The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-09-24
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
The Epidemic Of Scarlet Fever in
London Increasing.
THE CAR CAUTIONS A COLONEL.
The Great Jewish Philanthroplst Coming
to AmeriCa-SCClalist Escapes
From Siberia.
THE CAR CAUTIONS A COLONEL.

Queen Victoria is growing more seri0us
with advancing years.
slaughtering Of animals by electricity
ia practiced in Scotland.
Hamburg people are treated like lepers
everywhere in Germany.
Switzerland is erecting what is re-
ported to be its frat sugar factory.
Julius Gernaud, the Hungarian So
cialist, has made his escape from Siberia.
Typhus fever is ravaging sanope,
seaport town Of Asia Minor, on the Black
Sea.
The Parliament that met on August
4 is the the thirteenth of the present
reign.
In France 8,070 patients were granted
for electrical improvements during the
past year.
Baron Hirsch will probably sail from
France to this country the middle OF
september.
England has no fear OF an epidemic,
owing to its good sanitary condition
and pure water.
Fifty thousand pesos in gold have been
voted for the expense of the Arbitration
Commission in Chill.
There is confirmation of the news re-
lating to a secret alliance between Peru,
Bolivia and Argentina.
An English railroad has just contracted
for 10, 900 incandescent electric lamps to
be placed in their cars.
Germany will recognize the Centigrade
thermometer as the official instrument
in place of the Reaumur.
The English plush trade is in very
bad way, and the British press lays the
} blame upon McKinleyism.
1t is believed that Queen Natalie of
Servia will remain abroad until her son,
King Alexander, is OF age.
The passes of the Andes are to be
guarded to prevent the entry of cholera
into Chill from Argentina.
The blue book says that, although the
German export in beer has declined, its
production has not diminished.
r The Frenchmen and the Englishmen
: are going to have an eight-oared race on
the Seine on Sunday, October 8.
Court Jeweler Adolf Rehrumann oil
Munich has failed. Among his stock
were found many sham diamonds.
The North German Gazette urges the
adoption OF an international agreement
for concerted action against cholera.
, Paris journalists just now are dis
! cussing the probable successor of Presi.
! dent CArnot of the French Republic.
t The Banque de la Martinique and the
| Martinique agency of the Colonial Bank
3 of fLondon at Martinique have suspended
1t is stated that sixteen persons com
mitted suicide at Trieste, owing tn in
sanity caused by the hot weather of last
0 month.
Y Americans in London crowd Westmin
. ster Abbey to listen to Archdeacon Far
a rar's meditations" on the Lords
prayer.
e There is still great hue and Cry
r among English Liberals that the Queer
4 dictated the makeup of Gladstone
t Ministry.
t The corporation OF undertakers o
e Paris has formed syndicate, and ha
u celebrated the event with banquet ant
y concert.
s London has firm OF opticians who's,
;. speciality is the sale of spectacles TO
j. horses. The object of the spectacles il
9 to promote high stepping.
: A clock tower to the memory OF Eliz
+ abeth Barrett Browning is to be erected
70 in Ledbury, England, where the poetes
passed many youthful years.
The city of Antwerp has celebrates
with great ecldt the third centenary q
the last competition of its famous six
teenth century school of rhetoric.
lie Stocks of wheat in free warehouses i
France, seven cities, on August l wer
1000, 900 bushels. France imported dul
ing July 1000, 900 bushels of wheat.
10 Milan, which is said to be the bes
lighted city in Europe, has two centrs
stations for generating electricit
r r equipped with American machinery.
to At the corn far at Vienna an interes
ing address was made on the unpro6
~ ableness OF corn-growing in Europe
s. owing to sharp American competition
of Marquis Venosta, the recently appoint
g. ed Italian Commissioner for the settle
ment Of the Behring Sea question,
to one OF the foremost statesmen OF ltaly
n The Gear has wired Colonel Yanotf i
is command of the Russian troops in tn
Id Pamir country not to do anything ths
le would be likely to provoke the hostilit
1g II England.
:. Thus far this year the ascent Of Nor
or Blanc, once considered wonderful fea
: a a is reported to have been successful
10 accomplished by fourteen people, fou
.. of whom were Americans.
nd nd The epidemic of scarlet fever in Lol
m ha don, England, is daily growing in seve
az ity. The hospital accommodations al
na entirely exhausted. At present 3,64
ha patients are under treatment.
"a Lord Dysart, President of the Wagn,
b- Society of England, is making an earne
ul effort to have evening dress done ava
ar with as one of the obligations attsndai
upon grand opera in England.