Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-30
THE OLD WORLD.

France practically gets all Northwest
ern African under the new agreement
An extradition treaty has been signed
between Germany and the Congo State.
King Otto of Bavaria has fits of de
mentia, in which he imagines he is a
lion.
Communication is interrupted, owing
to the floods in certain parts of Switzer
land
An immense forest area has been de-
stroyed in Bavaria by caterpillar raw
ages.
A statue of Voltaire has just been I'M
yelled at Ferney, where he took up his
residence in 1868.
Emperor William and the Gar net at
Narva, and the two were taken to The
villa set apart for their conference.
Boulanger is now a journalist. He
helps in managing the Voix du Peuple,
a Paris weekly and Boulangist organ.
Measures are being taken for the or
ganization of the French Exhibition
which is to be held in Moscow next year.
The London Times can discover in ma
| tional legislation in the United States
nothing that has not political motive.
A State grant of 100000 marks has
just been made for the extension of the
telegraph and telephone lines in the Ger
man Empire.
The imperial conference at st. Peters
burg is expected to last three days. Ca
priv and De Giers will be present with
Emperor William.
The deadlock between the President
of Chill and Congress continues. The
country is believed to be on the eve of a
political revolution.
Through the breaking of scaffolding
in a six-story building on the Nevski
prospect, St. Petersburg, eight working
men were killed and eight injured.
The successor of Cardinal Newman is
likely to be a German. The Pope does
not look with favor upon the claims of
Archbishop Walsh to that position.
Harper Bros. are putting up printing
house in Albemarle square, London, and
edition of their magazine by contract.
Premier Crispi has ordered list to be
made of all religious houses in Rome,
with a view of cOnfiscating those that
are liable to suppression under the law.
The Sultan of Morocco has replied to
a Spanish note regarding Arab aggres-
sion that he cannot attend to the matter
at present, owing to pressing internal
questions.
1t is stated that the German Electric
Company of Madrid has in contempla-
ton the installation of plant for cleo
trio blowing on large property in the
central part of Spain.
The new French dictionary to be pub
lished by Delagrave is expected to revo-
lutionize the system of dictionarv-mak-
ing hitherto in vogue and even to super
sede the colossal production of Littre.
The King of Italy wants to be an EN-
peror, too, and thinks of making him
self Emperor of Erythrea and Eastern
Africa" on the strength of his protec-
torate OF Abyssinia and some colonies
on the Red sea.
The Roumanian government has Of
fered prizes to the architects of all ma
lions for the best plans for its new As
sembly and Senate chambers. The first
prize for each building is $1,000; the
second, 81, $40; the third, 5000.
Statistics gathered by the Hungarian
Minister of Agriculture place the wheat
harvest of the world at US, 600, 900 hec-
toliters and the quantity required bv the
importing countries at l23, 900, 900 hecto-
liters. The total quantity available to
meet import demand is estimated at
las, zoo, 900 hectoliters. The Minister of
Agriculture lays stress upon the fact that
owing to the small quantity of stored
grain the surplus is small as compared
with import requirements.