The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-05-20
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Bloody Battle Fought in Rio
Grande do Sui.
SMALL INSURRECTION IN CUBA.
Crimean Typhus Epidemic in Some
of the Paris Prisons-Nine
Catholic Prelates.

The drought in Germany threatens
vegetable famine.
The plans for the Paris Exhibition O
1900 are assuming definite form,
The Johannesburggold mines produced
l'oZ2,3J4 ounces OF gold during 1892.
Mary Benton, aged l02 years, was re-
Gently married at Grimsby, England.
Racing has been overdone in Austria.
ma, and all the jockey clubs are getting
in debt.
A census of the trees of Paris shows
that the French capital has 5000 green
The National Bank of Australasia at
Melbourne has failed. 1t has extensive
agencies.
Influenza has broken out extensively.
but not severely, in Paris and other
French cities.
The popularity OF the study of Dante
mas OF late years had an extraordinary
growth in England
There has been decided decrease in
grave crimes, as murder and bripandage
in Egypt OF late years.
A remarkable increase in the nae NJ
oil as a fuel on Russian railroads il
shown by recent statistics.
Five hundred stevedores have strnck
at the Victoria Docks, London. against
the federation of free laborers.
The new Cunarders, Campania and
Lucania, will earn a subvention from tbe
British government OF $4,000 year.
Bicyclists to the number of s. $50 rode
lhelr wheels through the fifty-fve gates
Gently.
Seven hundred tons of butter arrived
IN London in one shipment from Austria |
ila recently. Its total value was about
$4,000 - ""U'
The Norwegian Preserving Company
uses large quantities of reindeer meat
Tor canning, and when fresh it is consid-
cred delicacy.
The drummers of the Austrian armv
nave been armed with the regulation RI
fie. This adds 4,904 available fighting
men to the army.
Another penny in the pound has been
added to the income tax in England
This, coming in a season of drought,
causes much dissatisfaction.
OF the nine Catholic prelates deprived
1t stipends for hospitality to the French
Republic all but one have been restored
o full rights and privileges.
A new postage stamp was issued bv
ne Italian postotfice on the silver we'd
ing DAY OF the King and Queen, bear
ng portraits OF the King and Queen. !
Reports from Brazil are to the effect :
nat IN an engagement between the gov :
rnment forces and the revolutionists in ;
tlo, Grande do Sui 400 were killed on I
ach side.
The European correspondents of the c
ttnSllsh press are devoting good deal
l space to stories about the new "bul- d
,t-proot" uniforms invented by Herr t
lowe and others. b
Phelps, the American Minister to u
reports that the German for
gn office knows nothing about the ex- q
ulsion OF American missionaries from u
he Marshall Islands. o
During 1892 324, 900 tons of fish, other ', "
ian shell fish, were landed from the =.
'heries of the United Kingdom, valued :, :,
E4,629,000. The value of the shell :. e.
81 landed was s354,0OO ~ - =,
Last year 462 mistakes were made in r.
ondon by doctors in notifying cases OF b,
lectious diseases for removal to hospit- re
;, with the result that 102 of the mis- tt
ken cases resulted fatally.
The French Senate has thrown ont the &c
oposal' recently passed by the Lower 81 -
oaSe, 10 tax pianos 10 francs a year, N
"a has also reduced by half the tax on =, -
cles' making it five francs year. -A
In an effort to cope with the rabbit
st in New South Wales 632 miles Of
bblt,,proof fencing have lately been co
9cted at cost of 951 900, and 4O4 po
les OF similar fencing are building. fit
is the headquarters for the Iu' Iu'
e OF false hair. Twenty huge bales of 9e 9e
lnese human hair recently arrived Az, uo
ere, and will be manufactured into w .n'
rls and trlzzes for fashionable ladies. 1rh nj,
As the result of the prohibition against lat
satrical performances in the Russian hol
guage during Lent the greater part of a j
russian theatrical profession was re- t
'ed to state of the greatest poverty. to
he revenue returns of Queensland spl
! Western Australia for the Quarter AS
ing with March show, in common lhe
n all other Australian colonies so far @ lo,
orted, decrease, compared with last we we
r. JoD
n Germany 200, 900 families are sup- sbl TI'
ted from the care of the forests, upon as IS.
len n about S40 100000 is expended an
lily, 5000, 900 people more finding T
oloyment in the various wood indus7 wo1
S of the empire. boo
rlmean typhus is what the epidemic nat
has broken out in some of the Paris said
ons is called. Owing to the serious ~
), of the situation, the Prefect of Po- y
has convoked meeting of the med slst
officers attached to the city iails. and corr
rgetlc measures are to be taken in ",
9r to prevent the malady from spread F0ui