The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-06-11
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
Electric 0mnibuSeS to be Tried in
London This Summer.
AMERICAN TOURISTS SUCCESSFUL.
Better Facilities for Landing American
Passengers at LIyerpOOl-Gen-
eral Booth LamentS.
AMERICAN TOURISTS SUCCESSFUL.

There are / 1000 men to every 9O6
women in Greece.
Peru has notified london capitalists
that she will pay her debt.
A thousand children are born in Lon
don workhouses every year.
waterway connecting the Rhine
with the Danube is contemplated.
The Italian deficit this year will be
10000, 900, and the same next year.
All London is apprehensive over the
report Of another visit from the Shah.
The Australian government financial
statement shows a deficit OF Gl, 800, ,000
Mr.. Gladstone's article Oh the eight
hour bill has been suppressed in Russia.
The British forces are rapidly putting
down the uprisings of native chiefs in
Africa.
Brazil's finances are in good shape,
says President Peixotto in his message
to Congress.
Better facilities for landing American
passengers at Liverpool are promised
this summer.
The news Labor Exchange at Paris,
built under government control, was
opened recently.
An Indian government loan at 3 per
cent. has been taken above the mini
mum "a in London.
The proposition to run" Stanley for
Parliament in England does not rouse
popular enthusiasm.
Salvation Army Booth laments seem.
ing withdrawal of sympathy for his work
by the English press.
Some Americans have introduced the
trotting horse and buggy on the Bois in
Paris with apparent success.
Minister jefferson, the United States
representative at Paris, will occupy the
same house used by Whitelaw Reid.
A company has been granted permis
sion to experiment with electric omni
buses in London the cJming summer.
The five American tourists illegal,
arrested in Switzerland have obtained
judgment against the canton of Berne
In the event OF Liberal success in th
coming English elections, it is said tina
Gladstone will enter the House OF Lords
During the year 1891 4,207 vessel
passed through the Suez canal, and O
these only twenty-six carried the Amer
lean flag.
Punch and Judy shows still continue
to draw crowds in London, and seem t
be regarded by the populace as the acm
of uproarous humor.
The enormous cotton warehouses a
Mnet. l-Bassel, Egypt, have been par
TALLY destroyed by fire. The dsmag
amounts to $500,00O.
The Prince of Wales is wearing
square-top, flat-brim derby with mourn
ing band on it. A word to our Anglo
maniacs is sufficient.
Advices from Trinidad report the gri
raging in the leading towns of the islanC
Port Spain alone has had 600 cases, {
which 10 per cent. have proven fatal.
1t is stated that European papers al
sending out advertisements stating ths
5000, 900 laborers are wanted in Chicag
to work on the Worlds Fair building
, In view OF the heavy outlay that hs
2 been necessitated in consequence of tt
: failure of the Russian crops, the goverl
ment has ordered general retrenchmen
n There is unusual building activity
4 London this spring. New "edifces" a.
e going up on every side, and old ones al
: undergoing an overhauling and renov
ton.
s Some large blasts OF rock have bee
Q made to provide material for the ne
d harbor refuge at Brest, as much as 10C
+ 900 cubic yards being thrown out at OIL
}. time.
: 1t has been decided that new tri
s for Mrs. Maybrick is impossible und
h English law, as no technical defect is 8
u legged and as no court of criminal appea
j. exists.
DR.. William Bodey shows in Germany
J drink statistics that one-fiIteenth of I'll
= cultivated land of that country is occ
y y pied in the production of wine, beer al
= spirits.
1t has been pointed out that duril
!. the last twenty-five years five Prin
MlulSIcTs udNO ulSSOlNOu L dIlIdIIl6llGy al
d in each case the opposition has cor
q into power.
,e The returns show that last year 49,
h 543 persons left the United Kingdom I
A. places out of Europe. The number
persons who arrived in England ID
t. year was 151 1863.
Of A worlds labor exhibition is to
1. held in London, at which it is to
he hoped that methods for the abolition
h sweating" win be adopted and the ev
n Of strikes mitigated.
5 An enterprising British proprietor
tea plantation in Ceylon has engag
., the distinguished ex-Napoleon of Egy
10 =. to take nominal charge of his plantati
- !, at salary of FL 900 year.
y " Sergeant Smith of the artillery gar
" soned at Soest, Westphalia, shot hims
ID dead in the guard room while under
90 rest for Bullying privates and inciti
them to swear falsely at his trial.