The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-07-16
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
Drought in POltava Destroying
Cattle and Crops.
THE COLD THROUGHOUT GERMANY
Considerable Attention Attracted to the
Water-POwer Possibilities Of the
Rhine-0ther News.

The London Season" this year is be
ing voted pretty much of failure.
That M. Pasteur has discovered cure
for epilepsy is rumor now current IL
Europe.
A Parisian horticulturist claims Il
have succeeded in forcing the growth O
violets by electricity.
Between Paris and Berlin mail matter
is now transmitted in thirty-fiye min
utes by the pneumatic process.
A rumor is gaining strength in Ire.
land that Charles 8. Parnell, the Irish
leader, was poisoned.
There is a rumor that Gladstone in.
tends to take refuge in the House oi
Lords after the general elections.
The house at Youghal, Ireland, for
merly occupied by Sir Walter Raleigh
the great adventurer, was recently sold
for $6, ,250.
The Spanish government has offered
England better terms for commercial
treaty, and negotiations will soon be re-.
sumeu III mhuflQs
1t is said that the new German army
bill will increase Emperor Williams
forces by $4,000 men and add 81, 200 ,OO0
marks to the budget.
Thirty thousand Mauser rifles and l5O
tons OF cartridges are being shipped from
Hamburg to Peking, consigned to the
Chinese government.
The cold throughout Germany is phe
nomenal for this season. Potatoes and
early vegetable crops are being badly
damaged by night frosts.
Should Gladstone win the English
elections Russian newspaper thinks he
would allow the Cars feet to blockade
German and Austrian ports.
AT Seraing, China, the contract for
iron work for a large Chinese iron works
has been taken out of the hands of Eng.
lish firms and given to Belgians.
Drought in PoltaTa, South Russia, is
destroying cattle and crops, and the peo-
pie kneel around priests and elevated
images in the fields and pray for rain.
The story is published at Paris of an
alleged plot TO kidnap M. Deblier,
Monsieur de Paris" in order to DELAY
the execution of Ravachol, the An
archist.
After long consideration of the mat
ter the Italian government has decided
that 61a milimeters is the best size for
the bore of the new rifles for use in that
country.
In battle in Matto Crosse, Brazil,
between the revolutionists and the gov
ernment forces it is stated that 900
men were killed, but neither side OBJ
tained victory.
An attempt was lately made to culti-
vate oysters in the Baltic. Last sum-
mer 81, 600 were transplanted from the
North Sea, but the experiment has
proved a failure.
Buffalo Bills Wild West chow exhib
tied at Windsor before Queen Victoria
and crowds of aristocratic personages.
The Queen seemed to be delighted with
everything she saw.
Prof. Tyndall predicts that the first
loyalist blood shed in Ulster for the sake
of Archbishop Walsh and Timothy
Healy will rouse feeling of evil that
will sweep Gladstone's Irish policy to
perdition.
The government OF Baden will found
museum for history and archaeology in
Rome, where special privileges have
been obtained from the Pope to examine
the archives of the Vatican.
Liverpool will, 1t is expected, pub
EoIxy o ta hn anxox~l4ks~r. 1e Lou
great water scheme next month. The
city will have supply of 80, 900, 900 gal
Ions a day from Vyrnwy, Wales.
The Empress of Germany has re-
quested the Minister OF Public Instruc-
tion to prevent the admission to the art
museums of Berlin of young girls unless
under the guidance of teacheSs or par
ents.
Bessie Bell Wood has brought suit
against the Duke of Manchester at Lon
don for money that she says she loaned
him before he reached the ducal dignity
The Duke, in answer to the suit, denies
that he owes anything to Bessie.
Russia's claim to Pameer, "The Roof
of the World" has alarmed China, and
large force of Chinese troops has al.
ready been sent to the frontier to pre-
vent aggression, and, if need be, to take
the offensive against the soldiers of the
Gar.
Messrs. Yarrow have undertaken to
build stern-wheel gunboat in thirty
six days for the French to use against
the natives of Dahomey. The boat is
100 feet long, draws eighteen inches,
and has carrying capacity equal to 400
troops.
Captain Borup, military attache of
the United States Legation at Paris, is
charged with making photographs OF
various defenses in France, which had
been loaned him, and selling them to
Germany and Italy. Borup says he
does not know the man who makes the
charge and who processes to be intimate
with him. The newspapers are ex-
remedy bitter toward the Captain, but
he seems satisfied that he can establish
his innocence.