The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-08
FOREIGN NEWS.
Hungarian Crops Reported Better
Than for a Decade.
Dredging Operations in Spain Bring to
Light the Wreck of War Ship
OF Fifteenth Century.

VI Fllttclltn century.
1t is reported that Osman Digna has
lost 400 men by famine and sickness.
There are 1000 lepers in Bombay,
most of them destitute.
The Italian Government has prohibit
ed the importation of cattle from Switz-
erland
Cholera has spread from Mesopotamia
to Lake Van. Nomads are spreading the
infection.
The Mersey Dock Board will expend
$500, 900 in deepening and improving the
Liverpool docks.
The people of Munich consume the
enormous quantity of 485 quarts of beer
per head per annum.
Scientific farming in Italy is to be un-
taken this year by company with a
capital of $20,OOO,O0O.
| The British Government is doing it's
best to have English recognized as the
official language at all the covrts in
Egypt.
A reduction of postal rates in Japan
was expected to cause a deficit in the
revenues, but instead they showed an
increase.
John Burns, the leader of the dock
men in London, says that the men are
more sober since they have shorter hours
and more pay than before.
The annual report of the Trustees of
the British Museum shows that the
evening opening has not been sufficiently
appreciated to warrant it's continuance
Princess Marie Leonide Bonaparte, a
daughter of Prince Charles, has just
married a Lieutenant of the infantry and
brought him dowry of three millions.
1t is reported in London that Belgium's
acquiring the Congo State is a prelude
to the sale of the State to Germany,
King Leopold being unable 20 sell it di-
rect without the consent of France.
A movement is on foot in England for
an exhibit of all the new apparatuses
which have been devised for the benefit
and relief of invalids. 1t is to be under
the charge of the English association of
trained nurses.
Work at the London and St. Gather
| ines dock is at standstill, the union
having ordered all dock laborers to strike
in consequence of the dock directors re-
fusal to allow the cards of the dockmen's
union to be examined inside the docks.
The police of St. Petersburg has sent
notice to all the saloonkeepers in the
neighborhood of factories that they will
be heavily fined if they continue selling
spirituous drinks to laborers on trust or
beguile the laborers to drink in any
other way.
The British steamer Manhattan, from
New York to Hull, which has on board
the crew and the cattlemen from the
steamer Egypt, which was before re-
ported as abandoned on fire at sea, has
passed St. GATHERINGS Point. She sig
nailed that she would land the people
from the Egypt at Dover.
Dredging operations in progress at
Santander, Spain, have resulted in the
discovery of the well-preserved wreck of
century. Divers have brought up guns
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and Aragon, the scroll of Isabella, or the
crown and initial of Ferdinand.
Crops throughout France, except in
the section east of the Rhone, have been
destroyed by incessant rains. The Off
cial reports from the great wheat district
of La Blanche state that the crop is rot
ting. Losses are estimated at 500, ,O00, 900
francs. Dealers in grain discount the
scarcity, and the price of bread is rising.
Reports communicated to the Hunga-
rian Government describe the harvest
prospects in Hungary as being better
than any during the last decade. Both
as to quantity and quality the crops of
wheat, barley and rye are said to be most
promising. This year for the first time
considerable quantity of Bulgarian
wheat will be shipped on British vessels
at Bourgas.
The registration of the Bengal Pro-
vincial Railway Company marks the be-
ginning of new era in India's indus
trial progress. Hitherto all Indian rail-
way projects have owed their inception
to Europeans. Now, for the first time,
company formed and directed entirely
by natives has undertaken railway con-
structiOn. The company's field of opera
tions is confined to Lower Bengal.
Austria and Bulgaria have agreed not
to make public anything concerning the
negotiations between the two countries
for direct commercial treaty. The
proposition to divulge the character of
the negotiations displeased Austria. The
| Austrian journals, commenting on the
proposed treaty, recall the fact that the
conclusion of the Austro-Roumanian di-
rect treaty was forerunner of the inde-
pendence of Roumania.
Military circles in London are greatly
disturbed over the suicide of two guards
men. a private and a corporal, both of
whom left letters declaring that they
were subjected to such abuse by their
officers that it was impossible to endure
their miserable lot any longer. The af-
fair will be investigated, and the inquiry
will be an important one, in view of the
apparent corroboration afforded by these
| suicides of the complaints of i'll treat
ment, which led to the muntiny of the
Grenadier Guards.
| The Figaro says: AS compensation to
France for the establishment of the pro-
tectorate over Zanzibar, as provided by
the Anglo-German agreement, England
will admit the right of France to grant
the exequators through the French resi-
dent to the foreign Consul in Madagas-
car, to rectify the frontiers of Senegam-
bia and the Upper Niger and extend the
French influence around Lake Tchad.
England reserves the Tunis commercial
treaty in order to use it as basis on
which to act in the negotiations with