The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31

The German Authorities Continue Very
vigilant in Their Outlook for
French Spies.

the Mckinney Dill.
The Queen of Roumania is to write a
poem about Queen Victoria.
Tests OF new and remarkable guns are
being made all over Europe.
Cholera has entirely disappeared in
the Italian possessions of Africa.
The German government will adopt
some means to restrain emigration.
The prominent Irish residents of Lon
don are to have club of their own.
The Portuguese papers at Lisbon abuse
England with greater violence than ever.
London hotel officials are said to con-
tinue their insolence to American pa
irons.
The statement is made that an Ameri-
can has made an offer to buy Warwick
castle.
General Booth of the Salvation Army
has decided to form great matrimonial
agency.
Uruguay has increased import duties
5 per cent, and export duties have been
restored.
The government of Brazil has favor
ably received Frances proposal for a
copyright treaty.
The British government has forbidden
the importation into England of live cat
tie from Holland.
The scheme for the duplicate of the
Eiffel tower in London is understood to
have been abandoned.
The Egyptian corn crop this year is
the largest since 1885, thanks to more
effective system of irrigation.
Two hundred deaths have occurred in
connection with the recent heavy floods
on the Turco-Bulgarian frontier.
The Baptist Assembly of England has
adopted a resolution condemning the
Irish policy of the government.
Because Emperor William prohibited
women from laboring in government fac
tories Berlin Socialists have protested.
Thousands of people are dying from
cholera IN the Red Sea country, and
their bodies are being eaten by dogs and
vultures.
Those quarters of Berlin wherein the
workingmen have their strongholds were
brilliantly Illuminated in honor of the
return of expatriated Socialists.
Great distress prevails in the regions
of Southern France recently visited by
flood, and the French Chambers will be
asked to do something for the sufferers.
The Spaniards sent to punish the ma
tives of Papua for the recent massacre
of boats crew, killed $50 natives. and
lost seven killed and nineteen wounded.
King William Ill, who has ruled the
Netherlands since 1S49, is now declared
unfit to longer control affairs. He is
more of misanthrope than an invalid.
A party of Armenians and Druses at
tackled the barracks at Silensia, SYRIA.
Forty Turkish soldiers were killed. as
was also the Governor and treasury
robbed.
1t is announced at Madrid that Spain
will exclude American breadstuffs if the
tariff restrictions imposed by the Nc
Kinley bill are not taken off West India
tobacco and sugar.
In a speech in the New South Wales
| tlC lClllCI IllC D1CS-
ent strike in Australia had been almost
as disastrous to the country as bonn
bardment would be.
There is famine in the rubber mar
ket this season, owing to the failure OF
the South American crop. The newly
explored Congo country is a future
source of supply, at present not easily
accessible.
The Roumanian Prefect, who for sum
of $500 roubles in gold delivered up to
the Russian police a Polish refugee
named Limonsky, has been sentenced to
one years imprisonment and deprived
of all his honors.
1t is understood that the French gov
eminent has decided not to renew its
commercial treaties with foreign coun-
tries expiring in February, 1892. 1t is
also understood that new general tariff
law will be adopted, reductions in Gus
toms rates being granted to those coun-
tries facilitating French commerce.
The opening of unique theater in
Paris will take place shortly. Every
play in the new house will be exclusive
" pantomimic, and will be patronized,
it is expected, only by deaf mutes. On
the first evening a drama written by a
deaf mute and entitled Love and
Death " viii be produced for the first
time.
! Ex-Consul DIR. Knapp of Samoan
fame. whom Bismarck made scapegoat
when Germany found it advisable to
back down before England and the
United States, and who has accepted the
German plantation companies manager
ship In South Africa. has been received
by Chancellor Won Capriyi, who had a
long conversation with him.
The mortality In Austria in 1889 was
much less than in any one OF the ten
previous years. The total number OF
cases of death was 646, ,787, being SO, 786
fewer than in 1888, and only "a % to the
/ 900. On the other hand, the births
numbered S9S, $50, or 8. .449 more than in
1888.
Camille Flammarlon, the French as
tronomer. criticises the statement OF
Professor Holden of the Lick University
that he does not know what the scots on
Mars signify, and expresses surp-ise Z. at
the Mount Hamilton observers Go not
confirm the observations made at Milan
Iof the strange formations OF land and
seas.
Lady Dixie. wife of Sir Charles Dixie,
. is taking active interest In labor organl-
, zation in England, and has recently adj
. dressed crowded meetings of women
She urged them to form unions, bu1
warned them against deserting the cause
| as soon az their wrongs had been righted