The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-07-01
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Militant Socialism on the In
crease in Austria.
TRIMMED A CORN WITH A RAZOR.
Lucy Booth Leads the Salvation
Army In NATURALIZATION
From Old Ireland.

Turkey has quarantined vessels from
Marseilles.
Father Hyacinth is to return to the
! Catholic fold.
President Carnot's health is very fee
ble. He needs rest.
They are talking Of worlds fair in
London in 1895 or 1896.
The anti-Semitic faction in Germany
is broken into three sections.
France claims to have the biggest and
most powerful gun yet invented.
French courts are granting DEGREES of
divorce at the rate Of 5000 year.
There is a strike of coal miners at
Kladno, Bohemia, and it is spreading.
The Czarowitz will attend the autumn
maneuvers OF the Austro-Hungarian
army.
There are five Admirals in the British
navy, each OF whom is more than 90
years old.
Queen Victoria has just knighted half
a dozen English editors and raised an
other to the peerage.
The latest news from Calcutta unmis-
takably points to an approaching crisis
in the currency question.
The Glove tax is the principal source Of
Zanzibar revenue. 1t brings in more
than 10000 rupees year.
Princess Waldemar OF Denmark has
been confined to her house since she
used razor on the royal corn.
German government will suppress any
agitation in favor OF the severance of Al
sace-Lorraine from Germany.
The late Duke of Sutherland is said to
have made ninety-one wills before he
secured one that was entirely satisfac-
tory.
Carrier pigeons are used at all the
Paris trotting and running tracks to send
the results of races to the city betting
resorts.
At the beginning of this year there
were $40, 900, 900 in gold and $251 AGO.
900 in silver in the vaults of the Bank OF
France.
The recent great floods in the Trans
vaal have been followed by outbreaks OF
fever, which have carried off hundreds OF
victims.
According to the computation of
Paris correspondent the standing armies
OF Europe last year cost an aggregate of
1913, 800, 800.
The British Anti-Slavery Society re-
ports that the slave trade in Morocco
still fourishes, young girls bringing from
$3.50 to $3.50.
A number of European workmen have
been driven from Cabool, Afghanistan.
The Ameer had them escorted out of the
country in safety.
Negotiations have been concluded be-
tween England and China, by which the
former is to have increased privileges of
trade with Thibet.
The Empress Frederick has recently
founded in Berlin a home for English
governesses, which is open to American
governesses as well.
The Minister of the Colonies has in
troduced in the Spanish Cortes a bill
providing for the reorganization of the
government of Cuba.
The emigration from Ireland during
1892 showed the smallest volume, with
four exceptions, since 1851. The United
States got 91.5 per cent.
A fatal duel in Brussels has resulted in
thirteen months Imprisonment for the
surviving principal and four months for
each of the four seconds.
Under Sir Gerald Portals manage
ment Zanzibar is becoming quite civil
lied, and the sanitary arrangements are
becoming rapidly improved.
1t is reported, but hardly credited,
that more than $50,000,000 has been
raised in France to pay for resuming
work on the Panama canal.
In France the authorities threaten to
totally prohibit fortune-telling and to
prosecute every person engaged in any
way in foretelling the future.
1t is stated that the rate of taxation is
so high in Russia that one-half the in
come of the people is used up in paying
the demands of the government.
A petition is in circulation in the PROV
ince of Corunna, Spain, seeking a pro-
tectorate from England. Spain is send
ing troops to suppress the disafection.
The Sultan's enthusiasm has been
fred by the account of the success of
Chicago's Exposition, and is trying to
get up worlds fair in Constantinople.
The Pope has sent his thanks to Car
dinal Gibbons for a discourse recently
delivered by the Cardinal in favor of re-
storation of the temporal power of the
Pope.
MN. Bsihut and Blondin, convicted
of corruption in connection with the |
Panama canal lottery, will escape by a
decision of the Court of Cessation on APP
peal.
Miss Lucy Booth, the youngest daugh-
ter of General Booth, leads the Salvation |
Army among the women OF India. She
dresses and lives in all respects like the |
natives.
Emperor William denies the intention
attributed to him of dissolving the
Reichstag second time if the newly |
elected body should prove unfavorable |
to the army bill.