The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-08-05

FOREIGN FLASHES.
The Financial Crisis in Spain
Reduces Railroad Traffic.
CHILL TO RETURN TO SPECIE.
A Grave Charge Against the Berlin
Office Of the Reuter- Tele-
graph Company.
CHILL TO RETURN TO SPECIE.

The crops in Bulgaria are in very
bad state.
Extraordinary heat is prevalent all
over Spain.
The grain harvest in Thessaly prom
ises to be exceptionally good.
The German Chancellor Won Capriyi is
said TO be suffering from diabetes.
The Gar has ordered the departure Of
all vessels to the eastern shores Of Siberia.
England has lost fifteen ships and
2,352 officers and men in the last thirty
years.
The Chinese Minister to France has
lodged a strong protest against French
aggression in Siam.
The marked decrease of fat fish in the
North Sea is attributed TO the great in
crease Of steam trawlers.
The prospects Of winter and summer
wheat in Russia have improved greatly
since the beginning OF June.
A Moldavian lady is at her own ex-
pense constructing a railway from one OF
her estates to the nearest town.
Now that the army bill has passed the
German Reichstag, the Emperor, it is
said, will make Caprivi a Prince.
Commercial treaties with Portugal,
Sweden, Holland and Switzerland have
been passed by the Spanish Cortes.
The Lord Mayor of London has OBJ
tained the baronetcy upon the marriage
Of the Duke of York according to Gus
tom.
In Southern England hay is now worth
$50 a ton, and farmers are selling their
cattle. This means a dearth OF English
beef.
A letter mailed in London April 7 and
remailed in Hongkong made the circuit
of the world in the fast time Of sixty
two days.
Paris hostesses give afternoon enter
tainments at which literary and scien-
tifc lectures are the attraction. 1t is a
great success.
The Greek government has decided to
enforce the law against brigandage
passed by the Chamber after the Mara
thon murders in 1870.
There are now between $4,000 and A.
600 miles of telephone circuits in the
metropolitan area of London, region
covering about 500 square miles.
A prominent English physician of
large experience with drunkards says
that he can recall hundreds of recoveries
among men, but only five among women.
The financial crisis in Spain has seri-
ously reduced railroad traffic, so that
nearly all lines are badly crippled and
some have been forced to offer new issues
of bonds on the market.
Freiherr Won Maltzann, German Secre-
tary of the Imperial Treasury, has re-
signed. 1t is probable that he will be
succeeded by Herr Schraub, one of the
Ministers OF Alsace-Lorraine.
1t is hinted on British authority that
the closing of the mints at India to free
silver coinage is only " first step in a
process which will not be completed un-
til gold is made full legal tender"
There has been a curious outbreak of
cattle disease near Cardiff, Wales, sup
posed to be caused by blood-poisoning,
and this in turn to be due to the drought
and the fact that rabbits ran on the pas
ture.
The anti-Semite publisher, Heppner,
at Berlin has published a book in which
he argues that the Berlin office of the
Reuter- Telegram Company is a source of
danger to Germany and ought to be
closed by the government.
The Chilian Congress has passed an
act for recognizing the currency, and
having received the sanction of the Coun-
Gil of State, the act has now become a
law. The object is to redeem the paper
money and resume specie payments.
A commercial convention between
France and Russia was concluded three
weeks ago. France reduces the duty on
petroleum, and Russia reduces the du-
ties on some ffty-three articles, includ-
ing wines, spirits, linen textiles, fancy
goods and clothing.
The Jews of the town of Yalta in the
Crimea refused to obey the decree to re-
tire within the pale. For several days
the clergy eXhorted the population to
rise and expel them. This caused mob
to pillage the Jewish quarters, and many
of the Jews were killed. Troops restored
order.
Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, who
succeeds the Inflated Vice-Admiral
Tryon as Commander-in-chief of the
Queens Mediterranean squadron, has
been in the royal navy for forty-three
years. Both his grandfather and his
uncle were Admirals before him.
A leading financial writer in London
says that the injury done to the crops
all over Europe by the long drought
makes it reasonably certain that later in
the year the Withdrawals of gold to New
York will be on an immense scale, espe-
cially if the silver-purchase act is re-
pealed."
A company has been formed in Milan
for supplying the city with tricycles. At
a trifing cost person may hire one of
these machines and take drive either
for business or pleasure. Each tricycle.
has driver, SO that the hirer has moth
ing to do with either its propulsion or
direction,