeavorin to Break
Down the Cotton Corner.

Mrs. Mackay is in Paris.
English railways pay 81 a ton for coal
Cholera is reported at Athens, Greece
The safety of the Greek currant crop i.
assured.
Socialism has lately spread rapidly il
Galicia.
Rismarck's law makes strikes con
spiracies.
Hanover has wa-hly reoeived thu
CzarOwitz.
The mackeral catch in the south O.
Ireland is failure.
MIR. Gladstone speaks very highly o.
the Paris Exposition.
Switzerland has an electric railway ur
,330-foot mountain.
Famine prevails throughout Tigre, 8
province of Abyssinia.
It has been decided to close the French
Exposition October 31st.
Anti-German agitatcrs in Alsace-L Lor-
raine have been expelled.
1t is stated that King Leopold contem-
plates trip to the Congo.
Evangelist Moody will hold services in
London during the coming winter.
The market for the Congo products il
now regularly established at Antwerp.
Mr.. Gladstone thinks the Irish Catho-
lie University will die before it is born.
Queen Charlotte, the wife of King
George I, ruler of the Tonga Islands, is
dead.
The whole of the sewage of Paris will
soon be used for the purpose of market
gardening. =.
Edison, before his departure for Berlin,
gave 10000 francs for the benefit of the
poor of Paris.
The Bimetallic Congress at Paris will
submit no proposal to vote. 1t will
adopt no resolutions.
The Irish police have been ordered not
to shadow English members of Parlia-
ment travelling in Ireland.
Christine Nilson writes to the Figaro of
Paris to say that she is not suffering from
deafness or loss of memory.
A curious feature of the theaters in
Melbourne is that they are mostly all
equipped with billiard-rooms.
Miss Lincoln, daughter of Minister to
England Robert Lincoln, has become an
acknowledged belle in London.
M. Barbedienne, the famous bronze
founder of Paris, exhibits at the Exposi-
ton clock that is valued at $4,000.
There are nearly twelve thousand
pleasure boats, including house. boats,
used on the upper ranches OF the Thames.
DR.. Fricke, who was with General
Gordon at Khartoum, has returned to
Berlin after fifteen years spent in Africa.
Mrs. James Brown-Potter cables from
Europe canceling all her American
engagements, giving illness as the cause.
The defense of Adriano de Valle, the
would-be regicide, at Rio de Janeiro,
who is to be tried soon, will be drunken
ness.
Liverpool authorities have voted an ap-
preparation of 100000 for the establish
ment of petroleum storage at isolated
points.
The latest report from Stanley, the
African explorer, is that he expects to
reach the eastern sea coast by the end of
October.
The Emperor of China has had court
l. L L. foIr
prediction. The Emperor is very pro-
gressive.
The young King of Servia has written
to his mother, ex-Queen Natalie, implOr-
ing her to return to Belgrade, and she
has determined to go.
Portions of Java are being deserted
owing to the tiger plague. The total
population is about 60O, 900, and in 1887
sixty-one were killed by tigers.
Captain Wissmann has set price of
e6, 900 on Chief Bushiri's head on ac-
count of the threat of the latter to attack
missionary stations in the interior.
The six hours which make the working
day of the British Civil Service will be
extended to seven if the recommendation
of the Royal Commission is adopted.
In Iceland the Good Templars have
begun an agitation for prohlbitatlon.
The whole population of Iceland is but
10000 to $4,000, and of these several
thousands are Good Templars.
English operatives are endeavoring to
break down the cotton corner that is par
alyzing the trade of Lancashire. The
weavers and manufacturers propose a
combination.
Berlin merchants complain that Mr..
Edwards, United States Consul, subjects
exports to trivial vexations in the matter
of verifying invoices, thus hamperlng
trade with America.
Over three thousand French deserters
who have been living in Geneva have
been benefited by the late Amnesty law,
and have left with their families to re-
turn to their country.
The pilgrimage which the Empress Of
Austria expected to make on foot to the
famous Spring of the Virgin. at Mariezell
in Styria, has had to be abandoned OWING
to the unauthorized publicity given te
her intention.
Colonel James Reid, Lieutenant in
the Seventy eighth Hilanders at Water
loo, is now in Scotland, visiting the
scenes of his childhood. He has lived
in Canada for the last seventy years, and
is ninety-six years old.
Nathan G. Yocum, the main boomer O
the new manufacturing town OF Falls
CITY, Or, has shaken the dust OF tha
State from his feet and sloped for parts
nuknown. Several banks are said to bt
sufferers in small amounts.
VIM. T. Tobias, the young man wht
foreed the name of his employer to
check for $500 at Harrisburg, PENN,
wear ago. was arrested at logging caml