The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-04-08
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
The Bloody Battle of Santa Lucia
in Honduras.
SOCIAL DEMOCRATS IN GERMANY
The C0rlnth Canal Approaching Compile.
ton - Gladstone FayorS the
Channel Tunnel.

London music halls clear from 16 TO 20
/ per cent. Another is to be erected.
In small hotels in Russia each guest IL
expected to find his own bedcIothing.
The extradition treaty between Swe.
den and the United States has been rat
ifed.
The operative cotton-spinners OF Man
chester, England, have offered to COM
promise.
The Kiel Observatory has found an.
other planet. This is the fifteenth found
thls year.
A mass meeting at Buda- Pesth adopted
resolutions favoring Hungarian inde-
pendence.
The Nicarsguan Congress is discussing
the proposition to declare war against
Honduras.
The foot and mouth disease has broken
out in the Berlin cattle market, and all
removals Of cattle have been prohibited.
The Brazilian Minister at Paris has
denied the truth OF the report that there
has been fighting in Rio Grande do Sui.
Pelsall charming Staffordshire vii.
lage, is in danger Of disappearing through
a subsidence caused by mining opera
tions.
The talk of lower wages for coal min.
ers in England has oceasioned threats
that not a pound OF coal will be mined
EOr a month.
The oil industry has changed Baku
from a village 10 a large, fourishiug
town. The Baku oil refinery is the arg.
est in existence.
A plot to overthrow President Socaga
OF Nicaragua has been frustrated by
means OF information given by the wife
OF one OF the conspirators.
The Congo Free State authorities have
organized an expedition having for its
object the repression OF the traffic car
ried on 10y Arab slave dealers.
A number OF the famous Oldenburg
carriage horses will be cent to the Chi
cago Exhibition. This is the most noted
breed OF horses in all Germany.
The Pope has informed the French
Bishops OF his decision to crown his
Episcopal jubilee by the beatifcation of
the French heroine, Joan OF Arc.
The boundary question between Chill
and Argentina has been delayed in it's
settlement, Argentina wishing to con-
suit Congress before signing treaty.
The Italian government has just sent
I the German Emperor a magn ticAnt al
bum containing photographs and pict-
ures OF every chip in the | allan navy.
1t is the law in D nmark that every
drunken man shall be taken to his home
in carriage provided at the expense OF
the saloonkeeper who sold him the last
drink
A French anarchist named Barnard
has been arrested at Rome. He is sus-
pected OF having caused the explosions
at the Palace Antici Mattel and the Pal
ace Altieri.
The Social Democrats in Germany
have decided not to observe May day,
giving as a reason the impoverished
condition of the workingmen throughout
the Empire.
Several cases OF cholera have appeared
in convict prison in Moscow. Russia.
The Provincial Council has voted 30D,OO0
francs to be spent in instituting prevent
i've measures.
The police authorities OF Birmingham
have served notices upon the small shop
keepers, informing them that if they
continue to trade on Sundays they will
be prosecuted.
The Mikado has abolished the law in
Japan which provided that the author
tiles could pick out man for an unmar-
ried woman of certain age and compel
him to marry her.
Chancellor Caprivi refuses to compro-
mise on the German army bill, and an
appeal to the country is very likely to
follow the defeat of the measure, which
seems now to be certain.
Numerous Austrian, German and
Prussian Catholics have petitioned the
Pope to call an international convention
to use their influence in trying to stop
gambling at Monte Carlo.
The Chinese government has dis
patched 5000 repeating rifles to the
troops on the western frontier in the vi
cinity of the Pamir, and numerous drill
inspectors accompany the transports.
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the North Sea and the Baltic are being
pushed forward with such energy and
regu arity as to give hope of its being
finished in 1895, as originally intended.
Bismarck says that all he cares for
now is to remain at home with his fam
lily. He rarely visits Berlin, because he
has no house there, and he dislikes un-
familiar beds and hotel accommodations.
Religious riots have broken out in
Annoy. Many native Christians have
been tortured, and a few have been
killed. An English missionary was at
tackled by mob OF fanatics, and barely
saved his life by Fight.
The Corinth canal, which is now ap-
preaching completion and is to be opened
on April % next, was formally COM
menced on March 27, 1882. The canal
is over S1s miles in length, 6S feet wide
on the bottom, 80 feet at the water line
and 20 feet deep.