The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-05-09
FOREIGN NEWS.
An Amphitheater Collapses at a
Mexican Bull-Fight.
Bismarck Regrets His Enforced Re-
tirement, and Lays Its Cause
to One He Befriended.

'AO NiOOh SaiiiUlcI5 are uel y
il G the law.
President Diaz favors system of saw
lngs banks throughout Mexico.
Reports of discomfort among the Bra
zllian troops are growing numerous.
Work on the harbor of Vera Cruz.
Mexico, is being pushed to the utmost.
General Won Caprivi, the new Chan
rellor OF the German Empire, is unmar-
ried.
A newspaper and governmental cam
paign against dress suits is in progress in
Japan.
The quantity of wheat shipped from
Australia during February was 56S, 1000
bushels.
The Mexican Cabinet has decided POS
ltlvely to grant no more railroad con-
cessions.
The use of electric lights is increasing
with great r. .pidi,y among the London
shopmen.
The Tampco branch of the Mexican
Central railway has been opened for
regular traffic.
The Comte and Comtesse Maulmont
have been arrested in Paris for embez-
zling charity funds.
Those protesting to know all ahont it
say the ocean racers of two lines will for
sake Liverpool for HolyheAd next year.
Extensive railway building operations
in Manitoba and the Northwest are
mapped out for the coming season.
1t is rumored that there are serious
dissensions in the French Ministry and
an early collapse of the Cabinet is feared.
Lord Wolseley is at the head of move
ment for the fiji ancial relief of survivors
of the charge Of the Light Brigade at Bal
aklava.
A scheme is on foot to es tablish gi-
gantic bank in Rome. Four German
bankers will soon go to Rome to take
steps in the matter.
The English Government has accepted
the invitation of The Government of Ger
many to send a fleet TO attend the Ger
man naval maneuvers which will take
place at Kiel on September s.
Benefits yacht, the Namoura, was
caught in violent storm in the China
sea and three of the crew were washt d
overheard. Bennett was On board.
It is openly announced that Mrs.
Langtry and Freddie Gebhardt are out,
and that the Jersey Lily is receiving the
attention of Lord Lurgan, an Irish-Eng
lish peer.
English customs officers the other day
dis overed 10000 cigars secreted aboard
a troop ship, ready to be smuggled ashore
at the first convenient opportunity, and
did not succeed in tracing the ownership
of them.
Bismarck is reported to have expressed
regret at his enforced retirement from
office. To the intrigues of one whom he
had befriended he attributes the neces-
sity for such action.
Cunningham Graham, in the British
Commons, denied that he had melted
starving lahorers to violence, but said he
would do so the moment the workers be-
came powerful enough.
The English are reported to ho'd thous-
ands of cOolies kidnapped from China in
bondage in Borneo on what is ca led the
contract labor system, but which is really
servitude of the most exacting character.
Dispatches from Kotenau say that the
Dahomians have advanced and occupied
a position only one kilometre from Porto
Novo. The warship Mesange has landed
fifty men to re-enforce the French troops.
France and Holland have agreed re-
garding the powers of the arbitrator in
delimitiug the boundaries of tn Ir re-
spe tive territories in Guiana, Holland
that the arbitration shall be
absolute.
At the conclusion of bnl'-fght at
Mexico, section of the am
phitheater collapsed, precipit4ting thou
sands of spectators to the ground. No
one was killed, but hundreds were
wounded, and many, it is believed,
fatally.
Mr.. Gladstone has lately completed an
article which is to be published in tloyd's
Weekly under the new management.
The article is described as review of the
past, a study of the present and hope
full anticipation of the future of labor.
William O'Brien's novel, which he
wro-e while in prison, has just been
issued. The book, which is entitled
tWhen We Were Boys" is a historical
story and deals with the Fen;ans. The
English criticisms are very favorable.
The Hamburg Nachrichten asserts
that the Emperor of Germany has pur-
chased the private diaries of the late En-
peror Frederick from Frau Krus, widow
of the former Major Domo of that sover-
eign, paying her large annuity for life.
Five sisters named Domovieroff, the
19 years old, committed suicide
at Moscow. Ashes found in their apart
ment show that they burned a number
of papers before taking their lives. 1t 10
believed the fear of arrest as Nihilists
led to commission of the deed.
It is stated that the Duke of Orleans
has refused the proffer of liberty made
by the French Government, on account
of the conditions imposed. 1t is expected
that the Duke will be married, while
undergoing imprisonment, to bis cousiD.
Princess Marguerite, of Chartres.
The London Standard wakes enthusi
astic over the cordiality of the reception
of Queen Victoria at Darmstadt, which,
it assumes, denotes complete establish
ment of friendly alliance between Eng
land and Germany. Further than this,
the Standard ventures hint that polit-
ical alliance between the two countries
would be more effectual as means OF
securing the peace of Europe for an in
definite term Of years than any compact
that could be entered into BY the contis
nantsl powers.