The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-08-06
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
Russian Province 0verrun With
VOraciOus Wolves.
MOUNT ETNA EFFERvEsCES LAVA
Death Of a Notorious COlOred Australian
Bushranger-An African Tribe
ReYOlts-The Reds.

The Jewish population OF London Ii
put down at some $1,000.
The Times says that Gladstone may
secure office, but not power.
Streams OF burning lava are howins
down the sides Of Mount Etna.
Natural gas has been discovered in
the district Of Weis in Upper Austria.
The "Reds" met in London Sunday,
and denounced the execution OF Raw.
achol.
A report from Zanzibar says that the
Yanyembe tribe has revolted and threat
ems the German forces.
In Peru 1t is proposed TO check the
rapid decline In the value OF silver by
temporarily stopping its coinage.
One Of the Partisan newspapers is re-
ported to be experimenting with type
made OF glass with gratifying results.
The German organs OF Bismarck have
begun to weaken. They are satisfied
their attack on the government has
failed.
An association OF capitalists with back
ers in London, New Orleans and New
York intend TO found cotton exchange
in Hamburg.
SO far ninety-six bodies have been
taken from the ruins caused by the
breaking OF glacier at St. Gervais-les
Bains in Savoy.
An audacious Paris paper recently
published list OF American women who
are wealthy enough for impecunious no.
blemen's wives.
Nathan Rothschild OF Vienna has an
nounced his intention of abjuring all
things equine for the future. He is to
dispose of his racing stud.
The alarm in Russian official circles
over the spread OF the cholera is grow
ing. The press, it is reported, is not al
lowed to publish full details.
New evidence in the Maybrick poison
ing case at London has been discovered,
and 1t is thought 1t will cause pardon
to be granted Mrs. Msybrick.
Australia has shipped to Europe in the
past twenty-six weeks A, 440, 900 bushels
OF wheat, against 9,144,010 bushels in
the corresponding time last year.
The King of siam has excellent rea.
sons for never allowing Mrs. Siam to
leave the children with him when she
goes out shopping. There are eighty
four OF them.
The formalities necessary for the trans
fer OF the steamships City of Paris and
City OF New York from the English reg
istry to the American registry have been
gone through with in London.
Many Afghan tribes refuse to support
the Ameer, owing to his exactions and
supposed intrigues with Russia. 1t is
stated that, if the Ameer's troops are de.
feated, general revolt is certain.
The Sultan of Morocco's troops, who
are endeavoring to suppress an insurrec-
tion at Algiers, are committing many
lawless and cruel acts, and Christians
and Jews are much alarmed for their
safety.
Lady Dufferin has invented a new tip
pie, which has aroused Parisian thirst to
a high degree. 1t consists OF mashed
rawberries, cream and eugar. upon
which Cliquot frappe is frothed from a
siphon.
A grand hunt is proposed in the prov
ince of Kastfoma, Russia, to destroy the
wolves, which in phenomenal numbers
and with great boldness and savagery
have attacked the cattle and even men
in the region.
Mr.. Rhodes, the Cape Colony Premier,
has introduced into the Legislature a
franchise bill which raises the electoral
qualification from e25 to G75 and dis
qualities illiterates, except those already
on the register.
The French Senate has passed bill
prolonging the present tariff on petro-
leum until January l, 1893, and another
granting supplementary credit of $780,
900 francs for the French exhibit at the
Chicago Columbian Exposition.
DR.. Peters, the African explorer, has
discovered enormous saltpeter beds be-
tween Mount Kilima- Nj jaro and the vol
cano Donjo Ngai. The whole great ter
ritory between Kilima-Njaro and Donjo
Ngai is reputed to be one great saltpeter
bed.
The small guild of draughtsmen who
have the franchise to draw pictures on
the London pavements have suddenly
taken to cultivating higher style of art.
They have improved greatly in their
profession, and are going into political
caricature, something they never used to
do at all.
A notorious bushranger, a colored man
named Russell, has lately died in the
Bendigo Hospital. He was known in
the early fifties as "Black Douglas, the
bushranger," and had a part in many
escapades throughout the middle dis
tricts of Victoria, especially in the min
ing localities known as the middle
Diggings."
The Prince of Wales does not propose
to attend the autumn maneuvers which
take place in Hungary in September.
The Prince is going early next month to
Homburg, and viii return to England
about the second week in September