The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-11-14
FOREIGN LANDS.
Russia to Have a Great
Baltic Fleet.
WILLIAMS "LILACS" GONE.
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A Cardinal Claims the Pantheon Dis
order Was Arranged by the
Italian Government
WILLIAMS "LILACS" GONE.

Germany has 6,0OO, 900 acres Of forest.
La grippe is prevalent at Axvall, Swe-
den.
The Cabinet crisis in the Argentine is
at an end.
England suggests an international
eight-hour day.
The steamships OF the P. & 0. Co. cost
about e6,0O0,000.
The French army is three times as
large as it was in 1870,
There are thirteen regiments Of heavy
cavalry in the British army.
French imports and exports show
much increase for September.
In Austria, France and Spain execu-
tions are conducted in public.
In some parts of Berlin there are spe-
cial public houses for women.
Miss Brann, the organizer OF the Ger.
man barmaids, has been exiled.
Starving Italians protest against 81
VVOi'VV stAtuS " flNVOI llulldlucl.
Belgium's biggest candle factory at
Hearan has been destroyed by fire.
Three hundred British steamers and
sailing vessels are lost at sea yearly.
In the Chilian elections the Clerical
party was overwhelmingly defeated.
Soldiers at Lisbon fired through the
windows Of a prison to quell revolt.
A new fort is being built at Copen-
hagen, which is to cost about $l75, 200.
Great Britain unions and Socialists say
they will take thirty seats in Parliament.
Bremen is the first city in Germany
to operate all its car lines by the electric
motor.
A copper mine in Japan, which was
first worked l83 years ago, is soon to be
reopened.
Queen Victoria has prohibited the use
of tobacco within the precincts OF Wind
sor Castle
The Mormons are building a church in
Copenhagen for the members of their
faith there.
The official salary of the German Chan
cellor, practically the Prime Minister, is
$13,500 year.
Statistics prove that only one man in
six who emigrates from Europe does so
with advantage.
London's Lord Mayor is debating
Mansion House fund for the Russian
famine sufferers.
At a newspaper exhibition in Paris
there are 5000 specimens of journalism
from all parts of the world.
The French Cabinet insists that no
Catholic Bishop shall leave his diocese
without government consent.
Bradford, England, has sent to the
United States this year SIC, 100000 less
in value of goods than last year.
The Kaiser celebrated his wife's thirty
second birthday by giving himself a
clean shave, except for his mustache.
Prince Bismarck has announced his
intention OF appearing in the Reichstag
and making a speech defending his
policy.
The Emperor of Germany has issued
decree forbidding the manufacture and
sale of machines for making artificial
coffee.
The palaces of Versailles and Trianon
are closed until further notice. The
favages Of vandals have become unen-
durable.
The London wharfngers contemplate
an attempt to organize permanent force
for dock labor and do away with the
casual labor.
Dibbs, the leader of the opposition in
the New South Wales Legislature, has
formed new Cabinet. He succeeds Sir
Henry Parkes.
The Sims-Edison electrical torpedo
will soon be given a new trial in English
waters, which is expected to have a
great influence on naval warfare.
M. Pasteur has now by the grace of
the Emperor of Austria become Baron
Won Pasteur, and has been decorated
with the Order of the Iron Crown.
The Italian government proposes to
abolish the export duty on raw silk as a
part of the programme to take every
possible measure to aid the industries of
Italy.
During the past year eighty-seven
years of imprisonment have been in
flicted in Germany upon Socialists, and
fines aggregating 1880 have been inn
posed.
High personages in Copenhagen have
induced the Gear to pardon his cousin,
Grand Duke Michael, for his marriage
to the Countess of Nuremberg, the
daughter of the Grand Duke of Nassau.
Sir James Ferguson, England's new
Postmaster General, is brave old sol
dier who fought in the Crimean war, was
wounded at Inkerman and won both
English and Turkish medals for his dar-
ing deeds.
A great Baltic feet, able to defend
Russian interests on the high seas and
carry on operations in hostile waters,
will be created by the Gear; also fleet
to protect the Baltic Coast line, together
with number of armed cruisers.