The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-15
FOREIGN NEWS.
Emperor William Will Revise
Bismarck's Interviews.
Several Ladies of Austria Offer Their
Services as AmazOnS to En-
peror Franz Josef.
Cholera is epidemic at Mecca.

AhC OdGISuTdiN at StTdSDurg Is 10 OK
thoroughly restored.
Smallpox is decimating the population
OF villages in Egypt.
Russia opposes the appointment O
Bulgarian Bishops by the Porte.
Belgium is recruiting hundreds of Sou
danese natives for the Congo State.
The Crown Princess of Greece is criti
cally i'll from premature confinement.
1t is reported that Emperor William
will hereafter revise Bismarck's inter
views.
Violent religious animosities have been
excited at Vienna by case of abduc-
ton by nuns.
Mrs. Mackay is reported from London
as saying that she will hire house at
Washington next season.
A hurricane at Suakim has demolished
the water conductor causing great scare
ity. Natives are dying from famine.
The slave trade between Madras and
Rangoon still continues. The coolies
are sold in the latter place at 25 rupees
each.
The next Ssengerbund festival will be
held in Vienna from the 14th to the 18th
of August, and will bring together about
$4,000 singers.
A dispatch from Cairo says: Ravages
OF the cotton worm in Egypt continue,
and prospects for full crop are consid-
erably impaired.
A Hungarian-East Indian Steamship
Company, with a capital of 100000
| francs, has been formed at Fiume under
the sanction of the government.
The French Chamber has adopted the
bill for the renewal of the sur tax on
sugar. The bill extends to August, 1892.
The sur tax is francs on raw sugar.
The Russian Minister of Finance will
| shortly visit Central Asia to examine the
measures to be taken for the develop
ment of the Transcaspian provinces.
1t has been calculated that there are
about 100000 families living in London
on about G1 week, and they are in a
large measure the people of one room.
According to European merchants tea
from India is rapidly taking the place of
the Chinse article, the result being that
many persons in China are without work.
The President of the British Board of
Agriculture says that within short time
animals suffering from pleuro-pneumonia
have arrived at Liverpool from New
York.
The English Government has sum-
moned the Duke of Hamilton to pay
SOC, 900 revenue duty on the $3,OOO,OOO
realized by the recent sale of his art col
lection.
Deserters from the German army pass
into France nearly every week. They
take service in the foreign legion, and
are sent to Algeria and and other parts
of Africa.
The potato blight has made it's appear
ance in Sweden, and the outlook for the
crop is very discouraging. In certain
parishes the priests report that a famine
is expected.
The English Royal Niger Company
has prohibited the importation or sale Of
Intoxicating liquors in it's African terri
tory north of the seventh parallel of
north latitude.
The Government of Uruguay will prob
ably raise the custom duties 10 per cent,
making them payable in gold, and will
devote the fund thus raised to the re-
demption of paper money.
An American named Skinner and
Russian named Kriegsk have started
from London on a wager to ride on horse
back from Moscow to the Crimea and re-
turn.
The Prince Regent of Bavaria refuses
who married Count Pappenheim. The
Count must recognize the marriage as
morganatic or lose his titles.
1t is reported in Limerick, Ireland,
that Bishop O'Dwyer has received a let
ter from the Pope approving the Bishops
recent letter of censure to Dillon in con-
nection with the Persico mission.
A plan is now under the consideration
of the Russian Senate to restrict the
rights of the Jews participating in vari-
GUS branches of trade and commerce and
to limit the privileges of Jewish me-
chanics.
The London Daily Telegraph states
that England and France will appoint
commissioners to find the limits of the
French share of influence in Central At
rica, as modified by the Anglo-German
agreement.
Amilcare Cipriani of Rome has been
condemned to six months imprisonment
and to pay fine of 1000 francs because
his recently published memoirs contained
certain offensive remarks about the royal
family of Italy.
A ladies' committe has been formed in
connection with the International Con-
gress to be held in Berlin, to provide for
the comfort and amusement of the wives
of foreign practitioners during their stay
in the German capital.
Several ladies of Lemberg have offered
their services as Amazons to the En-
peror of Austria in case of war. They
offer to furnish their own uniforms, arms
and horses, and ask only that a military
instructor be provided for them.
AS soon as the horse cars from Cairo
to the pyramids are completed, and the
work is nearly done, an elevator will be
made to the tops of the venerable piles,
so that ascent may be made quickly and
comfortably to the modern traveller.
A ukase is impending in Russia for the
expulsion of Hebrews numbering 4 4,000,-
600 from that country. This is believed
to be the only means to prevent conten-
ton of the poorer classes, growing out OF
money transactions and race hatred,