The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-07-04
FOREIGN LANDS.
Repeated Earthquakes
Occur in Italy.
H0NGKONG BURIAL GROUND.
Germany is Said TO be Anxious TO
Withdraw From Samoa Alto
gother-0ther News,

The Cars royal yacht, the Polar Star,
cost over t5,0OO,OOO
II is expected the eruption OF Nesuyius
will assume vast proportions.
The influenza continues to rage in
Hamburg, and IN on the increase.
The repeated earthquakes in Italy are
creating panics among the people.
The Car receives from his Siberian
gold mines about $lS 900 annually.
The Increase Of the population Of Lon.
don in the last ten years il 800, ,S63.
Over 100 miles Of country has been de-
vastated by fire in New Brunswick.
II in again reported that Parnell will
marry Mrs. O'Shea at an early date.
Fishing of the Newfoundland coast il
said TO be remarkably good this season.
The total wheat crop of France this
year will be- but little more than half the
average.
Pirates in the Black Sea fired upon
and killed ak Russian soldiers and two
officers and then made their escape.
II in said the Queen has reprimanded
the Prince OF Wales and exacted prom
ise from him 10 never handle cards again.
Sennputy, commander-n-chiei Of the
Mnnipuri forces, has been condemned TO
hang for the crime Of rebellion against
the British.
Earth tremors, sometimes Of terrrily-
ing violence, continue in the Verona dis
trct, Italy, threatening the complete de-
struction OF the towns.
A dispatch to the Edinburgh journal
states that divorce suit 10 beinstituted
by Lord Brookeand naming the Prince
of Wales us correspondent IL imminent.
Burial ground being very scarce in
Hongkong colony, the government pro-
poses to take up and burn Chinese un-
claimed dead buried for five or six years.
The famous crater Of Soliatara of Hoz-
zuol near Naples is showing signs Of re-
newcd activity. This volcano was active
long before Vesuvius, but for ages has
been nearly extinct.
+ The natives OF the Cameroons, West
ern Africa, are reported TO have cruelty
tortured the German prisoners before
executing them, and that many prison
ers committed suicide in order TO escape
torture.
lie Jour of Paris announces that Liqul'
dator Monchicourt, with Chrispohle
Governor of the Credit Foncier, has ar
ranged so that the affairs of the Panama
Company shall be taken over bya grouI
of financial houses.
The harbor authorities of Southamp
4 ton, England, the great mail port, have
y decided to adopt electric cranes for th'
y unloading OF vessels on account OF TIN
greater rapidity with which they vii
u enable work to be performed.
M. Eifel, the daring civil enginee
who conceived the tower in Paris whicl
,, bears his name, lives up on the Jung
u frau in the Swiss Alps. He has just OF
tained permission to build a railroad u
n the mountain to his very dwelling.
'' Nine. Sarah Bernhardt has just bough
by cable large tract Of land at Neuilly
RS suburb of Paris, for $4,000, all mad
II during her recent American tour. 1t
said that she will build veritabe pa
is ace after she has finished her travels.
- The London Spectator prints some
" what gloomy article on the decline
the rate Of London's growth, as show
et by statistics Just made public. TIL
IN writer sees in this fact that the empil
le has passed the meridian of greatness.
10 There are now in Moscow $1,000 pc
o ,o sons waiting to be transported to Siberi
sa Five thousand are Convicts, the othe
DO are their wives or children who volul
teered to follow them into exile. I'll
no number has accumulated since the ne
r. year.
n. Great distress is in the government
Odessa, owing to poor crops and the ia
-. ure of the Volga to rise. In Simbris
"V the winter crops are ruined altogethe
so and the peasants have no grain to SC
70 for the SUMMER. More than half Il
~ fields lie idle.
The latest election returns III the
~ therlands show that out of 100 sea
q III composing the Second Chamber the Lii
W erals have secured Al, the Catholics
,.n ,In and the Protestant Orthodox II. A ST
i'S ond ballot is necessary for the remaini
twenty-siX seats.
he The Arabs at Yemen (Arabia Fell
for DNNG ItNOlbCu NIlu Wiz IibpSi
Of troops, forcing them to retreat. T
mo- troops lost several officers and 100 me
e The Grand Council at Constantinol
. has decided to dispatch 10000 troo
W 10 from the Syrian garrisons.
en- The last census of Ireland shows Il
en- the Roman Catholics number 3,549,7
a decrease of Al | ,146 during the last d
ode The Protestant EniscODalians nu
lies ber 900, $3.50, decrease of 1914;
% ger Presbyterians 446, 1887, decrease of
SSill Viii 047, and the Methodists 55,235, an
crease of 6,396.
avy Dom Pedro, who has gone to Vichy
eat take the waters, will probably go to f
If land about the middle of next mon
ow- where he is to reside for few weeks
reat Bushy Park, which has been placed
his disposal by the Due de Neumour'