The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-03
IN FOREIGN LANDS.
THE INFLUENZA STILL RAGING IN
ALL EUROPE.
Prince Murat and Miss Caldwell Come
to an Agreement-Prince Albert
Victor in Greet Disfavor.
Earthquake Ia Spain.

to an Agreement-Prince Albert
Victor in Greet Disfavor.
| Earthquake Ia Spain.
The influenza has reached Rome.
Cardinal Gaulebauer, archbishop O
Vienna, is dead.
Germany is agitating the introduction
of Chinese labor.
The epidemic has attacked little Kins
Alfonzo, of Spain.
The American squadron of evolution
has arrived at Lisbon.
Three of Bushiri's head men have beer
hanged at Bagamoyo.
Emir Pasha has passed the crisis o
his illness and will recover.
There has been fresh fighting in Crete
Many persons have been killed.
Seven thousand men are out on strike
In the Saar mines of Westphalia.
An earthquake shock created a panic
in Grenada, Spain, Sunday night.
The striking printers of Berne, Switz.
erlsnd, have been o npletely defeated.
Bismarck decla, - his intention to dis.
solve the Reichstag about February 18th
Mrs. Booth, wife of the commander oi
the Salvation Army, is dying of cancer
at London.
The king of Corea desires to abdicate
in favor of Prince Hin Yung Gyikard.
An artillery officer enu a sailor have
been arrested in st. Petersburg for an
attempt on the life of the car.
Parnell made one of the greatest
speeches of his life before many assem-
bled thousands at Nottingham.
The Bulgarian bulge. shows a de-
ficiency of 81 800, 900, but there will be
no reduction in military expenditures.
A hundred thousand Parisians are suf.
fering from the epidemic influenza. Doc.
tors cannot explain the cause of the
isease.
Prince Murat has patched up his differ.
ences with Miss Caldwell and the marri.
age will proceed.
William O'Brien's motion for a new
trial in the suit against Lord Salisbury
for slander has been denied.
The strike of employees of the South
Metropolitan Gas Company, London, is a
failure, the company having filled all the
strikers places with non-union men.
The bodies of five of the missing thir.
teen persons belonging to the steamer
Cleddy, which was sunk off the Isle OF
of Wight. have been washed ashore.
The three men, Nicolet, Darbelay and
Hensi, who were arrested on charge OF
issuing an anarchist manifesto, have
been acquitted at Berne, Switzerland.
There has been an explosion in the
Kelmez mines, near Madrid. Fifteen
injured persons have been brought out
The number of the dead is yet unknown
Beach, the oarsman, has accepted the
challenge recently issued by Hanlan for
rowing match, and is willing the race
should be rowed over the Paramatta
course.
The Hawaiian government has granted
liberal concession for fifteen years to
English capitalists provid ID they lay a
cable to Vancouver, B. g., within two
years.
Salisbury has called upon the Portu-
guese government to repudiate the action
of it's agents on the Zambesi river, and
that the British flag lowered by them be
hoisted again.
An English syndicate with capital of
ten millions has been formed to buy out
the busint ss of British carpet manufac-
turers and work their establishments on
American patents.
Emil Rouk, one of the directors of the
prefecture of the Seine, Paris, has been
murdered by M. Regod, his former secre.
tary. The muri rierer had a grievance and
could get no redress.
The Comte de Paris will spend the re-
manner of his days in England. The
comte has had touch of gout of late.
For a time he is more interested in his
toes than his manifestoes.
Some questions having arisen as to the
burial of Browning in Florence, the dean
of Westminster has renewed his offer to
have the remains of the poet placed in
Westminster abbey, and it has been
accepted.
Robert Browning's new volume came
into the world ON the day its author died
The poet had just time to hear that his
last volume OF poetry had received cor
dial greeting from his countrymen when
the summons came.
l. Sir John Mcdonald, in a speech at the
Queens jubilee at Kingston, declared
that a majority f the people favored
British connection. Ruin and misfor
tune, he said, would follow severance o.
| CanaCa from Great Britain.
In the chamber of deputies at Rome
abolition of di6erential duties agains
France was approved-170 to 55. Pre-
mier Cris.i said Italy in taking thii
action desired to show that she did moi
wish q tariff war with France.
The steamer Leerdam, bound from
Amsterdam to Buenos Ayres with 4Ol
passengers, and the Gan Quan STA, bount
! from Calcutta to Hamburg, collided II
the North sea and both sank. All OF
board the two vesselswere saved.
/ Captain Trovier, the French explorer
has arrived after crossing Africa iron
Loango, on the west coast. He travelet
by way of the Shire river. He state
that the Portuguese are displaying extra
ordinary aggressiveness along the river
4 Prince Albert Victor is in great dis
favor in Britain on account of his eonnec
ton with the West End scandals. 1t
openly proposed to deprive him OF sue
cession to the throne, which would b
his upon the death of the Prince OF Wales