The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1890-12-13
FOREIGN NEWS.
German Newspapers Digging al
Brewer Bismarck.
Count Won MOltke is the First German
Landed Proprietor to Adopt the
Eight-HOur Rule.

Odessa has been made free port by
the Czar.
Az Tschanch, Austria, d nhhe is flood
ed, and twenty men perished.
Electric motors are being introduced
on the underground railway in London.
The Rothschilds have opened another
free hospital in Frankfort on the Main.
A number of Sanchez followers in
Honduras are being tried by court
martial.
At Carlsbad, Bohemia, the Topel river
has overhowed, and great damage is be-
ing done.
The floods in Bohemia are generally
subsiding, but the Danube and Elbe are
still rising.
Heligoland through its incorporation
with the German Empire has been made
part of Pruss a.
The great Russian steppes are to be
irrigated by a company formed by au-
thority of the government.
Orders have been given in Russia that
no government work be given Jews out
side the territorial limits assigned them.
By the new arrangement American
mails are being distributed in England
twenty-four hours earlier than hereto
fore.
Salisbury believes the time to dissolve
Parliment opportune, owing to the Par
nell scandal, and has decided to do so in
the spring.
A great Nationalist meeting at Dublin
has voted confidence in Parnell, who was
characterized less man than an insti-
tuition for Ireland.
The inhabitants of Lochgelly, Scot
land, are suffering from want of water.
The underground coal workings have
drained the supply.
The great chemical trust in England
has been registered as the United States
Alkali Company, with capital of $50,
900, 900 in $50 shares.
An indignant crowd at Vienna severe
" thrashed member of the Bourse who
had been suspended for spreading false
reports designed to make money dear.
Cocoanut butter is receiving consider
able attention in Europe The new sub
stitute is declared infinitely preferable
to the too-often bad butter sold in mar
ket.
The Queen Regent of Holland has is
sued a proclamation declaring Princess
Wilhelmina Queen of the Netherlands
and accepting the regency during her
minority.
The German Minister of Railroads has
ordered an empty carriage, labeled
"safety carriage" to be placed between
the locomotive and the other coaches in
all trains.
The Turkish government has made
valuable concessions tn a French syndl'
cate, granting it the right to construct
uuavs on the shores of the Golden Horn
and to levy landing dues on merchan
disc.
Count Won Moltke is the first landed
proprietor in Germany to adopt the
eight-hour rule for the peasants workins
for him upon his estate at Crisan, and il
well satisfied with the result of his ex
} pertinent.
1t is affirmed by those who are il
position to be well informed that tht
circulation of the London Times contin
ues to decrease, and that as prop
erty it has not the value by 25 per cent
it had few years ago.
: Dispatches from the Congo Free Stat
say the Baptist Missions steamboa
Peace on the Upper Congo river has beel
contiscated by the officers OF the Cong
State for State purposes. The British
flag was hauled down.
The Brazilian government has re
scinded the DEGREES of banishmen
against ex-Premier Preto, Senior al
fonso, ex-President of the province Q
! Rio Janeiro and Senior Martins, ex
! President of Rio Grande do Sui.
A ukase has been issued by the mill
! tary authorities (says a st. PetersDur
telegram by DalzieD for the capture {
Jews trying to escape army duty. An
: one guilty of hiding or sheltering sue
! persons will be heavily punished.
: Reports from Vienna state that Dl
! Caesar de Pape, the founder Of Socialism
in Belgium, is dying with consumptio
at Cannes, his health having been broke
' down under his arduous labors.
/ According to the London correspond
n ent of the Freeman's Journal, not to
friendly authority, the Irish light-rai
!. WAYS scheme will give work to larg
number of laborers in excess of tbos
e resident in the districts to be traverseC
n The thirteenth centenary OF GregOr
f the Great is to be celebrated in Rome
: an international iturgical congress,
which all those vino are concerned wit
i musical archaeology and ecclesiastical a
) viii be invited. An exhibition of literaI
and musical works in connection wit
b the origin ard growth of Catholic an
i historical church music" will also
organized.