The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-09-12
FOREIGN LANDS.
Gold and Silver Scarce
in Portugal.
GERMAN CARPET -WEAVERS.
Mr.. Gladstone Denies That He Knew
Of Mr.. Parnells Secret
Whereabouts.
GERMAN CARPET -WEAVERS.

Prince George Of Wales is TO be made
commander in the royal navy.
| Nordica will make a concert tour Of
the United States on her own account.
Gold and silver have almost entirely
disappeared from circulation in Portu-
gal.
Russia has not prohibited the expor-
tation OF rye before since the Crimean
war.
Austria expects TO reap golden har-
vest out OF the Russian rye prohibition
with her abundant harvests.
The Princess of Wales fund for the
benefit of Mrs. GrimwoOd, the heroine
of Manipur, amounts TO 81 800.
The famous Sevres porcelain manufac-
tory is likely to be closed, the demand
for its wares having fallen off.
The Portuguese are shamefully abus-
ing the natives in Southeastern Africa,
especially in Mozambique, and seize the
women as slaves.
The English colonial office has just
consented to the appointment of Chi
nese Consul at Hongkong for one year
as an experiment.
An Odessa Jew named Kaplan has Sc
cured the punishment OF police agent
for assault, having paid the Chief of Po-
lice for protection.
Everything is quiet at Nankin, where
the Viceroy is settling claims. His an
swer to the foreign Ministers demands
is eminently evasive.
The Manipur Regent in power at the
time Of the recent massacre in India and
Prince Angao Sena have been exiled for
life, the death sentence having been
committed.
A mine of mercury, said to be exceed
ingly rich, has been recently discovered
in Brazil. This is the only Brazilian
mine of that kind of which We have any
knowledge.
The Catholic papers at Treves urge the
pilgrims not to buy relics from the Prot
estants, as they ridicule the holy coat
now on exhibition there, although glad
to profit by the exhibition.
Despite official denial it is still as.
serted that government order has
been dispatched to all Russian and
Polish railways forbidding them to ex-
port any more wheat, rye or flour.
Loud complaints continue to be made
of the management of the Bayreuth mu-
steal festival. 1t is alleged that the Di-
rectors reduced everything to CONNER
cial basis, and very sordid one at that.
The English government will call the
attention of the United States govern
ment to the improper packing of cotton
cargoes for England, which endangers
the loss of the vessel while the cargo is
in transit.
Spain has given Great Britain formal
notice of its intention to terminate July
next the treaty by which the products
of Canada are admitted into the Spanish
West Indies under the Favored nation"
treatment.
No prima donna of English birth, it is
said, has appeared this season at Covent
Garden in London. Albani was born in
Canada, Melba in Melbourne, Nordica,
Emma Eames and Sybil Sanderson in
the United States.
In the Breslan districts in Germany
cotton-weavers are in condition bor-
dering on starvation. Eight of the
largest mills have been closed, and some
of the former employees have been glad
to accept work breaking stone at 10
pence day.
A sensation has been caused by the
disappearance of the Registrar General
of Berlin, Germany, Herr Kanneyses-
sera. He had been gambling heavily of
late, and in one instance won 24,000
marks in lottery. 1t is believed that
his losses on the turf exceed his win
nings elsewhere, and that, finding him
self unable to pay his debts, he has COM
mitted suicide.
An old woman died in the south of
France, aged S3, and in grateful recog-
milton of the intelligent and devoted care
of DR.. X, which had enabled her to
reach ripe old age" she left him everv-
thing in her cabinet. After her death
the executor unlocked the cabinet, and
found in it, unopened, unsealed and un-
corked, all the pills and potions pre-
scribed for the deceased by DR.. X. dur
ing the past ten years. Is the will
forgery?
The ukase prohibiting the expectation
of rye from Russia has gone into effect.
The government is taking a number of
other measures intended to protect the
people from distress on account of bad
harvests. Inland transportation rates
on grain have been reduced, and free
supplies of fuel will be provided in cases
of necessity. To carry out this intention
the central government has ordered
necessary number of trees to be felled in
the crown forests to produce fuel suffi-
cient for the destitute during the entire
winter. The Governors of the twenty
provinces likely to suffer most have been
instructed to set to work at the construc-
ton of new roads and the improvement
of old ones in order to furnish employ
ment for the peasantry. A sum of 49,
00O, 1000 roubles has been appropriated
for the purpose,