The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-12-17
The English Farmers Demand the
Benefits Of Legislation.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA WHEAT HARVEST
The N lures Incident In Venezuelan Wa.
tiers Satisfactorily Settled-The
ws Of Palestine.

fierce anti-British Republican SEN
timent 10 reported in Portugal.
There are 95O, 600 persons, 30 per cent
men. in 875 Russian jails, built to hold
$4,000.
An effort is being made TO establish 9
Masonic Grand Lodge for the whole ol
South Africa.
The managers OF Monte Carlo have
excluded local physicians from the gam
bling rooms.
1t Is estimated that France will spend
nearly s2,0O0,000 for arms and ammuni-
tion for the cavalry alone next year.
About 10000 people in England pay a
guinea year for the privilege OF dis
playing their crests on their stationery
and plate.
At least Al, 900 OF the young women Of
London are supporting themselves by
means which are disreputsble and even
revolving.
The wheat harvest Of South Australia
promises to be excellent both in Weld
and quality. A large surplus will be
available for export.
Argentine cannot resume cash pay
ments. A proposition for the convers on
OF paper money has been suggested by
the Minister OF Finance.
New Z,aland has set apart two islands
for the preservation OF its remarkable
wild birds and other animals, forbid.
ding there all hunting and trapp ng.
An off ,e has been opened in London,
onH q NrnIi.nrnont1a1 okk =
made to bring American lager beer into
competition with the German product.
WomdrlS Century is the name OF a new
weekly paper to br published in Weimar,
Germany. 1t will be devoted to the ad.
vancemeRt oil women in the Fatherland.
Extensive street alterations are pro
iected in Paris. They will he C mined
to the Boulevard des ltaiens and sd.
joining streets and be finished in time
for the Worlds Fair in 1900.
Lord r Churchill intends to pay an
other visit to South Africa. His Journey
to Msshonaland wac not a commercial
success, but he still believes that gold
can be found in South Africa.
1t is estimated that 100000 francs In
Spanish securities are held in France.
Spanish bankruptcy coming on the top
OF the collapse OF the Panama Canal
Company would be heavy blow to
France.
The Pope has recently received from
the converted savages of New Guinea a
curious present, consisting of three
crowns made of feathers of the Upi
birds. These crowns, united together,
form tiara.
Negotiations between the French Mis-
sion at Fec and the Sultan have been
suspended in consequence of the refusal
of the Sultan to sign the concession for
the construction OF Morocco Algerian
frontier railway.
NJ. Averof, Greek resident of Alex
andria, has presented the Queen of
Greece on the occasion of her silver
wedding with the cum of 2OO,OOO drach-
mas 10 the erection of a reformatory for
young criminals.
An influential commit ee, representa-
tive of those who in Liverpool sympa-
thize with the Darkest England"
scheme of General Booth, is making ar
for q campaign which the
General will shortly enter upon in the
city and district.
The Mijares incident in Venezuelan
waters has been satisfactorily settled.
This is the case where the Captain OF
the Philadelphia refused to deliver DO
litical prisoner to the Venezuelan author
tiles, who had trumped up charge that
he was horsethief.
The new cruiser Rurik, built at the
Baltic works, st. Petersburg, was
launched a lew days ago. The registered
tonnage of the Rurik is, the Standards
says, IL 1888 tons, and sne
can carry Is, 25O tons. Her armor plates
are ten inches thick.
1t is the opinion of the Jewish Tsdtnos
that, if the Jews of Palestine mad due
of liberty, they would soon
make that old country prosperous. "Free
from the shackles of a Russian oppressor,
the Jew of the East can build home
which even Gear might envy"
1t is currently reported at Buenos
Ayres that DR.. Juarez Celman, the late
President, has prudently invested up
ward of two millions erling in Europe,
upon which he will be abe to live very
at Paris, Monte Carlo and
other pleasant places.
dispatch from Paris states the scan
dalous proceedings at the rooms of the
Salvation Army in that city continue.
evening band OF fast youths
and faster women invaded the platform
and began cancan. The police do not
a. e. L. OoIw
people from attacks of this kind.
English farmers are demand ng that
The benefits of recent land legislation as
applied to Ireland shall be extended to
Great Britain. They are agitating for
the establishment of land courts which
will have power to fix fair rates and
make arrangements to enable the ten
ants to purchase their holdings from the
landlords. |