Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-25
THE OLD WORLD.

Peace is fully established in San Sal
vador.
The Shah of Persia is to visit St. Pc
tersburg next month.
The roller-skating mania has just
broken out in London again.
Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia is de-
clared to be hopelessly insane.
Public meetings in B llinzona, Swift
erland, have been forbidden.
Osman Digna is reported to be prepar-
ing for grand attack on Suakim.
An appeal for funds to relieve the dis
tress caused by floods has been issued in
Austria.
John Most, the Anarchist, is going to
London. He, happily, is disguised with
America.
Two British vessels have been ordered
to Vitu, East Africa, to avenge the re-
cent massacre of party of Germans
there.
The French Society of Hygiene has
decided that the charges against Ameri-
can meats that they are unwho' esome
are unfounded.
At Montichiari batteries of artillery
using smokeless powder kept up a fire
for half an hour without their position
being discovered.
The Russian court officials are prepar-
ing programme for national celebra-
ton OF the silver wedding of the Gar,
which occurs on November g. 1891.
The French traveller, NJ Crampel, who
acquired a reputation by his expedition
into the French Congo, has planned a
new journey through undiscovered Al
RIGA.
There is a prospect that the Duke of
Cumberland will accept the Guelph fund
and will renounce has rights to the
throne of Hanover ard Brunswick in
favor OF Prussia.
The number Of persons who have
viewed the remains of Mrs. Booth, the
wife OF the Salvation Army leader, which
are lying in state at London, thus far
amounts to 10000.
The refusal of the President of the
Unit d States and the Secretary of State
to receive the Comte de Paris is regarded
in France as an act of real friendliness
between Republic and Republic.
A letter to the New York Herald saws
that 900 men are now at work on the
Nicaragua canal and railway, which lat
ter has been extended four miles inland.
The health of the employees continues
good.
Experts say that the buried CITY of
Pompeii has not yet yielded up a third
of its artistic treasure, and that at the
present rate of progress several wears
will elapse before it is thoroughly I'M
earthed.
The Dutch Indian government offers a
prize of $4,000 for the best practical an
yer to the question in what manner the
salt which is sold in Dutch India in
small packages should be packed so as
to keep dry.
The Workingmen's Congress in Lille,
France, have declared in favor of an in
ternatlonal demonstration by the work.
ingmen next May and also in favor Of an
international miners strike at the ear
Hest possible moment.
NJ Clifford, the inventor of the iqui-
fed gas gun, claims force is obtained
by the g's more powerful than powder
without noise or smoke or heat, and the
distance the ball is to go is even regu-
lated in the gun machinery.
company has been formed in Eng
land called the London and Chicago
Contract Corporation, which looks like
a plan to freeze out small promotes by
taking charge of American commercial
enterprises brought over to England.
The Ministerialists in Great Britain
appear delighted that O'Brien and Dill
Ion have run away. 1t is said their flight
mas greatly disconnected the Parnellists,
who could have made effective political
capital out of the patriots in prison"
1t is und rstOod that France will not
renew her commercial treaties with for
elgn countries which expire in February,
1892, since the government proposes the
adoption of a new tariff law reducing
customs ra es to the countries which fla
cilitate French commerce.
Baron Wissmann, who up to recent
date has had pretty nearly everything
his own way in managing German affairs
} in East Africa, is chagrined at the APP
!, pointment of General Soden in a capac-
ity which will make him independent of,
If not superior to, Wissmann.
The party of colored missionaries who
went to Sierra Leone have been thinned
by death, owing to the pc; sistence in re-
fusing the service of a physician, being
, believers in faith cure. The Governor of
Sierra Leone because of such conduct
says these people are danger to the
community at large"
1t is understood the Colomb- an gov
/ eminent asks the Panama Canal Com
pany for very heavy payment for an
extension of time on the Colombian ca
, nal concession, which the company de-
sires. 1t is thought if Colombia persists
in the demand the result will be the final
winding up of the company.