The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-07-08
FOREIGN FLASHES.
A Suit Begun 1872 Years Ago
Just Concluded.
OIL WELLS OF THE CASPIAN.
Mummifled Bodies Of Three Massa-
cred Missionaries Brought
Back From Africa.
OIL WELLS OF THE CASPIAN.

France is buying Irish horses for
cayaly use.
The manufacture Of wine is becoming
a thriving industry in Palestine.
The total tonnage launched in Great
Britain in 1892 was 5000, 900 last year.
The value Of England's exports Of
metals and machinery fell off $35, ,0O0,0 900
last year.
Lord Lorne receives a salary of 5000
a year as Governor and Constable OF
Windsor Castle.
The Town Council of Bruges, Bel
GUM, has resolved to give 100000
toward ship canal.
Married couples in Norway are privi-
legged to ride on railroads at fare and
half for each couple.
The Emperor William will command
in person the Sixteenth Army Corps at
the autumn maneuvers.
Loud complaints are heard on all
sides Of the continued high price of
butchers meat in Paris.
Ten war vessels of the British navy
were condemned last month as unfit for
service and ordered sold.
Sharpshooters riding in steel-clad We
hicles will be feature of next autumn's
German army maneuvers.
The Hamburg Tank Steamship Com
pany will go out Of the business because
OF improbable freight rates.
Paris has a new playhouse called the
Theater of the Poets. The success of
the new venture is not assured.
Quite a number OF express locomotives
are fired principally with oil on the
Great Eastern railway Of England.
London's most famous playhouse
Drury Lane-is to be torn down and
another structure placed on its site.
1t is stated from Batoum that famine,
for some time threatened, has suddenly
become acute in some districts of Ar
menia.
OF the American cities represented at
the Firemen's Congress at London
Kansas City made the most creditable
showing.
Police and artillery had to be used at
Berne, Switzerland, to disperse rioters,
who had attacked a gang of imported
Italians.
Argentine bond holders at London
are considering the agreement between
the Rothschild committee and the
Republic.
Russian Jews are reported to have
settled in South America in large num-
bers, and are among the most prosper
Gus colonists.
Salmon from California have been
successfully acclimatized on the lakes
of the Marne and Saone canal at
Nievre, France.
Prince Bismarck will 60 to Kissingen
with his family next month to drink
the waters. A palace has been placed
at his disposal.
In France the railways employ A0S0
women. Most of them, however,
merely receive a small sum for opening
and closing gates.
Owing to the effect of the recent
drought in Germany on the farmers, a
suspension of the duties on corn and
maize is proposed.
One thousand and tifty-six lives were
saved by life-boat men on the coast OF
Great Britain during the last year and
without the loss of one life boat man.
A suit in the English Chancery Court
begun 152 years ago was concluded the
other day. The government duties and
legal fees covered nearly the entire sum
fought for.
The Swedish government has estab-
lished on the coast nine stations for
medical observation. The object of
this measure is to protect the country
from cholera.
The Constans party in France is
making strenuous efforts, in view of the
illness of President Carnot, to make
political capital out of the Panama
canal scandal.
Five acres of park land per week is
the record of the London County Coun-
Gil, as since its organization few years
ago it has purchased and made accessible
no less than 994 acres in parks.
All the wells of Berlin have been ex-
amined, and out of some 800 one-fourth
were declared doubtful and one-fourth
ullHb uSC' dIC
being made all over the country.
Aluminium is to be used wherever
practicable in the accouterments, arms
and equipments of the German army.
BY its use the weight carried by infantry
will be trifle over fifty-seven pounds,
where now it is about sixty-eight and
one-half pounds.
A constant and large increase is noted
in the output of the oil wells of the Cas-
plan region. About 5000 tons are ex-
ported every working day of the year
from Batoum alone, and the exports of
last year we're 6S,5 tons in excess of
those of the previous year.
Foureau, the explorer, who has just
returned from the Sahara, brought with
him the bodies of three missionaries OF
the Congregation of the White Fathers,
who in 1881 were massacred by Tou-
aregs. The bodies, while they had be-
come completely mummiied and lost
four-fifths of their weight, were other
wise in an excellent state of preserva-
kson