The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-05-30
FOREIGN NEWS.
Prince Bismarck Issues
a Card Of Thanks.
FESTIVAL TO SIGN0R CRISPI
Austria Proposes to Reduce Her Gar
riso i in Provinces of Bosnia
hand Herzegovina.

American emigration agents swarm il
Italy.
In London they talk Of providing mu
sic for laborers during dinner hour.
The cultivation OF tobacco has betr
prohibited in Egypt by the Khedive.
An exhibition OF fruit from AustraIis
is made in London, which is remarkable
for size and quality.
News received at the City of Mexico
from Honduras says the rebels OF tha
country have been dispersed.
English workingmen's clubs are in
creasing. The rooms contain billiards
books and gymnasium apparatus.
A conspiracy to overthrow President
Rodriguez of Nicaragua has been discov
cred, and the leaders are in arrest.
Great Britain is likely to have another
war with the Beers in South Africa, and
troops are being sent to Bechuanaland
Hon. John T. Brunne of the English
Parliament for Norwich has endowed 9
chair OF economic science in the Liver
IOOi bHiNNioltl WIN SlutuObs
Work has been begun in Columbia or
the railroad that is to connect the port
of Cartegena with the Magdalena river
about eighty miles above its mouth.
Englishmen, jealous OF French ascend
ency, consequent on the Beyrout harbor
the Damascus road and the Jaffa and Je
rusalem railway, are promoting a rail
way from Saida to Damascus.
In order to have them ready for a sud
den attack the German and French gar
risons near the frontier are aroused il
the middle Of the night and made tC
turn out with arms ready for battle.
The mem bers of the various labor anC
other associations in Palermo, Italy
have decided to give great festival il
honor of ex-Premier Crispi on May %
the anniversary of Garibaldi's entranc,
into Palermo.
A committee has been formed at Ham
burg to organize festival in celebration
of the fourth centenary OF the discovery
OF America. All prominent persons il
the empire will be invited in addition tt
representative Germans in America.
There is a great demand for Russian
sugar in Central Asia, especially in Per
sia, whittier it is transported by way o
Batoum and Poti. This demand ha
caused many large sugar factories in th,
South to double their working capacity
Austria proposes to reduce her garri
sons in Bosnia and Herzegovina, tn,
troops in those provinces having sue
ceeded in destroying the bands of rob
bers that had their haunts in the mount
aims and forests of the Montenegro
frontier.
Duke Gunther, the Kaiser's brother
in-law, is under cloud for absence with
out leave from his regiment in Berlin
The Kaiser, to whose knowledge tht
matter came, has intimated to his rela
tive that he must give strict attention t
his military duties.
An outbreak has occurred at AmapoIa
Honduras, which proved successful t,
the insurgents for only few hours. Thu
government troops recaptured the garri
son, killed one of the rebel leaders, Gen
eral Bardales, and inflicted great loss OIL
the body of the rebels.
Much excitement has been caused a
Valparaiso by an attempt to assassinat
the leading members of the Cabinet
The persons engaged in the plot at
tempted to take the lives of the Minis
ters by means of bomb threwn at tn
intended victims in the street.
The Queen Regent of Spain was ap
pointed umpire in the dispute between
| Colombia and Venezuela over the bound
ary lines between those two Republics
She establishes the boundary lines alon
the rivers Orinoco, Atabapo and Negro
which gives Colombia the whole of Goa
jiro, San Faustino and Aranco Territories
Germany's Officers Association ha
raised fund to help the 10000 starving
weavers in Silesia. Cotton and woo
will be bought and placed in their hand
for manufacture into cloth. To discour
age the overcrowding of the industr
only professional weavers of more thai
21 years will be assisted.
The Kaiser has given orders through
the Minister of Public Works that n
person shall be permitted to ride free o.
the government railways unless actuall
engaged in the service of the govern
ment, and that officials allowing any vic
lation of this rule shall be dismissed.
The appeal of the Italian government
to other European governments to unit
in demanding from the United State
protection for resident aliens is laughe,
at in Berlin in view of the great increas
of Italian emigration to America. 1t i
believed that Germany will refuse t
take any part in such demand.
The workingmen of Geestemunde pre-
pose to present testimonial to Schma'
field, the Socialist shoemaker, in men
ory of his championship of the Socialis
cause against Prince Bismarck in the re
cent election. Schmalfield has receive
letters from all parts of Germany an
Europe congratulating him on the ru
which he made against the ex-Char
cellor.