The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-08-13
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
lnebriety Among the Fashionable
Women in England.
LAVA DESTROYS MOUNTAIN HUTs.
The Eyesight Of the Czarina Growing
WOrse-An InsurrectlOn In the
Congo Free State.

1t is reputed to have cost the present
Emperor Of China $l0,000,0OO to get
married.
A recently discovered manuscript
proves that Columbus was born at Sa-
vona, Italy.
They call the bicycle the DEVILS char
lot in Turkey, and the Sultan has for
bidden its use.
Buffalo Bill was one OF the lions OF the
evening at one OF Mrs. Mackay's recent
London receptions.
II is proposed to have an exhibition at
Milan In 1894 similar to the one now in
progress at Vienna.
| Miss Terry's little slice for her share
OF the lrving-cum-Terry tour in America
next year is $4,000.
Riots have been caused by the cholera
regulations in Tashkend. The troops
killed and wounded seven persons.
A street-car line is now being built in
Fashkend, the capital OF Russian Turk
estan, by French company.
The lava stream from Mount Etna has
destroyed many mountain huts, and is
rapidly approaching Nicolosi.
At the Bisley (England) rifle meeting
Scotland won the national challenge
trophy with an aggregate score Of 1892.
All the pawushops in Moscow owned
by Jews will be closed before the end OF
this month by order of the government.
Verdi has consented to compose a can.
tata or symphony in honor of the Co
lumbus celebration at Genoa this au-
tumn.
IL is said that only five passengers
were killed on all the railways OF Great
Britain and Ireland during the whole of
last year.
A series OF fires have been reported
from the Philippine Islands, rendering
thousands of inhabitants homeless and
destitute.
The Arabs OF Yongwe on the Upper
Congo have revolted against the Congo
Free State and cut off communication
with Tanganyika.
All the tickets for next summers per-
formance at Beyruth have been sold :;
$4,000 in all has been received for the
twenty performances.
Latest advices from the Argentine Re-
public state that wages are again going
up in the colonies, owing to the great
scarcity OF farm laborers.
The greatest oculists of Europe will
soon be called in to consult upon the
condition of the eyesight of the Czarina,
which grows from bad to worse.
1t is said by those within the pale that
overinduIgence in intoxicating beverages
is lamentably on the increase among
fashionable women in England.
Information respecting the cereal ex-
ports OF the Argentine Republic for the
first quarter OF 1892 indicates large in
crease over the same period in the pre-.
vious year.
A scheme is now being developed in
Scotland by which high grade OF brick
is being made from Clipped granite and
clay. The experiments are said to have
been successful.
The newly elected Municipal Councils,
composed of Socialists, have discovered
the police force in several towns OF
France. The government will reorgan-
A6S VHSAAA oS CpAOO POhtSCs
For the first half of the current year
the returns of no less than seventeen
English railroads show falling off, and
the loss in coal freights is responsible
for more than half of that.
The London Times, which tried to ruin
Mr.. Parnell through series of Pigot
letters before he had ruined himself, ie
now coddling the Parnellites, who are
wavering in their support of Gladstone.
Raimunds Indueza Palacio, ex-Dictator
of Venezuela, has arrived at Paris, with
$15, ,000, 900 as golden solace for the ills
of defeated ambition. He says the good
of his country was all he desired, but he
got more.
The medical department OF st. Peters
burg is distributing cholera disinfectants
at cost prices. The Gear presided at a
discussion OF the appointment of an of
ficer with dictatorial power to combat
the epidemic in the Volga provinces.
An opportunity will be presented to
the arch@ologists who visit the Column
bian Exposition at Madrid to inspect
one of the well-known European pal@o,
lithic sites, that of San Isidro, in the
Valley of the Manzanares near Madrid.
1t is predicted that the coming mobil-
ization of the British naval forces will
be on a very large scale. With the ex-
ception OF the Minotaur, Indefatigable
and possibly the Latona all the ships of
the Portsmouth fleet reserve will be
commissioned.
The Cologne Gazette alleges that the
African natives who recently repulsed
Baron Won Bulow's forces in the Moshi
territory, near Kilimanjora, were sup.
piled with large number of Snyder
rifles and 80, 900 cartridges by the British
East India Company.
The trial of the Anarchists at Liege,
Belgium. concluded with a verdict OF
guilty. Moineau, the leader, was sem
fenced to twenty-five years. penal serv-
itude. Wolff and Beaujeau got twenty
years each, the four others fifteen years
each and nine to shorter terms.