Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-07-24
Excessive Heat in the
South of Russia.
SLAVERS ROUTED IN AFRICA
The Influenza Epidemic in the City
Of London is Reported to
Be Subsiding.

The flow of lava at Vesuvius is in
creasing.
Turkey will not permit the Jews to
colonize in Jerusalem.
President Carnot Of France will prob
ably visit England soon.
A revolt is reported in the district OF
Quezaltenango, Guatemala.
The very finest brand Of Havana CT
CARS fetches 81 800 per l,0O0 IN Paris.
Guatemala proposes to bring Mexico
and the United States into closer rela-
tions.
The month OF May, 1891, was the wet
test May in Europe for nearly seventy
years.
The people in Madras, India, are
threatened with famine, owing to the
failure of crops.
Influenza is raging III the Province OF
Toledo, Spain. There are 90 cases at
Mora and 400 at Orgaz.
The little Republic of Switzerland will
he 500 years old on August and the
anniversary will be celebrated.
LAWYER William Q. Judge of London
is to be the successor OF Nine. Blavatsky
in the leadership in the occult world.
The Pope has bestowed upon Bishop
Headv a medal in commentator Of his
translation Of the encyclical into Eng
lish.
The Kaiser announces his intention OF
participating with his brother Henry in
yacht race at Traveland, near Lubbock,
on August 9.
1t is reported in Germany that Turkey
has invited France to assume the initia-
tive OF a movement against English oc-
cupation OF Egypt.
The action of the Porte in limiting
the privileges OF the Greek Christians in
Bethlehem has caused an appeal both to
Russia and Greece.
Heinrich Schmilinski. the greatest
millionaire of Hamburg, has decided to
leave his immense fortune to build an
asylum for unmarried women.
Emperor William is delighted with his
visit to England. He says his reception
was such as would be expected in his
own country, but not out Of it.
The Arab slavers on the Upper Congo
and the Aruwimi rivers in Africa have
been routed everywhere by the Congo
Free State troops, and are suing for
peace.
Constantinople advices state that the
latest news from Yemen is very discour-
aging. The insurgents have proved sue
cessful at all points on the coast and III
the interior.
Many of the Americans now in Lon
Do" are nf>the :. high,-roller Il variety,
whose disposition is to show howfoig fool
a man away from home with money.can
make OF himself.
A Polish Countess has been graduated
from the Geneva University a full
fledged doctor. What makes her case
more than commonly interesting is that
she intends to treat the poor OF her own
country gratuitously.
The Russian government is buying
corn intended for export. and will dis
tribute it among the starving people in
the provinces where distress prevails.
Excessive heat in the south of Russia is
causing many deaths.
Rome is going in for a supply Of elec-
tricity, which is to come all the way
from Tivoll, where the motive power is
to be obtained from the River Arno at
distance Of eighteen and one-half miles
from the Eternal City.
The influenza epidemic in London is
reported to be subsiding. 1t is calculated
that during eight weeks the total num-
Der of deaths in London due either d.
rectly or indirectly to the epidemic
amounted to between $500 and 1900.
Italy will hold an Italian American
Exposition, TO open September, 1892, in
commemoration of the discovery Of
America. The aim will be to show the
progress made by two countries and to
develop their commercial relations.
Mr.. Parnell has been in communica-
ton with Mr.. Balfour on the subject Of
advancing money temporarily for the
erection of laborers' dwellings in Ireland
pending the ALLEGATION for that purpose
of funds provided in the land-purchase
bill.
According to a decision recently rem
dered by the Supreme Court at Berlin
Socialists are as much entitled to the
privilege of displaying red flag in pub
lie professions as are members of any
other political body carrying their ban
ners.
Three Englishmen in search of noto-
riety have started to row small boat
from the source of the Danube to it,
mouth. This feat has been tried before,
but has never been accomplished. Five
Englishmen essayed it several years ago,
but failed.
In the International Postal Congress
at Vienna, owing to Germany's opposi-
ton, two American proposals were re-
iected-first, for the creation Of interna-
tional postage stamps. and second. for
the free carriage of mails from country
to country.
One report from Chit says the insur-
gents are III bad luck and without money
and arms. Another dispatch saws they
have defeated the army of Balinaceda.
which was marching from Coquimho,
Of course, The reports come from differ
ent quarters.
The Paris Gdal0is publishes a commu-
nication from leading diplomatic advo-
eating formal alliance between France
and Russia, based upon Frances assist
ing Russia in its occupation of Constan-
tlnople and both France and Russia at
lacking England's supremacy in Egypt
and in the East.
new pidn mas oeen adopted by the
authorities of Rome to pre-
vent adulteration. Recognizing the fact
that the public can gain but little knowl
edge from the annual reports of food in
spectors, they have required the names
OF all makers and sellers of alimentarv
substances injurious to health or adul-
terated to be published in the papers.
Voudoo alteration and human sacrifices
still exist in Hayti. A Haytian political
refugee says he knew personally a wom-
an named Ulysee, living ten miles from
Port-au-Prince, whose seven children
We're eaten at voEdoo dances during her
absence by their own grandmother and
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