The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
FOREIGN NEWS.
An Austrian Peer PronOunces for
General Disarmament.
M. Eiffel Reported to be Utilizing His
Tower and a Balloon for Aerial
Telegraph Purposes.

London has 10000 families living in
cellars.
Discourtesy to Americans in Germany
is frequently reported.
Comment is heard upon the very pal
pable increase of intemperance in Ber-
lin.
1t is proposed to join the Danube and
the Adriatic sea by means of a navigable
canal.
Owing to the rapid fall of iron and
steel In Germany, trade crisis is ante
ipated.
Russian consuls are to be appointed at
all the principal towns on tie sea coast
of Africa.
A ship canal, twenty-six feet deep, is
projected from Heyst, ON the North Sea,
to Bruges.
The Shah of Persia has great desire
to visit America, and may come to see us
next year.
Several factories are closed in Catalo-
mia. and over 10000 workingmen are un-
employed.
The municipal government of Moscow
has determined to have the city lighted
with electricity.
King Kalakaua is expected in England
next October to taxe up his residence in
Bournemouth.
The French Chamber of Deputies has
voted 200, 900 francs for the relief of the
Martinique victims.
Yellow fever is reported as epidemic
at Havana. and foreigners are getting
away from the city.
SHE Fou Cheng will until further no.
tice be the representative of China at the
courts of Paris, London, Rome and Brus-
sells.
The importation of swine from Russia
into Upper Silesia has ceased, as the i'm
porters say that the business is no longer
remunerative.
Target shooting contests in the Turk
ish army have developed the fact that
not one soldier in twenty could hit man
at twenty PAGES.
The Maori women of New Zealand are
killing themselves trying to wear cor
sets since they have seen them OF the
missionary women.
According to Italian journals the mis-
sion of the Morocco embassy to Rome
signifies that Italy is soon to play great
part in that country. ~
The. Russian government is going to
forbid Jews to publish or edit political
papers. A ukase to this effect is shortly
to be submitted to the Gear.
There are those who are apprehensive
of trouble in France, incident to the
present condition of affairs political, and
think it cannot be long deferred.
Ada Rehan's "Rosalind" was a de-
lightful surprise to the London theater-
going public, and the curtain went up
three times in answer to the p!audits.
Cardinal Mermilloid, who, as the
Bishop of Lusanne, was recently ele-
waited to the Sacred College, was received
by the Swiss Federal College recently.
There is great scarcity of coal in Dub
lin as the result of the strike of the coal
porters. Numerous small fights have
occurred, but none of them worthy of
the name of riot.
The. decay of the tea trade in China,
owing to the increased consumption of
Indian and Ceylon teas by Western ma
tions, is producing disastrous results in
the once fourishing port of Foochow.
A conspicuous Austrian peer, Prince
pronounces boldly for gen.
eral disarmament. Austria, he says, is
drifting rapidly to financial ruin. But
he fears that war must come before dis
The Boulanger banquet at Paris few
days ago was a ludicrous fasco. Only
ffty-three persons were present, and of
these twenty-five were women and three
children. Not single Boulangist Dep
uty attended.
Owing to the fact that some of the Nj
hilists convicted at Paris are Jews, the
Russian authorities are preparing strin-
gent anti-Semitic measures. The editor
of the Novosti has been ordered to leave
St. Petersburg.
The remains of the Peruvian heroes
who lost their lives during the late war
with Chill were landed at Lima the
other day and deposited in the Pan
theon. The procession was the largest
ever seen in Peru.
A new tenor has been found in Ger
many, at the village of Fischen. named
Kartour, possessing all the attributes of
a great singer, including the high G.. He
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erer, an empresario.
1t is proposed to start in London a sys-
tenn which will enable business men to
call messenger. cab, fire-engine, or
a doctor by simply pressing button. A
central office will supply all the require
ments upon receiving the alarm.
It is reported that New Foundland
fishery cruiser. while endeavoring to
capture French fishing schooner fired
a shot at her. The Frenchman got
away, however. Three British war
ships have suddenly left Halifax.
Able Courtial, at Rodez, France, who
shot Nine. Calinet dead in the street
with gun cane, is now on trial. The
priest passionately protests bis innocence
and declares that he simply intended to
tap the young woman on the shoulder
His former associations with the woman
point to his guilt.
The Russian government has begun
the const- uction of line of railway from
Vladikavkas to Tiflis. It will have a
length of about 100 miles, and will, it is
said, reach an altitude of nearly %, 900
feet The latter statement appears some
what incredible. The cost ia estimated