The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-07
FOREIGN NEWS.
Four Hundred Thousand Miners
Will Probably Strike.
Jewish Emigration Agents to Send
Applicants to British Colonies
Instead Of United States.

AuStCdu VI UnlC0Q states,
Gladstone is i'll of catarrh.
Sir Robert Kane, M. D., Of London is
dead.
Carl Halbergen, the Stuttgart publisher
is dead.
Mexico governmental bonds are stead
lily rising.
| A series of English football
games is on the tapis.
General Rodriguez has been appointed
Governor-General of Cuba.
President Diaz has refused a proffered
loan from German bankers.
The Brazilian Government feels happy
over United States recognition.
John Burns is discouraged about the
workingmen's holiday project.
Sarah Bernhardt is i'll in Paris, and has
discontinued her performances.
Dom Pedro is yet suffering from a ner-
vous disease which affects his mind.
Sir Henry Edwards, who has been Wis
ltlng the Samoan islands, is at Honolulu
Tennyson, the poet laureate, is suffer
ing from influenza. His condition is
serious.
Madame Sagada, noble Russian lady,
was logged to death in Siberia for polit-
ical offenses.
Hon. Alex Dundas Ross Wisnart Baille
Cochrane Barrow of bennington, Eng
land, is dead.
Sir Edward Watkin, the railroad king.
slipped in getting out of bed and broke
two of his ribs.
The great annual sprinting handicap
at Sheffield, England, was won by Col
lins, the American.
1t is said that Queen Victoria will visit
Paris. She has never been there since
the downfall of Napoleon.
Father Kinsoller has been sentenced to
two months hard labor for connection
with evictions at Clangary.
Jewish emigration agents will here
after send applicants to the British Col
onies instead of the United States.
Rt. Hon. Sir Louis Malet, G. B., the
well-known authority Oh commercial
treaties, died at London of influenza.
Socialists attacked Liberal meeting
at Liegnitz, Prussia. The police inter
Tered, and many persons were wounded.
A fire in Sydney, N. S. W., DESTROYED
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cation Company's wharves; loss, $780,
600.
Herr Maybach, German Minister of
Public Works, has offered his resignation,
but the Emperor will not permit him to
resign.
| At Muhlhausen, Saxony, there was a
fight at Socialist meeting, and troops
were called cut. Thirty persons were
wounded.
The Australian federation conference
has adjourned after empowering the
Premier of Victoria to convene the body
again in 1892.
Queensland has been visited by Sc
we're storm, resulting in serious floods
and causing several deaths and much
loss of property.
On recent night 500 unemployed men
and women were counted asleep in the
parks of Sydney, Australia, without
money or homes.
General Boulanger wants to marry a
rich widow, Nine. Bounemain, to whom
he owes 100, 900 francs, but the Pope has
rof,1c cod him q divOrca
The Spanish corvettes Castillo and Ma
varro touched at Tangier, inquired re-
garding the movement of the British
squadron and departed.
The new steamer Arethusia fouled the
Persian Monarch in Queenstown harbor.
The latter steamer lost her propeller, and
the Arethusia grounded.
The Pope for the first time left the Vat
ican since his elevation to the pontifical
chair to attend the bedside of Cardinal
Pecci, his dying brother.
"Red" Jimmy McDermott says that
Parnell must step down and ont of the
leadership of the Irish Parliamentary
party before two months.
John Dillon, the Irish agitator, has
stopped off at Honolulu. He came on
the Zealandia from Auckland. He comes
to San Francisco this week.
Confucius is visiting England. He is
la Chinaman, and claims to be direct
descendant in the seventy-secon6 gener
alton of the famous Confucius who gave
China religion.
| A detective is in Berlin after Loewen
herr, New York leather merchant who
issued $21 900 worth of forged notes. L
is said to be doubtful if extradition pa
pers will be granted.
The Cologne Gazette in an editoria
warns the people against overrating the
Emperor's words. 1t says there are linn
it's to social reform beyond which all CON
cerned plunge into ruin.
Lord Salisbury's health causes mucl
uneasiness to his fliends. He is ordered
to the seaside, and has in consequence
gone to Bor emouth. He is forbidden te
any but the most urgent business.
Bawnshiri, the Arab chief, a greater
soldier than Bushiri, who was recently
hanged by the Germans, holds the felC
with a great army against Major Wiss
man. the German invader of East Africa
Lord Salisbury has intimated that h'
will accept the United States Senate
changes in the extradition treaty; there
fore the future pa'leyiDg between Mr.
Lincoln and his lordship will be shor
and easy.
Secretary Blaine has telegraphe.
United States Consul McMasters at Car
lthage, Colombia, for report regarding
the continued detention OF the American
schooner Julian for alleged violation o
the customs laws.