The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-07-25
FOREIGN NEWS.
The Cholera in Spain More Serious
Than at First Reported.
Six OF the Paris NihiliStS Convicted and
Sentenced - Russia Enrolling
More Recruits.

Serious rioting is reported at Iquiaue.
Peru, growing out of strike.
Portugal has made a general increase
OF per cent. in the taxation.
The arbitration of the Delagoa Bay
railway matter has been settled.
The family of President Menendez of
San Salvador declare that he died of apo
plexy.
Prince Bismarck is expet ted to visit
London after Emperor William returns
to Berlin.
The Montevideo Bourse has been
closed. The crisis there has caused great
excitement.
China intends to borrow 10000 900
taels OF American silver for building
strategic railways in Manchuria.
1t is believed that Balfour will succeed
William 81. Smith as government leader
In the British House of Commons.
Firework exhibitions at the London
Crystal Palace are unusually grand this
summer, and attract greater crowds than
ever.
Six of the Partisan Nihilists have been
convicted and sentenced each to three
years imprisonment and a fine of 200
francs.
The Prince Regent of Bavaria has sub
scrlbed 600 marks toward the Bismarck
memorial, which it is proposed to erect
in Berlin.
Further French interference with the
fishermen on the Newfoundland coast
has occurred, and the usual indignation
is reported.
The cholera epidemic in Valencia,
Spain, is more serious than has been be-
lieved. The authorities have hidden the
true state of affairs.
The largest contingent of recruits ever
demanded by the Russian war Office
270, ,000-was fixed for the next enroll
ment by the latest ukase.
The papers at Munich are praising
Henry Willard, and admiringly comment
on his donation of $4,000 to the Bava-
rian Society of the Red Cross.
Since the snow was melted and the
passage from Turkey opened the border
lands of the district of Kars are troubled
with bands of Turkish robbers.
Russia has ordered to be manufactured
in France a quantity of new infantry ri
fes. modified from the French standard
rifle and without the magazine feature.
The London Chronicles Rome CORE
spondent says: the Pope has become
very feeble, and is preparing written in
structions for the guidance of his success
sor.
An electric brake has been devised in
England, by means of which train GO
ing at the rate of thirty miles an hour
can be brought to standstill in a space
of 2C0 feet.
The British foreign office has issued
the text of the Anglo German agreement
and official correspondence on the SUBJ
ject. There is nothing new in regard to
East Africa
1t is reported at Berlin that Minister
of Public Works Maybach and Minister
of Public Worship and Education Won
Gosler will resign on the return of En-
peror William.
London, jealous of Paris with it's Eiffel
tower, resolved to have a similar con-
trivance, and prizes were awarded for a
device which is deliberate imitation of
EiffePs structure.
Madame Rosa Kirschbaum, the first
lady admitted to medical practice in Aus
tria, has just been authorized by special
imperial decree to conduct hospital for
eye diseases at Salzburg.
The Prince of Wales continues to grow
stout and gray. 1t is said of him that he
is disinclined to make any exertion, and
the only place to which he does not drive
is to meals and to bed.
Stanley's new book, Darkest Africa" :"
has had sale exceeding the most san
guine expectations in London The first
edition has been exhausted, and second
one is about to be issued.
The Minister of Russian Imperial
Property has given.notice to the War De-
partmeDt to send out troops of soldiers
to the Caucasian districts to destroy the
locusts which infect that region.
The grievances of the London postmen
are still unattended to, and the men
threaten to leave work. Should they do
go, the whole postal machinery of Eng
land would be thrown out of gear.
According to a recent ukase of the Gar
no person who is not of the Christian
faith will be allowed to serve on a jury,
unless by the special approval of the Min
of Justice.
Since about the middle of May the
city of Tomsk in Siberia has been under
water. A dispatch dated June IL reports
that in several streets of the inundated
place the people are still rowing in boats
among the ruins.
It is stated that Prince Bismarck has
begged the Emperor to dieccunteDan~ e
the project to erect a Bismarck monu-
Prince asks that the funds tor that pur-
pose be devoted to erecting church in
memory of Emperor William /.
Signor Arrigo, the 1t lian banker Just
rsnsomed from Sicilian baud;tti for the
round sum of $25, 900 in gold, says that
his captors kept him in the bottom of a
dry well, where they furnished him reg
q. .arly with food. At the end of a certain
time, unless ransomed, he was to be
killed.
At the last sitting of the Academy of
Medicine NJ. Lahorde If the Paris faculty
announced his discovery Of new aDses-
thetic, which he calls crys allied mar
cein. A solution of this substance sends
the patient into q sound sleep free from
vomiting or digestive deranesmsnt and
without subsequent torpor. So far OK,
psrimeuH hsye been confined 70 rabbits.