The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-08-15
FOREIGN LANDS.
Prof. Koch Resigns All
Public Offices.
RUSSIA PURCHASING CORN.
Cannibalism in the Free Congo State
Leads to an Expedition Against
the Offenders.

The Imperial Bank Of Melbourne has
failed.
Emperor William will return to Berlin
August II.
Duties on petroleum and ice in Argen-
tina have been reduced.
The French squadron was enthusiastic-
ally welcomed at CrOnstadt.
The educational bill has passed the
third reading in the British House Of
Lords.
The proposal to construct a canal from
the Tyne to the Solway, with depth Of
fifteen feet, is again revived.
The Gar Of Russia will celebrate his
silver wedding next November in a mod
est fashion near Copenhagen.
There is talk in Paris OF an elevated
railway, but the project does not find
favor with the press of the city.
BY the will of the late Peter Carmi-
chael the Established Church of Scot
land is to receive no less than 100000.
Models OF the Lloyd steamships are
features Of the nautical part of the Ger
man Exhibition now open in London.
A lively agitation is going on at Co
logne for the purpose OF making the
Rhine below the city navigable for ships
OF the largest size.
A ship canal is proposed to connect
Venice with the Gulf OF Spezza. 1t
would be 10 miles long, 240 feet broad
and cost e52 100000.
The area flooded in Moravia and ST.
lesia has increased. In the Tyrolese
Alps avalanches have fallen into the val.
leys and caused great damage.
The gas companies of Paris have in
the last ten years paid over $40,000,00.
into the city treasury for the privilege o.
supplying 70 the city at cost.
Agents A.r. Parnell so it is ru.
mored, haze been buying up Mrs
! OShea's picture as exposed for sale in
London shops and endeavoring to ar
range to stop it.
The Labor Exposition soon to open to
the public at Paris will be very interest
ing to visitors. The history of trades
and manufacturers from the fourteenth
century will be feature.
The total population of France is 49,
095, 150. This is an increase since the
last census of POS, ,5S4, and this is entire
ly in the urban population, the rural
population having decreased.
Prof. Koch has resigned all public of
fees held by him in Germany. This
step is associated with his supposed dis
appointment over the unsatisfactory re-
suits of his discovery OF tuberculin." "
Visitors in sufficient numbers to make
the Eitfel tower in Paris pay once more
are reported. The greatest crowds are
on Sunday, when all the elevators are
run, whereas only one is operated on
week days.
Queen Victoria has conferred upon
Earl Cadogan the title of Knight Com
mander of the Order of the Garter, thus
filling the vacancy in the order caused
by the death Of Earl Granville.
boy delivering bread at Berlin en-
tered a yard where there were two blood
hounds loose, and before the people of
the house could reach the boy the beasts
had literally torn him to pieces.
Russia has made large purchases of
corn, and the government is storing
large quantities of grain supplies. The
rise in the price of cereals in Germany
is partly due to Russian buyings.
English shipping papers are agitating
for the formation of a volunteer naval
cadet corps to be recruited chiefly from
fishermen and tisherboys as a volunteer
naval reserve and feeder to the active
naval forces.
The Berlin National Zeihtng announces
that genuine brotherhood of French
men and Russians is unattainable, hold
ing that Russia is uncivilized and France
has =" few points of sympathy with bar
barrie Russia"
The Vatican is absolutely decided in
spite of the threats and persuasions of
the monarchists to continue in France
the policy of adhesion to the Republic
in order to restore that country to union
and to religious and political pacitica-
ton.
Cannibalism among the natives in the
Free Congo State has led to an expedi-
tion against the offenders in which num-
bers of the natives were killed. The
Bakumas at Stanley Falls are reported
to be returning to human sacrifices and
feasts.
In the British House of Commons Sir
James Ferguson said that the govern
ment had reason to believe that salts
factory arrangements would shortly be
made with the United States in the mat
ter of arbitration in the Behring Sea
question.
1t is officially announced at st. Peters
burg that Captain Schmidt of the Rus
sian navy, who was reported as having
been executed secretly last April for sell
ing the plans of the Cronstadt fortifca-
tions, has just been sentenced to banish-
ishment to Siberia. 1t was proved in
his examination that he fell into the
hands of usurers and was induced bv
them to sell his plans to man who be-
trayed him.