The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-01-07
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
Member Of Parliament Unseated
on a Charge Of Bribery.
RAILWAY CONCESSIONS IN TURKEY
The Free Labor Association Of England
Issues an Address On Tyranny
Of Organized Labor"

The Sultan of Turkey has just Issued
revised edition Of the Koran, adapted
to hig own views.
Among the coachmen OF Berlin are
seven retired army officers, three ex-
pastors and sixteen mobiles.
Reports from South Africa show a re-
markable development of auriferous re-
sources in the past few months.
A firm OF machinists in Scandinavia
employs young woman agent whose
territory covers the whole Of Europe.
A member Of the British Parliament
has been unseated on the charge OF brib-
cry, which consisted in treating electors.
A large body Of musicians in Vienna
have entered public protest against the
playing OF military bands in public
places.
The Speaker OF the House OF Commons
has salary Of $25, 900 When he retires
1t is to peeraee and pension of $20,-
600 year.
The third son OF the President of
France is private in the French army,
waiting for his admission to the Ecole
Polytechnique.
The hordes OF idle men in the cities
of England and Germany are greater
than the combined standing armies Of
both countries.
The Cars personal expenses are s9.-
600, 900 a year, which is t6,2o00l0 more
than Russia's annual appropriation for
common schools.
The demand for the late Lord Tenny.
sons poems has been so great in Eng
land of late that the printers at one time
had twenty-six presses working on them.
The Lord Mayor OF London's badge Of
office contains diamonds to the value Of
El20,00O and the temporary owner has
to give a bond for it before he is sworn
| in.
The medical officer OF health of the
city OF London has resolved to compel
every church TO remove the dead living
beneath its floors and rebury them at II
ford.
A Railway Passengers Protective AS
sociation, with an Earl at its head. has
recently been formed in England to look
after the protection Of those who traRel
/ by rail.
NJ. Brisson, who was recently invited
to form a Cabinet for President Carnot
and is Chairman of the committee in,
vestigating the Panama canal scandal, is
a Freemason.
The latest political alliance in Ger
many is composed of Conservatives,
Anarchists and anti i-Semites. In France
there are evidences of coalition OF like
hostile elements.
The ecclesiastical authorities in Eng
land a'e now beginning to INQUIRE what
part the church can play in solving the
pro, lem OF providing pensions for the
aged and worthy poor.
His Holiness the Pope declares that
the late Cardinal Lavigerie was one of
the most valuable members of the Sa-
cred College. He intimates that it will
be difficult to fill his place.
Archbishop Walsh says the question
under delibeIa alton by the Monetary Con.
ference at Brussels is at the very root of
the difficulties of the Irish land cues.
ton. He advocates bimetallism.
The rivers of Russia grow shallower
year after year, and the Vorskia, once
an abundant tributary to Dnieper and as
wide as the Hudson or Delaware, 250
miles in length. has completely and per
manently dried up.
The good people of Luxembourg are
greatly exercised over the possibility OF
the establishment of second "Monte
Carlo at Mondorf, summer and win
ter resort in the little Grand Duchy.
DIR. Alexander Werkele, the new Min
ister President OF Hungary, is perfect
giant in breadth and stature. He is
more than head taller than the aver
age man, and is as erect as an Indian.
The officers of the German army are
to have new cloak, the novelty of which
lies in the fact that by an ingenious de-
vice the cloak may be made thick or
thin. 1t is adapted for winter or sum-
mer use.
1t is reported in the Journal du Jardln
d. dAcclim0tGtion that eight or ten davs
before the appearance of cholera in
Hamburg last summer all the sparrows
and other birds left the town and sub |
urhs and did not return until the plague
mad completely disappeared.
The Turkish Sultan has granted con-
cesslons tor the construction OF long rail- |
ways, which will open up his territory
to the east, tbs north and the south, all |
having their terminal at Constantinople
One road is to run to Damascus and an
other, the Tgris and Euphrates railway,
to the Persian Gulf. The concessions
have been granted to German and Bel
gian firms, English firms being entirely
left out.
The Free Labor Association of England
has issued an address on the "Tyrannv
of Organized Labor" The condition OF
the people, owing to strikes, is the sub
ject of the manifesto, which goes on to
say that unions which impose restric-
tions upon trade without being able to
prove that the area of employment is
thereby increased are a curse to the
country and an enemy to all classes, and I
should not be tolerated by workingmen,"