Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-06-19
Catholics and Greeks Riot
at Jerusalem.
THE NEW JAPANESE CABINET
The Portuguese Cortes Committee
Approves of a Convention
With England.

Brazil wants Russian immigrants.
Ireland will exhibit at the Worlds
Fair.
Scotland farmers complain of a mice
plague.
Brazils exports for 1891 are estimated
at 5000, 100000.
Japan will have 5000, 900 exhibit at
the Worlds Fair.
1t is reported the Rothschilds recently
lost SAC, 100000 in speculation.
A pair of Zulu chiefs are said to be the
present social lions in London.
Ex-King Milan's latest gambling bout
resulted in loss of $780, to him.
The British Parliament proposes to
pass a bill to exclude destitute immi-
grants.
Fifty thousand Jews have been thus
far expelled from St. Petersburg and
Moscow.
Eight thousand tailors are now idle in
London, and their number is constantly
increasing.
Thirsty Threats in the Congo country
swallow about $1,000000 worth of fire
water week.
The population now is about 4,SO0,O l0
in Portugal, 100000 in Spain and
81 ,000, 900 in Italy.
The Swiss people are preparing to Gel
citrate the 600th anniversary of that
hardy little Republic.
The Portuguese Cortes Committee has
approved Of convention with Great
Britain in relation to South Africa.
| Balmaceda has released from prison
many prominent citizens, they giving
heavy bonds for their future conduct.
| The Turkish brigands have released
| the prisoners they captured recently by
derailing train. The ransom was paid.
Catholics and Greeks at Jerusalem
have been rioting. Turkish troops in
tervened, and several persons were
killed.
The infant daughter of the Duchess of
Fife is to be christened Alexandra in
| honor of its grandmother, the Princess
of Wales.
Famine prices are said to be prevailing
at lquique, meat selling at 70 cents a
pound, potatoes at go bag and -four at
$50 bag.
The inventor of the Sims Edison tor
pedO says its exhibition has created great
excitement in Europe, where it has just
been exhibited.
Sir William Gordon Cumming denies
that there is any truth in the story that
he is to be married shortly to Miss Flor
ence Gardner of New York.
Great building operations in Rome
and other Italian cities, begun on the
expanding trade of the past, have been
brought to ignominious collapse.
In consequence Of Bolivia's recognition
OF the CHILEAN Congressional party as
belligerents the CHILEAN Minister at La
Paz has demanded his passports.
The rumored suspension of Russell &
Co. of China has been confirmed, in
consequence of which the New York.
London and Boston branches have sus-
pended
The expense of governing italy has
increased from $245, 900, 900 in 1881 to
$3.50, 0J0, 900 in 1889. The debt has ad-
vanced from $2,014,2j7, 1872 in 1880 to
1924 ,8Z5, 1929 in 1889.
The Duke of Argyll is a witness in a
TRIAL IN Dumbarton concerning a certain
cure for rheumatism in consequence Of
having given testimonial of its value
in return for free treatment.
The Japanese Cabinet has been recon-
structed, with Ito as President of Coun-
Gil, TakatO as Minister of Public In true
ton, Tanaka as Minister of Justice and
Shingala as Minister of the Interior.
The King of Belgium will soon visit
| England, and before he leaves for home
Stanley will probably have told him def
lnitely whether he will go back to Africa
as Governor of the Congo Free State.
A quarter of million Hebrews are TO
be driven out of Russia forthwith. War
saw alone has given 10000 of them no.
tlce to depart. There are supposed to
be about 100000 Hebrews in Russia.
At a Socialistic meeting in Paris one of
the citizens present moved that the
death of the Minister of the Interior M
Constans, should be voted bv the AS
sembly. The President refused to put
the motion to vote.
Marie Wilt, the famous retired prima
donna, has been dismissed as completely
cured from the private asylum at Eel
| dof, near Prague, and the free disposi
ton over her fortune of 500, 900 forms
has been restored to her.
Archbishop Croke declares that many
of the Irish members of the Commons
are DESTROYS of settling the trouble exist
ing IN the Nationalist party by forming
union OF the factions and selecting
John Dillon as their leader.
And now Germany is threatened with
an invasion of cheap Italian labor. a
large gang of laborers from Italy having
been engaged by iron masters at Frank
tort twages much smaller than are Maid
to skilled German workmen.
There is very great misery among the
working classes in Rome. Owing to the
decline In values and stagnation of buiId-
ing interests, thousands are out of en-
ployment. The multitude of begpars
has never been so great or importunate,
That great engineering work. the Cor
NTH canal, which will sever the PaIo-
ponnesus from the mainland of Greece
and will permit the largest ships to mass
directly from the Gulf of Athens to the
Gulf of Corinth, is said to be RAPIDLY
approaching completion.
The property left by Sir Richard Sut-
ton, who raced the Genesta for the
America cup, is over 100000. The
heir to the estate is posthumous child
only just born. The accumulation by
the time he comes Of age will be some
thing prodigious to think of.
The Gar has been sounded as to how
he would receive an invitation to visit
France, and responded by asking
whether the Nihilist colony in Paris had
disappeared since the murder of General
Seliverskof. The snub, it is reported
was keenly felt at the Elysee.
A large stream of lava is issuing from
the new crater of Mount Vesuyius at the
base of the central cone. Seismic dis
turbances generally stop when the ernn-