Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-01-12
FOREIGN.
DESTITUTE IN IRELAND.

CoRK. Ian. 1.-THE state OF des-
titution into when the poor people
of some portions of Ireland are
plunged, can be judged 10y the fact
that to-day representatives OF over
100 families living in the Cloyne
district waited upon the board OF
ouardians and earnestly begged for
assistance. They stated that for
some time they had been living en-
tirely upon turnips.
PAPAL AID INVOKED.
LONDON, Jan. 12.-The Kaiser has
secured an ally in Pope Leo XIII In
his campaign against the socialists.
It is said that after many communi-
cations, an understanding has been
arrived at between the emperor ana
the vatican to make common cause
in the suppression, of course oy
suasive methods, of the declared ad-
versarv OF established institu-
tions: and instructions have been
given to the Catholic clergy in Ger
many to influence their tiocks
against socialist agitation on the part
of the German government. The
distant and sometimes hostile man
ner which Bismarck maintained to
ward the church is abandoned, and
amends are to be made for the past
so far as liberality in the future can
amend the i'll feeling at that time
created.
SPAIN WILL CELEBRATE.
MADRID, Jan. ia royal decree
was issued to-day providing for the
appointmentofa a committee to organ
sze celebration of quadrO-centenary
of the discovery of America. Portu-
gal and the United States will be in
vIted to be present in the committee.
The feature of the celebration will be
a congress to be held at HuelVa to
commemorate the departure of Co
lumbus. In this city there will he
Exhibitions Ol dTJ anu iuuuSNiiC iCo VI
the period of Columbus.
COLD WEATHER. IN EUROPE.
LONDON, Jan. l2th.--The intense
Iy cold weather continues through
out Great Britain; in the western Is
lands the mercury marks 50 degrees
below zero. On the continent severe
suffering exists from snow storms.
On the occasion of the beatifica-
ton of Christopher Columbus, the
Pope will address a pastoral letter to
the Catholic Bishops of Italy and
America,
RAILROAD STRIKE STILL ON.
GLAsGow. Jan. l2th.-AmotheT
week Of the railroad strike has COM
neneed with no material change in
the situation.
GERMANS AND AUsTRIANs EXPA.
TRIATED.
BERLIN, Jan. 2.-The misery of
the poorer classes in Vienna has
been much increased by the arrival
OF a considerable number Of the H.
900 Germans and Austrians expelled
from Russian Poland. Many of the
refugees, however, have obtained
employment in Russiau-Poland,
where, owing to emigration and 9th
er causes there is dearth of labor.
-. a
for the harsh course taken by the
Russians, when he expelled the Aus
trian and Russian Jews from PCsen,
thus violating the treaty of 1915,
which provided that Poles born in
either of the three provinces should
have the right Of residence in any
one of them. In Vienna, owing TO
extreme cold weather, "warmestu-
ben" or warming rooms, have been
opened to the poor at sixty different
places in the city and are densely
crowded.
BISMARCK TAKIHG A HAND.
BERLIN, Jan. IA mum ber Of
members Of the old Cartel party are
endeavoring to arrange the forma-
tion of Bismarck group in the
reichstag or landtag. They asked
Biamarck's formal sanction. IN re-
ply he eeut word he would not pre-
vent the memhers from following
his known policy ar from claiming
the authority of his name so long
es they upheld his opinions. This
qualified sanction Is interpreted as
meaning he will not seek at present
publicly to lead the party, although
he is willing to direct their parlia-
mentaTy operations The liberal
organs generally see in this al early
dissolution OF parliament.