Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-05
THE OLD WORLD.


Naquet has resigned from the French
Senate. He was The last Boulangist
Senator.
French Republican and Monarchist
leaders are urging President Carnot to
release the Duke OF Orleans,
In many parts of Switzerland the viii
layers are retreating to the valleys, enor
nous avalanches being imminent.
A rich government contractor is prl-
vateIy building near London an alrshlp,
which is expected to carry crew OF sew
eral men at speed of fifteen miles an
hour.
Boularger has written Letter III which
he renpws his offer to return to France,
providing the government will permit
him to be tried by a court OF appeal or
court martial.
A clerical paper at Meran, Austria, an
nounces the betrothal OF the Archduch-
ess Stephanie, widow of Crown Prince
Rudolph, to Archduke Franz, heir to the
Austrian throne.
A Brazilian company, through their
Newcastle representatives, have acquired
a bodybuilding yard at otswood, near
Newcastle on Tyne, which has been idle
for a number of years.
Dispatches from Cete say that at Patti
ANA priest was dragged from his pull
pit End paraded through the street amid
the jaers of a mob. SiXty-four vi layers
are starving in prison.
The London Times states that people
on that sile OF the Atlantic do not mind
whether the Worlds Fair is held in New
York or Chicago. Their chief concern
is hotel accommodation.
The French government proposes to
celebrates the twentieth anniversary OF
the establishment OF the Republic on
( September in an eXtr. ordinary style at
Paris, Bordeaux, Lyons and Marseilles.
Since the inauguration Il a new system
of postal WAGONS for emptying the mail
boxes in Berlin an ordinary city letter
reaches its destination in an hour alter
/ leaving the hands of the sender.
In Paris this year alrea ly three mur-
/ derers, al minors, have been execute d,
/ of whom the Youngest was Ii years Old.
/ The number of suicides III France has
risen from 4 $50 in 1870 to 300 in 1889
/ During 1899, 225 minors between 10 AID
/ Il wears Of age and 48 children below 10
committed sui ide.
A Rome special says: A large section
of the Cardinals advocate the idea that
/ the future Pope to be elected to succeed
/ Leo KILL shall leave Italy Immediately.
/ They declare the position OF the Pope
| there untenable. J go IS strongly opposed
/ TO the sche ne, and has appealed TO the
/ Cardinal, that his last days on earth be
comforted nv the assurance that such a
course shall be abandoned.
King Leopold of Belgium speaks and
/ writes English with ease and accuracy
/ He never les a Sunday pass without
writing an autograph letter to his friend
and ally, Queen Victoria. Whenever he
travels he takes with him his confden-
/ tial English attendant, Charles Murray,
who has been in his service nearly
quarter of a century.
/ General John F. FarnswOrtn is lean
and lank-lOoking veteran OF picturesque
| appearance, with a bushy gray beard,
/ and has served his country i'll war ami
peace. He halls from Illinois, and sat i'll
/ Congress for some years after the war,
4 but was defeated in 1872, and after max
/ ing several unsuccessful attempts TO re-
gain his seat settled down into a railroad
LAWYER. He is a typical Western lob
| bvist.
The scheme for tunneling the Engl sh
channel has wrought good already,
whether tn. tunnel ever matPrializPs or
not. In testing the rock in the Dover
cliffs there has been brought to Fight an
excellent vein of coal of vast extent,
adding immensely to Englan Is resources
and aGording basis for large manufact-
uriDg interests and thus utilizing was e
/ lands in a district almost wholly agrl-
cultural.
Editor Stead. formerly of the Pail Mall
/ Gazette, is now going to attack the Lon
don Times. He has begun with sensa-
tional article in his & Review of Review
ers on the diminishing circulation,
advertisements and dividends of the
Thunderer. He says this less amounts
/ to more than go, 900 annually. He sub
mitted the article before he published it
to LAWYER, who informed him that it
was libelous, but he took the risk Of
printing it.
Dispatches from Russia in regard to
the agitation of university students are
confused and conflicting The agitation
started in the agricultural college near
Moscow. In spite of strict precautions
/ of the government the agitation spread
/ to other Institutions, and Students have
been holding meetings at all the un YER
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the student world. Arrests of students
suspected If being leaders in the agita-
ton have been made in the principal
universities throughout Russia.