The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1890-12-20
FOREIGN NEWS.
Americans Buying Grazing Lands
in Mexico.
A Paris Newspaper Says That the Pope
is in Favor of a Union Of
Church and State.

! Americans have bought 100000 acres
of grazing land on the Rio Grande, State
OF Coahuila, Mexico.
The smallpox epidemic is raging all
over Salvador. New cemeteries are be-
ing provided in which to bury the dead.
lie Soir of Paris states that the Pope
will shortly make definite statement in
favor of Cardinal Lavigerie's policy of
the union of church and state. The
Papal Nuncio has request Bishop
Freppel to cease his extreme opposition
10 the Republic.
England's military garrison in Ireland
is numerically larger than the regular
army of the United States.
On and after January ] next Callao
will be the only port through which
opium will be allowed to be imported
into Peru.
The great money lottery of the city of
Hamburg, Germany, is bidding to ! e
the successor in this country of the great
Louisiana lottery.
Advices from the Congo Free State
report the natives are still rebelious and
fighting is going on between them and
the forces of the State.
Yearling prices have risen in England
to the point that Mr.. Marshall coolly
adver'ises yearling flly by Ormonde,
from Serene by Hermit, for 900 guineas.
A dispatch says that an English war
vessel has gone to New Hebrides to punish
natives for an act of cannibaism, two
men, an English trader and his son,
having been killed and eaten on one of
the islands.
The police of Amsterdam have made
another raid on the Socialists and seized
of revolutionary manifestoes
and posters. 1t is believed widespread
against the government has
been checked.
Two hundred and sixty-seven barrels
Of gold, worth altogether 81, 100000, re-
Gently passed through Kenigsburg from
st. Petersburg for London. The money
was packed in three ars, and was at
tended by military escort.
The Russian Minister of the Interior
has issued an edict making compulsory
ior every householder in villages to have
two rows of trees planted around his
house. This is to prevent the numerous
destructive fires in small towns and vii
lagos.
President Carnot has signed the bill
granting to Greece the benefits of the
most favored nation clause until Febru-
iry, 1895, on condition that Greece re-
,iprocates by admitting French wines
rec and reducing the duties on laces rs
per cent. and on velvets 80 per cent.
The Spanish government has ordered
he erection of new and first class
lighthouse at Cape Villano in order to
prevent frequent wrecks that occur off
hat coast. The present light is OF an
Inferior class, and the loss of II. NJ. S.
serpent is ascribed to the dimness of
beacon.
The Earl OF Lathom is building in the
sle OF Man tower ten stor es high,
zach story of which will be consecrated
o a special usage. One will be thea
er, another a restaurant, still another
.Oncert room, and the tops ory an obser-
ratory, capped by a lighthouse. The whole
,difice will cost 100000.
Two persons in the disguise of peas
nts, who were arrested for lettering in
he vicinity of Annitchkof palace, in st.
Petersburg, proved to be secretly armed,
md one of them is suspected of being
he Nihilist conspirator Kalchkof, who
ecently escaped from prison.
Josef de Navarro, the ,ex-millionaire
builder of the Navarro Flats and the
Of Mary Anderson, was
axed recently upon 900 personal
This was remitted by the
ourt at New York on his statement that
le is not worth dollar and had $50, 1000
n judgments against him.
An official census has establish d the
act that there existed in Russia, in + i
ope, in Poland and in Caucasus 189 ,872 |
blind persons Of both hsexes-94, ,506 males |
md 95,8l6 females-w whereas there are
,nly 1912 blind persons in the whole |
# Western Europe and %, 2,4Ol in the
Sew Word.
Sir Mackenzie Wallace, chief of the
British staff accompanying the Caro-
yitz on his Indian tour, has arrived in |
Egypt on his way to Bombay. Sir Mac
leszie will act as the Queens represent |
tive in introducing the Czarowitz to the
lative Princes, and will accompany him
m all occasions.
The North Metropolitan Tramway Of |
london has completed the organization
II a society for the benefit OF its thousands |
# employees. The company bears all the
,ffice expenses. Each member Of the |
iociety subscribes & pence weekly. II !
me is sick or disabled. 2 shiIlings and 6
jence day for thirteen weeks. and half
hat amount for thirteen weeks follow
ng, with free medical attendance, is
,iven. The company has given the So
.iety start with a contribution Of f1,-
90. Membership is not compulsory