The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-04-25

FOREIGN NEWS.
Stanley, the Explorer, Leaves
Africa for Belgium.
M. Heriot, Proprietor Of the Paris
Louvre, Sent to the Insane
Asylum by Relatives.

Stanley has left Cairo for Brussels.
Bismarck has been granted pension
of $3.50.
A French exhibition will be opeued in
London in May.
A German newspaper says the Czar
has fainting fits.
The laborers on the Cunard dock, Liv-
erpool, have struck.
The India wheat crop is only Is per
cent. of the average.
Edward Lloyd, publisher of the Lon
don Daily Chronicle, is dead.
The rumors of the repeal of the German
sugar duty are without foundation.
Narsen's preparations for the explora-
| ticn of Greenland are nearly completed
, Seven hundred porters have been en-
gagged for the E min expedition into Africa.
The cotton-planting undertaking in the
State of Coahuila, Mexico, is proving sue
cessful.
Emin Pasha has entered the service of
Germany in Africa at a salary OF Ell COO
year.
Owing to meat famine in B ,rIin the
restaurants of that city have raised the
price of meat % per cent.
| The Duke of Bedford has spent e1O0,-
900 iu trying to make cremation popular
in England, but thus far without success.
Two Japanese officials are on their way
to Japan from Berlin with pant to es-
tablish a telephone line 10J miles long in
ia an.
A clerk named Bunk has been SEN
fenced to three months imprisonment
for attempting to extort money from
| Bismarck.
| Inquiry into the municipal finances of
Rome reveals a state of Bankruptcy ex-
ceeding the worst. Numerous failures
are anticipated.
The increasing and apparently incrra-
BILE deafness Of the Princess of Wales has
become source of great annoyance 10
the royal family.
The Sultan of Turkey, yielding to the
advice of England, has dec ded to have
the Kurds in Armenia reprtssed by the
Turkish garrisons.
The Queen of Engl and will be god
mother to the new girl in the Dake OF
Portland;s 8 family, and the child will be
called Victoria Dorothy.
Mime. Tchetrikova, who was reported
to have been exil d for a letter TO the
! Gar, is now at PenZa in the Caucasus
under strict police watch.
The Federal Princes of the German
Empire are not pie 'sed with the En-
peror, who rejects their counsel and is
disposed to do just as he pleases.
At'orney-General Martin has consented
to remain in the Manitoba Cabinet Il
| is believed Premier Greenwav will soon
resign and Martin will succeed him.
The Belgium Anti-Siavery Society has
dec ded to send expeditions TO Africa for
the purrOse of protecting the natives il.
certain distric's s against Arab slave raids.
| 1t is stated Kaiser Wilhelm charged
Major Liebert before the latter's depar
ture for Zanzibar 10 use every effort to
I'd 0uU6I UIlc 'Illdu ScINlC6.
American dentists are the onlv ones
with which the crowned teeth OF Co tin
entail Europe will associate. The CZar's s
American dent st is going to m Ike him a
new sec.
People at MiIdlesborough, England,
are excited over the alleged disc ,very OF
petroleum in the ground beneath them.
Experimental borings are being made to
depth of 1000 feet.
Australia is sending to England new
contralto whose voice is said to be of ex
ceptional richness and power. Her namo
is Helen Rowe, and she has been great
favorite in Melbourne.
The Russian Government has prohib-
tied the circu alton in Russia of Hatton's s
coming novel "By Order of the Gar !"
because it deals with resent events IN
connection with Nihilism and Semitism
The Government of Denmark has erec-
ted fifty telephone stations, chiefly Oh
the west coast OF Jut'and, for the use OF
fishermen, who are thus able TO com
muncate with the fish dealers at dis
tan e.
London Fire Department statistics
show that although tneater fires have in
creased greatly in number they are far
less damaging than formerly, owing 10
the improvements in the apparatus for
suppressing them.
British merchants are beginning to
complain sc iously of the decay of the
ivory trade, since year after year the sup
ply brought 10 he Afrieen coast has been
mnishing until the prize has risen to
an unprecedented figure.
The United States Consular Agent at
Charleroi, Belgium, is accused OF having
system tically undervalued mercban-
disc exported from his district TO this
country. This official is not an Ameri-
can, but native Belgian.
M. Heriot, the owner of the big store
called the Louvre in Paris, was sent t.
the insane asylum by his relatives be-
cause he insisted upon giving 81 ,000, ,00e,
which he could readily afford to lose, to