The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-12
FOREIGN NEWS.
Prince Bismarck MunleS the Ger
man Press by a Threat.
The Provincial Treasurer of SOochOw
China, Becomes a Great Moral
RefOrmer of the Drama.


The British have assumed possession
Of the Shire highlands.
Several steamers have taken military
supplies up the Danube to Servia.
Several earthquake shocks have re-
Gently been felt in the Danube valley.
A New York dentist has the pleasure
of operating upon the Gar of Russia.
Prince Bismarck is closely watched, so
hat he is unable to talk with newspaper
men.
There is said to be an alarming increase
n the death rate at Naples the last few
Englishmen rejoice that the proposed
'estoration of Westminster has been
Experiments with steam life-boats
nave recently been made at Liverpool
md Havre.
Fires have swept the Soukaras forest
n Algiers. Two villages were destroyed
oy the confagration.
Surgeons in the French army by re-
'ent military order have been forbidden
% practice hypnotism.
Army men, who profess to know all
lbout it, assert that the much-talked-of
powder is not success.
OF late there has been an increase of
he bitter feeling in Paris toward Ger
mans, especially in public places.
And'now comes news of a phosphate
rust headed by the Duke of Westmin-
;ter and others of the English nobility.
Resident Hebrews in London are to
1uild in that city the largest and finest
'ynagogue in the world, to cost e1OO,-
100.
Great Britain intends to use a part of
he revenue to be derived from the new
iuty on spirits to promote technical ed
lcation.
The returns from the excise revenue
n England are this year so good that
Mr. Goschen will have very large sur
olus to devote to free education.
The Corn Millers' Association of Leeds.
England, has advanced the price of -four
IS I'd per sack. This makes an advance
If As I'd within month.
Herr Krupp, the great gun manufact-
lrer, has plan for connecting the city
If Vienna with the Danube by canal.
The Austrian government is considering
Emperor William is not, it is reported.
It all generous in the matter of walls"
is gratuities left by royal personages are
allied. The English f1unkies at the pal
ice are disguised with him.
Count Villanova, accompanied by
Jude and porters, recently started to
make the ascent of Mount Blanc. Moth
ng has been heard of the party since,
nd it is feared that all have perished.
Reports from twenty-five centers of
population in County Donegal, Ireland,
how that the potato blight is gravest in
districts like Falcarragh and
1wodore, where the crop is total fail
Ire.
1t is stated that the Sultan has agreed
n principle to a number of reforms in
Armenia involving communal autonomy
nd the admission of Armenians to a
hare in the administration of the vii
vets.
A dispatch from Rome says that big
'ocialistic intricacy has been unearthed
n that city. A large number of bomb
hells were found in the houses of work.
ngmen belonging to secret societies, to
,e used in case of an outbreak.
The French government has accepted
he Italian governments proposal for
to establish an international
maritime service on the Red sea. The
bject is the suppression of cholera.
adhesion is doubtful.
Terrible stories of distress are reported
rom Tokay, where the fire is not vet en-
irely extinguished. Men, women and
hildren are constantly running about
he desolated streets wringing their
lands and calling on heaven for help.
A bombshell was thrown into the Of
ice of the Chief of Police at Trieste, and
EXPLODED, severely wounding the Secre-
ary. 1t is supposed to have been the
york of Italian Republicans, who advo-
ate the annexation of Trieste to Italy.
Chinese supremacy in the tea trade
lids fair to find rival in few years in
Asiatic Russia. Already large shipments
rom the tea plantations in Russian Cen
raj Asia are made to England annually,
nd a considerable proportion of the
,roduct finds its way to the United
states.
The Bismarck monument fund, which
S being collected despite the ex-Chan-
ellor's prejudice against monuments of
himself, now amounts to some $135 900.
The members of the reading room of the
society of German Students in Prague
ecently resolved to subscribe $3.50 to the
und, but were prevented by the Chief
f Police, who threatened to dissolve
heir organization in case the contribu-
ion should be made.
The moral reformer of China is the
Provincial Treasurer of Soochow." He
las issued proclamation commanding
managers of theaters in Shanghai to de-
list from the representation of immoral
,lays. Restaurants and other places of
public interest must discontinue employ
ng female performers. immoral
,lays," the Provincial Treasurer says,
8 excite the female mind, and sometimes
cad women to initiate the wicked ac-
ions portrayed on the stage" Because
heaters have " been established so long
hat it would be impossible to wean the
public mind from them so far as to per-
nit of abolishing them," all that can be
lone is to purge them from their Hsen-
atienal, degrading and lieensionsn
IraHlas.