The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-05-23
FOREIGN NEWS.
Electric Launches Pop
ular on the Thames.
NAVAL OFFICERS IN TURMOIL.
The Suppression Of the Opium Trade
in India Will Provoke a Revolt
Among Warlike Tribes.
NAVAL OFFICERS IN TURMOIL

London will have a new Thames tun-
mel.
A London firm published 100000
Havre guns FIRE nine times in three
quarters Of minute,
The Miners CO, lntion at Paris rep
resented 100000 men.
The law business in Scottish courts
shows steady decrease.
King Humbert has 1000 blood horses
in his three stables near Pisa.
Gladstone says labor organization has
saved England from revolution.
A large number of the members Of the
British Parliament are i'll Of la grippe.
The Eifel tower at Paris has been
opened TO the public for its third season.
Telephone connection between Chris
tiana and Stockholm will soon be estab-
lished.
The Pope has established the Bishop
ric of Zanzibar, and will shortly appoint
Bishop.
The Austro-German treaty has been
signed for period of twelve years, be-
ginning in February, 1892.
Queen Victoria has commanded strict
enforcement of the new regulations linn
iting presentations at court.
French naval officers are in a turmoil
over the supposititious worthlessness of
many of their torpedo boats.
A strong war feeling has been aroused
in Berlin by the proposed maneuvers Of
the French near the German frontier.
Five English Generals were retired
week before last through non-employ-
ment, and not one under the age clause
The movement of the German and
Austrian governments to isolate France
commercially begins to alarm the French
Ministers.
To accommodate the forthcoming Els
teddfod large oval building capable of
holding $4,000 will be erected at Swan
sea, Wales.
1t is semi-officially announced in Cal
cutta that the suppression of the opium
trade in India will provoke a revolt
among the warlike races.
The interment of Baron Drais, who
died thirty years ago, and who, when
living, claimed to be the inventor of the
bicycle, took place at Carlsruhe the other
day.
Riotous and revolutionary meetings
have been held at Warsaw. They were
the occasion of doing honor to the dead
Russian political economist, Schelgou-
moro.
A vast opposition is being developed
in London to the increase in the size and
number of tall buildings on the sanitary
ground that they shut out air and sun
light.
The Spanish governments deficit of
81, 10000 pesetas in the current budget
is only half that of last year. In two
years it is expected it will have entirely
disappeared.
So popular have electric launches be-
come or the Thames that London firm
will erect a charging station, where boats
of all sizes will be supplied with cleo
tricity at moderate fee.
Fourteen young Turks have been sent
to Germany by the Sultan to study agri-
culture. Upon their return they will
conduct model agricultural establish
ments for the instruction of Turkish
farmers.
The latest canal project is one to con-
rect the Black Sea with the Sea of Azov
The total length will be seventy five
miles, the breadth about seventy-three
feet and the depth from thirteen to six
teen feet.
In Altorf, Switzerland, the Tell Monu-
ment Committee is making every effort
to press forward its work. Four prizes
of 1925, 1915, $3.50 and 500 have been
offered for the four best plans for the
monument.
Joseph Chamberlain proposes a ma
tional insurance for the support of the
aged. He suggests that the parish should
contribute a certain sum for every child
born and put that to the credit of the
child in national insurance fund.
Emperor William at banquet at Dus-
seldorf said when speaking of COM
mercial treaty with Austria GAS to my
home policy, which is becoming estab-
lished, | shall not deviate a hairs
breadth from the course | have adopted.
l alone am master of this country and
nobody else."
After the fight at Pozo Almonte, Chill,
the victorious troops became disorderly
and sacked the town. Women and girls
were abused and some murdered. Once
fired with drink, rioting commenced
among the men, and soon the torch was
applied, and three blocks were destroyed.
Officers lost complete control of the men.
An effort to have the Knutsford coer-
Give bill dropped in the British Parlia-
ment was unsuccessful. Salisbury said
the government had entered into serious
international obligations with France,
which must be carried out. The bill is
intended to force Newfoundland to re-
spect the treaty of the home government
with France.