The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-09-13
FOREIGN FLASH -.
Cholera at Bagdad-Edison Ranauited
at Paris-A Noted Swindler Ar
rested In Lodod-Notes


ordnance supplies.
Military preparations are said to be
active at Belgrade.
A cyclone is reported in the north of
the island of Cuba.
Parnell is coming to America for the
benefit OF his health.
An effort is being made to build a tower
at London 1000 feet high.
Switzerland has built 1000 inns SINCE
tourists began to visit her.
The Americans in London favor New
York for the Worlds Fair.
1t is estimated that 2O, 900 dock laborers
are now striking at London.
The Dee bridge at Chester, England, is
finished after twenty-five years.
A thunderbolt struck the Effel Tower
recently, but caused no damage.
Russia proposes to tax Protestant
churches IN the Baltic provinces.
1t is said that it is American English
that sdlutes the ear all over Paris.
The London journals applaud the COM
mutation of Mrs. Maybrick's sentence.
Over 2OJO children under years OF
ago die annually in Paris OF tuberculosis.
Lord Dunraven hopes that race with
the Valkyrle may be arranged at New
York in 1890.
Louis Won Moltke, brother of the Ger
man Field Marshal, died at Berlin, aged
So years.
A London dispatch says the report is
confirmed OF Miss Huntington's betrothal
to Prince Hatzieldt.
Severe hail storms passed over parts of
Austria on the 22d. Many persons were
killed.
Baron Pereira of Vienna, descendant
of the celebrated banker, has become in
sane.
Half the town of Dubno, Russia, has
been destroyed by fire. The loss is enor-
nous.
The tennis ball now bounds in China,
though DIRT courts are more frequent than
grass.
The English ironc)ad Sultan has been
f1oated and will be tOwed into the harbor
at Malta.
Russian papers are abusing the Shah
for his friendly expressions regarding
England.
A dispatch from Montenegro says
famine is threatened owing TO the failure
OF the crops.
BOucicault is stoutly resisting the claim
OF his divorced wife in London to EGO
back alimony.
Queen Victoria is said to have expend-
ed nearly s., ,000. 900 ON memorials to the
Prince Consort.
The Duke OF Bedford has parceled ont
lot of land on the Henry George system
to test the theory.
A Japanese paper complains that there
are too few qualified physicians and dem
lists in that country.
London seems to be rather crowding
out Paris as the great purveyOr OF femi-
nine taste for hnerv.
The Grand Duke George Alexand-
rovitch, the second son of the Car of
Russia, has arrived in Paris.
dEI6StS COulluuc W NC ulduc DIT DcIilu
in connection with the recently exposed
frauds in the German navy.
There was severe earthquake shock
throughout Greece last week. Several
towns were seriously damage.
| At Pembroke. Wales, an infuriated
crowd compelled two tithe bailifs to
swear to abandon their calling.
Three thousand French deserters have
taken advantage OF the new amnesty law
to return from Geneva to France.
Emperor William and Empress Au-
gusts have visited Strasburg and were
welcomed with much enthusiasm.
The Countess of Paris has been doing
splendid grouse shooting on the moor at
Moones, near Aberdeen, England.
1t is reported that at the urgent request
of his friends, Boulanger viii 60 to Paris
and stand trial before the elections.
The Shah entertained at dinner at
Munich, recently, the members OF the
royal family and Bravarian nobility.
News has been received corrobel ating
the reports Of the death of Thomas Bryan
Cunning while crossing the mountains
into Chile.
They have a trained lion at the Paris
circus that rides on the back OF horse
around the ring and does all the custo-
mary feats.
A banquet was given to Edison at Paris
on the 22d. In speech Premier Tirard
said France and America were united by
Iindissoluable ties.
Bloody affrays are still reported in var
. ious districts of Crete. The towns gen.
orally are tranquil, with the exception OF
isolated outrages.
The cholera is raging at Bagdad and
| Bussorah, Asiatic Turkey. Orders have
been given to place military cordons
: around the towns
) Great destruction of property and loss
of life is reported from county Clare, Ire
land. Floods swept hundreds of acres Of
farming lands. Nearly all the growing
crops were swept away to the sea.
J A public Indignation meeting was held
in Victoria, B. c., on the Both inst. and
many warlike speeches were made re-
' garding the recent seizures of British ves-
j / sells in Behring sea.
Balfour's Prison bill passed the House
4 of Commons on the 23d by vote OF 1I3
to SO. Considerable discussion and abuse
. of Irish jails we're INDUCED In.
q 1t is rumored in Liverpool that the
4 ECunard Line has contracted for three
d new twin screw steamers Tor the trans
e atlantic feet, to be delivered before 1891.
t A society has been started in London
9 to promote the development Of the