The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-10-31
FOREIGN LANDS.
Influenza Again Rages
in London.
THE SHORTAGE OF WHEAT.
Capt. Blunt Declares That Smokeless
Powders Are Absolutely Use
less for Small Arms.

The influenza is again epidemic in
England.
The English railways have begun a
revision OF rates.
More than one-third Of Germsny's
freight traffic is by canal.
Belgrade is building tanks for the stor-
age OF Russian petroleum.
The excavations at Delpi under the
auspices Of the French government will
be begun this fall.
The shortage Of wheat and rye in Eu-
rope is estimated at 200, ,000,0 900 bushels.
The Liverpool elevated railroad, run
ming along the line OF docks, is rapidly
nearing completion.
The operatives Of every bottle factory
in France, with the exception Of those
at Blanzy, have struck.
The collection OF works OF Russian
be sent to the Chicago Fair.
New Brunswick is to be officially ex-
amined as a possible source OF supply of
horses for the British army.
President Fonseca OF Brazil is very i'll,
and there are intrigues afoot regarding
the succession to the Presidency.
Sir Micael Hicks Beach is prominently
mentioned as the leader OF the Conserv-
atives in the British House OF Commons
The entire railway mileage OF Great
Britain is now 1913 miles, or less than
one-eighth OF that OF the United States.
As the cold weathai approaches, there
is marked incressr in the want and
misery among II working classes in
Berlin.
In a certain rtion of the Ural dis
trict camels are t1e only working cattle
use, some large farms possessing 100
camels..
The new remedy for consumptive pa
tients called chlophenol is said to have
shown remarkably good results in Italian
hospitals.
Mr.. Spurgeon seems lively, and ex-
presses himself as confident OF his ulti-
mate recovery. He still needs much
care, however.
1t is reported from st. Petersburg that
q, 900, 900 persons are unable to pay their
taxes, and that this will cause budget
deficit of el2,000,000.
The Argentine government as a meas.
ure of economy has abolished its lega-
tion at Vienna, Berlin, Lisbon and
Mexico, thus saving 100000 year.
London advices say that the strikes OF
dock laborers and other employees about
the Caron and Hermitage wharves, Wap-
ping, is showing signs OF collspsing.
The greatest trades union, the Anal
gamated Engineers, having an executive
department in Great Britain, America
and Australia, is about to reorganize.
The Argentine Republic has sold to
Baron Hirsch 1000 square miles in the
province of Chaco for Hebrew colony.
The price paid was 1000 gold pesos per
mile.
The chief rabbis have ordered prayers
in behalf of Russian Jews to be deliv-
cred in all English synagogues at the
beginning of the season of fasting and
prayer.
The Chinese coolies imported by the
land barons of Eastern Prussia to re-
place the emigrated peasants have re-
fused to do the hard work imposed on
them, and have gone on strike.
A wave of hysterical religion is pass
ing over some parts of France. A num-
ber of Protestant peasants are travelling
with tents, preaching the end of the
world, bareheaded and with naked feet.
The effect of the strikes on the port Of
London alone is shown very clearly this
year by diminution of sol vessels en-
tering inward, which is loss of Is per
cent. and can be attributed to no other
cause at all.
The criticisms of the London Times on
the poor financial condition of Italy
have stirred up the press of that coun-
try, the gravamen of the offense having
apparently been found in the fact that
the charges are true.
The bread baked by the famishing
peasants on the Volga is made up oI
-four of goose feet (chen0pod'um robrtum
with the admixture of a small quantity
of rye. The bread is black, light O.
weight, and looks like turf.
The estimate made by the Agriculture
Department OF the Argentine Republic
of the crop for the current year is as fol
lows: Wheat, 100000 tons; maize
100000 tons; alfalfa, 100000 tons
sugar, $4,000 tons; wool, $4,000 tons.
The result of the tests made at tn,
request of the British government b,
Captain Blunt on the smokeless powde
in England, Germany, France, Belgium
and the United States is extremely dis
appointing. Captain Blunt declares i
to be absolutely useless for small arms
Prince George of Prussia, it is said
is on the high road to become as insan
as his mother, the late Princess Louise
whose dementia took the form of aver
sion to clothing OF any sort, and VIII
created a terrible scandal by escapin
from her keepers several times in stat
lof absolute nudity.