The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-08-20
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
Servia's Boy King in Daily Danger
Of Assassination.
PROGRESS OF ELECTRICITY IN JAPAN
Bad Feeling at Rio JanelrO Between
Brazillans and Itallans-Beer
COnsumpuOn-Etc.
PROGRESS OF ELECTRICITY IN JAPAN

Milan is to have an electrical exhibit
ton in 1894.
Bismark's journey through Berlin was
a triumphal success.
The cholera is at Burmah. Business
is stopped, and people are fleeing.
The Khedive OF Egypt has sent ESQ to
the British and Foreign Sailors Society.
Spain has reduced the tariff on dried
Goldfish 8shillings on the hundred weight.
Flower farming for the manufacture
OF perfume is being carried on in Aus
tralia.
The Gar Is said to intend move on
Bulgaria as soon as Gladstone goes into
power.
The total cost OF the new municipal
buildings OF Glasgow, Scotland, was over
800, 900.
Carriages fitted up with electric lamps
were used by speakers during the recent
campaign in England.
France will not permit the lottery
scheme to secure relief moneys for the
starving people OF Russia.
DIR. Virchow at Berlin advises the peo.
pie in America to use the utmost care il
they would keep out the cholera.
The Maori King Tawhiao has just ac-
cepted yension from the government
OF New Zealand. 1t is s225 year.
OF the II 900, 900 women in Italy about
2,OO0, 900 are employed in industrial la
Dor and over 5000, 900 in agriculture.
The recent British elections are said to
have cost $l2,500,000, and every dollar
will have to be accounted for in sworn
statements.
A cyclone has caused much damage at
Valence in the Department OF Drome.
France. The vines suffered to an enor-
nous extent.
In five years the consumption of beer
in Germany has increased II per cent,
while the increase in population has
been only 4 per cent.
The American bark Nehemiah Gibson
went on the coral reefs of Conceicao, off
the coast of Brazil, and was pillaged by
the half breed Indians.
In the Pasteur Institute at Milan 2S8
cases OF hydrophobia have been treated
within the last two years, and only four
of the patients have died.
An enterprising English firm desires
to put boardings along the banks of the
Suez canal and lease these accommoda-
ons for advertising purposes.
There is bad feeling at Rio Janeiro be-
tween Brazilians and Italians, and fights
have occurred, in which several persons
we're killed and manv wounded.
Norway is moving steadily toward
Republic, and it would surprise no one
if the present agitation ended with
change in the form of government.
The total acreage of Scotland is 49,
GAG, 1894. Of this comparatively small
landed area one nobleman owns !, ,326, 600
acres and his wife 149, $40 acres more.
The project for turning the Royal En-
glish Opera House into superior sort OF
music hall is now definitely arranged,
and company will shortly be formed.
Electricity is making great progress in
Japan. Toxic has an electrical society
having over 1000 members, and Nippon
is forming an electric-light association.
During recent trials of speed on the
railway between Paris and Lille train
of twelve carriages covered distance OF
1917 miles in an hour and fifty-six min
utes.
The NopOsti OF st. Petersburg says
that Herr Krupp has arranged with the
Russian government to establish works
for the manufacture of guns at Ekateri-
noslav.
The Hungarian wheat crop is esti-
mated at about 10000, 900 bushels,
which is little larger than last year,
but less than that of 1890, says the Liy-
erpool Corn Trade Ne,Os.
Servia's boy King has harder time
of it than young Alfonso OF Spain. He
is in daily danger of assassination, to
which his cowardly father, King Milan,
has exposed him by abdicating.
The last carload OF oranges for the
season has left Riverside, Cal. The
shipments of citrus fruits from that Sec
tion were l, ,4O6 carloads, small falling
off from the previous season.
There are twenty well-built towns in
Kansas that haven't single inhabitant.
Saratoga has $50, 600 opera house and
large brick hotel, yet the place is as de-
serted as a dead rabbits hole.
A Canadian customs officer distin-
guished himself few days ago by as
sessing a Buffalo Sunday-school picnic
party $3.50 on ice cream which they took
over into Canada as part of their lunch.
The German government has expend-
ed $4OO, 900 in building factory at Span
dau for the preserving of all kinds of
provisions for the army, and about 800
operators are to be regularly employed
there.
Advices received in London from the
Gold Coast say that the British have in
stalled a new King in Eastern Crabo,
abolished human sacrifices and other fe.
tish rites and expelled all the priests
and priestesses.