The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-05-16
FOREIGN NEWS.
DeBrazza, the French Explorer,
Starts for Africa.
Holland Proposes to Increase the
Duty on American Petroleum
Other Items.

AhOAO 10 1O u1lulSCGIlal CIlSlS IN OTu-
quay as has been reported.
The Shah's wife is in Vienna un.
dergolng an operation to recover her
sight.
There are at present within the walls
OF Paris 3O,229 subjects of the German
Emperor.
The state of siege on the island oI
Crete his been raised and martial law
abolished.
1t is reported that Queen Victoria will
confer a title on Stanley, making him
Lord Stanley of the Congo.
De Brazza, the French explorer, has
started on his sixth trip to Africa-not as
a clvlllzer. but as moneymaker.
The first electric cars in Germany are
to be introduced at Halle. The American
overhead system will be employed.
Malietoa has signed treaty for the
settlement of the Samoan troubles.
Famasese has accepted the new regime.
The Royalist Deputy for BellevilIe,
France, has been sentenced to pay 500
francs fine and 10000 francs damages for
llDellng Goblet.
The United States and British Govern-
ments have made an imperative demand
that the Delagoa railway question be set
tied by arbitration.
A dispatch to the London Times from
Shanghai says that the further consider
alton of the Chinese railway question
mas been postponed.
Conel Brace, a noted member of the
turf and breeder of the horse St. Gatien,
the winner of the Derby at the EPSON
meeting in 1884, has committed suicide
in London by shooting himself with a
revolver.
A Berlin dispatch says the Emperor of
Germany has directed the building of a
yacht, to be the largest of her class in
the world. 1t is said the Emperor will,
when the yacht is ready, pay visit to the
United States.
London Fire Department satisfies
show that, although theater fires have
increased greatly in number, they are far
less damaging than formerly, owing to
the improvements in the apparatus for
suppressing them.
The Austrian newspapers in COM
menting on the meeting of Queen Vic
toria with Kaiser William at Darmstadt
declare that England is practically an
ally of the triple alliance, although not
formally committed to it's support.
President Carnot has received letter
from the King of Danomey, complaining
that the French attacked him without
warning and without declaring war
against him. The French merchants now
in his power will be kept as hostages.
Two different English syndcates solicit
the concession for enlarging the canal
and port of Brussels so as to make Brus-
sells accessible to vessels of 1000 tons.
Both syndicates fix the cost of the neces-
francs.
The lunatics in the asylum at Dun
drum, near Dublin, Ireland, became en-
ragged because their beer was cut off, and
smashed everything within reach that
was breakable. The fire department was
called cut, and after the lunatics were
well drenched they became quiet.
Countess Kessler, daughter of Admiral
Lynch, has brought an action against
three Paris newspapers for accusing her
of being Prussian spy and giving re-
ceptions with sinister ends; also for ac-
cusing her OF stealing Boulanger's mobil-
izing scheme.
Stanley says: "My heart will always
be with America. Circumstances compel
one to do many things he could not do of
his own free will. On account of my fu-
ture work / may have to formally declare
myself a British subject. At present
consider myself an American citizen"
Holland proposes to increase the duty
on American petroleum imported into
the Dutch Indies in reprisal for the Amer
ican increase of the duty on raw tobacco.
In Dutch commercial circles the advisa-
bility is being discussed of common Eu-
ropean action against American protec-
ton.
The enemies of the Brazilian Republic
are sending abroad reports OF dissensions
and supposed tyrannical acts of the pres
ent government. Premier de Fonseca
has, according to reports, prohibited pub
licatious exposing the ineficiency of
troops or anything liable to injure the
country's credit abroad.
In the British House of Commons
Randolph Church;ll's bill to consolidate
and amend the licensing laws has passed
its first reading. The bill proposes to in
trust the granting of licenses to munich
pal and county councils, abolishes beer
houses and compels clubs to register and
pay fees ranging from ESQ annually for
workmen's clubs to $4,000 for aristocratic
clubs.
Leprosy has of late assumed such large
dimensions in the Baltic provinces, espe-
cially in the province of Estland, that 1T
mas been found necessary to take steps |
toward building an asylum for those un-
fortunate people. The first institution |
of this kind will be found at Dorpat |
Subscriptions, concerts and lotteries are
now being got up for this object in diff
ferent parts of Russia.
The last prison statistics of Prussia |
show that in the year 1889 SO, 700 Prus- |
sian prisoners worked altogether II ,9O0,-
90 DAYS for wages of 10 cents each per
day. Of the 21 ,432 men and g. Sc wom-
en- under the supervision of the prison
division of the Prussian Ministry of JUS
tice Ia, ,939 men and 2, ,172 women are en-
ployed by manufacturers under contract
with the prison authorities. Their aver
age daily wages were about 8 cents each.
Stanley says if he had left Emin where
he found him he would have been at this
moment in KhartOum a common slave
nothing could have saved him. He was
as much prisoner as fellow in chains.
The people did not want him. There
was no government left, and the servants
would not obey him. When he asked
how many would return with him only
one man consented.