Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-07-03
FOREIGN NEWS.
The Holy Coat to be Ex-
hibited in August.
BIOGRAPHY OF Won M0LTKE.
Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy and
Switzerland Form Great
Customs League.
BIOGRAPHY OF Won MOLTKE

Hog cholera is on the increase in Great
Britain.
Germany will send two men-ofwar to
Chinese waters.
Austria will build more forts to scare
off the Russians.
Emperor William will edit the biogra-
ply of Won Moltke.
Kaiser William will buy Carl -hurz'
brother-in-law's country seat.
Diamonds of the purest transparency
have been found in British Guiana.
French and German goods are driving
those of British make out of Russia.
Rudini says the dreibund compels
great ornaments on the part of members.
A choir of twenty natives of South
Africa has gone to London to give con-
certs.
A deficit of $8l 900 is shown in the
public accounts of Prince Edward Island
for the last year.
President Carnot in a letter to the
Pope expresses his high appreciation OF
the latter's encyclical on social questions.
Count Munster will be retired from
the German diplomatic service at Paris,
and Count Won Wedel is to be his sue
cessor.
The sum collected in Germany for a
church to be erected in memory of the
late Kaiser William amounts to about
720, 600 marks.
Another Manipur Prince, Sana, has
been sentenced to death for warning
against the Queen and for abetting the
massacre of her officers.
The French Chamber of Commerce
Committee declines to consider requests
to obtain the governments assistance to
complete the Panama canal.
1t is reported that Sir Charles Upper
will be offered the seat in the House of
Commons for Kingston made vacant by
the death of Sir John Macdonald.
William Walter Phelps, the American
Minister, who has been quite ill with in
fluenza at Berlin, is still confined to his
bed. He has undergone painful ipera-
ton.
The report of the Leprosy Committee
a. London, composed of eminent physi-
clans, gives hope for the discovery of a
cure for this hitherto supposed irremedi-
able disease.
The French Senate rejected the bill
recently passed by the Chamber OF Dep
uties remitting 6,000,00O francs of the
tax on land sown in wheat in the past
spring season.
Official opinion in France generally
tends against the prosecution of De Les
seps, but Constans says the public feel
ing demands that the famous engineer
be placed ON trial.
Sailors are so scarce in England that
it is doubtful whether the intended ma
val maneuvers will be held unless suf-
ficient complement is obtained by the
detention of war ships destined for In
dia.
A nugget of gold weighing thirty-five
pounds has been found in the gold dis
trict recently discovered in British Gut
ana, and has been sent to England as a
specimen of the auriferous deposits in
the colony.
The new model for the great national
monument to the late Kaiser William,
which is to be cree ed in Berlin near the
old royal palace. of Schloss, will be ex-
hibited in the royal arsenal Inter den
Linden in July.
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war is threatening in Asia between the
French and the Siamese Anamites, who
are tributary to France, and have already
on the banks of the Mekgon.
Comte de Monticello, who replaces De
Laboulaye as French Ambassador at St.
Petersburg, will be specially charged to
obtain definite information from the
Gar as to the action of Russia in the
event of war between France and Ger
many.
The great event of the London season
will be the marriage of the Queens
granddaughter, Princess Aribert of An
halt, which will be celebrated at Wind
sor Castle July 6. The Queen has con-
tributed handsomely toward the brides
dowry.
Mr.. Spurgeon, with number of other
ministers, has signed manifesto declar-
ing for thorough Calvinism and accept
ing both Testaments, on inpiration and
notwithstanding as the word of God,
saying the two must stand or fall to-
gether.
The Porte refuses to be intimidated bv
the threats of the French Embassy into
hasty action in the matter of the recent
riots at Jerusalem between Greek and
Roman Catholics. The Porte ignores
French interference, and is going about
the investigation in deliberate way.
The Home Rulers of Ireland expect
aid from the Queen. In one of her let
ters which she has permitted to be pub
lished it is intimated that she accents
the verdict of the country on home rule
and will use all her power and personal
influence to prevent the Lords from OBJ
posing it.
The 4" holy coat" which, it is alleged.
is the seamless coat worn by our Savior.
will be exhibited in August at Treyes at
the Cathedral of st. Peter and st. Helen
where it has been since 1856. 1t is said
to have been discovered by the Empress
Helena during her memorable visit to
Palestine in the fourth century.
Germany, Austria, Hungary. italy and
Switzerland have formed a great central
European customs league. The league
is to be an intimate commercial alliance
In which no one of the contracting DOW
ers will be privileged to form trade
treaty with any other outside the union
unless it first obtains the ass MT Of the
other parties.
Emperor William, while avowedly
proud OF the Guelph connection and
considering himself member of that
family, has given it to be understood
that he will not tolerate any disparage-
ment of Prussian supremacy in Hanover
and that the agitation among officials
favorable to the Guelph movement must
be sternly repressed.
Balmaceda's version of the Esmeral-
da's attack at the Lobos guano islands
and the story as told by the insurgents
at lquique are somewhat dissimilar
Balmaceda's report kills all the fiftv