The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-11-07
Pritchard Initiates John
L. in Brutality.
SCURVY AND TYPHUS FEVER
Rage In the Wake of the Famine in
Russia-The Czarina Gives
an Immense Sum.
Berlin's debt is 5000, 900.

Berlln's DEBT Is 500 b,OW,OO0.
Austria wants Germany to admit hei
hogs, too.
American cars will be used on an En-.
glish road.
Government management has reduced
railroad fares in Saxony.
Three thousand people in London have
the influenza or la grippe.
A cooperative home for single women
is to be started in Vienna.
The first consignment of American
bacon has arrived in Berlin.
London theaters issue something like
$4,000 free passes every year.
The sarcophagus Of the Emperor Fred
erick has been placed in his tomb.
1t is reported that Italy has decided to
abolish the decree against American
pork.
The German interior press is showing
considerable hostility to the Chicago
Worlds Fair.
The Czarina has given 10000, 900 rou-
bles to the Russian famine sufferers from
her private purse.
A unique present by the British war
office to the Salvation Army was g. 900
worn-out helmets.
An English doctor at Simla, India, has
succeeded in discovering, separating and
neutralizing special microbe of leprosy.
Russia is experimenting verv exten.
sively with the idea OF using metal
sleepers upon the railroads in that
country.
The time limit of the Russian loan
which is being taken up in France has
been extended from October 81 to No
vember /.
1t is estimated that no fewer than TO-
900 girls are employed in the public
houses and drinking bars OF the United
Kingdom.
There are said to be nine inmates of
the Camberwell England workhouse
who have reached ages varying from lO3
to 10S years.
Ted Pritchard, the London pugilist,
was last week sentenced to a months
imprisonment for cowardly assault
upon barkeeper.
A new method OF torture has been dis
covered by Siberian jailers, whereby
prisoners are compelled to subsist on
salt herring alone.
The endeavor to strengthen the triple
alliance between Germany, Austria and
Italy by commercial union is not pro-
crossing very favorably.
The fishing fleet of Yarmouth, Eng
land, have returned to port, and give
fearful descriptions of the effects of the
recent storms on the coast.
In Vienna the Project OF Police has
ordered an investigation of whether the
long, sweeping skirts of ladies tend to
spread contagious diseases.
A Judge in Glasgow has decided that
the amount of copper used in timed
green peas was not dangerous, and that
the process need not be stopped.
Until recently the Royal Palace at
Berlin has been lighted only by candles.
Emperor William has had gas put in,
and is now arranging for electric lights.
The civil authorities of Leipsic. Ger
many, have struck a crushing blow at
the sausage industry in that country bv
deciding that it is illegal to use dog meat
in sausage.
The latest report from Turkestan indi- |
Gates an abundant crop of cotton. The
cotton grown there is from American
seed, and the development within few
years has been wonderful.
The English Conservatives have been
hi lo ~ l.
the leadership of Goschen. Telegrams
from Balfour deny that he had been of
fered the leadership.
Forty-three of the leaders of the rev.
olutlon in Uruguay are in prison at Mon
tevideo. DR.. Pantoleon Perez was shot
while trying to escape from the barracks.
Martial law prevails.
Peat fuel has been found very success
Iul in Russia. It is produced by a patent
process, and is cheaper than coal, has
less weight and bulk, and contains
scarcely any sulphur.
The Pope in note to the powers saws
Ihe recent Pantheon disorders were of
extreme importance, and insists it is
for both the Italian govern
nent and papacy to remain in Rome.
An agrarian lawsuit in the Caucasus,
IN which the plaintiff is the Prince OF
has so many people concerned
with it, the witnesses amounting to
1000, that the court is sitting in the
open air.
The British and the Portuguese, hav-
ng settled their quarrel in Mashona-
and, are amicably working together to
construct railroad from the Indian
Ocean to their adjoining possessions in
The far interior.
Some estimates of the wonderful
lalue of the fishing industry of Great
Britain can be gained from the state
nent that the total catch of fish on the
,oasts of England and Wales in 1890 was
100000 tons, exclusive of shell fish. |