The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-03-04
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
Proposition to Connect Ireland and
Great Britain by a Tunnel
EXCESSIVE COLD ALL OVER EUROPE.
The Medical History Of the Cholera 10
Russia Last Summer Of a Highly
Encouraging Nature.

Over ll8,00) people emigrated from
Germany during the year 1892.
The floods at Brisbane and other parts
OF Queensland caused loss Of $4,000
900.
The sentiment in favor Of protection
is said to be making rapid progress in
England.
A Russian officer, Captain smoiloff,
has succeeded in training falcons 10
carry dispatches.
Boulangist groups are to be excluded
from participation in the Labor-day Gel
ebration in Paris.
The prediction that cholera wilt be
epidemic all over Europe this spring is
obtaining strength.
Italy proposes to increase her revenue
by controlling monopoly in petroleum
end alcoholic liquors.
The Bank of Spain will consolidate
the Cuban debt, and will issue a large
loan to Cuba and Port Rico.
Earthquakes at Zante have caused in.
creased panics. the people are fearful
that the island will collapse.
1t is reported that there was falling
OIL IN the value OF both the imports and
exports OF France during 1892
Only forty one pleuro- o-pneumonia cases
have been discovered in elk months in
American cattle imported into England.
New South Wales will impose a 5 per
cent tax on the income derived from
property in the colony by absentee own
ers.
In Moscow the temperature averaged
Is deg. below zero for over thirty days
during the end OF December and the first
weeks of January.
An English court is trying to settle
who owns the $685. 900 left undistributed
when the law recently checked the
missing word contest"
"Mlle. Nevada" has an engagement
to sing in the French Italian Opera
Company. Her voice has gained in
strength since her marriage.
The crinoline question is settled once
for all, as the Princess of Wales has
taken decided stand against the re-es-
tablishment OF hoops in any form.
The New South Wales Legislative As
sembly, like the Victorian Legislature,
has adopted resolution in favor OF the
taxing OF absentee owners of property.
The cold has been excessive in st.
Petersburg and for weeks wood fires have
been burned in the squares and streets
of the city in an effort to make necessary
outdoor business endurable. The streets
have, how ever, been practically deserted.
It is said that mail mater dropped in
the postotfice at Paris is delivered in
Berlin in an hour and half, and some.
times ii thirty-five minutes. The dis
tance between the cities is 750 miles and
the mail is sent by means OF pneumatic
tubes.
The medical history OF cholera in Rus.
sia last summer is of highly encourag-
ing nature. 1t shows that by proper
sanitary measures cholera can be kept
out or stamped out to greater degree
even in districts most favorable to its
development.
The lorg distance marching competi-
tions by volunteer soldiers in England
are discountensnced by the Commander
in.chief in recent order. He thinks
they result in no practical good. and may
cause individual harm through undue
stress of effort.
''The sentence on De Lesseps is a SEN
tence on France" says the London
Times, "and the ignominy poured down
on that feeble old man is a degradation
for the people who fattered and caressed
and gloritied him as long as the capital
was left to spend"
French War Office experts are divided
in opinion concerning the value or dan.
ger of Eiffel's tower in case of seige OF
Paris. German staff officers have written
quite freely about the matter, principally
holding the view that the tower would
afford a fine target.
A proposition is made to connect Great
Britain and Ireland by tunnel driven
under the North Channel of the Irish
Sea at its narrowest part, between Coun-
ty Antrim in Ireland and Wigtown in
Scotland. The length of the tunnel
would be some twenty-seven miles.
Cesare Orsini, whose appointment as
Italian Envoy to Mexico is announced,
is brother to the leader in the at
temp ed assassination of Napoleon III,
whil the latter was driving to the opera
-Fe ce Orsini, whose name was given
to tn kind OF bomb used on that occa-
sion.
All Europe, from the Arctic to the
Mediterranean, is experiencing winter
severity this season such as it hes not
known for many years. 1t is necessary
to go back forty or fifty years in most
regions, even in the far north, to find
precedent, while in some parts the
weather is unprecedented.
Vienna is sending invitations to all
European nations to attend an Interna-
tional Health Congress to formulate
some plan of fighting the common foe,
and in England Southampton is beg
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