The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-11-25
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Matabeles in Africa Butchered
by English Soldiers.
FINANCIAL STATE OF SALVADOR.
British Sailors Blown Up by the Ex.
plosiOn Of q Powder Maya
zine In Brazil.

The police have closed the principal
sporting club in Paris
The new Austrian Cabinet will be
moderately conservative.
Partisan women ride bicycles followed
by groOms, also on wheels.
Travellers in Italy are seriously an
noyed by the scarcity OF small coins.
OF 147 members of the Swiss National
Council the Socialists elected but one.
Theodore Tilton has published book
in Paris dedicated to the American col
ony.
Emperor William doubts the safety OF
allowing Italy to reduce her standing
army.
A new find OF mummies is reported
from Alexandria. They are in the orig
inal wrappers.
Madrid toughs assaulted the Civil
Governor as he was taking walk, and
gave him a severe beating.
The London Hospital says tea-tippling
is producing in Britain results not less
StiiOhD IMAM dlNOilOllN vi AllhEs
The suit against Explorer Stanley for
commissions on American lectures was
settled out of court at London.
For obtaining photographs and draw
ings of German forts two Frenchmen
will be tried at Leipsc for high treason.
Kaiser William has sent his portrait
to Chancellor Won Caprivi, with letter
expressing undated confidence in him.
There is a widespread feeling in Eng
land that the so-called battles in Africa
with the Matabeles were savage butch
cries.
The Pope is said to have changed no.
ticeaOly in appearance lately. He is
much bowed down, and seems more
nervous.
King Humbert of Italy, who was
thrown from his horse few davs ago. is
one OF the best riders among European
monarchs.
The New Decimal Coinage Association
has organized with considerable evidence
Of strength for the purpose of decimaliz-
ing English coinage.
At the instance of the Prince Regent
of Bavaria the royal opera house at Mu-
Mich has offered prize OF 5000 marks
for new German opera.
Russia is to be put on war footing.
The Gar orders the formation of fifteen
new brlgades, thus increasing the strength
of the army by 10000 men.
Frau Zillman, who was beheaded in
Berlin recently for the murder OF her
husband, was the first woman to be exc
cuted in that city since 1916.
The old established charity in London,
the Scottish Corporation, is financially
in a depressed condition, and appeals
are being made on its behalf.
Cholera has again broken out in the
Charleroi district OF Belgium, where 800
cases have occurred within a month,
with a fatality OF SO per cent.
The Brazilian Legation at London does
not believe the story that the insurgent
vessel Republica sank a government
transport, causing the loss OF over 1000
lives.
1t is stated that the Russian govern
ment has conceded the French company
the right to establish telephone commu-
nication between all the large Russian
towns.
Charges of brutality to private soldiers
have caused the cashiering of Lieutenant
Schrag-Miler Of the Eighty-nnth Regi-
ment OF Infantry, stationed at Dussel-
dorf, Germany.
The stockholders interested in the
railroad from Acre to Damascus are max
ing prophecies about the time when it
will be possible to go from London to
India in eight days.
Municipal restaurants have been es-
tablished in many German cities as a
means for minimizing begging and to re-
ieve the worthy poor of the necessity OF
accepting food given in charity.
The Paris Omnibus Company intends
shortly to bring into use a number of
compressed air locomotives for the tram
way services. This motive power has
not vet been used in Paris for the pur-
pose of street locomotion.
1t is said that Parisians have become
so tired OF the Eltfel tower that they re-
gard it as nightmare, and tits proposed
to remove all the upper part down to the
first platform, on which a "Palace de
Plaisir" might be erected.
The financial condition of Salvador is
becoming alarming. The troops have
not been paid for six weeks, civil en-
ployes have not received any money for
three months, and school teachers have
been unpaid for six months.
Mile. Filesie Mendelsohn, who holds a
medical diploma from Paris university,
and who established herself at Cairo,
was recently called upon to attend the
mother of the Khedive. She has since
been appointed doctor at the palace.
G. j. Symons, F. r. s., says that since
he began observations in London in 1853
he has only once previously registered
the rainfall of four consecutive months
at less than an inch each, and then it
was in winter and at the end of two ex-
ceptionally wet years.