The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-03
FOREIGN NEWS.
Blowing Up the Iron Gate of the
Danube Begun.
Many People in Bohemia and Hungary
Rendered Homeless by Heavy
Storms and Floods.

The outrages in Armenia continue.
The Portuguese Cabinet has resigned
Patti will give concerts in this country
next season.
A Cabinet Minister of Health is seri-
ously proposed for England.
Russia proposes to keep Cinnamon out
OF Ussuri by laying heavy tax on them.
The Federal Council of Switzerland
has decided to recognize the Republic OF
Brazil.
The Turkish government will appoint
commission to inquire into the Armen.
ian troubles.
Marriages of convenience, which have
been bane of social life in France, are
said to be on decline there.
The Austrian war-ship Taurus, with a
crew of sixty-nine men and four officers,
has foundered in the Black sea.
1t is proposed to erect an Eifel tower
in Melbourne, and company with cap
ital of $500, 900 has been formed for the
purpose.
Irish anti-home-rule members appeal
for aid for thirty men in Tipperary
whose business has been ruined by the
boycott.
Adelina PATHS theater on her estate
in Wales, Craig-y-nos, has been COM
pleted, and there was an informal open
ing recently.
Roumania and Servia are negotiating
with Vienna bankers for refunding of
their public debts at more favorable
rates of interest.
A resident of Ceylon says the Java
coffee plant is dying out, and this uni
versal breakfast beverage will soon be-
come costly luxury.
Many people in Bohemia, Austria, and
Hungary have been rendered homeless
by the heavy storms and floods, which
are general throughout Europe.
In view of recent developments at
Tripoli the government has ordered the
French Mediterranean and Levantine
squadrons to proceed to North Africa.
The ex-Emperor of Brazil thinks of
settling in the neighborhood of Vienna,
and negotiations for the purchase of a
suitable abode for him have been set on
foot.
1t is rumored in London that an Eng
lish man-of-war had arrived at Lisbon,
and the officers and men landed were at.
tackled by a mob and compelled to re-
embark.
The Czarowitz and his brother, Grand
Duke George, are to start toward the
end of October from Corfu on voyage
to India, China and Japan, terminating
at San Francisco.
A Zanzibar dispatch says that Emin
Pasha hoisted the German flag at Tab
ero, captured lot of guns, ivory and
cattle from Sultan Sike and then pro-
ceeded to Usokuma.
The announcement that the German
authorities at BagamOyo, Africa, have
issued proclamation authorizing traffic
in slaves is believed in Berlin to be a
mistake.
Great excitement is caused at Cape
Town, South Africa, by the arrival of a
Portuguese steamer loaded with kid
naped natives from Mozambique en-
route to the West Coast,
The work of blowing up what is called
the "Iron Gate of the Danube" the
great rocky pass on the Servian border,
through which navigable channel was
cut many years ago, has begun.
The total cost of the London docks
has been upward of $100, ,000, 900, and it
has been computed that half of this ex-
penditure was sheer waste. London has
no public control over its docks.
A sanitary commission has started
from Rome for Massowah, where deaths
from cholera average fifty daily. Euro
peans are not affected. Strict measures
for the isolation of natives are adopted.
The Prime Minister of Spain, believ-
ing that free trade is responsible for the
evils of the Spanish workingman's posi-
ton, has recommended policy of pro-
lection for both farmers and manufact-
urers.
For the first time since its foundation
a Jew, Professor julius Bernstein, has
been elected Rector Magnifctus of the
Halle university. Up to within COM
paratively short time no Jew was per-
mitted even to teach there.
Returns that have been made to Par
lament show that there are in Great Brit
ain and Ireland $500 miles of inland
navigation, of which 1000 miles are on
open rivers, leaving $500 miles of canals,
the greater part of which are in Eng
land.
A sad spectacle was witnessed in San
tiago, Chill, recently, when hundreds of
Italian immigrants just arrived from Tai
cahuano implored passers-by for aims,
some of the men offering their coats and
shirts for sale in order to procure some
thing to eat.
1t is stated that Barrundia's widow
carries with her to the City of Mexico
certain papers of her late husband,
showing that the latter was in 1887 ad-
mitted as protege of Mexico, he hav-
ing taken out preliminary Mexican nat
uralization papers. She will seek the
interposition of Mexico to secure dam
ages against Guatemala.
The Berlin Post says: Germany never
had any intention of unqualifedly abol-
ishing all forms of slavery in Africa.
The Reichstag agreed that the measure
would be taken only by degrees, with
due regard for the existing order. of
things.
The merchants of Belfast are making
every endeavor to place as much linen
as possible in the United States before
the Mckinley bill goes into effect. The
Majestic, which has just sailed, has one
of the largest cargoes of linen ever
known TO have been shipped. Many
shippers are unable to secure freight
space.