The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-02-04
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
Provisions Growing Very Dear in
the Russian Capital.
EPIDEMIC AMONG AFRICAN CATTLE.
Movement Against Privileges Enjoyed by
the Prussian Bureaucracy Stir.
ring Middle Glasses.

tFuEt.
:. Ihe Socialists of Magdeburg, Germany
t are boycotting the breweries'
EiffePs reputation seems likelv n h.
8 knocked higher than his tower.
There are at present, it is stated a bout
o'oVO,O0O milch COWS in the British Isles
+, LlverpooPs elevated electric railway
along the line OF docks is TO he onenad
on February 4. '1'O
1t is reported that the Bank Of Franco
mas removed the premium it had been
paying for gold. '
Russia is spending a great deal of
money In extending and improving her
railroad system. '1
The body Of woman cut into 179
pieces was found in coffee sack in the
streets of Moscow. - 'H0
The little trip to the continent which
the Queen OF England makes each spring
costs about $60,OOO S
PROVISIONS are growing 80 dear in ST
petersburg that it is almost imnossibIa
Tor common laborer to live on his
wages. N h'S
Ihe attempt to establish penal stations
IN the prisons of the central provinces
OF European Russia has been relin-
quished. '0in
Snow, sleet and high winds prevail
along the coast of Great Britain. and
many small accidents to shipping have
been reported.
General Saussier has called upon Pres
ldent Carnot to deny the truth of the
F'gar0's insinuation that he is a candi-
date for the Presidency.
There is an iron works in the ra;ob.
Dorhood OF Essen, Prussia, where work
men are discharged if their wives have
more than two children. 0
A German chemist has proposed the
sterllizIng of rivers by the means of an
electric current, which he claims will
XIII cholera and other germs.
1t is reported that Count Mpns,ar
German Ambassador in Paris. will he |
summoned to Berlin Immediately to ra- |
port on the situation in Paris.
1t is thought that De Lesseps intends
to sell the castle La Chesnaye at auction
IN order that his wife may have ali his
when the crash comes.
The silver wedding of King Humbert
OF Italy will be made memorable To ItaL.
ian exlles and political prisoners bv a
general proclamation of amnesty.
Within the past year and a half ter
rible epidemic has DESTROYED millions of
the cattle of Africa and inflicted a crnsh.
ng blow upon the pastoral tribes.
The French courts have decided that
young man born in France of a French
nother and an English father must
serve his time in the French army.
Statistics of the cost of the late gen.
'ral election in Italy show the amounts
pent on treating" to aggregate a total ,
II 100000 lire (about $4,000, ,OOO). l
A district messenger service is to be s
and put into operation inn
nedlately in Paris under a concession T
rom the government to M. Hollebecque.
British warships have been ordered c
GREATER to return home at the end of
nelr commissions for new crews instead
having the crews sent out to them by
y
by the explosion of large quantities of 6.
lnpowder and dynamite on the CONGO G.
sllway ttty persons were killed. includ- r,
lg Lequeque, the head of the society n
nonyme Beige. IL
The French syndicate which il br;ld- Y
lg the much-talked-of railroad from Z
erusa em to Jatfa finds that the esti-
ated cost of 100000 francs will be
exceeded.
Cock-tighting is legal in Scotland -
even Judges at the Edinburgh Hioh
ourt of Justiciary lately quashed con-
ctlon on charge of cock-ighting. oh. a.,
lned under the cruelty to animals act. -
Mrs. Chaloner, Newmarket eng.
nd) woman, has a license from the
ckey Club, and personally conducts a
'rse- training establishment, perhaps 4
Q only one in existence that is run bv +
The new President of the Swiss Re-
blic-who has held the Office during e
previous terms-is Calvinist cIer. y,
man, and was regarded until lately as u
e OF the best all-round athletes in J.
'itzerland. - =
istOk of Saratoy reports that in tho
lole Volga region the sacredness of tbe
ptlal Ties IS disregarded among the
nmon people. A marriage can be dis
we'd by any three men at the reouest Z
the husband or the wife. mi
t has been estimated that government +
'secutlon has reduced the Jewish non 3
tion OF Moscow from $4,000 to SOOO0 L
over the Holy City the houses from =
lch the jews have been driven are 4
carded with notices "to let" u
It.. Petersburg is troubled with LARGE q
nbers of mendicants, who grow bolder ner
ry day. Every person of respectable us,,
ndlng is importuned by begging let- o-,s;
and oftentimes by the personal in 80. M
'ion OF beggars, who impertinentIv Oce
ads. W ="