Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-08-07
CABLEGRAMS.
TOIstoi Community at Eharkoff Sup
pressed by the Government.

Belgium has joined the triple alliance
England declines to appoint women
factory inspectors.
Rains in Northwest India are partially
averting the famine that was feared.
The floods continue in Prussian Sile-
STA, and the damage to life and property
| is great.
A great battle is looked for at Coquim
DO between the CHILEAN government and
insurgent forces.
Germany and Austria have become
alarmed by the vast increase recently OF
applications for naturalization.
Two million francs more have been
added TO the fortune of the Comte de
Paris through the will of the Marquis de
st. Astier.
The harvest prospects in the southern
/ provinces OF. Persia are so bad that the
government has prohibited the exporta
| ton of corn.
A TolstOi community at Kharkof con-
tanning a number of educated men who
have left society, has been suppressed by
/ the government.
Sir Henry Wood, Secretary of the
Royal Commission for the Worlds Fair,
says that British merchants will make
a 81 100000 exhibit.
Lord Salisbury proposes to reduce the
Irish representation in the House of
| Commons because of the decrease OF
Ireland's population.
Mrs. Frank Leslie according to reports
from Boulogne-sur- Mer, France, where
she is at present, is about to marry a
/ brother of Oscar Wilde.
| A semi-oiiicial journal at Berlin says
Germany can rest easily and leave the
! French and Russians to gush over their
| theatrical determinations.
| The Scottish Mission, which has its
/ headquarters at Jerusalem, reports the
conversion of six Jews to Presbyterian
ism at cost of $4,000 apiece.
The Chilian cruiser Presidente Ezra,
zuris has had to leave Lisbon without 9
crew, the government and foreign Con
suls preventing an enlistment of men.
Wilberger, Werner and other promi
nent young Socialists propose to get the
international Congress at its meeting in
Brussels on August Is to pass a vote oil
censure against VOlmar for his recent
Vienna is soon to have a music and
dramatic exhibition, where will be seer
the products of every industry connected
with music and dramatic instruments
stage properties, mechanical appliances
and decorations, with the highest art de
partment.
The excessive attentions paid to the
Prince of Naples by the Queen and Prince
of Wales during his visit at London have
convinced the public that the reports O
the probable matrimonial alliance be
tween the Italian and British royal fam
lilies have some foundation.
The Natural History Museum at Ken
sington, England, has received a move
addition to its shelves in the shape o
10000 spiders. The insects were be
queathed to the institution by the late
Count Keyserburg, who spent a gooC
part of his life in collecting them.
The Gazette, the leading military news
paper at London, announces that DR.
Godfrey Hambleton has discovered 6
method by which consumption is cured
and the editor from his personal knowl
edge confidently asserts that the "curt
of consumption is now an accomplished
fact"
An attempt has just been made upon
the life of Nine. Constans, wife of the
French Minister of the Interior. Full
inmate of mercury, high explosive
compound, was put into what appeared
to be a religious ritual book, but which
had been followed out to hold the ex
plosive.
The French squadron celebrations in
Russia have been made the occasion for
some resident French members belong
ing to the Yacht club in st. Petersburg
to insult and Quarrel with the German
members because they refused to partic
ipate in the reception to the French
naval officers.
The President of the Wesleyan Con,
ference at London has made an authori
tative statement of the views of the
church on the recent social scandals. He
condemned the doctrine that while
cheating was wrong gambling was right
The Weslevans. he said, held that the
wrong began with gambling, whether il
aristocratic houses or on the stock ex
changes of commercial circles.
The Italian deficit for the fiscal yea
1921 will be about 78,000,000 lire not
withstanding all the economies that have
been introduced. To further diminish
the expenses a sweeping reduction vii
he made in the salaries of the diplomatic
and consular officers, and the number o
Tonsuls will be reduced.
Emperor Williams presents on leav
ING England are not remarkable either
for beauty or intrinsic value, but the
only visiting sovereigns in the history o
the British court, who were really mag
nifcent both in the number ana qualltA
Of their gifts, were the Emperor Memo
10 los in ls43 and Napoleon Ill. in 1898.