The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-07-11
FOREIGN NEWS.
Chicago Orders a Tower From
NJ. Eiffel.
The Leading Germans of London Will
Banquet Bismarck on His Visit
to England.

favorable.
The cholera in Valencia, Spain, con-
tinues to decrease.
Cricket is becoming favorite pastime
among the English women.
Pleuro is rapidly spreading among the
cattle in Cumberland, England.
The French have tried smokeless pow
der with the biggest guns su, cessfully.
A movement is on foot to export cotton
from Egyptian ports to Massachusetts,.
The late King of Portugal who died
intestate, left less than 100000 person
atty.
M. Eiffel has received an order from
ChicAgo for tower 500 feet higher than
the Paris one.
The French are making an honest eff
fort to suppress slavery within the sphere
of their influence in North Africa.
Bismarck claims the right to express
freely his opinion regarding public events,
and proposes to exercise that right.
The Sultan of Morocco has granted to
the German Minister a monopoly of the
export of wheat and barley for three
years.
Chancellor Won Caprivi declared in the
Reichstag that the federal government
would neither drop the army bill nor &C
cept any amendments.
A syndicate of American capitalists
and British bankers has been formed in
London to buy up the gas works in the
principal American cities.
It is stated that the leading German
residents in London propose to hold a
great banquet on the occasion of Prince
Bismarck's visit to England.
A number of Russians, Danes and
Swedes have been expelled from Altoona.
Prussia, because of their inability to pro-
duce satisfactory indenti6cation papers
Half of Fort de France, Martinique.
has been burned, and aid is demanded
by the American Consul. Five thousand
homeless people need lumber and provi
siOns.
Hal fax is much excited over the ac-
tivity that is displayed by the men of
war at that harbor They are being vict-
ualed, coaled and furnished with a sup
ply of ammunition.
In order to prevent border disputes the
Governments of France and Germany
will clear wide space on either side of
the frontier line and erect numerous large
stones, marking the position.
Sarah Bernhardt says she adores STAN
ley. She feels purely artistic though
intense passion for the hero of Africa, "
and is willing to accompany him to the
dark continent if he would only ask her
General Carlos Ezeta is President of
San Salvador, and his Cabinet has been
appointed. Order, which was Temporal
rily disturbed by the sudden death of
President Menendez, has been estab-
lished.
The Speaker of the British House of
Commons ruled that there was no prece-
dent for the license fund to accumula te,
and the government postponed consider
alton of the measure until it could con-
slider the Speakers rulings.
The Pope has appointed Rev. Charles
E. Mcdonnell, d. d., Archbishop Corri-
gan private secretary. Papal Private
Chamberlain, with the title of Monsignor.
The Asiatic cholera is rapidly becom-
ing epidemic in Naples. The doctors say
that two-thirds of the city will have to
be pulled down and the entire sewerage
system revJlutionized to prevent the con-
slant return of the scOurpe.
The Paris Board of Trade finds the
safety of the passengers on the City of
Paris was not sacrificed to speed, and
that the vessel is one of the fin st in the
mercantile marine. This is the result of
an investigation into the recent accident.
Next April John Bull counts his Bit
ons. The whole Empire is to be can
vassed. 1t is expected that the govern
ment, upon whose domain the sun never
sets VIII prove to have about 349, 900, 900
p~ople acknowledging Victoria Queen and
Empress.
NJ. de Laveleye, the Belgian political
economist, writes that either of the
American silver bills will injure the cause
of international bimetallists, but neither
can possibly iDjure America. OF the two
he considers the free-coinage bill the
more harmful.
The sale of indecent publications at
the Belgium railway stations has reached
such point that the Minister of Posts,
Telegraphs and Railways, M. Vanden-
peerboom, has had recourse to such he
roic remedy as the total suppression OF
the book stalls.
that 5000 francs have been bequeathed
to the city of Paris by one Pascal Favale,
the interest of which is TO be used an
nually to furnish doweries to young
women, who must be of good repute and
natives of Paris.
The Transvaal Volksraad has passed
almost unanimously resolution empow-
ering the government to construct at
once railway from Pretoria to the Vaal
river In continuation of the Delagoa Bay
railway. This includes line from Pre-
toria to Johannesburg.
The Brazilian legislative body is to
consist of 63 Senators a. d 200 Delegates.
When the new body meets and becomes
thoroughly organized, the provisional
government will place in it's hands the
functions of the government exercised
since the inauguration of the Republic.
The constitution adopted, and which ie
subject to revision by the legis' alive body
when it first meets, is similar to that ol
the United States, with exceptions that
have been necessi afed. The President
holds his Office six years. and will be in.
eligible to re-electiop ten years succeed.
ing.