The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-09-10
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
Several New Fortresses Being
Built in Alsace.
CHOLERA PANIC IN CoNsTANTINoPLE
New Species Of Bear Discovered in Thibet,
Asia-An Uprising Expected
In BOlivia-EtC.

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OF Waterloo veterans France has eight
left.
The vintage prospects in Spain are
very good.
An international Railway Congress lie
in session at st. Petersburg.
Rye is short in Russia, and hay in
England is very poor crop.
Live fish have recently safely been
sent in the mails from India to the Brit
ish Museum.
Germany's new military bill reduces
the term OF service, but adds 10000, 600
marks to the budget.
The British war Office authorities are
dispatching 10 India the fret installment
OF the improved magazine rife.
An uprising in Bolivia is expected at
any moment. A very uneasy feeling
exists throughout the Republic.
The Bosnian provincial government
has appointed lady doctors to attend the
female population in the principal towns.
The Viceroy at Canton reports the ex-
ecution Of 100 criminals within the last
year, charged with piracy on the Canton
coast.
There is cholera panic in Constants.
nople. The Sultan and his Court and
State Ministers have fed to Elbruz
Mountains.
The International Peace Congress at
Berne has decided to establish an Inter
national Permanent Peace Bureau in
Switzerland.
The large shipping firm of George
Tweedy & Co. at London has suspend
ed. 1t is believed the stoppage OF bust
ness is but temporary.
The next international exposition in
Europe will be held in Paris in 1900, thus
appropriately celebrating the dawn OF
the twentieth century.
Mineralogists now exploring Northern
Thibet claim to have discovered valuable
mines of gold and many varieties Of the
richest precious stones.
The arbitration agreement between
the United States and Chile has been
,ully ratified by the Chilean government
and printed in the official gazette.
Gladstone before the elections said
Il fear the future OF Europe is a very
dark one, although with Gods help the
present peaceful situation may still last
for some time"
Owing to the change of government in
Great Britain, it has not been possible
as yet to agree upon the time and place
of holding the proposed International
Monetary Conference.
A new species OF bear was shot by
Captain Bower during his late travels in
Thibet. The animal was chocolate col
ored, with white collar, and is quite
unknown to naturalists.
A small observatory is about to be
erected soon on the very summit oi
Monte Rosa, which has an altitude OF
1851 feet, and is, next to Mount Blanc,
the highest peak in the Alps.
At the meeting of the Oxford Univer-
sity Extension Society recently it was
decided that tie time had now come to
make special effort to extend univer-
sity teaching to workingmen.
The Duke OF Fife, the Prince of Wales
son-in-law, has made speech which has
attracted much attention from his rec
ommendation that large estates should
be cut up and sold as matter of social
policy.
The Berlin Tageblau in announcing the
conclusion of the commercial treaties
between Germany and Hayti and Vene-
zuela rejoices in the assumption that
American influence in Spanish America
| will thus Yaooivn q nhooE
During the year 1892. thus far, the as
cent OF Mount Blanc, once considered
among the rarest of achievements, has
been successfully accomplished by five
Germans, four Americans, three French.
men and two Englishmen.
The London Chronicle says: There il
a strong rumor afoat that Gladstone
will retire from Office in the spring, anC
also that a Harcourt party and Rose
bery-Spencer party exists in the ranks
of the Liberals-a Lords party versus 6
Commons party.
An original method of inducing the
residents of Alsace- Lorraine to become
Germans has been discovered by the
Tolk, the organ of Herr Stoecker. Thil
journal proposes that the State shall Civ,
dowry to every native OF Alsace- Lor
raine who marries German.
The total strength OF the Chinese army
is about 100000 men, of whom morI
than 100000 are permanently stationed
for the garrison of Peking. The arms o
these troops are of the most primitiv,
types, and consist principally of Ion,
spears and knives secured to long poles
bows and arrows and clubs.
Underneath the ruins of the palace O
Saint Cloud, about to be demolished, lii
hidden jewels and treasure that be
longed to the Empress Eugene. TIL,
State has reserved to itself the owner
ship of any precious objects that may b
found during the progress of the demo
lition.
Louis G. Brenan, the inventor of tn
famous $3.50, 900 torpedo, has been ere
ated a Companion OF the Bath by Queer
Victoria. Mr.. Brennan is by birth al
Irishman, but spent much of his life il
Australia. He was offered $S50,000 70
his torpedo by Russia, but preferred t
sell it to England.