The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-13
FOREIGN NEWS.
The Prussian Finance Minister
Resigns.
A Russian UkaSe Gives Permission
for Employment Of Women
on Railroads.

Europe has on hand 1l5, ,OOC, coo ounces
OF fine silver ready for sale.
A ruby weighing 3s4 carats has been
found in the mines at Burmah.
More rich petroleum discoveries have
been made in Tabasco, Mexico.
NGladstone again asserts that a new
Parliament will soon be chosen.
Herr Stuebel, formerly German Consul
at Apia, has been appointed Consul at
Shanghai.
The accounts of the German East At
rican Company show loss of $3.50, 900
during 1889.
The census of France, recently tabu-
lated, gives the total population of France
as 37,93O,759
Queen Victoria will confer the Order
of Bath on Emperor William. The cere-
mony will be private.
The German Emperor has just had a
magnificent sword manufactured in Ber-
lin as gift to the Sultan.
| DR.. Chambeland, Pasteur's chief as
sistant, has discovered that cinnamon is
fatal to the typhoid microbe.
Leprosy is spreading in New Caledonia.
Three thousand of the natives and 1nany
convicts have been attacked.
President Diaz favors three-Americas
railroad. He says anything connecting
Mexico with the outer world will be ben
efcial.
1t is announced that upon the retire
ment of Mr.. Gladstone Lord Spencer
will become the titular leader of the Lib
eral party.
An imperial Russian ukase will shortly
be issued forbidding Jews to engage in
the publication of journals of political
character.
A tunnel through the Simpion is likely
to be the next great engineering achieve
ment in Europe. 1t will be eighteen
miles long.
The Mexican Secretary of Finance
states that he is not quite ready to pro-
pose a new tariff reducing the import
duties on many articles.
The British Secretary of War will soon
bring in bill to give facilities for
establishing volunteer rife ranges i'll va
rious parts of the country.
An epidemic of suicide prevailed in
England week before last. There were
1873 cases OF self-destructiOn in the prov
inces and eighty in London.
The new observatory near Tananarivo,
Madagascar, will be one of the highest in
the world, as the site chosen is about
4 400 feet above the sea level.
Another riotous demonstration against
the government has occurred at Puerto
Allegro, Argentine Republic. Twenty
six soldiers were slain and forty-one |
wounded.
The German artillery by an imperial
order is to be armed with bronze cannons,
which are to be manufactured from the
bronze guns taken from the French dur |
ing the last war.
Notwithstanding the constant heavy
emigration the population of Great Brit
ain has increased more than 1000, O,OO0
since 1885. The total population is about
$4,000, 900.
Locusts are 80 numerous in some parts
of South Australia that they cause con-
tinual roar while flying, and the country
is being stripped of everything green by
the scourge.
The Federal Council of Switzerland has
decided that when an alteration of the |
constitution is demanded by $4,000 citi-
zens the question will be submitted to
popular vote.
The French Budget Committee says
the navy is inferior to the navies of the |
triple alliance, and it is proposed to in
crease the number of vessels and to |
strengthen the crew.
What would appear to be form of tel |
pherage system is at present being con-
sidered as means of transporting mail
matter between Buenos Ayres and Mon
tevideo in South America
Mr.. Parnell has written an article for
an American review, to be published at
an early date, setting forth in some de- |
tail the objections of the Irish party to
Mr.. Baifour's Irish land purchase bill.
The increase of about ], ,OO0, 900 people |
in thirtsen years in Spain is attributed in |
a great measure to the success that has
attended the changes in the hygienic |
condition of the large cities and towns.
A Russian ukase has just been issued |
permitting the employment of women on |
the railroads. On the Transcaspian line |
there are female station masters, traffic
managers, signal women and point |
women.
A committee, consisting of representa-
tives of the British war Office, the admi- |
ralty and the colonial Office, has been ap-
pointed to consider the question of |
building a great government dock at
Gibraltar.
The Russian Government is about |
sending large detachment of the army |
to destroy the grasshoppers now ravag-
ing Transcsncasia, covering with their |
depredationg an area of thousands of
square miles.
The French Parliamentary Committee
on the subject of limiting the labor of |
women, girls and children proposes that |
women and girls between the ages of 13
and 18 shall work not more than ten |
hours and shall not work at night.
DR.. Won Scholz, the Prussian Minister
of Finance, has resigned suddenly and
taken his departure from Berlin. No |
reason is given for his retirement. In
accepting his resignation the Emperor
conferred upon him the order of the
Black Eagle.
The Princess of Battenberg has man.
aged to bring about quasi-reconciliation
between the Queen and her son, Prince
Alexander, who fell into the deepest dig
grace at the English court when he fitted |
Princess Victoria OF Prussia in order to |
contract naorsspahc marriage,