The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-29
FOREIGN NEWS.
Great Discomfort Reported to Pre-
vail in Finland.
The Excessive Heat Causes an Alarming
Amount of Sickness in the
Austrian Empire.

The King of Holland is in feeble con-
dition.
Professor Alphonso Favre, Swiss geol-
osist, is dead.
The estimated fortifying of Heligoland
will cost 81, 100000.
Persiani, the Russian Minister to Ser
via, has become insane.
A slave trade in Punjaub women has
been discovered in Scinde.
Workmen on ParnelPs Arklow quar-
ries at London have struck.
Baron Leon Of Vienna has been killed
by falling over precipice in the Alps.
Prince Waldemar's name is withdrawn
as candidate for the Bulgarian throne.
A diamond has been found in the
Kimberly mines of South Africa weigh
ing 1873 carats.
Emperor William captivated every one
he met in Brussels by his gracious and
cordial bearing.
England has put in claim of $40 ,OOO,-
600 indemnity for the recent row in the
Argentine Republic.
One-half of the town of Monetier,
France has been destroyed by fire and
many persons injured.
Leighham Court, Streatham, near
London, comprising sixty-six acres, has
lust been sold for 600 600
Major Wissmann's lieutenant SAYS
that the former will, 80 far as known,
resume his duties in Africa.
The Maharajah Dhuleep Singh has
written a letter to the Queen begging
forgiveness for his past acts.
Herr Won Gerson, the Austrian engi-
neer recently captured by brigands in
Circassia, has been released.
The Government contemplates a fur
ther important reduction of the British
army of occupation in Egypt.
One hundred and twenty-four head of
cattle are to be slaughtered in Yorkshire
on account of pleuro-pneumonia.
The Chin expedition reports that
some of the tribes it has encountered
belong to the most degraded stage of
barbarism.
Cameron, the English African explo-
rer, favors the introduction of Chinese
and Indian planters into Africa, particu-
larly the former.
Joseph Arch, the apostle of the Eng
lish farm labOrers, has been adopted as
the Liberal candidate for Northwest Nor
folk at the next election.
The London Times has at length COM
count for the Parnell Commission, the
total being understood to amount to
e150, 900.
In Australia the labor organizations
have secured the 8-hour day with half
holiday on Saturday, and now they are
agitating for 7-hour day with no work
on Saturday.
The Russian Government has espec-
tally invited General Boisdeffrie, the
of the French Army,
to attend the Russian Army maneuvers
at Krasnoe Selo.
The Congo Free State has annexed the
kingdom of Monatayamyo, which COM
prises vast extent of territory south of
the present frontier of the Congo State
and extends in the direction of the
Zambesi river.
The Australians are beginning to doubt
<,f c,to
ferrets and weasels to eXterminate the
rabbits. These creatures multiply most
and have begun attacking chill
dren and lambs.
The difficulty regarding labor at Zan
zibar has reached an acute stage. No
porters are available, owing to the drain
from the Congo and the German sphere
of influence. The question is vital, both
to Zanzibar and to the British company.
The migration of settlers and laborers
from the interior of Russia to the Cau-
casian and Siberian districts is still in
creasing. The cities on the various roads
are literally overfowing with emigrants,
whom great distress prevails.
The greatest discomfort prevails (says
a Daily News correspondent throughout
Finland owing to the promulgation of
the imperial ukase which abolishes the
Finnish Post and Telegraphic Admins
tration and amalgamates it with that of
Russia.
The King of Italy contemplates copy
ing Queen Victoria by adding colonial
title to his Royal dignities. He would
call himself Emperor of Erythrea and
and Eastern Africa" in view of his pro-
tectorate of Abyssinia and colonies on the
Red Sea coast.
The Steele saws that French agents in
the Upper Senegal country have made
treaties with Chiefs Macina, Yatenga,
Aribunda, Gourma and Moussi, by which
they secure protectorate over that
territory and greatly extend French in
fuence on the Niger.
A California salmon has recently been
caught in the Mediterranean, near
Banyuls. Probably it found its way
thither from the River Aude, into which
many young fish of this species have
been introduced, in the hope that they
NAV be acclimatized in France.
A mine OF pumlce-StOne, IL is staUeO,
exists on the Teneriffee Peak, of which
the working was only started in 1888.
The stone is found in that part of the
peak called the "Canadas at about
1900 feet above the sea level.
While Chill favors the scheme for an
international railway, and will build her
own system to the northern line, and, if
necessary, assist Peru to perfect her por-
ton of the system, she will oppose the
projected system Of arbitration, as will
also the entire press and people OF
Chilli