Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-08-17
FOREIGN NEWS.

Ferdinand of Bulgaria says the Rus
sian Svet has protested readiness to en-
! brace the orthodox Russian creed, have
his heir baptized in the orthodox Rus
sian Church and reinstated in the Bull
garian army all the military Protestanst,
! if in return they will only recognize him
as Prince of Bulgaria.
w. w. Thomas, late United States
Minister to Norway and Sweden, with
Mrs, Thomas and their boy, are spend
ing the summer at Lysekll, sweden.
He is EMPLOYING his leisure in writing a
lecture on Sweden and the Swedes,
which he will deliver in various parts of
the United States during the coming
winter.
The Prussian committee of the Nistula
basin reports twenty-five deaths from
cholera and eleven new cases of that
disease during the past week. A strict
river inspection has been adopted at
Dusseldorf and Cologne. Suspicious
cases have been reported from Thorne,
Bonsack and Grautz. The cholera COM
mittee of the health Office met in Berlin
to determine upon the precautions to be
taken along the Russian frontier.
In connection with the withdrawal OF
the Equitable Life Insurance from doing
business in Prussia it must be said that
public opinion in Berlin is not favorable
to the American enterprise. 1t is said
that the Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany is in the same fix as the Equitable.
1t must be added, however, that the new
position of the government is directed
against all companies, among which are
many English ones and all the German
capitalists.
The heat throughout Germany has
been intense, causing much suffering,
and many sunstrokes have been the re-
suit Outdoor work has often been sus-
pended, and complete lethargy prevails
in Berlin. Every one able to do so has
left town, and those who remain are
sweltering in the torrid atmosphere.
This hot wave is another fuIfllment of
Fables prophecies and he predicts the
warm weather will last for another fort
night, after which there will be much
rain.
| The sugar manufacturers have held
several conference at the offices of the
| imperial treasury to discuss the new SUI
gar tariff of the United States. They
are almost unanimous in begging the
government to retaliate in case the Amer
| lean import tax on sugar be increased,
| but the government treats their propOs-
ais coldly. Official opinion is thoroughly
opposed to anything like a tariff war
with the United States. Under the
treaty of 1891 Germany would still be
the most favored nation. even If the tar
if be left at the figure fixed in the Ger
man bill.
Several battalions of pioneer troops,
who had been ordered out to practice
bridge building on the Vistula in August,
have been relieved of this service indeti-
nitelv, owing to the spread OF cholera in
the Vistula basin. 1t is impossible to
obtain a clear idea of the disease, as the
boatmen conceal whenever possible all
deaths from cholera and refuse even to
report cases of sickness. The Vistula
and tributaries have been declared in
fected, vet the boatmen and their fami-
lies still drink the water. Outside the
Vistua basin there have been only a
few isolated cases OF cholora or cholerine
in Prussia.
The Bergen Post tells a remarkable
story of a mad drive taken by the EN-
peror of Germany recently from Noss to
Stalheim, a distance OF about twenty
seven miles, which he covered in two
and one-half hours, or two hours less
than the usual time. The temperature
was 90 degrees in the shade. The En-
peror took the reins at the start, and
stopped but once on the way. The coach
man told the bystanders at Stalheim
that it was the most terrible ride of his
life, and that half of the time he was
| / ,,-,D,,ll 1.-Two n foil the tnIp
The pace was killing on the horses, and
he expected to see them 90 down at any
moment in the last half hour. He added
that all the money in the world would
not induce him to go driving again with
the Emperor.
Prince Bismarck has consented to re-
ceive a Posen delegation OF 700 at Var
sen the first week in September, and he
is expected to then give review in de-
tense of his policy toward the Socla
Democrats. The Hamburg Nachrichten
said this week in an article defending
his repressive laws that Bismarck never
feared the dangers threatened by the
Social Democrats and declined to have a
guard of secret police until the old En-
peror commanded it. The editor added
1.-THE present political leaders do not
neeu SUCH proteCCloh, 40 Cil0 POI Ui0D ii"iii
which the outrages are to be expected
are the supporters of the government
The editor of the Nord Deutsche Allge-
meme Zetung replies That is a
coarse and inexcusable insinuation.
Surely the Hamburg Nachrichten cannot
believe that the Social Democrats can
keep Caprivi in power any more than
they did Bismarck"
| For "a Salmon Hatchery.