The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-24
FOREIGN NEWS.
The Italian Police Ordered to Raid
Catholic Nunneries.
A Rumor That Germany Contemplates Ex.
tending the Pork Restrictions to
American Beef.

Railway accidents have been unusually
frequent in Germany of late.
There is no revolution in Hayti. The
country is reported to be prosperous.
A number of Armenians have been
killed and crops destroyed at Alashgerd.
A new Russian frigate, named the
Twelve Apostles, has been launched at
Nicolaieff.
The influenza is said to have again ap-
peared in Ireland at Belfast and in Ber-
lin, Germany.
1t is rumored that Germany contem-
plates extending the pork restrictions to
American bsef.
Dom Pedro is reported to be looking
unhappy and broken down. His mind
is thought to be weakening.
Severe sentences have been passed on
sixteen German soldiers stationed at
Oldenburg for mutinous conduct.
Grand Duke Nicholas, the uncle of the
Car, is in critical condition. A can
cerous affection has attacked his brain.
General distress, but no famine. is
looked for in the sections of Ireland
where failure of the potato crop is re-
ported.
| The appointment of General Won Kat
tenborn Strachan as Minister of War,
succeeding General Verdy du Vernow, is
officially announced at Berlin.
The breaking of cycling records con-
tinues in England, mainly owing to the
increased power got out of the machines
built with the pneumatic tire.
There are rumors that the Guatema-
| lans and Salvadorians have had a fight
on the frontier, which act will precipi-
tate war between the two countries.
The central telegraph office at Berlin
has discontinued the use of batteries,
and will in future obtain the power re-
quired from an accumulation supplied by
the Berlin electric-light works.
! 1t is stated that arrests of Armenians
at Constantinople continue, and that
sixty of the prisoners have already en-
dured torture for the purpose of extort-
ing evidence from them favorable to the
Turkish cause.
Members of the police force at Naples
have been ordered to make raids on all
South Italian nunneries that are closed
to the public. This is owing to discOv-
cries in an establishment known as the
Nunnery of the Buried Alive
Dispatches from Pondicherry, the cap
ital of the French settlement in India,
state that serious election conflict took
place there between mob and the po-
| lice Several were wounded ON both
sides. The military were ordered out.
The French Minister of War has de-
| cided in case of war that the men en-
ployed in the coal mines shall be dis
pensed from military service for period
of forty days in order that a sufficient
stock of coal may be secured to insure
proper railway service during the whole
of the campaign.
| Madame Bonnet, in whose possession
was found plans of the defense of Nancy,
and who confessed that she was Ger
man spy, was sentenced to five years
Imprisonment and fine of 5000 francs.
Upon the expiration of the term of inn
prisonment she will be exiled from
France for ten years.
The London Times says: "There is
no reason to quarrel with the United
States over the Mckinley bill, but the
| less said about friendliness and kinship
between the two countries the better"
The article urges Canada to adopt free
trade, as she will then be able to practi-
cally exclude America from competition.
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eral and vigorous policy than heretofore
in respect to encouraging the develop
ment of the mineral resources of the
empire. Numerous special grants and
bonuses to work coal mines are being is
sued to companies, most of which are
principally composed of foreign capital
ists
The movement for universal suffrage
is attaining tremendous strength in Bel
gium, and much Indignation has been
aroused by the announcement that the
Ministry did not intend to submit to the
Belgian Parliament a proposition en-
bodying that reform 1t was result of
this feeling that Minister of Public
Works De Bruyn was mobbed and nearly
killed at Modines while taking official
part in a civic ceremony.
1t is reported that the Turkish Minis
ter, Houssein Pasha, has been informed
the Car regards in the most gracious
spirit the invitation to the Czarowitz to
visit Constantinople. The Gar, how
ever, fears that visit to that city might
at the present time give rise to delicate
and embarrassing situation, owing to the
unsettled condition of Greek patriarchal
affairs. 1t is said that fears of cholera
most strongly operate against the pro-
p sed visit.
Horrible accounts come from the Red
Sea Coast of the condition of cholera
victims. Arabs and strangers in that
region are dying by scores. Persons are
seized with cholera and die within an
! hour, with clenched teeth and their
bodies terribly drawn up. Birds and
dogs feed on the corpses, which people
are afraid to touch. From the interior
of Arabia the accounts are fully as heart
rending, and the victims are said to be
numbered among the thousands.
The newspaper LIE Matin and LIE Jour,
the new paper which has just been es-
tablished by NJ Laurent, are out with
accusations against NJ Rouvier, Minister
of Finance, whom they charge with
making use of his position in the gov
ernment to conduct successful specula-
| tions on the Bourse NJ. Rouvier has
. not vet replied to these accusations, but
the general impression among the pub
lie is that repetition of the Wilson
: scandals, which wrecked the Grevy re-
: gime through the operations of ths
Presidents son-in-law, is about to bf
! sprung upon the French people,