The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-26
FOREIGN NEWS.
Emperor William Will Become
an Editor.
The Guatemalan Government Decides t(
Exile Barrundia's Daughter for
Shooting at Miner.

The floods in Central Europe are sub
siding.
Francis Robert st. Clair Erskine,
fourth Earl of Rosslyn, is dead.
1t is estimated that the losses by
floods in Central Europe will reach a2O,
600, 900.
Advices from Spain say that the EN-
press OF Austria intends to visit Havana
and will travel incognita.
The maneuvers of the German navy,
according to experts, show the condi-
ton of the fleet to be excellent.
The province of Ferrea, in Italy, is
being devastated by rats, and has already
been damaged to the amount of 8OO,-
0O0f.
The mock war going on before Hall
fax is much enjoyed by the people. The
whole fleet will take part in " the siege
of Halifax"
The long-talked-of scheme of render
ing the Seine navigable as far as Paris
for sea-going vessels is at last likely to
be carried out.
Emperor William has expressed in a
speech at Berlin great pride in the
working of the fleet as displayed at the
recent naval maneuvers.
William O'Brien advises the Irish
peasants under the present condition of
the potato crop to pay no rents until
their families provided for.
The latest reports from Tonquin an
nounce the arrival there of portable
1t was imported from the
town of Kesub, and is of iron.
Owing to the damage to the beet crop
by the recent floods in Central Europe.
it is likely the Austrian sugar exports
will be 80 per cent. under the average.
A bell, cast recently for the Kharkow
Cathedral, contains 68 per cent. of pure
silver. 1t weighs 646 English pounds,
and its vibrations last several minutes.
As soon as the telephone between
London and Paris is completed arrange
ments will be made to extend the
system to Brussels, Bordeaux and Mar
seilles.
The Guatemalan government has de-
cided to exile the daughter of Barrundia,
who attempted to kill Minister Miner.
1t is said all of Barrundia's relatives will
be ordered from the country.
The Berlin Kreus Zeitung alleges that
Cl,o loe, x,@%x xr<1 / L
of salary due him by the Egyptian gov
Germany pays him $4,000
year, the salary of Major-General.
On and after October 1, the Emperor
of Germany will publish newspaper to
be inspired directly by himself, and to
be the official exponent of his views on all
ubjects-military civil and political.
A committee has been formed in Ger
many for the purpose of purchasing
birthplace, the object being to
present it to the nation on the occasion
of the great warriors ninetieth birth
day.
One of the wedding presents to Stan
ley was gold geographical watch from
a firm of watchmakers, the first of the
kind ever manufactured. 1t tells the
time in almost every important city in
the world.
A cablegram from Berne says the ad-
vanced Liberals are taking leading part
in the opposition to the Conservative
government. The government became
owing to the Treasurer's re-
cent embezzlement.
The recent mutiny in the First Bat
talon of the British West India Regi-
ment at Jamaica, by which Sergeant
White lost his life, was deplorable ex-
hibition of want of discipline and de-
in the regiment.
The English journals berate Lord
Sackville for his action in respect to the
monument. The Man
chester Guardian says it amply proves
how unfit he was for the position of En-
voy or Minister to anywhere.
A passenger elevator to the summit of
Mount Blanc is proposed by an Ameri-
can mining engineer. The shaft is to
be of eight compartments, each six feet
square, intended to carry triple
decked elevator for twenty-six passen-
gers.
The Indian government publishes
return showing that in the years 1887,
1888 and 1889, 372 males and 1872 females
were tortured by dacoits in the central
division of Upper Burmah. One hun
dred and eighteen cases resulted in
death.
DIR. Henry Muirhead, the late Presi-
dent of the Glasgow Philosophical So
ciety, has bequeathed the sum of $125,-
600 for the erection and endowment of a
college which will be devoted entirely to
the instruction of women in the theory
and practice of medicine.
The large sums of money that the
government of India devotes annually
as rewards for the destruction of snakes
has brought about an unexpected result.
The snakes are being bred and reared
by the natives for the purpose of OBTAIN
ing the usual head money offered.
An important feature of the cavalry
maneuvers at London was the attempt
of twenty officers of the Guards to swim
cavalry horses across the Thames. Dash
ing into the river amid great excitement,
several succeeded in reaching the oppo-
site bank in safety, while three riders
fell off and had to be rescued by boats
1t is held that the trial proved the fulfil
ity of attempting to swim cavalry horses
across stream in body.
The ravages of phylloxera are causing
CONSERVATION in the Champagne dis
trict of France. Extensive preparations
have been made to give the ground a
thorough drenching with a solution of
carbonate of sulphur, and the govern
ment will render assistance in the work.
Owing to the apprehensions of the wine
farmers, the market has been affected,
and the price of fine grades of cham
pagne may probably be advanced.