The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-05-30
FOREIGN NEWS.
American Bank Burglar Caught
In France.
Sweden Increasing Her Navy-Tri
politanS and Tunisians Have
a Fight.

The Swedish Government has begun
to increase its navy.
Australia is sending 1000 hogsheads
OF wine to Amsterdam.
Yucatan is importing Chinese and ne
gro laborers from Cuba.
Mexico reports the incorporation of a
80 10000 trust, the first in the Republic.
A bill to abolish suits for breach of
promise of marriage has been introduced
in Parliament.
1t is said the Belgian Government will
give credit of 100000 francs for a sea
canal to Brussels.
Lieutenant General Cassola is dead at
Madrid. He served with distinction in
Africa, Cuba and the Carlist war.
The Temperance men in Great Britain
are determined to make every effort to
secure the passage of the license bill.
The suspension of Hondus & Lang,
bankers at Vienna, is announced. Assets,
100000 forms; liabilities, 100000
forms.
Two Berlin professors are reported to
have discovered that the cause of diph-
theria is the excretion of b,cillus called
tOxalbumen.
The Supreme Court of Saxony has de-
cided that boycotting is equivalent to
disorderly conduct in the first degree and
punishable as such.
The Mexicans in San Luis Potosi claim
that conspiracy exists among American
railroad men to keep Mexicans from
working on railroads.
Five of the persons who were injured
by the explosion of balistile at Evigili-
ana, Italy, have since died, making the
total fatalities nineteen.
The King of Senegal tried to impose
upon his subjects European ideas which
he had imbibed at the Paris Exhibition,
and they murdered him.
Billy Porter, the great American bank
burglar, has been arrested for robbery IN
Bordeaux. He gave his name as Patrick
O'Brien, but was found out.
A great financial scandal is expected
in France. The status of the Credit
Foncier is shaky, owing to wild specula-
tlOu53 duu n iS CA pOCtCu.
A dispute over the boundary line led
to conflict between Tripolitans and Tu-
nisians Oh the frontier, and both sides
lost several killed and wounded.
Lately, with the assistance of the for
eign representatives, the Egyptian Gov
ernment has been closing all the gambling
houses in Cairo and Alexandria.
Gladstone admits the free traders have
lost much ground during the past twenty
five years. He thinks there is great
promise of the free trade party in Amer
| lea.
The British Postmaster General has is
sued rules under which meetings may be
held bv officials of the postofice outside
postoffice buildings for the discussion Of
official questions.
The Berlin Freissinige Zeitung says
Bismarck is suffering from alcoholism,
and not from the morphine habit. The
publication is notorious for its abuse Of
the ex-Chancellor.
Princess Victoria, sister of the German
Emperor, has asked an increase of her
appanage allowance in order to establish
her own household in London, as she
does not intend to marry.
| A committee of members of the Do
minion Parliament has found General Sir
F. R Middleton guilty of the charge of
looting furs valued at over $5, 600 during
the recent Northwest rebellion.
European manufacturers who have
placed free baths at the disposal of their
employees say that the decreased sickness
rate and the more efficient services well
pay them for the expenses incurred.
Panama canal shares at Paris have
| fallen II francs, owing to the publication
of the report of the commission Of engi-
neers sent to examine the works. The
quotation is 462 francs below the par
value of 500 francs.
Baron Hirsch of St. Petersburg pro-
poses giving an American committee an
annual sum of 100000 for the purpose
of establishing and sustaining an agri-
cultural school for the benefit OF Russian
Hebrews.
The Association OF German Iron Mas
ters has accepted an invitation from the
American Institute of Mining Engineers
to visit the industrial districts of Amer
lea. The visiting party will number over
100 persons.
Seventy-oue out of III persons arrested
have been convicted at DantZic OF plum
dering vessels stranded near Hela, town
on the Baltic, nineteen miles northeast
of Dantzic Each was sentenced to one
weeks imprisonment.
Won Caprivi in his speech On African
colonization in the German Reichstag is
greatly complimented. The opinion uni
versalIv expressed in the lobbies is that
in comparison with his predecessor he
has nothing whatever to fear.
Many citizens of Breslau have appealed
to the police authorities 10 stop represen-
tations of Count Tolstoi's Powers OF
Darkness" now being performed at the
Lobe tbeater. 1t is declared that more
demoralizing spectacle could not be pro-
duced.
In the Italian Chamber of Deputies
the Minister of the Treasury announced
amendments to the budget effecting the
reduction of 100000 lire on the army
and navy estimates and other retrench-
ments to amount to 17,060,00 lire.
There still remains deficit OF 5000, 900
lire.
The Berlin Reichs Auzeiger says that
the state of things among the neighbors
of Germany does not admit of Germany
continuing the present military system.
under which the artillery is strengthened
at the expense of the infantry; there's
fore, bill is in preparation 70 inersase
the field artillery TO seventy batteries
and the army corps BY special troops,