The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-07-23
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
The Production Of Tobacco in the
Argentine Republic.
RANDOLPH CHURCHILL ELECTED.
The Chilian Chamber Of Deputies Adopts
Bill Imposing Duties on NJ
trates and Iodine.

France is to hold worlds fair In 1900.
Italy's export trade has begun to show
an increase.
A revolutionary movement is in prog
ress in Bolivia.
Randolph Churchill has been elected
TO the Thirteenth Parliament.
The number of cholera cases in the
outskirts Of Paris is increasing.
Londoners talk Of charging halfprice
for admission TO theater after O'Clock.
The Peruvian Ministry has resigned,
being dissatisfied with the administra-
tion.
Scarlet fever is raging in London.
There are 2,430 patients in six public
hospitals.
1t is proposed attempting to stamp out
tuberculosis in cattle in Denmark by
vaccination.
Anarchists at st. Denis, France, pro-
pose TO blow up Montbrison prison and
rescue Ravachol.
1t is estimated that two-thirds OF the
public money held by the London banks
do not bear interest.
The revenue collected from last years 8
ascents TO the top of the Eiffel tower
amounted to $4,000.
Colonel l.. Nuila heads revolution in
Honduras, and has had successful battle
with the government forces.
The English railway lines have con-
tracted for coal at an average OF shill-
ing per ton less than in 1891.
The Austrian government has taken
hold OF the matter OF improving all races
of horses in Austria Hungary.
Zanzibar has just been put in posses
sion OF weekly newspaper-the first
journal started in East Africa.
The outbreak of pleuro-pneumonia in
Lisburn district, County Antrim, Ire
land, has turned out very serious mat
ter.
The trouble between the Shoemakers'
Federation in Leicester, England, and
the manufacturers has been submitted
to arbitration.
The Russian government is preparing
a bill intended to stamp out Mohamme-
danism by means of harsh measures,
such as those applied to the Jews.
The first International Club for women
has been founded. The incorporators
are group of American, French and
German women, residents in Nice.
The fortune of the late Jules Lebandy
the great sugar refiner and speculator o.
Paris, is estimated at 300, ,000,0 600 francs
probably the largest fortune in France
The French and body of Tonquinest
pirates have had battle at Thanon
The French were successful, but lost six
teen men killed and seventeen wounded
The production of tobacco in the Ar
gentine Republic has increased wonder
fully. The price has fallen about one
half, and tobacco is now selling at about
% cents pound.
The City OF Chicago, which went OF
the rocks near Kinsale, Ireland, recently
is considered total loss. Her crew ha'
declared it unsafe to longer remain on
the stranded vessel.
The Governor of St. Helena reports
affairs there as being in wretched state
Work is scarce, revenue is short of ex
,, penditure, business is declining, ant
, there is great poverty and suffering
a among Iuo lnudDlLdnIss
! The London Standards Berlin CORE
] spondent says: A private telegram iron
J Constantinople represents the who'll
, southern shore of the Caspian Sea in
tected with cholera.
The Spanish government has takel
possession of the largest ship-buildini
works in that country for the purpose Q
IarRorfno. khn construction nf x-o
=, vessels on large scale.
A discovery of great Importance t
South Africa is stone capable of bein
burned into a natural cement OF goo
quality. The deposit covers 1000 acres
3 and varies in thickness from ten t
e twenty feet.
The new taxes imposed by the Spanis
3 government on various branches of bus
ness is bitterly opposed. At Madrid th
t other day there was a riot. The civ
4 guard was stoned, and it turned and fire
n into the crowd, wounding many severely
s The young Grand Duke of Hess,
9 grandson of Queen Victoria, who su,
ceeded his father a few weeks ago, hi
y commemorated that event by pardonir
n 179 criminals, who were serving terms
s the penitentiaries of Hesse- Darmstad
Official returns establish the fact tn,
: whereas only five passengers were kille
on the railways of the United Kingdol
put together last year, no fewer than Il
u persons met with fatal accidents an
; 5,7S4 were injured in the streets OF Lol
o don.
'e The investment of $4,000, 900 made /
: the British government in the Suez C
u nal shares will in year or two accort
ing to Mr.. Goschen be worth 919, 900, 90
|, which proves it to have been an exec
g lent stroke of business as well as of
'e plomacy.
g The Chilian Chamber of Dapnties hi
h adopted bill imposing duties on n
d trates and iodine. The rate fixed by ii
d measure is 71d per metric quintal for II
it trates and Esd per kilo on iodine. Pa,
lie ments wilr be made as often as the GO
'ernment requires.