The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-06
FOREIGN NEWS.
Secretaries Helping Bismarck to
Compile "reminiscences.
The German Artillery to be Armed
With Bronze Cannons-Herr
Goercke Sentenced.

Ano HioACh 0cHcid dI I1dutpOle IL ueaQ.
Drought is causing great distress in
Cuba.
The Boulangists are preparing to form
a new party.
Eyraud, the strangler, attempted sui
eide twice after his capture at Havana
The French military operations in Da-
honey have been temporarily suspended.
Emperor William will 60 to Oberam-
mergau to witness the Passion PLAY. -
Considerable repairs are about to be
undertaken for the cupola of St. Peters,
Rome.
Great Britain is talking about addi-
tional subsidies for her South American
steamship lines.
The rumors of the serious illness of
Queen Victoria are officially denied. She
has slight cold.
1t is said that King Leopold is negotiat-
ing for the sale of slice of the Congo
State to Germany.
Colonel William F. Cody Buffalo Bill
has purchased a house in Naples once
owned by King Bomba.
Bismarck says the discomfort of capt.
| talisss is much more dangerous than the
discomfort Of workmen.
Since the beginning of the outbreaks
among the strikers in the Pilsen district
in Bohemia twelve men have been killed.
French scientists have analyzeda a quart
of water taken from a typhoid-infected
district and found IL, 600, 900 to 20, ,OO0, 900
I typhoid germs therein.
Bismarck has already two secretaries
helping him to prepare his "reminis-
cences." One of them is the assistant
doctor of Schweninger.
Herr Goercke, well-known Socialist
agitator, has been sentenced to fifteen
months imprisonment at Berlin for for
gerry and embezzlement.
Prince Hatzfeldt claims that Labouch-
ere libeled him in Truth in referriHg to
his gambling and other alleged vices.
Iabouchere has apologized.
The telegraph line connecting Tonquin
and China by way of Yunnan, the capi-
tai of the province of the same name,
has been opened for business.
The Budget Committee of the German
Reichstag has approved credits amount
ing to 4,500,000 marks on account of
German operations in East Africa.
The japanese Government has taken
up the matter of public telephone serv-
ice, and proposes to bring it into uni
versal use throughout the country.
4 Chinese bank is to be started at
Shanghai with branches in all parts of the
country. An American bank is said to
be chiefly interested in the scheme.
Minister Reid has brought before the
foreign Office the case of an American
lawyer who was severely dubbed by the
police in the Place Madeleine May l.
The Brazilian Government has decreed
that patents of nobility shall be abol-
ished, V ith all orders Of knighthood ex-
ceps one or two of a religious character.
A new megaphone has been placed en-
the market in England, by which the
human voice can be 80 magnifed that it
may be heard at a distance of several
miles.
Another riotous demonstration against
the government has occurred at Puerto
Allegro, Argentine Republic. Twenty
six soldiers were slain and forty-one
wounded.
The German artillery by an imperial
order is to be armed with bronze cannons,
which are to be manufactured from the
bronze guns taken from the French dur
ing the last war.
The government has introduced bill
in the Hungarian Diet providing that
workmen shall perform no labor On Sum
day, but shall have continuous rest for
twenty-four hours.
The decline of drinking is again at
tested by the declaration in the London
Telegraph that for one club fifty years
ago London now has ten, yet the drink
ing within them has steadily diminished.
1t is proposed to levy duty of 10 per
cent. upon all merchandise imported into
the Congo Free State, the proceeds to be
used in recuperating the private fortune
OF King Leopold of Belgium.
A fashionable vi.itiHg card in Berlin is
an African importation. 1t is leaf OF
silver poplar, which keeps its color when
dried and can be easily written upon. 1t
delights fashionable Berlin under the
name of "Emin Pasha's visiting card :"
Dispatches from Acheen say the Dutch
have lost three killed and fourteen
wounded in futile attempt to recover
the position from which they had been
driven by the natives. The latter lost
fourteen killed.
The Highland crOfters on the islands
of Null and Iona have gained a victory
over their landlord, the Duke of Argyll,
the Land Court having reduced their
rents about 80 per cent. and wiped out
two-thirds of the arrears.
! The indications now are that in very
few wears the island of Iceland will be
depopulated. Her emigration has been
constantly increasing, and it is estimated
that at least 10000 people, or one-third
of the population, will leave this year.
Henry Tate, sugar re6ner OF London
and Liverpool, whose benefactions have
heen most munifcent. has announced his
intention of giving s5, 600 to London and
a similar sum to Liverpool toward pro-
motion in those cities of home nursing
of silk poor.
j sensation has been created in Eng
land by the discovery that an active slave
trade is now being carried on in Madras,
India, under the eyes of the government.
It appears that in that British province
a traffic in girls has been carried on az
outrageously as in Constantinople and
with Just about the same amount OF SC
crecy. 1t is said that high English OH.
cials are implicated in the netarion'
trade,