The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-09-03
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
A Large Number Of Americans
Sightseeing in Europe.
CONGO STATE FORCES ANNIHILATED.
Poet Fined for Creating Disturbance by
Reading His Poetry to the VII.
lage Inhabitants.

Cholera returns in Russia show large
increase in new cases.
The back bone OF the revolution in
Honduras has been broken.
Paris alone consumes more wine an
nually than all the United States.
Kioto, or Mioko, Japan, is making
ready to celebrate its ll0Oth birthday.
The Cars throne lie said to be worth
lour times as much as Queen Victoria's.
The Afghan news has caused steady
decline in government securities at Lon
don.
French Republicans have gained 1876
seats in the elections to Departmental
Councils.
Baron Rothschild of Paris is said TO be
mad, and his insanity finds relief in
breaking statues.
A French company is building an
American street-car line in a Turkish
town ruled by Russia.
Symptoms OF the phylloxera have ap-
peared IN vines on the Rille, the Rhone
and at Hautvillers, France.
Locusts have invaded the province OF
Buenos Ayres in the Argentine, and are
doing great damage to crops.
Mrs. Langtry's ambition to be tall has
made her appear in extraordinarily high
mats and French-heeled shoes.
The Congo State forces at Benakamba
have been annihilated and Commander
Hodister tortured and beheaded.
England's imports for July, compared
with year ago, increased $685., 900, and
her exports decreased 81 100000.
Paris the newspapers are scussing
the question, Will France be reduced to
the necessity Of importing babies?
Homburg's season is now at its height,
with hundreds OF royal and noble peo-
pie to be seen in the passing show.
There are some who advance the opin-
ion, based upon his recent utterancea,
that Bismarck has become demented.
The uprising of the Arabs in Congo
State is said to be in obedience to a proc
lamation OF "holy war" from Mecca.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley are busy explain
ing to the thenewspaper-reading public why
the former was defeated for Parliament.
The census of India, just completed.
shows that country to have population
OF $50, ,O0O, 900, gain of IL per cent. over
1881.
There are 10000 Americans in Eu.
rope this summer, and it is estimated
that they will spend $67, ,037, 500 in sight
seeing.
A Paisley poet has been fined 7s cd for
creating disturbance by reading his
poetry to the inhabitants OF an Ayrshire
village.
Chancellor Won Caprivi proposes to
stop the growing of tobacco in Germany
and to place heavy tariff on imported
tobacco.
The Pope has presented his portrait to
the Queen Regent Of Spain, Monsignor
Del Val being commissioned to convey
it to her.
Since 1885 Great Britain has completed
nineteen new armored warships, while
ten Others are in various stages of con-
struction.
An outbreak of phylloxera is reported
in the Avize-Cramant district, the vine.
yards OF which are among the finest in
Champagne.
A choir of women wearing cassocks,
surplices and mortar board caps has been
introduced at St. James Church, Mar
ylebone, England.
Aid. Caldwells, the man who defeated
Henry M. Stanley for Parliament recent
ly, began life as gardeners boy, and
subsequently worked as tailor.
In underground London there are
5000 miles of sewers, "a 1000 miles of tel
egraph wires, 5000 miles of gas pipes
and 4,500 miles of water mains.
Owing to failure of harvest, Samara,
one of the most fertile provinces OF Rus
sia, has applied for loan OF 10000 ru,
oles, with which to procure seed.
Europe is suffering just now from a
gut OF international expositions. Affairs
of this sort are in progress in Stockholm,
Munich, Schevingen, Vienna and Genoa
The Emperor William will visit King
Oscar of Sweden in September. The
monarchs will meet at Gothenburg and
start from there for hunting expedi-
tion.
Il
The convention of German horse butch.
ere have agreed to open a first-class res
taurant at Berlin for the purpose of ed
ucating the upper classes to use horse
flesh as food.
The Shah OF Persia has left Teheran
for his annual sojourn at his summer
| palace, accompanied by retinue of 800
wives and regiments of infantry, cavalry
and artillery.
Extensive frauds upon the Custom
house of Barranquilla, capital of the
Colombian province OF the same name,
have been discovered. The total amount
is placed at $lS6,000.
A Frenchman has invented an envel-
ope which exposes part of the letter to
the stamp that makes the postmark.
Thus the inc.oeure will bear official proof
OF the date on which it was posted.