The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-05-06
FOREIGN FLASHES.
An Appeal for an international
Sanitary Code Issued.
THE INCREASE OF THE OCTROI.
Large Tunnel Between Capri and
Acquafredda, Italy, Success
fully Driven.

1t Is estimated that nearly 1000 Christ
ians are now in Turkish dungeons.
Imperial federation IL being urged
upon Mr.. Gladstone by many Of the
British colonies.
Some successful attempts to purify
sewage with electricity have been made
in France and England.
The riots in Belgium have caused a
prediction that before the end of the
century Belgium will be Republic.
A commencement is ere long to be
made with the construction Of the rail-
way tunnel under the Clyde at Patrick.
1t is stated that the South Austrian
railway, one of the largest lines in Aus
tria-Hungary, is to be purchased by the
State.
England is considering the advisable
ity of entering formal protest against
Turkish outrages on Christians in Ar
menia.
A bimetallic league of Australia has
been formed in Melbourne to promote
bimetallism by international agree
ment."
The President Of Ecuador denies that
there is treaty pending with the United
States for the possession of one of the
Galapagos Islands.
Coal has been discovered in the Eiffel
region near the Rhine, which is declared
by experts to be Devonian anthracite
coal, with an admixture of pyrites.
The Medical Committee of the Cancer
Hospital in London has published a
statement that tomatoes neither predis-
pose to nor excite cancerous formation.
The Berlin police have arrested Count
Olaf Won Gazern, member OF one of
the most powerful families of Germany,
on charge of committing several frauds.
The Sultan OF Turkey, who maintains
a rigid censorship over the press, has or
dered that no newspapers shall be pub
lished in his kingdom until in the after
noon.
Nine. Bernhardt has recently appeared
before an official in Vienna whose bust
ness was to judge on moral grounds of
the appropriateness of her stage cos
tunes.
The jury system in Bengal is not to be
abandoned after all, although the gov
ernment last October declared it must be
abolished or greatly modified in the in
terests of justice.
The English trade in frozen beef from
Autralia, like that in frozen mutton, has
increased enormously during the past
year-the export, $4,000 cwt., being al
most double that of 1891.
The Anti-Slavery Society in Germany
has become bankrupt, Notwithstanding
its lottery netting several million marks.
1t is probable that the government will
intervene to avoid big outburst.
1t is said that several members of the
British Cabinet favor a plan by which a
choice between government by Dublin
Parliament or government by British
Parliament shall be granted to Ulster.
A lottery is under consideration in
Germany for the completion of the Kai-
ser Wilhelm Church, but lotteries do not
take well now, as the intelligent classes
notice that only the bankers profit by
them.
NJ. Leroy -Beaulieu says that at the
rate things are going in France there
will be regular annual deficit of from
SAC, ,000, 900 to $100,000,0 900 and the need
of loan of $200,000,000 every three or
four years.
Baron Mundy of Vienna, the veteran
sanitarian, has issued a strong appeal
for the establishment of an international
sanitary code, and suggests the summon
ing of an international conference to
discuss and arrange such code.
"The Irish home-rule BILL" declared
Michael Davitt, M. P. for North Meath,
in forcible speech in the House of
Commons one day last week, twill be ac-
cepted by 10000 of the Irish race as
apact ofpeace to be honorably observed" !"
The large tunnel between Capri and
Acquafredda on the Pisciotta- Castro
cucca railway, Italy, has recently been
successfully driven. The tunnel. which
is three and half miles long, was COM
menced about three and a half years
ago.
The method of treating snakebite by
injections of strychnine is to be submit
ted to exhaustive trial in India under
the sanction and supervision of the gov
ernment. The method has proved high
ly efectual in many cases reported in
Australia.
The canal across the Isthmus of Cor
inth is soon to open to navigation, and
has cost $20,000,000. 1t has been built
with French capital and under French
direction, the original concession having
been granted some twelve years ago to
NJ. de Lesseps.
Some of the French papers are trying
to stir up ill-feeling against Lord Duff
ferin, the British Ambassador at Paris.
They accuse him of trying to make trou-
BILE between France and Russia, and
with giving financial help to the Triple
Alliance and its agents.
On account of increased railway rates
the British Army authorities have
adopted the novel method of sending
transports required for various maneu-
vers by road, in trains of wagons drawn
by traction engines. The cost has thus
been reduced fully ons-half.