The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-12-30
FOREIGN NEWS.

aria is TO have worlds fair congress
The Socialist associations Of Sicily
count 100000 members.
The Argentine navy now comprises
iilty-iour lirst-class vessels.
Austria will tax all foreign insurance
companies within her borders.
Finland is TO have State telephone
line at a cost OF l0O,0 900 marks.
The total mileage Of railways nov
open to traffic in Japan is l,7l7.
Mr.. Astor's London newspaper has
got him into $400, 900 libel suit.
Princess BEATRICE has presented three
tigers TO the London geological gardens
The Pitcairn Islanders have been pre-.
sented with lifeboat by Queen Victoria
The famine in Russia has made the
condition Of the peasants more deplor.
able.
German troops are TO be sent on long,
forced winter marches 10 make them
tough.
A French Deputy, NJ. Leygues, pro-
poses an increased duty on corn from 81
TO $l.60.
Austrian Socialists will inaugurate a
universal strike as protest against the
army bill.
War between Ecuador and Peru over
the boundary dispute seems to be abso-
lutely certain.
Free trade ruins many farmers in Eng
land. They wish they could move their
farms TO France.
The influenza epidemic in Kiel spreads
rapidly. Three hundred marines are
under treatment.
The Bavarian War Minister asserts
that dueling cannot be abolished in
civilized countries.
The English government proposes to
place tax of penny in the shilling on
theater admissions.
There are 5000 cases of influenza at
Hamburg, and the epidemic is spread
ing all over Germany.
Paris is trying the experiment of paw
ing street with mahogany. 1t is cost
| ing only 80 Il square yard.
There is report that Greece will give
Russia a Mediterranean port, or that
France may give her Ajacclo.
A royal decree has been issued at
Brussels appointing a commission to
investigate speculative stocks.
After all the fuss the Bank of Eng
lands loss through the cashiers loans
on bad security is but 100000.
DR.. Siemer's report on Northern Pa
citic securities has sent Berlin's Deut-
sche Bank securities up three points.
The Bank OF England destroys about
35O,O 900 of its notes every week to re-
place them with freshly printed ones.
st. Petersburg newspapers are growl-
ing over the defeat of the recent French
Cabinet as treason to Russo-French
alliance.
An attempt is being made under the
auspicies of the Royal Geographical
Society to renew interest in Antarctic ex-
ploration.
Canon Farrar is about to erect in St.
Margaret's Church, London, small but
beautiful memorial to the late DR.. Phil
lips Brooks.
Drs. Libbertz and Laubenheimen, col
leagues of Prof. Koch, are preparing an
antidote to diphtheria and are confident
of its success.
The Manchester canal, now finished,
has cost the lives of 15S men, the perma-
nent injury of 1856 and the temporary
injury of l ,404.
The house OF Rotschild has made its
annual gift of 100000 francs to assist the
tenants in Paris who are in difficulties
over their rent.
1t is announced that France and Eng
land have agreed as to Siam. This
means that there will soon be one less
nation in the world.
Brigands in the Caucasus are becom-
ing bolder than ever before. Extra
ordinary stories of their recent outrages
are coming to hand.
An outbreak of most infectious type
of influenza is the prevailing topic of
personal concern not only in England,
but throughout Europe.
Irish constables have been instructed
not to interfere, directly or indirectly,
with the collection of funds for the
benefit of evicted tenants.
The Mayor OF Milan and other promi-
nent persons have issued call for sub
scriptions for erecting monument in
that city in memory of MacMahon.
The Swiss government denies that it
is about to expel hundreds of Anarchists
from the Republic. They won't be
molested as long as they keep quiet.
The sales of sealskins have lust
closed in London. Nearly 10000 skins
were disposed of for $1,SlOOOO. The
prices have fallen off from 15 to % per
cent.
The Vienna iron ring has collapsed.
1t was formed in 1890. II the Bohemian
and Moravian iron works would have
remained in the ring, it would have been
renewed.
Germany has decided to paint the YES
sells of her navy dull yellowish brown,
which would make it difficult for the
enemy to distinguish them even at short
distances.