The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-04-18
FOREIGN NEWS.
Queen Victoria Reported to Be
Thinking of Abdicating.
No German Newspaper Dares te
Publish the Story Of Prince
BiSmarck's Retirement.

Jovellar, President of the Spanish
Council, has resigned.
The French Senate and Chamber OF
Deputies have adjourned to May 6.
branch of the Banque de F ance has
been established in Warsaw, Russian
Poland.
Queen Victoria is reported to be seri-
ously considering the steps of abdicating
the throne.
1he recent military operations at Bonn
bay are said to have clearly demonstrated
the need for improving the defense.
The table upon which Oliver Crom well
signed the death warrant of Charles |.
was sold recently to a London antiuuary
for $40.
Letters from St. Petersburg declare
that tho original cause of the student
outbreaks in Russia was indignation over
Siberian outrages.
A revolution has broken out near Ig-
nala, in the State of Guerrero. Mexico.
the government of which is unpopular.
The troops are out.
Ex-Emperor Dom Pedro has refused to
accept the proceeds of the sale of his
Brazilian property ordered by the provi-
slOnal government.
Lieutenan: Stoll and Captain Salm of
the Cologne garrison quarreled about a
woman. when the Lieutenant fatally shot
the Captain and then blew out his own
brains.
The population of Rome increases
steadily at the rate of 1000 per month
In the last four years the increase has
been 10000, and in the last year nearly
$1,000.
Two officers and private made an ex-
perimental ascension in balloon at Po-
sen, Germany. The balloon collapsed.
The private was killed and the officers
badly hurt.
1t is stated that an agreement has been
concluded between Germany and France
establishing a uniform customs tariff in
their respective territories on the Afr can
slave coast.
1t is rumored that the Emperor of Aus
tria has offered the Province of Trent. in
the Tyrol, to the Pope for residence.
and that the Pope has the offer under
consideration.
Catholic Bishops of Brazil are prepar-
ing for the immediate issuance of pas
toral letter declaring their refusal to ac-
cept the governments separation of
Church and State.
Dispatches from Zanzibar. report that
Major Wlssman has declared a state of
war on the east coast of Africa and pro-
claimed martial law within the sphere of
German influence.
The Chinese Emperor, accompanied by
Ii Hung Chang, the Chinese Grand
Chancellor, and retinue numbering TO-
600 persons, has started on visit to the
eastern mausoleum.
The responsibilities of journalism ip
Austria are somewhat serious. The wri-
ter of recent article has had to fight
three duels, the editor of the paper FOUR
and the sub-editor six.
LIE Temps of Paris says Colonel Teril-
lon attacked the native forces in Da-
honey and dislodged them from their
positions on the River Queme. The ma
tive losses were heavy.
The Bulgarian government proposes to
adopt the Gregorian calendar, instead of
the Old-style Greek calendar still used in
Russia and some two weeks out of agree
ment with the rest of the world.
DR.. Loring, the American Minister, has
returned to Lisl on from Rome, and is
taking active measures to bring the nego-
tjatiOns relative to the Delagoa Bay rail-
way to satisfactory settlement.
The Prince Regent of Bavaria, being
straitened in his circumstances, has re-
ceived pension of 5000 forms or 20,-
600 francs from the Emperor of Germany
by way of keeping up his dignity.
OF 249 members of the Citizens Asso-
citation 231 have declared against increas-
ing the Boston tax limit. The Boston
limit now is SO tax on each assessment
of 81 ,OOO-something less than the dol
lar limit F" of San Francisco.
A beer riot is expected at Munich. The
brewers have raised the price of beer 2
pfennigs per glass, on the ground that
they could not make money at the old
prices, although beer made for export
pays.
Ten thousand shoemakers in london
have struck. Their object is to compel
the masters to have their work done in
factories, instead of at the houses of the
workmen, and thus do away with the
E" sweating" system.
The French detectives who have been
searching for Ey raud, the straneler, have
to France without Their man.
They were unable to obtain a trace of
the murderer after February 5. Yet two
young ladies claim they saw him in New
York within two or three weeks.
A Berlin dispatch says that no German
newspaper dare to print the story of
Chancellor Bismarck's retirement. Only
foreign papers dare do it. Bismarck has
not gone willingly, but has been forced
against his will to resign the Chancellor
shin of State which he has served SO
well.
A gang of forgers of Spanish and Ital-
ian bonds have been caught at Trieste.
The forgeries amount to $4,000 francs. 1t
is stated that many well-known men of
London and Paris helped to dispose of
the bonds.
Severe gales on the Pacific during
March caused many disasters on the coast
of the New Hebrides. Several ships
were wrecked at Labour A vessel
grounded at Meliicollo, and five whites
and thirty natives were drowned, while
thirty others who reached shore we're
maasa red by the natives.
The City of Paris is in Queenstown
harbor, where she will be beached and
temporary repairs made to enable her to
be towed to Liverpool Her present sink
ing condition gives no p'o ise that she
could be moved with any safety. The
breaking of the machinery of the vessel
is the result of the immense strain put
upon it in desire to beat the record for
crossing the Atlantic.