Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-10-23
FOREIGN LANDS.
Influenza Again RACES
in London.
THE SHORTAGE OF WHEAT.
Capt. Blunt Declares That Smokeless
Powders Are Absolutely Use
less for Small Arms.
THE SHORTAGE OF WHEAT.


England.
The English railways have begun
revision of rates.
More than one-third of Germany's
freight traffic is by canal.
Belgrade is building tanks for the stor-
age OF Russian petroleum.
The shortage of wheat and rye in Eu-
rope is estimated at 200, 000,0 900 bushels.
The excavations at Delpi under the
auspices OF the French government will
be begun this fall.
The Liverpool elevated railroad, run
ming along the line OF docks, is rapidly
nearing completion.
The operatives of every bottle factory
in France, with the exception OF those
at Blanzy, have struck.
The collection OF works of Russian
art recently on exhibition at Berlin will
be sent to the Chicago Fair.
New Brunswick is to be officially ex-
amined as possible source OF supply of
horses for the British army.
President Fonseca of Brazil is very i'll,
and there are intrigues afoot regarding
the succession to the Presidency.
Sir Micael Hicks Beach is prominently
mentioned as the leader of the Consery-
atives in the British House OF Commons.
The entire railway mileage of Great
Britain is now 0,073 miles, or less than
one-eighth OF that of the United States.
As the cold weather approaches, there
is marked increase in the want and
misery among the working classes in
Berlin.
In a certain portion of the Ural dis
trict camels are the only working cattle
use, some large farms possessing 100
camels.
The new remedy for consumptive pa
tients called chlophenol is said to have
shown remarkably good results in Italian
hospitals.
Mr.. Spurgeon seems lively, and ex-
presses himself as confident of his uiti-
mate recovery. He still needs much
care, however.
1t is reported from st. Petersburg that
%, 200, 600 persons are unable to pay their
taxes, and that this will cause a budget
deficit of el2,000GO0.
The Argentine government as a meas
ure OF economy has abolished its laga-
ton at Vienna, Berlin, Lisbon and
Mexico, thus saving 100000 a year.
London advices say that the strikes of
dock laborers and other employees about
the Caron and Hermitage wharves, Wap-
ping, is showing signs of collapsing.
The greatest trades union, the Anal
gamated Engineers, having an executive
department in Great Britain, America
and Australia, is about to reorganize.
The Argentine Republic has sold to
Baron Hirsch 900 square miles in the
province OF ChacO for a Hebrew colony
The price paid was 900 gold pesos per
mile.
The chief rabbis have ordered prayers
IN behalf Of Russian Jews to be deliv-
cred in all English synagogues at the
beginning OF the season of fasting and
prayer.
The Chinese coolies imported by the
land barons of Eastern Prussia to re-
place the emigrated peasants have re-
fused to do the hard work imposed on
them, and have gone on a strike.
A wave OF hysterical religion is pass
ing over some parts of France. a num-
Der OF Protestant peasants are travelling
with tents, preaching the end of the
world, bareheaded and with naked feet.
The effect of the strikes on the port of
London alone is shown very clearly this
year by diminution of sol vessels en-
tering inward, which is a loss of Is per
cent. and can be attributed to no other
cause at all.
The criticisms of the London Times on
the poor financial condition of Italy
hov etj hn n hat
try, the gravamen of the Ofiense having
apparently been found in the fact that
the charges are true.
The bread baked by the furnishing
peasants on the Volga is made up OF
-four of goose feet (cheHop0drum ratbrum)
with the admixture of a small quantity
of rye. The bread is black, light of |
weight, and looks like turf.
The estimate made by the Agricultural !
Department of the Argentine Republic |
of the crop for the current year is as fol- |
lows: Wheat, $780, 900 tons; maize, |
900, 900 tons; alfalfa, 100000 tons |
sugar, $4,000 tons; wool, $4,000 tons.
The result of the tests made at the
request Of the British government by |
Captain Blunt on the smokeless powder
in England, Germany, France, Belgium
and the United States is extremely dis
appointing. Captain Blunt declares it |
to be absolutely useless for small arms.
Prince George of Prussia, it is said,
is on the high road to become as insane
rs his mother, the late Princess Louise,
whose dementia took the form of aver
sion to clothing of any sort, and who
created a terrible scandal by escaping
from her keepers several times in a state
Of absolute nudity.
The successful Issue of the efforts to
remove the embargo on pork is most
likely to be followed by an agreement
for the introduction into the German
Empire of American agricultural prod
ucts, especially wheat, -four and ported
and canned meat free OF duty in return
for the fr> entry of German sugar.
Moorish tribesmen attacked Spanish
fort at Cablerizas, near Melilla. Africa.
Fhe fort replied with cannon and mus
kerry. The fighting lasted for three
hours, when the Moors fed. The Span
ish government has made a demand
upon the Sultan of Morocco for repara-
ton.
The illumination of the Grand Palace
at Brussels, Belgium, is to be effected by
lights suspended from tall steel stand
ards which will be sunk in deep sheaths
underground in daylight and elevated by
hydraulic pressure at dusk, thus doing
away with unsightly poles during the
daytime.
Commissioner Carter of the general
land Office has received by reference
from the Secretary Of Agriculture a re-
quest from Nicholas Krukof, the In
spector of Agriculture for the Amour
district in Russia, to be furnished with
information respecting the survey and
disposal of the p1blic lands of the