The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-11-21
FOREIGN LANDS.
Jerusalem Becomes a
Jewish City.
BRAZIL TO FOSTER THE VINE.
The French Senate Passes the Bill
to Admit American Pork
by 179 TO g.
BRAZIL TO FOSTER THE VINE.

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The French Senate has passed a bill
TO admit American pork by l79 to GA.
The epidemic of smallpox, which re-
Gently prevailed in Honduras, is over.
A split has been discovered in another
big British gun-a sixty-seven-ton gun.
The Canadian Cabinet crisis is over.
Chapleau will retain the Secretaryship
Of State.
Russia is establishing new ports Of
commerce and naval stations on the
Black Sea.
An epidemic resembling la grippe has
attacked many persons at San Jose,
Costa Rica.
There are fears of famine in North
ern Hungary, owing to failures of the
potato crop.
Prince Czartoryski, Vice-President of
the Upper House of the Austrian Parlia-
ment, is dead.
dinal Lavigerie is seriously i'll at Algiers
The Pope has sent his blessings to the
Cardinal.
Natives Of South Africa are building a
telegraph line across Mashonaland at the
rate OF three miles day.
The Russian government has placed
an order for 900 small-bore repeat
ing rifles with French firm.
Orders have been issued by the Porte
for the construction of eighteen new
cruisers for the Turkish navy.
The extraordinary rainfull OF the past
month all over England has produced
the heaviest floods since 1875.
Negotiations have reached an advanced
stage with the Rothschilds in Paris for a
Spanish gold loan of 100000.
Melbourne, Australia, has just COM
! pleted splendid system of cable roads
about eighty-five miles in extent.
Great Britain still pushes her claims
to the ownership OF the valuable mines
in the eastern portion of Venezuela.
The Italian railroads have prepared a
zone tariff project for the carriage of
parcels not exceeding twenty-five pounds
in weight.
Rumors from Nicaragua are to the ef-
feet that q number of persons will be
exiled in addition to those already driven
from the country before long.
The Dreyfus motion relative to the
prosecution Of the Archbishop Of AK
was withdrawn after an exciting debate
in the French Chamber of Deputies
Grand Duke Alexander OF Oldenburg,
chief military expert of Russia, is tax
ing part in a strategic conference now
proceeding between French and Russian
officers.
As there is a popular superstition in
China that telegraph poles cast baleful
shadows on the graves of deceased an
cestors, the wires are being buried to
save trouble.
Fifty huge chests were required to
transport from Greece to Berlin the su-
perb collection of the relics of Troy left
by the late DIR. Schliemann to the Berlin
Museum Of Art.
A new naphtha spring of immense ca
pacity was recently opened in Bakoo on
the Taggietf grant If it continues with
the same power as at present, it will be
the richest naphtha fountain in the
world.
A Portuguese mail boat from East
Africa has arrived from Marseilles, and
reports a recent encounter between
British and Portuguese soldiers at Lo-
renzo MARQUEE, in which two we're killed
and fifteen injured.
France is supposed to be preparing to
sweep all Russian refugees over the
border, their absence from French soil
being one of the conditions the Gear ex-
acts before he will visit the Republic.
The Inman line steamer City of Rich
mond, which cost G125,000 sterling to
build, was offered at auction at Liver
pool, and the highest bid was $4,000.
The vessel was withdrawn.
When, Kicking Bear of Buffalo Bills
Indians went through st. Paul's Ca
thedral the other day he examined the
muskets on Wellington's funeral car
and grunted, "Gun no good"
The total tonnage of the port OF Liver
pool during the last fiscal year was o.
| 772,605 tons. The Messy Dock Board
received from duties on vessels and mer-
chandise the sum of s., $4,000.
In the last annual report of the British
postoffice it appears that OF the 81 $780,
600 received in the money-order depart
ment from foreign countries there came
from the United States $3.50, 900.
The Theosophical Society people in
London are chagrined at Sir Edward
Arnold's departure for America. They
had been making preparations to ex-
plot him as one of their own sort in
order to gain luster from his reflected
light. 1t had been announced that he
was to preside at the next meeting of the
society.
A conflict between Turkish troops and
an armed band under the command of
Chiefs Zanlus and Mauris, champions of
the Cretan Christians, has occurred
near Melopotamos, Thirty of those en-
gagged in the fight, including Chiefs
Zaulus and Mauris, were killed.