The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-27
FOREIGN NEWS.
Hatred of the Jews Rampant in
France.
Immense Fields of lee Reported in
the Atlantic Ocean, Making
Navigation Dangerous.

The London Times advocates the buy
ing out of French interests in Newfound-
land
Philip Bright, the youngest son of the
late John Bright, has become Home
Ruler.
The Somali tribes in Africa are war
ring, and the Sultan of Zanzibar has sent
troops to the scene
Immense fields of ice are still encoun-
tered In the Atlantic, making navigation
somewhat dangerous.
The main telegraph wires in London
run through the subways in which the
gas pipes and sewers are placed.
Stanley and Miss Tenant personally
obtained a license from the Archbishop
OF Canterbury to marry on July IL.
England's "cliff railway" said to be
the steepest in the world, was opened a
short time ago at Lynton. North Devon.
DIR. Seward Webb and Cornelius Van
derbilt were robbed between Paris and
Calais. Their losses were quite heavy.
Phya Phroph Song Knam has again
started rebellion at Chiengmai in North
ern Siam. 1t will probably result in fail
ure.
1t is announced that the Prince and
Princess Of Wales will attend the we'd
ding of Henry M. Stanley and Miss Ten
nant
The cathedral at Strasburg is to be
lighted with electricity. 1t is the first
nbI1roh in Gnrnoonu To hn
mated.
At Ricetre, France, a revolt of the in
mates OF madhouse was only quelled
by drencning the unfortunate people with
water.
What will be one of the longest tele-
phone cables in existence is proposed by
the Spanish Government in connecting
Porto Rico and Cuba with Spain.
The Swiss Bundesrath has decided
that extradition shall be granted for
criminal offenders only, and not in cases
of political, military or fiscal offenses.
twill soon be proposed that the mem
bers of Parliament should be made to
print and distribute their bills before they
introduce them at their own expense.
Over ], 100 workmen a1e now engaged
on the Congo railroad. Four hundred of
them come from Zanzibar, and the others
are mostly Krooboys from the Liberian
coast.
According to the Freissinnige Zeitung
Prince Bismarck appealed to the EN-
press Frederick to intervene in his favor
during the crisis which led to his resig-
nation.
An English staiistician figures out
633, 100000 gallons as the precise amount
of the wine product of France for the
year 1889. Its pecuniary value is some
thing over $200,000,000.
Edinburgh, GLASGOW and Dundee, Scot !
land, are now in telephonic communica- |
tlon, provided by new trunk line 100 |
miles long, which is conveyed under the
Tay by cable two and One-half miles |
long.
A London dispatch says: An anti
Semitic riot has occurred at Loholsk in
Lithuania, which is inhabited mostly by
Jews. A ma ajority of the houses were
wrecked. Many persons were seriously
wounded.
The congress of German Catholics will
meet at Coblentz instead Munich. Prince
Regent Luitpold ohje. ted to having the
congress meet in the Bdvarian capital,
and it is for this reason that the change
has been made.
1t is intended to light the town of Sofia,
Bulgaria, with electricity, using the wa
ter Of the Boyena as the origin of force.
The cost of initial establishment is tsti-
mated at e20,0J0 to 6 1000. Tenders
will be invited in August.
Scientific farming in Italy is to be un-
dertaken this year by company owning
capital OF $4,000, 900. If the opera
tions prove successful, the old wooden
plow pulled by oxen, which has held the
field since an era before the Roman Ce-
sars, will probably have to go.
There have heen revolts in the gold
mines Of Siberia belonging to the Rus
sian millionaires Basileorski & Bartas-
choff, miners. The miners were goaded
maltreatment. Two superintendents
were killed anG many buildings de-
stroyed.
Dr.. Hinzpeter, the German Emperor's
former tutor, who was named as pOssi-
bic successor of Bismarck, has been for
some years absorbed in a scheme to re-
form tramps by corraling them on a farm
in the midst of Westphalian desert.
The latest comparison between the ar
mics of France and Germany place the
former ahead numerically, while the lat
ter is preparing to close the gap with the
aid of the recent law. France could mo-
bilze at the present time 5000 trained
soldiers more than Germany.
A famine prevails in the Soudan, and
thousands are dying from starvation.
Relief has been given in every district
that could be reached by the government,
but in places in the interior, which were
beyond the control OF the government,
the people are without help. Around
Suakim GOO persons are fed daily. The
failure of crops for successive years,
added to other causes, has led to the
present intense distress.
The Paris correspondent of the London
Times, doubtless Blowitz, says that the
anti-J ewish movement in France is SO in
tense that man. who gave him the in
formation himself, was hired by furious
anti-Semite for the purpose of assassinat-
ing an American Jew, DR.. Cornelius
Herr (once member of the San Francisco
Board of Health), representative of the
United States at the Paris Electric Exhi-
bition. This man bad seen in the Fig
arc an advertisement for one capable of
accepting any mission. He applied, and
in an interview with the advertiser he
received an offer of $1,000 francs If he
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