Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-26
THE OLD WORLD,

The herring fishing in the North Isles
has opened very favorably.
The Transvaal VoIksraad has adopted
the dual chamber scheme.
The Germans are said to be importing
large quantities of trade rum into Africa
san international chess congress will
Epneet at Manchester, England, August
s22d.
The formal cession of Heligoland tn
Germany will, it is expected, take plac.
IN October next.
A Spanish carbineer, while pursuing
smugglers at Gibraltar, accidentally shot
and killed British sentry.
The Hamburger Nachrichten declares
that the Frankfort interview with Bis
marck is in exact form and correct.
The city of Hamburg has surplus of
s., 250,00J. Of this amount 81, 100, 900
were from last years receipts.
British police in Burman are accused
of torturing natives charged with Of
lenses in order TO extort confessions.
As result of Admiral Lands resigna-
ton, the Chinese government declares
it will never entrust real authority in
the navy to any foreigner.
Herr Leibreck and large number Of
Socialists, who were expelled from Ger
many, are returning to that country,
the time Of their expulsion having ex
PRED.
1t was announced in the British
House of Lords that the government did
not intend to work the telephone lines,
but that it was prepared to license COM
panies for that purpose.
Reports received at Montreal by the
Canadian Live Stock ASS citation say
the boards of trade in Scotland are NOV
ing TO h We American cattle shipped via
the st. Lawn nce river.
Conflicting reports are in circulation
at Durham regarding affairs in Matabele-
land, but the agents of the South Africa
Company contradict the alarming rumors
and say that all is peaceful and quiet.
Iii, G rman Students Club at Prague
subscribed l 900 marks to the Bismarck
memorial fund, whereuppn the police of
that city ordered the club dissolved I'M
less the memb RS cane, lied their obliga-
tons.
The Russian Ambassador has ex-
nresse1 to the Turkish Grand Vizier
Russia's regret at the riots in Erzeroum.
He feared the excitement in Armenia
would entail trouble both on Russia and
Turkey.
The returns issued by the London
Board of Trade show that during the
month of June the imports increased
G3,600,0)0 and the exports increased
e., $40 900, as compared with the CORE
spending month last year.
A lar,e ira t of Bavaria is infested
with worms, which are destroying yerz
dure of all kinds with great rapidity. 1t
is estimated that upward of 100000 pine
trees have boen ruined, while vines and
smaller plants have been swept clean.
According to a return presented to
the Chamber by the Minister of Finance
there are 1i,S08 families, each with
seven child en- or more, Which have
claimed exemption from certain taxes
recently voted by the F.ench Parlia-
ment.
The French prec. uions against chol-
era on the Spanish frontier are to be
much more stringent than in 1884. All
the fourteen mountain passes are to be
watched, and if the cholera appears
north of the Ebro posts will be established
in them.
The French postoffice department ID
examining new and original system
for distributing newspapers through the
mails. Every publication is to provide
the central postoffice with the list of its
subscribers and every number is to be
sent to the subscribers without wrappers
or printed address.
The completion of new fast ship, in
tended for the Russian feet in the Black
Sea, is announced. She is q dispatch
b at. 140 feet in length and 15feet beam,
and is named the Adler. On her trial
trip she made twenty-six knots an hour.
Three gunboats of equal swiftness are
now being built.