Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-02
THE OLD WORLD.

arms.
The Mahdi has determined upon an
other advance.
La grippe on its round as globe cir
cler has reached China.
In the last two months 251 persons
have died of cholera in Spain.
The French Chamber of Deputies has
passed the direct taxation bill.
The cholera bulletins from Valencia,
show steady decrease in the epidemic.
The cultivation of tobacco has been
forbidden in Egypt and the duty on the
imported article raised.
Farmers throughout Germany are
alarmed at a report that swarm of To-
Gusts has appeared in Prussia.
The French Senate has passed the bill
providing for duty on wines made from
raisins. The vote stood 100 to "a.
Jennie Hugo, grandchild of Victor
Hugo, is betrothed to Leon Daudet, a
son of Alphonse Daudet, the novelist.
The United States photographic office
has information of icebergs being en-
countered within few miles of the
Azores.
Everybody in England admits now
that this season is likely to produce the
worst yield of grain since the unprece-
denied disaster of 1879.
Failing in securing joint intervention
by England and Russia, the Armenians
on both sides of the frontier will COM
bine and ask the Cars aid.
The estimated expenditure in the
British navy for the year will be, from
all sources, G19, 1863, 1888, while that of
the army will be G19 047 800.
The sentiment is general in Austria
that the storm cloud of war in the Bal
kans is on the point of bursting and
scorching Europe with its lightning.
The sending of the English Grenadier
Guards to Natal as punishment for in
subordination has caused a great COM
motion among these unlucky men and
their families.
Prince Alexander of Battenburg prom-
ises to assist Prince Ferdinand OF Bull
garia in case war breaks out, ii the lat
ter will return to Bulgaria and govern
| constltutlOnally.
Sir w. A. White, British Ambassador
to Turkey, went to London on a short
visit. He had several private con-
ferences with Lord Salisbury, and will
return at once to Constantinople.
Alfred Won Kendeler, banker, form
erly Swedish Consul in Vienna, has
been convicted on a charge of fraud and
embezzlement and sentenced to seven
years penal servitude and loss of all
titles.
A startling rumor spread through vi
emma that Sofia was in the thrOes of a
revolution, that Zenkoff's partisans had
risen against the iron rule of Stambou-
loft and that Prince Ferdinand's fate was
hanging in the balance.
The stock of English wheat is now all
but exhausted, and under the influence
of the heavy rains and the evil pros
poets of the growing crops, prices have
advanced about another shilling per
quarter during the week.
Rev. Mr.. Macneece at Armagh, Ire
land, warned all Catholics against hay
ing anything to do with the Ancient Order
of Hibernians, which, he said, was seek
ing new members in Ireland. He de-
nounced all secret societies.
In Ireland the potato blight threatens
to cause great distress. Reports from
Cork, Limerick, Kerry and Waterford
say the failure of the potato crop is
complete, and the farmers and starva-
ton are brought face to face.
The refusal of Prince Bismarck to ac-
cept the candidatares offered him for a
seat in the Reichstag is now known to
be due to his desire to obtain a seat in
the Bundesrath as representative of a
minor state, with free hand to operate
in the Reichstag.
The Premier of New South Wales has
introduced in Parliament a railway bill
providing for the construction of OFT
miles of country lines and thirty-nine
miles of suburban lines, the whole to
cost G12, 300, 900, besides grant from the
treasury of G2,000,OO0.
The Uruguayan Government contem-
| plates creating an internal debt to with
draw national bank notes from circula-
ton, but the merchants and foreign
bankers have signed an agreement to
refuse the forced paper currency in set
Ting gold transactions.
The people of Germany for some time
past have been collecting money for the
purpose of erecting a monument to
! Emperor Frederick on the battlefield OF
, Worth, in memory of the greatest vic
! tory gained by the then Crown Prince,
The sum collected at present amounts to
about 100000.
Bismarck is reported to have said
: "The Emperor decided to try to induce
t the Socialists to maintain peaceful at.
: titude by means of concessions, but he
= (Bismarck) believed in fighting them as
0 blackmailers. The sooner they were de.
!, fed the better. The time would come
D when Socialism would be found to be 8
e military question, and in place of the
: present mild state of siege there would
2 be universal state of a."
s The German Bicycle Union, which hat
e 1900 members, will hold its annua
n convention at Munich on August 1st tc
i 9Th. On August Sd and 4th races viii
n be held under the Unions auspices, anc
t on August 9Th all the delegates vii
/ make trip on their wheels to Oberam
mergau.