The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-05-09
FOREIGN NEWS.
PhylloXera Devastating
Hungarian Vines.
BRITISH STEAMER FIRED ON.
Owing TO Failure Of the Wheat Crop,
France viii Probably Suspend
the Tarig on Cereals.

The strike at Essen, Germany, affects
fifteen collieries, employing 1000 men.
Lady Florence Dixey publishes a letter
appealing for justice for Mrs. Maybrick.
Petty thieves have been lately operat-
/ ing with much success at the hotels of
| Cannes.
The French government will consent
TO the burial Of Prince Napoleon's body
at Ajaccio.
| Welsh tinplaters are obliged to shut
down for month on account of the Nc
Kinley bill.
All idea Of the transatlantic steamers
landing at Milford haven appears to have
been abandoned.
An unusually large number of the po-
tentates of Europe are on the sick list at
the present time.
Queen Victoria has presented richly
caparisoned Indian elephant to the En-
peror of Morocco.
Ireland is only visited now by people
who are anxious for a fight or have i'm
pOrtant business to transact.
The much-talked-of Siberian railway
will soon be begun, the condemnation of
land for the first section having taken
place.
A petition against the employment of
young girls as barmaids has been pre-
sented the King of Sweden. The petition
has 10000 signatures.
The Portuguese in Africa have fired
upon the British steamer Agnes, convey
ing the Willoughby expedition, and
seized the cargo of boats.
Crop reports from Hungary say that
| phyl oxera is devastating the vineyards
there. The price of Hungarian wine has
risen one-third within year.
Revolutionary documents have been
discovered baked in rolls sold by St.
Petersburg baker, whose customers are
revolutionary. The baker has been ar
rested.
The first installation of electric trac-
ton in France is soon to take place at
Marseilles, where street railway COM
pany is about to introduce the overhead
system.
The census returns just completed
show the population of the Indian en-
pire to be 5000, 900, an increase of fully
30 100000 since the last census taken in
1881.
The pope has ordered 100 churches in
Rome to be closed, they being unable to
support themselves on account of the Sc
questration Of their goods by the govern
ment.
Referring to the New Orleans lynching,
the London papers print statistics show
ing that the Italian murder returns ex-
ceed those of every other nation on the
earth.
A consignment of $4,000 francs in
gold from the Bank of Genoa to Venice
firm has been stolen in transit. The po-
lice are as yet without clew to the
guilty parties.
The Chilian men-of-war Imperial,
Lynch and Condell are starting for the
north under orders to attack the squad
ron commanded by the officers who re-
volted against the government.
The Berlin Post says that assurances
have been given in the most authorita-
tive quarters that peace is less endan-
gered than ever, and that the relations
of Germany and Russia are friendly.
Fifty thousand francs have recently
been given to the American charity fund
in Paris The management of the fund
last year devoted 10000 francs to send
ing penniless American citizens home.
a serious riot has just occurred at
Cerda, Sicily, growing out of the opposi-
tion to the poll tax. Two thousand peas
ants took part, and released comrade
from prison. Troops have been dis
patched to the scene.
The reported successes of the insur-
gents in Chill come in such shape that it
requires considerable credulity to believe
them. One thing seems to be assured,
and that is there is much suffering for
the want of provisions.
The British government has decided to
strengthen the existing Notifications OF
the Thames and to erect new heavy
battery at Sheerness, and all the river
forts are to be supplied with new guns of
late and approved patterns.
Signor Imbriani has given notice in
the Italian House of Deputies that he
intends to question Premier di Rudini in
regard to the refusal of Inspector Byrnes
of New York city to accept the decora-
ton sent to him by King Humbert.
A lively encounter has just taken place
between the gendarmes and brigands in
the province OF Foggia, about 100 miles
from Naples. The bandits were dispersed
after one had been killed and number
wounded. The leader of the outlaws
was captured.
Every telegraph pole in the remote
country districts of Norway has to be
continually watched on account of the
bears, which have mania for climbing
the poles and sitting on the cross beams,
swaying backward and forward until the
pole finally falls.