The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-05
FOREIGN NEWS.
La Grippe Causes Quite a Panic
in Iceland.
Germany Will Compromise with the Cath
olics by Returning 0ne-Half of
the Confiscated Property.

A Swedish scientific expedition has
been sent to Spitzbergen.
An English syndicate is anxious to
buy the Eiffel tower in Paris.
The next census of the United King
dom will be taken in April, 1891.
The Sultan of Zanzibar fears an at
tack shortly from his elder brother.
Germany is expected to use it's inhu-
ence against Prince Ferdinand of Bull
garia.
Europe will need 154,OOO,OOO bushels
OF wheat to supplement its own crop
this year.
The panic among the Christian inhab-
ltants OF Armenia is spreading. Hun
dreds are fleeing to Persia.
England and Wales spent $21, ,OOO, 900
last year in maintaining their paupers,
including the expense of caring for 75,-
600 insane.
Ex-Khedive Ismael is in very bad
health, and has been advised to proceed
forthwith to Carlsbad for course of the
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Captain Sevald of the Norwegian
steamship Left Erickson reports having
been fired upon at Rio Janeiro while f1v-
ing the American flag.
A society " for the endowment of poor
manageable girls 3" is being started in
st. Petersburg on the same plan as that
of the Moscow society.
The increase of mendicants in Berlin
is the subject of newspaper comment.
SO many beggars as now importune in
the streets have not been known for
years.
In the government of Podoi, Russia,
the peasants have no scruples about sell
ing their children. Instances of very
revolving nature are reported in Mos
COW daily.
American sea captains are complaining
of the absurdity and inconvenience of a
late edict of the Russian government,
whereby no ballast may be discharged
in Russian ports.
All over Europe are the agents of
American theatrical and other managers
who are in search of novelties, and who
have it spread abroad that money is no
object. London is made their headquar-
ters.
A movement is on foot to procure by a
writ of habeas corpus the liberation of
Mrs. Maybrick, the American woman
who was sentenced to imprisonment for
life on a charge of numbering her hus-
band.
The miracle-working wells of Galgocz
in the district of Pressburg, Hungary,
are attracting so many thousands of pill
grims from the surrounding countries
that the authorities have been forced to
call in the military to keep order.
On the occasion of her marriage with
the son of King John of Abyssinia the
daughter of the King of Shoa wore the
historical crown of the Queen of Sheba.
which has been treasured by the Ethi-
opian Kings for twenty-five centuries.
The Bishop of Bloomfontein has re-
solved on prosecuting an earnest temper
ance work in South Africa. At the out
set he will particularly devote himself
to the Bechuanaland police and the en-
ployes of the British South Africa Com
pany.
The breaking-out of the influenza in
Iceland has caused considerable panic,
as the consequences there have been Sc
rious. Of the 81 900 inhabitants in 1843
1000 died of influenza, and in 1876
800 persons were carried off by the
same disease.
DIR. Nansen's expedition to the North
Pole is to start in the spring of 1892.
His companion, Captain Sverdrup, will
take the nautical direction. He is at
present on board fishing boat in the
Polar sea in order to practice in maneu-
vering among the ice.
The recent increase of the salaries of
government officials in Germany will
swell the civil list in the Postal Depart
ment by about 81, 500, 900. AS 81, 900 per-
sons (S5 per cent. of the German postal
employes) are affected by the increase,
no one will get very big slice.
1t is said that Germany has agreed to
compromise, in accordance with which
she will pay back one-half of the money
value of the Bishops property, which
was confiscated during the culturkampf,
and interest on the remainder.
The new law regulating the work of
minors in Russian factories is not so
stringent as the old law was. According
to the latter children below the age of II
wears were not allowed to work at all,
but the new law allows children of 10
and II years to be employed in factories.
The National Association of British
and Irish Millers report decided in
crease in wheat productions in Russia,
Roumania, Austria and Hungary. They
think that America is approaching the
time when she must considerably in
crease her wheat acreage or cease to be
a wheat-exporting country, such will be
the home demand.
A complete list of the Sultans wives
shows that he has five frst-class wives
valides, twenty-four second-class or NOR
ganatic wives and some 250 third-class
partners, variously described as favor
ties" and "slaves." The care and at
tendance of the female establishments
require the services of 5000 persons,
who are the only people in Turkey who
receive their full pay with regularity.
In the agreement by which Heligo-
land is ceded to Germany young Kaiser
William, who by the careful and delib-
, crate conclusion of the united States OF
Germany is the German Emperor and
not the Emperor of Germany, appears
as the "Emperor " of Germany" The
!, use of this title in the English counter
mart of the deed was insisted upon by