The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-11-19
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
The Increase in the Crop Acreage
in Ireland This Year.
HAMBURG MEN WITHOUT WORK
King George COnfers the Decoration Of
the Order Of the SavlOr-The
Wind Carriage.

Frightful weather is reported in the
Irish Sea.
Great Britain has decided not to retire
from Uganda, Africa.
Tennyson makes the list Of burials in
Westminster Abbey l,l73.
The Ministry has been sustained by
the general elections in Portugal.
Belgium is making arrangements for
an international exhibition in 1895.
The Swiss Guards, part OF the Pope's
household, are TO be dispensed with.
Russia has nearly 500, 900 900 depos.
tied in the different European capitals.
The French government intends in.
creasing the military forces in Tonquin.
The striking miners in Carmaux.
France, have decided to continue the
fight.
Queen Victoria will spend the winter
months in Italy, at Bientina, eleven miles
east of Pisa.
A. West Africa King has Just had an
umbrella made for him twenty-one feet
/ in diameter.
The trolley car is literally astonishing
the natives OF Singapore. They call it
the wind carriage.
Papal brief has been issued confirm
ing the election OF Father Martin as
General of the Jesuits.
Order has been restored in Santiago
del Estero, Argentine, the Federal troops
having overcome the rebels.
General Booth of the British Salvation
Army has issued an appeal for 1906, 600
to continue his Darkest England"
work.
The Republic OF Paraguay has offered
very generous premiums to immigrants
who design to follow agricultural indus
tries.
1t is stated that shirts OF chain armor.
which cost about 500, are now worn by
more than one distinguished person in
Europe.
The outlook in regard to champagne
is not favorable, and foreign journals in
cline to the opinion that prices may be
advanced.
A house-to-house inquiry at Hamburg
has shown 100000 workingmen without
employment and 5000 small tradesmen
financially ruined.
King George has conferred the decora
tion of the Order of the Savior upon DR..
Waldstein of the American Archaolog-
ical School at Athens.
Archbishop Croke's proposals for the
release OF the Parish Irish Parliamentary
fund have been accepted by the Irish
Parliamentary Committee.
Henry Ryder, formerly United States
Consul at Copenhagen, has been SEN
fenced to eighteen months at hard labor
for theft, fraud and perjury.
A London theatrical manager saws the
present year has so far been one OF the
most tunremunerative known to the Eng
lish stage for many seasons.
A syndicate has been formed in Lon
don for the purpose-of taking over the
whole G1,750,0C0 of Uruguayan stock
belonging to the Barring estate.
A statue is to be erected at Bar le-Duc.
in France, to Earnest Michaux, who is
supposed to have invented the veloci-
pede and thereby paved the way for the
bicycle.
Russia has demanded of Belgium that
all passports issued by that country to
intending visitors to Russia state the re-
ligion of the bearer. The demand is
aimed at the Jews.
There was quite large increase in
the crop acreage in Ireland this year.
The various crops were grown on 4,S84,-
7S4 acres of land, which is an increase
over 1891 OF &C, 403 acres.
There are 1,SG0 vacant houses in
Frankfort-on-the- Main, and the news
papers of the city say the numb Der of Wis
itors in the city has not been SO small in
any corresponding season for years.
w. M. Conway, a daring English
mountaineer, has succeeded in climbing
to the top of one of the peaks of the
Hindu Kush Range, on the border OF
Kashmir, to the height of $4,000 feet.
1t is reported from London that Brit
ish troops will soon be withdrawn from
Canada and Newfoundland, Mr.. Glad
stone being in favor of having the colonies
rely on themselves as much as possible.
The plans for making Paris seaport
have been deposited at the Hotel de
Vile. The proposed canal from Rouen
to Paris is to be ITO miles long and
about twenty feet deep, and will cost
135, 900, 200 francs.
The Municipal Council of Paris has
voted credit of 2,O00,O 600 francs to
enable an advance to be made in wages
of the city employees, such as street
sweepers, sewer men, ETC., whose wages
are under 5 francs per day.
Count Tolstoi has recently deposited
his memoirs, including large diary of
manuscript, with the curator of a Rus
sian museum, the condition being made
that they shall not be published until
ten years after the authors death.
The researches of Sir Reginald Pal
grace, the learned Clerk of the Table of
the House of Commons. have fixed the
exact spot in Westminster Hall where
Charles l. sat during his trial. The po-
sition of the Kings chair is marked by
q brass tablet at the east end of the hall