The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-04-11
FOREIGN NEWS.
A Plague of Locusts Reported
in Gizeh, Egypt.
The Bulgarian Government to Ex-
pend an Immense Sum in
Building Railroads.


has been killed by the frost.
Japan is to have big industrial fair
this spring and summer.
Kendall remitted s2n,00O sterling to
London last week for inves ment.
The English war office Is experiment.
my with the lance as cavalry arm.
The Pigott letters have now gone hack
into the possession OF the London Times.
An electric railway now runs from
Florence to the steep heights of Fiesole.
In nearly all the coal mines of Great
britain the eight-hour rule is in opera
ton.
The German authorities hanged slave
dealer for trying to embark slaves at Bag
amayO.
The Bulgarian government is about to
eXpend SIS, ,000, ,000upon the construci ion
OF ra lroads
Italy has appropriated 100000 for
smokeless powder in her military budget
Tor the present year.
The grant Bismarck de lined was the
Empefor's offer to continue his salary
and official residence
The German government has ordered
an enormous quantity os smokeless pow
der to be made at once.
The duty on all foreign wheat i'm
ported into Portugal has been reduced
from 20 to Is reis a kilogram.
1t is officially declared that there is salt
enough in the Teeside field in England
to supply the world for 800 years.
Fifteen killed and thirsy-seven wound
ed were the football casualties IN Eng
land since the lst OF last September.
1t is freely Predicted in England that
the next general election will send the
GladstOnians back to power
Miss Gwendolin Caldwell of Prince
Murat fame has been seriously ill at
Rome.
1t is stated that General Wolseley has
been appointed Commander-in-chief of
the fore S in Ireland.
The Portuguese al Mozambique have
boycott d a British man-0f-war, and re-
fuse to furnish the ship with supplies.
A committt OF the Berlin Labor Con-
ference h@s agreed to the exclusion of
children under II years from factories.
Thomas Hope of New York has be-
queathed 81 0,0)0 to found hospital at
Langholm, Scotland, where he was born.
Herr Kunert, Socialist editor of Bres-
lau and member Of the Reichstag, has
been arrested for libel against the En-
perOr.
"The Affaire Gouffe has been dram-
atized, and will soon be produced on the
French stage in five acts AMI seven tab
leaux.
The Hampton Court, London, handi-
cap steeple chase was won by Gameeock
He was the only one of the five starters
to finish.
There is a remarkable rush for mem
bership in the London Stock Elk. hange,
aud the eDtran"e fee is to be raised from
81, ,H00 to $500.
French wine-growers have supersi i
tioos appreciation of comets, and expe
good crops because four comets will be
seen during the summer.
Montpelier university, the third oldest
in France, will celebrate the sixth CEN
tenary of its foundation this year. The
fates will last one week.
A young Parisian artist named Jules
Renaud has killed himself in Algiers he
cause Amelia Rives Chanler fitted him
while studying together in Paris.
Colonel G. j. Murphy, an American,
proposes to build corn palare at the
Edinburgh International Expos; ;tio1,
which Will be held this summer.
Search for diamonds is being made bv
the French COVER lment at the penal col
opy of New Caledonia. Machinery to
bore down 1 $50 feet has been provided.
Tin fields, which are said to promise
vast returns, have been opened al Gipps-
,aud, in the colony of Australia, aed an
English company has been formed to
work them.
A company is being formed in Stettin
to trade in Samoa, Tonga and the Fiji
islands. A regular steamship servire
will be established between the islands
and New Zealand and Germany.
Leading Chinese politicians advocate
the opening of Thibit to British trade and
the conclusion of defensive treaty with
Great britain. These measures, they
urge, will act as check vi BON Russia.
1t is expected that with the new rifles
and the smokeless powder important
changes will be made in the musketry
training of the English army. Greater
prominence is also to be given to mus
kerry practice.
There is plague of locusts in the
province of Gizeh, Egypt. In five days
the authorities destroyed six tons OF
them In plowing quantities of their
eggs are turned up. Exposure to the sun
DESTROYS the eggs.
The Russian government has been dis
agreebly impressed by the meetings
which have been held in England aid
America TO deDounce the outrages upon
exiles in Siberia.
A Milsnese named Fcssati is exhibit
ing at London a simplified Edison pho
noerap ph, costing 100 francs. The instru-
ment reproduces the voice and music in
marvellous manner
The announcement is mafp that the
inf1iction of corporal punishment on
peasants is To be abolished in the Rus
sian Baltic provinces. 1t has beer the
custom to employ the lash for petty Of
lenses or as means Of extracting rents
or taxes.