The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-01-14
FOREIGN CABLECRAMS
The Most Costly Piece Of Railway
Work in the World.
RINDERPEST SPREADS IN GERMANY.
Peasants Dying Like Files From Hunger
and Disease In the Famine Dis.
trictS Of Russia.

Violent gales are raging on the coast
OF Spain.
The cholera In Hamburg Is showing
no diminution.
Nottingham tEngland) girls have
formed shortskirt league.
Emperor William says he does not in.
tend to visit the Chicago Exposition.
A company is to be organized in Eng
land for the manufacture OF electric BIZ
cycles.
1t is stated that Cornelius Herr black
mailed Baron Reinach out of 10000 900
| francs.
The report that De Freycinet, Minister
OF War in France, is to resign is un-
founded.
Germany complains of the United
States quarantine laws as obstructing
commerce.
Famine in the government of Ulea-
borg, Sweden, is causing an exodus OF
the poorer people.
The failure Of the November rainfall
has made this the worst cotton season in
India in twenty years.
Negotiations are underway for a mill
tary ride between Vienna and Rome, the
distance being 1900 kilometers.
Tiburzi, an uncaptured Italian bandit,
died OF old age recently. He had been
sentenced to death thirty. seven times.
During the campaign in Dahomey the
French soldiers found the Dahomeyan
women much more redoubtable than the
men.
A French syndicate, it is said, is about
to ask for a concession to build a shin
railway across the Isthmus of Tehaun-
tepec.
Jules Simon thinks that France would
accept the proposal to disarm with en-
thusissm If it were made by another
power.
An Australian engineer intends carry.
ing passengers from Vienna to Pesth bv
an electric engine at the rate of 12S miles
an hour.
The Colombian Congress has passed
law sanctioning the introduction of Chi
nese workmen for all classes of indus
trial enterprise.
A project to establish submarine ca
BILE between Cartegena, Colon and other
Colombian ports is under discussion in
the Colombian Senate.
A bill will be presented to the German
Relchstag in January to imprison and
fine persons and confscate newspapers
revealing military secrets.
jerusalem has been enjoying a boom
since the completion of the railroad that
connects it with Jaffa. Over 300 houses.
hotels. stores and residences have been
erected.
The rinderpest has spread to five hith-
erto-uninfected estates in Mecklenburg.
Germany, and to seven estates in Hol- |
stein. Many cattle are dying of it also
in Jutland.
The most costly piece of railway work
IN the world according to Sir E. Watkin
ls that between the Mansion House and
Aldgate street in London, which used up
SIC, 100000 mile.
The fact has just been made public
that during the Treiort Ministry in Hum
gary 40, 100000 horins were embezzled
in the Department of Education and
Public Instruction.
st. Helena, Napoleon's prison place.
is not prospering. The revenue of the
island decreased $75, 900 in the past year.
and immigration has fallen off, while
emigration has increased.
The latest practicable balloon, war
ranted to 60 in any desired direction
Is the invention of Carl Theodor Geiss-
Ter, a Hamburg gardener. Experts have
made favorable reports concerning it.
The question of opening museums of
art on Sunday has reached in England
the point of belligerency. Just now the
openers have it all their own way.
Wolves in Russia destroy annually up
ward of 100000 head of domestic ami
mails valued at 100000 rubles. Their
number does not appreciably decrease.
The Salvation Army is about to make
fresh campaign in France, apparently.
At any rate General Booth is being ex-
advertised in the Paris news
papers.
The British Consul, who has visited
the famine districts of Kieff, Bessarabia.
khartof, Khoursk, Razan, Orel, Tula
and Vorenesh, Russia, reports that the
are dying like flies from hunger
and disease.
There are said to be $4,000 Jews idle
n the East End of London. The dis
;ress is 80 great that they had even
offered their children for sale to the
Jewish Unemployed Committee in order
% buy bread.
"Balmaceda's millions" are still &C.
,urely retained within the walls of the
Sank of England, and it seems by no
means certain that the bullion will be
eturned to the Chilian government,
wen within the next twelve months.
Former Medical Director Kraus of
Hamburg, who was driven out of office l
Turing the epidemic OF cholera by com.
,laints that his negligence was resp nsi-
lie for the spread of the plague, has died I
uddenly. 1t is suspected that he com,
nitted euicide.