The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-07-02
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
Koch Of Prussia Opposed to the
Reconciliation Of Silver.
GLADSTONE TO GO TO MIDLOTHIAN,
Man and His Wife Convicted Of the Charge
Of Dealing in Sausages Made
Of Dog Flesh at Lille.

The playing OF baccarat has been for
hidden In the Kursaal at Lucerne.
The value OF the oysters consumed in
London yearly Is about 100000.
Dried fish was formerly and is still to
some extent a medium OF exchange in
Iceland.
A Brussels syndicate is going to culti-
vate tobacco extensively in the Congo
Free State.
The cholera in Persia is very virulent.
People die within two hours after having
the first attack.
Captain Lugard has been ordered to
evacuate Uganda by the British East
African Company.
Thomas Neill, about As years OF age,
under arrest at London, is suspected of
killing eight women.
George Augustus Sala says that Cen
eral Booths darkest England scheme
has turned out fizzle.
In Germany, while the production Of
pig iron has increased, the consumption
OF that article has declined.
The British government proposes TO
expend 100000 in repairing the raw
ages OF the Mauritius hurricane.
The several American Episcopal
churches in Europe are reported as in a
most prosper Gus, progressive and salts
factory condition.
The daily total water supply in Lon
don is 1sl ,507 ,049 gallons, representing
daily consumption of 81 SO gallons per
head for all purposes.
Barcelona, Spain, owing TO the labor
riots, is in state of siege. A squadron
has been ordered to assemble there. and
troops are being hurried forward.
Herr Sonnenschien, the Chief Judge
] in German East Africa, has sentenced
seventeen Arabs to be hanged for hold
ing slave market within his territory.
Herr Koch's official statement in the
Upper House of the Prussian Diet on
the currency question shows that he is
decidedly against the reconciliation OF
silver.
An enormous increase is reported in
emigration from Upper Alsace to Amer
ica, due, it is said, to the injury caused
to trade by the operation Of the sollver-
Elm treaty.
Slivinski will probably visit this coun-
try next year. He, like Paderewski, is
pupil OF Leschetizki, and has played
the piano successfully in Berlin, Paris
and London.
Five couples applied this year for the
fitch OF bacon which is given at Dun
mord, England to the married pair who
have lived together for whole year in
perfect harmony.
Statistics of Irish emigration Just
published show that ever since Mr.. Bal
four went back to Ireland as Chief Sec
retary the number of Irish emigrants
has been steadily decreasing.
In the new British Pharmacopeia the
metric weights and measures will be
adopted, to the entire exclusion of the
English weights and measures hitherto
used there and in the United States.
The French appropriations for 1893
will be 645, ,000,0 900 francs for the army
and 2S0, 100000 francs for the navy.
Ninety eight new vessels are in course
of construction, of which eight are iron
clads.
The French are amazed that the Eng
lish should have built the Royal Sover-
eign, their biggest ironclad, in two years
and half. The Neptune and Magenta,
two French ships, have been twelve
years building.
Poultney Bigelow, schoolmate OF
Emperor William and son of ex-Minis-
ter Bigelow, and fulsome fatterer of
the Emperor, has been expelled from
Russia, owing to a criticism Of Russia's
administration in Poland.
The Turkish Sultan has invited Gen
eral Brialmont, the engineer officer who
constructed the fortiications at Ant.
werp and Meuse, to go to Constantinople
for the purpose of advising his Majesty
on new project of Turkish defense.
The Italian authorities are earnest in
their endeavors to suppress the Mals
Vita Society. Another monster trial is
taking place at Bori, where 219 of these
cut-throats are charged with various
crimes, from pocket-picking to assassi-
nation.
Lynch law is fourishing in Algeria.
Not long ago au Arab who had assaulted
a little girl near Constantine was chased
and seized by some of his countrymen
and flung over precipice to his death.
In eighteen months eight wrong-doers
have been shot for murder and robbery
without the benefit of trial by jury.
Mr.. Stead, the aggressive London
editor, has organized a conference OF
Pastors aud Christian Electors" to
Systematically oppose the candidacy OF
Parliamentary nominees whose esca-
pades have been aired in the courts.
There are two or three such candidates
now standing.
The most important literary find "
of recent years is undoubtedly the pur-
chase by Mr.. Davey of London of a lot
OF waste paper which turns out to be
three thick volumes of Victor Hugo's
table-tslk during five years of his exile
at Guernsey, transcribed by his son,