The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-20
FOREIGN NEWS.
No More AbSolution for Irish
Boycotters.
The New Law Of Universal Suffrage
Adopted by the Cortes Not
Extended to Cuba.


in England.
A municipal hall has been opened in
Tientsin, and is named after General
Gordon.
The Czar is to make strict inquiry into
the Siberian scandals.
Six lepers were lately arrested for beg
glng IN the market at Bombay.
Seville is infested with women BARRIERS.
They are pretty women, however.
A well-known Dublin solicitor has alb
seconded after extensive defalcations.
Atrocious crimes are attributed to ban
dts in the Auracanian territory in Chile.
An English syndicate has secured the
contract for building the Cuban Central
Railway.
A Paris correspondent says Count
Herbert Bismarck is cOnspiring to OBJ
struct Emperor Williams policy.
Lima has just experienced a most Sc
we're earthquake. Itwas followed by two
shocks of more than usual violence.
The Governments of Germany, France,
d
treaty for the suppression of anarchy.
Emperor William has informed Prince
Bismarck th- t if he does not stop his
press utterings the result will be serious.
A dispatch from Cairo SAYS: England,
Italy and Russia have given notice of
their adhesion to tie Egyptian conver-
sion scheme.
Russia is reported to be making ready
to drop France and seek an alliance
with Germany by way of dividing up the
Balkan Peninsula.
Very imperfect and Ineffective laws,
known as the "Bee-houses Acts" have
shut up 800 beer houses in Liverpool
alone and 500 in Dublin.
The British Museum has received a
Chinese bank note issued from the I'm
perial Treasury 800 years before the use
of paper money in England.
The new law of universal suffrage
adopted by the Spanish Cortes will not
be extended to Cuba. This causes
considerable dissatisfaction.
Paris is just now swarming with Amer
leans. The principal hotels seem to
have almost as many American guests
as the Exposition attracted a year ago.
The business of the Transcaspian rail-
way has reached a value of 10000 ru-
bles (about $50, 900 per week. from cot
ton, which is now largely cultivated in
Central Asia.
| Herr Schrader has been elected First
Director of the American Treuhand AS
sociation, the object of which is to deal
in American securities and to represent
the interests of holders of such securi-
ties.
Except at Kuttywar, in Bombay, and
in central provinces, the Indian lion is
almost extinct. He has disappeared be-
fore the railway. 1t is forbidden to kill
those that remain, except occasionally
in the way of sport.
Catholic Bishop O'Dwyer of Limerick
has issued a pastoral letter Withdrawing
from priests in his diocese the power to
grant ahsolution to persons guilty of boy
cotting or advocating and practicing the
plan of campaign.
The Australian wine which was said
to have such excellent prospects of be-
ing exported to Europe in great quanti-
ties, must now wait until they can get
some wood in Australia fit to make casks
All that they have Injuries it's flavor.
Rev. w. III. Murray. missionary at
| Peking, has devised system for teach
| ing the blind and has reduced the Chi
nese language to 408 syllables. By this
system the blind have been enabled to
learn to read with marvellous facility.
Emile Blanchard President of frances
Academy of Sciences, announced that
he can make silk straight from the ma
terial of the mnlberry leaf, without re-
sorting to the silkworm. 1t is inferior
in richness and gloss to the present silk.
Stanley has suggested to the commit
tee in charge of the Stanley Exhibition
that the money raised be donated t, the
equipment of a steamer to ply on the
Victoria Nyanza, in the service and for
the benefit of the tribes in that section.
The four Khans of Merv, hitherto re-
tanned in authority over their respective
tribes, have been dismissed, in conse-
quence of the investigation of a special
commission, which is now on the spot,
and Russian officers are to take their
places.
The French Minister of the Interior
has forw arded to United States Minister
Reid an apology for the lawyer from
Georgia and his friends who were
roughly handled in Paris by the police
on the night of May l, during the Labor
day parade excitement.
The Established Church of England
is unquestionably in danger. Speaking
at the annual meeting of the Church De-
Tense Institution, Lord Selborne con-
fessed that disestablishment had come
"within the reach of practical poll
tics"
A bombshell has suddenly exploded
among the Clerical and Conservatives of
Florence, by the proposal made by the
Municipal Council to convert the Church
of Santa CrOce into nOn-sectarian Pan
theon, with a voting tablet in honor of
Garibaldi.
The British courts have awarded 81 200
to the steamer Virginian for towing the
Fonar into Boston, on March Goth, dis
tance of ITO mile, which required two
days to traverse, so severe was the
weather. The Fonar had been drifting
for three days.
Wild rumors are current at Halifax
concerning the Newfoundland fisheries
and the movement of British vessels,
which is thought to porteId disruption
with France. The officers of the British
squadron are reporte to have said that
the French were only doing what they
had right to do.