The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-11-26
FOREIGN CABLECRAMS
The Number Of Enrolled Voters in
the Kingdom Of Italy.
CHOLERA IN A CHINESE PROVINCE
New Tax Upon Bicycles In FranCe-SnOw
In the Black Forest Region in
Germany-EtC

There is a serious revival OF cholera at
Baku.
England boasts OF an aluminium
launch.
Archduke Francis OF Austria is soon
to visit America.
Vienna has been declared free from
the cholera scourge.
Cattle disease has broken out in vari-
GUS districts OF Jutland.
Hamburg officially reports no case Of
cholera there since October 26.
Cholera in Chinese province has car
ried off 10000 to 10000 people.
There is said to be an excess OF &c.
OO0,0O Of silver in the United Kingdom.
To every 900 men in the British army
only eighteen are over six feet in height.
1t is now announced that Parliament
will be formally prorogued on December
| l3.
The French Cabinet has approved a
decree pardoning ten convicted Carmaux
rioters.
A syndicate has been formed to estab-
lish permanent industrial exhibition
in Stockholm.
The German army has a swimming
school for troops, where every one must
learn to swim.
France is to have a new subsidiary
coinage, which is to be of some metal
beside copper.
An English company is being organ
lied for the acclimatization of elephants
in South America.
Two daughters OF General Booth of
the Salvation Army have been expelled
from Switzerland.
According to the London Times, Brit
ish harvest was not nearly completed on
the first day Of October.
Russia is said to have 10000, 900 in
gold, of which SO 100000 is on deposit in
London, Paris and Berlin.
A metal tower resembling the Eiffel
tower is to be erected at Lyons on the
heights of Gay de Fourviere.
1t is reported that 200 white men
Belgians and Germans-are leading the
Dahomeyans against the French.
The British government has given
$72O, 900 for the relief of the sufferers by
the recent fire at St. Johns, Newfound-
land.
Four feet of snow and a consequent
blockade of railway traffic are reported
from the Black Forest region in Ger
many.
American competition in the grain
trade has caused many failures in Rus
sia, eight firms recently going into bank
ruptcy.
Three thousand tradesmen of Cologne
have recently petitioned the Emperor
of Germany to abolish the new Sunday
rest law.
A woman without arms has been mar
ried at Christ Church, New Zealand.
The ring was placed upon che fourth toe of
her left foot.
The Pope is already receiving presents
for his Jubilee, which is to take place
next year, the first gifts having arrived
from America.
DR.: Luther, Berlin physician, de-
scended from Martin Luther, represented
the Luther family at the conservation
services in Wittenberg.
Emma Nevada is to be one of the stars
OF Sir. Augustus Harris opera season in
London. She has not sung in the Eng
lish capital for four years.
The loss of traffic on account of the
cholera epidemic at Hamburg has caused
deficit of | 900, 900 marks in the reye-
nues of the Altona railway,
1t is proposed to connect the Oder and
Danube rivers by means of canal, thus
making a complete waterway between
the Baltic and the Black Sea.
Penny savings banks are connected
with public schools of Belgium, and 17O.-
600 of the 100000 primary pupils have
deposited over 500, 1000 francs.
The new tax upon bicycles in France
will be ~. AS there are about two hun
dred aud twenty-five thousand cyclists
the revenue will be about $45O,OO0.
Miss Margaret Cozens, the British fe-
male suttragist, who recently advocated
dynamite as a means of securing the
franchise, is wealthy, educated and 80
The Empress of Russia's court dress.
which is valued at $4,000, has only been
worn on one occasion, viz, at the corona
tion OF the present Emperor. 1t is GOV.
cred with magnificent embroidery in
real silver.
The unfortunate claimant, alias "Sir
Roger Hchborne," makes his living by
appearing at country music halls and by
exhibiting himself nightly for a fixed
sum at well-known public houses in the
suburbs of London.
The shipments of silver from .onJor
this year have been nearly $l2 500, 900
greater than the same time in 1891,
The aggregate shipments to India, China
and the straits were $685., ,09s this year,
against eS, 1896, 1921 in 1891.
Spurgeon's Tabernacle in London is
fitted with electric bells to ring in all
parts of the house. Strangers are kept
standing until five minutes before the
service, when all the bells are rung ST.
simultaneously and a grand rush is mada