Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-15
THE OLD WORLD.

Portugal has granted to a syndicate a
monopoly on the importation of wheat.
The Marquis de Mores has been fined
at Ipres, Belgium, 4JOf for fighting a
duel.
Count Won Moltke has refused a duke
dom protfered to him by Emperor
William.
Lord Randolph Churchill will once
more give his services to the Conserva-
tive party.
The Anti-Semitic party in the Hun
garian Diet has been dissolved after an
existence OF ten years.
1t is stated that since the accession of
Gar Alexander in 1881, go, 900 Jews
have been expelled from Russia.
In Australia the Victorian Ministry
has been defeated in the Colonial Par
lament by vote Of want of confidence.
The official report of the Dutch GOV
eminent says that the coffee harvest in
Java is only % 400 piculs Rio Janeiro
reports that the Brazilian crop is very
abundant.
-AtlN lNCS liOlIl NlOLdlIlDlCluG STATE tildI
the British gunboats safely assembled the
| river and entered branch. Letters of
! recall have been sent to Senior Freitas.
the Portuguese Minister to England.
Cardinal Lavigerie is said to have
stated that the Pope no longer hoped
! for anything from Austria. He would
! place all his trust in France to secure
the restoration Of the temporal power.
Cuban advices, according to a Madrid
| dispatch, report that the Mckinley law
| has already had baneful etfect on Cuba.
| Forty smaller tobacco factories have
closed and large number of operatives
are idle.
Balfour met with an unexpectedly
warm reception at AchilI. He gave the
! people promises that he would find labor
Tor them and he would pay the expenses
| OF building a bridge between the two
points of the island.
John Rose Troup has given out the
letters which passed between himself
and Stanley regarding the rear guard
/ These are the letters he refused to mod
/ lily at SANKEY'S request. They are in
line with Troup's statements already
made
The London Times on Behring Sea
matters says the question of a closed sea
must be dealt with before progress is
( possible. When that is settled England
Will be perfectly ready to co-opera e
with America in dealing with Behring
Sea marauders.
Gerhard Rohlfs, the African explorer,
expresses the opinion that trans
Saharan railway could be built only after
the complete disarmirg of all the people
through whose country the route would
lie. For this purpose 10000 picked sol
diers would be necessary.
Peasant revolts in Southern Russia
are giving the government much trouble.
! The peasants in bands are pillaging and
burning residences of land owners. The
Minister of the Interior has abolished
all peasants rights in that sec ion and
has sent troops to quell the disturbance.
General Craesses has issued an order
to the St. Petersburg police command
| ing the rigid adherence to the letter OF
| the anti-Jewish law and saving that
they must compel the families of Jews
expelled from the Empire or transferred
from one part to another to accompany
them.
The great bacteriologist Koch pro.
fesses that his invention Of incubation
for tuberculosis includes a method by
which all vegetable parasites and bacilli
in the human body can be destroyed
The bacillus of diphtheria will be ex.
perimented upon next in order after the
first results of the experiments in tuber.
cular bucillus are announced.
Sir John Pender, the Gable King, .
has arranged to pay visit to the Pacific
side of the world next year, and he has
already apprised Sanford Fleming, the
Astral-Canadian cable enthusiast, that
he will then be prepared to discuss the
feasibility of establishing photographic
communication between Vancouver and
the antipodes.