The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-07-04
FOREIGN NEWS.
St. Petersburg Forms Its Initial
Temperance Society.
M. PeSchkOff Finishes His Long Ride on
Horseback From VladivOStOck
to St. Petersburg.

Yellow fever is reported at Malaga,
Spain.
Electric cars are run successfully with
storage batteries in Buda-Pesth.
The French Chamber of Deputies has
pla' ed duty on foreign molasses.
1t is denied that Portugal intends to
cede TO Germany any of her East African
possessions.
Clerks in London have formed union,
and intend agitating for better pay and
shorter hours.
The national library in Paris is to be
greatly enlarged. 1t now contains nearly
1000, 900 volumes.
1t is now announced that Prince Murat
is engaged to middle-aged lady with a
fortune of $5.0OO,OOO.
A club in Guatemala offers premium
# 81 ZOO for the best hymn for the Cen
iral American nation.
England has agreed to surrender He'll
goland to Germany in return for the Ger
man concessions in Africa.
The French Chamber of Deputies has
decided to preserve the exhibition build
ing known as Machinery hall.
The Bishop of London is threatened
with almost total blindness, and has gone
TO Wiesbaden to consult specialist.
Carrier pigeons have returned to Ha-
vana from the vessel carrying Eyraud to
France. They report that he is we'll
The prison population of England has
fallen off SO much of late years that out
OF ITO prisons fifty-seven have been
closed
The first temperance society was estab-
lished in St Petersburg on Nav l at the
instance and by the efforts of Madame
Balitzkava.
One hundred and fifty immigrants
from Newfoundland have reached Mon
treal on their way to the Canadian
Northwest.
A bill before the French Chamber pro-
poses to inflict three months imprison-
ment on masters who dismiss men be-
cause they belong to trade unions.
Senior Garcia. the new Brazilian Min
lister of Finance, has announced his in
tention to burn publicly one-half the 3O,-
OO0, 900 one-dollar notes illegally circu-
lated.
The English Government made 98O1,-
564 last year by coming silver, and Mr..
GOschen has created special fund, to
which this sum and further profits will
be cre0iSUG.
The French Government has finally
granted B. F. Stevens of London permis-
tional archives relating to American CO.
lonial history.
The Empress Frederick 8 visit to Greece
is being looked forward to with much.in-
terest by the population, as she has sig
nifed her intention of travelling all
through Hellas.
At recent meeting of a committee of
the Royal Agricultural Society plant
was exhibited proving that distinct
step has been made in the cultivation of
the deep blue primrose.
The London Standards Berlin CORE
spondent is enabled to state that Ger
many has made no demand as yet in re-
spect to Uganda, but awaits the return
of DR.. Peters with his treaties.
All of the persons who were acquitted
of completely in the recent Panitza trial,
at Sofia, Bulgaria, with the exception
of Mathef, have been expelled from
Bulgaria.
The marriage of Mr.. Stanley and Miss
Dorothy Tenant is fixed definitely for
July IL. Wedding presents flow 10 from
all parts of England, often from people
of whom neither Miss Tenant nor Mr.
Siauley has ever heard.
The French Chamber does not seem
inclined to vote money for the purchase
of the works of living French painters,
M. Proust notified the Deputies
the other day that foreigners were carry
ing off most of the country's good pict-
ures.
The memoirs of the ex-Empress Eu-
genie will be first published after her
death, and not in the immediate future,
as has been stated recently by several
Paris dailies. They will reach back to
1879. The ex-Empress works at them
daily whenever her health
allows her to endure the exertion of
writing.
The British census will be taken in
1891. The cost of the census in Great
Britain in 1881 was 9172 600 for popu-
lation of 26,OO0,0OO. For England and
Wales the cost per 1000 of the popula-
ton was "a los sd in 1861, rising to s5
5s "a in 1871 AID e6 12s Cd in 1881. The
number of enumerators was nearly 35,-
600, and in 1891 the number will not be
far short of 10000.
Subject to the final approval of Con-
gress, the President of Costa Rica has
agreed to accept the resolutions regulat-
ing the Central American Union, passed
at the conference in Salvador in October,
but will send commission to each of the
Republics to arrange for provisions for
the liberty of the press, the regular sue
cession of the Executive and the sanctity
of human life, three points omitted by
the conference.
There was strike of children en-
ployed in the sugar-beet 6elGs OF Saxony
The children near Brachwitz quit work
because their employers refused to raise
their wages from IL to 25 cents per day.
In LangenbogeD the children demanded
an advance from to 10 cents per day.
All the children were accustomed to at
tending school from o'clock in the
morning till noon and to working without
cessation from to o'clock in the after
noon. They were compelled to be in the
fields, rain or shine, at tLeir work
throughout the six hours.