Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-22
THE OLD WORLD.

The industries of Japan are in a dis
tressed condition, and influenza is cpl
demic there.
Russian Consular regu' ali ions are to be
revised by the Cars order.
The Italian government officially denies
that its action in Africa is directed
against Kassala.
One of the purposes of company just
incorporated in London is insurance
agains! burglary.
There were seventy suicides, including
children, in the city OF Berlin during the
month of January.
Balfour is en- aged in preparing a bill
to give Ireland system of local self
government or home ri e.
There will be three Ameri an plays
and American companies in London dur
ing the season to be- gin in May.
France has four prete1ders-Prince
Jerome, Prince Victor, the Comte de
Paris and General BoulangAr.
The Customs Committee of the French
Chamber OF Deputies has voted to inn
pose duty Of francs on foreign corn
and francs on on -four.
At the kempton Park (England) March
meeting the champion hurdle handicap.
two mile over eight hurdles was won bv
Theoiolite, Papyrus second, Gas ilian
third
1t is believed at Paris that the govern
tn n 1f ItG
aud avoid the charge of perse luton by
cOnniving at the escape of the Duke Of
Orleans from the prison at Clairvaux.
The Duke of Seville has been pardoned
by the Queen of Spain. He was con-
demned to Punishment i'll lSS6for speak
ing of her Majesty in insuli ing terms
because she refused him an audience.
At Prague, Bohemia, a number of stu
dents assembled in the streets and
marched to the houses of several Old
Czech professors and acted in a riotous
manner. Soldiers CHARGED the students
with fixed bayonets and dispersed them.
A special from ConstantinOple reports
the death of exSultan Murad V. who
succeeded his uncle, Sultan Abdul Aziz,
May ., 1876, and was deposed in favor
of his brother, the present Sultan, in
August of the same year. Since that
time, it is alleged, he has been confined
in the palace.
In the Lower House of the Prussian
Diet Herr Symula. Pole, warned the gov
eminent against ill-treating the Poles,
who, he said, were wanted in the event
of war with Russia. He declared that
if the Poles we're embittered against
Germany the founding Of a new kingdom
of Poland would become poss bic; even
should Germany he victorious against
her FOES on two fronts, it wonld be i
possible for Germany to annex the Baltic
provinces until she had first secured her
rear He believed it was time for those
provinces to be annexed.
In the French Deputies EtieRne stated
that the King of Dabomey refused to rec
ognze the French pr0tectorate over the
slave coast and had invaGed that terri
tory, but had been repulsed He also
said that if the King refused to satisfy
the demands of France it would be nee
essary to take vigorous measures, not
with view of the conquest of Dahomey,
but for the purpose of giving salutary
lesson to the King and people.
1t is said Bismarck hes given up hope
Of being succeeded by his son Herbert,
findi 4 hiul neither mentally nor physic
ally qualified for the task This is the
rea on for deciding to retire gradually
from his various posts, creating, as he
does so, cretaryships for the Empire,
such as have always prev lied in the
Prus ian government In this way there
will be created financial, C mmercisl and
colonial secretaries, and the Cnan, elor
will r, ia n only the foreign office to be-
stow on Herbert.
One of the lessons taught by the recent
ROYAL Agricult ral Society at Windsor
was that, while few ac ual novelties in
agricultural machin ~ are row being in
vented, there is strong tendency toward
larger por able engines, higher steam
pressure and more general lopton o.
the compound stem of v, rk :, which
has Lroved so e. onomical of fuel in
st. amshiI Owing TO the d pletion Of
capital in Br tish agriculture, however,
Brit sh ensin. ers in this br nch of trade
must depend on the for i'm demand for
probably some time to come.