The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-02-21
FOREIGN NEWS.
Stanley Has Discovered a. New
Lake in Africa.
The Pope's Brother Dying-wales Prepar-
ing to Demand Home Rule-Four
Conspirators Shot.

ing to Demand Home Rule-Four
Conspirators Shot.
The Governor of Cuba is dead.
Holland has an aDti-opium league.
News of fresh fighting comes from
Crete.
The England Portugal crisis has blown
over.
Mitchell defeated Mace at Glasgow for
5000.
/ A Monmouthshire explosion killed 15O
miners.
The London Chill bond robbers were
convicted.
The Australian Conference is sitting at
Melbourne.
The Pope's brother, Cardinal Pecci, is
dying at Rome.
Four new conspirators have been shot
at Bucharest.
Limerick is moving for home munic-
lpal government.
The Parnell Commission reports ad-
versely to Parnell.
The Marquis of Harrington has left
London for Egypt.
The Bank of Paris will issue Ru ssian
loan on February 20.
English troops are making a bloody
conquest of FormOsa.
Another fierce strike is threatened Oil
the docks of London.
Scandalous disclosures in London high
life continue to crop out.
A French loan Of $4,000, 900 francs
will shortly be issued.
The Government of Brazil is still of
questionable stability.
Dissatisfaction with Prince Albert Vic
tor is still openly pronounced.
London employers are organizing to
resist the demands of laborers.
Stanley has been elected member of
the Russian Geographical Society.
The currency question is assuming in
terest in the English political situation.
| Stanley claims to have discovered
lake in Africa which is larger than Lake
Superior.
A well-laid plot to assassinate Prince
Ferdinand has been unearthed at st. Pc
tersburg.
Wales is preparing to demand home
rule from the coming session of Parlia-
ment.
The Paris police are prosecuting the
stock gamblers who have been wrecking
institutions.
Reports of the recent heavy gales on
| the Atlantic are coming to hand with
every ship arriving.
The reports of provincial banks give
evidence of marked improvement in the
industries Of Ireland.
At the opening of Parliament Parnell
will demand committee to inquire into
the Times-Pigott conspiracy.
The dock laborers at Newport and Mon
month have struck. The shipping busi-
ness at those places is paralyzed.
Through the destruction by fire of ho-
siery mills at Bolton upwards of 4)O per-
sons are thrown out of employment.
A letter announces the death in Spain
of Countess Fanny Keats-L -Llanc, sister of
The poet, John Keats, aged IS years.
A dispatch from Obock, Africa, says
that the Somalis, instigated by the Eng
| lish, have attacked and massacred French
caravans.
In Brazil Senior Rebeiro has retired
from the post of Minister of Commerce,
and has been succeeded by Senior Fran
cisco Guycirio.
The marriage of the daughter of Count
Won Hatzfeldt, German Ambassador at
London to Prince Charles Hohenlohe
will take place at Weisbaden.
A Berlin correspondent says the main
purpose of the Emperor's decree is to
render useless exceptional anti-Socialist
laws after the expiration of the present
act.
At Paris M. Secretan and others con-
nected with the collapse of the Societe
des Metaux have been ordered handed
over to the correctional police to be dealt
with.
The Pope has issued decree empow-
ering Bishops in all countries where in
fluenza has prevailed or still exists to
absolve the faithful from the obligation
of fasting.
| Mr.. Stanley writes to a friend in Lon
don: "My hair is like snow from Ru-
wenzori, but it is the crown of busy
period, anC / wear it without regret as
the gift of time.
The steamer La Plata from Buenos
| Avres has arrived in Antwerp. Specie
and bonds to the value of 81 ,250, 900 are
missing 1t is supposed they were stolen
during the voyage.
Details of a fatal water-spout near
Marking, China, last month which caused
the loss of over 100 lives, has been
brought by the China steamer just ar
rived at San Francisco.
| DIR. Nansen, the explorer of Greenland,
lives at Aasguardstrand, in one-storied
cottage, close by the sea, surrounded by
q pretty garden and with vast forest of
fir and pine in the background.
Emperor William will address France,
Enelaud, Belgium and Switzerland, ask
| ing them to come to an international
agreement with Germany, with view OF
amending the condition OF the working
men.
| DR.. Talmage will bring for his new
church stone from the Jordan, q stone
from Mount Calvary, stone from Mount
Sinai and a stone from Mars hill, Athens,
where St. Paul is supposed to have
preached.
NJ. Eiffel has come down from his
tower to occupy residence in Paris,
which was the home of Baron Hober. It
cost the celebrated engineer $4OO, 900,
which is about half of what he made by
building the tower.