Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-07-03
CABLEGRAMS.
OphthaImia Prevails to an Alarming Ex-
tent at the College of GOslar.

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tent at the College of Goslar.
The Jesuits are about to start news
paper in Rome.
Fss..77zv british Parlrs7TfTfTT- I'll be pro-
rogued August 6.
General Won Schallendorf, formerly
German Minister of War, is dead.
French engineers are discussing the
possibility OF railroad across the desert
of Sahara.
The French Cabinet is discussing an
appropriation of 5000, 900 for the Chicago
Fair displays.
The Arabs in Yemen have again de-
feated the Turkish troops and cut the
telegraph lines.
Mrs. French Sheldon, who started on
an exploring expedition in Africa, has
returned to Zanzibar seriously i'll.
France will compel Hayti to paw an
indemnity to the widow of Rigaud, the
Frenchman recently shot by Hippolite.
Peru refuses to recognize the belliger-
ent rights OF the insurgents of Chill not
withstanding the promise of large terri
tory.
1t is claimed that the Prince OF Wales.
not being newspaper reader, is unaware
OF the storm of journalistic indignation
aroused by the baccarat affair.
The French millers have been canvass
ing the wheat situatio at home. and re-
port that France will have to import at
the lowest 100000 bushels of wheat.
There are $50 cases of ophthalmia
among the students of the College of
Goslar, Germany. The malady has taken
an almost epidemic form, and is causing
much alarm.
The British government intends to
summon the House early in January and
stake its fate on the Irish local-goyern-
ment bill. They calculate to dissolve
Parliament after carrying the bill.
1t appears that the Gar is DESTROYS of
repaying to England the amount of the
Russian loan of 100000 forms Dor
rowed by Russia during the wars against
the first Napoleon. This will be an
agreeable windfall to the British Treas
ury.
The illumination of lighthouses has
been lately subject of investigation hv
a special committee in England, and in
a general way it has been proven that
electric light is not so well adapted to
the purpose intended as certain oils and
gas.
An entire caravan laden with gold dust
to the value of some 10000. 900 rubIes
belonging to the Russian government
has mysteriously vanished somewhere
in Eastern Siberia, and is being searched
Tor high and low by the imperial author
tiles.
Sir Thomas Elder of Australia has
equipped another expedition under the
leadership of David Lindsay to explore
nearl y all Australia for a westerly teIe-
graph line from Port Augusta on the
south, which will nearly divide the con-
tinent.
Sir John E. Gorst in the debate in the
BRITISH House of Commons on the Man
ipur massacre declared that Senaputfv
was manot brains; that his real crimes
were independence and originality. and
that the government preferred amenabIe
mediocrity. --'' '-e
The grand military maneuvers are nro-
Jected for 1892 to take place in the nreS-
| ence OF the Gar. They are to inclrdo
the Investment of Moscow bv an army
corps, the occupation of Volhvnia and
the repulse and pursuit of the CORPS to
the frontier. Re 70
A dispatch from Constantinople gives
an alarming account of an increase Of
nrigandage in various parts of the Tnrk.
ism Empire: In the Turkish province
k Sii9 as Old Servia the brigand chief
mlhran, has established himself in the
mountains ~! with about eighty followers
anu nves IN princely fashion on black.
! mail exacted from people and villages