The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-01-14
STORIES Or :
Interesting Notes Mates That Are
Talked OF In Europe.


ent OF the leading Paris fllui cial jour.
nal, the proceeds of ce recent Spanish
| national loan for 400. 900 900 peseias
have already been used up 10 the exten,
| of over 500, 900, coo, and tho balance is
now being employed to meet the Janu.
ary interest on the foreign debt of ths
Kingdom. This state OF affairs can only
be explained by the fact that the bnlk
of the loan had been hypotbecated in
advance. 1t is unnecessary to point out
the influence which TINS condition of
the treasury 10 likely to exercise upon
the attitude of Spain with regard to
Cuba and the United States.
King Humbert, in compliance with
the suggestion Of the celebrated Italian
traveller, Count Gubernatis, who has re.
Gently returned to Rome from a tour
through the United States, has deoreed
the foundation of permanent museum
of American industrial and natural
products in the Eternal City, the object
of which is to foster the trade between
Italy and this country.
In July next an International phila-
telio exhibition will be opened in Lon
don, in Piccadilly, and is expected to
surpass all previous expostions Of this
kind in size and Importance. The presi-
dent of the exhibition is tho Duke of
York, and the secretary j. A. Tilleard,
4 Lomb bard street, London, to whom all
intending exhibitors fi1m this country
should address their applications.
American manufacturers Of agricul-
tural machinery will do well to take
note of the fact that tho appalling raw
ages of the rinderpest in Africa are
leading to the substitution ON a very
large scale of machinery in lieu Of oxen
for agricultural labor. Indeed the
Transvaal government is considering
the advisability Of introducing at state
expense a quantity Of steam plows,
mowers, sewers, reapers, ETC., for the
use of such of its Boer citizens as may
not be able to incur the expense of buy
ing outright on their own account the
machinery that they SO sorely need.
now that the cattle plague has deprived
them Of all their oxen, which they for
merly used for draft purposes.
After 80 days Of incessant and ardu-
ous labor, the first class Russian cruiser
Russia, which ran aground on mud
bank at the mouth Of the Neva some
two months ago and subsequently, be-
came wedged in the ice, has been suc-
cessfully foated. Great rejoicing was
shown in st. Petersburg as we'll as at
Cronstadt in honor of the affair, as it
had been feared that this magnificent
would prove total loss.
A burglary insurance company on
the same lines as that recently establish |
ed in New York has been organized at |
Vienna under the presidency Of Herr
Won Breitenfeld, the Viennese counter.
part Of ex.Superintendent Byrnes, as
former chief Of Austria's metropolitan
police, and, like his American colleague,
held in terror by the criminal classes
The trial Of Emperor Williams chief |
of secret police. Baron Won Tausch. on
charges of forgery, perjury and leze maj
esty has been fixed for March. and |
number of domiciliary
visits are being made by the authorities
Germany at the residences |
Of people known to have been in inter-
course with the incarcerated nobleman. i
The new permanent camp of military |
instruction for the Greek army, the or
ganization of which was recently de-
creed by King George, is now in course |
of establishment at Thebes, on the plain |
of st. Theodore, and will be ready for |
occupation early in the spring.
Revolutionary journalism pays in
France. For the lawsuit which has just |
taken place at Paris between Henri |
Rochefort and the business manager of |
his paper, L'Intransigeant, has served |
to show that the income which tho IA |
nous pamphleteer derives from this
source alone has amorr A. TO $50, 900 a
year ever since 1850. kochefort is not |
the proprietor, but merely one of the
stockholders and the editor of the paper
in question.
Emperor Nicholas has affixed his sig
nature and given his sanction to the
charter of the new Eastern Chinese
Railroad company, foated at st. Peters
burg and the list Of subscriptions of
which is already closed. The capital is
fixed at 100000 rubles, and the line
is to connect various Chinese ports with
the Transsiberian railroad of the Rus
sian government. No one excepting
Russian or Chinese subjects is permit
ted to hold shares in the enterprise.
The special commission appointed by
the Italian government to decide upon
the legality Of the seizure in the Red
sea BY an Italian cruiser Of the Dutch
steamship Doelwyok, freighted with
French arms and ammunition for the
emperor Of Abyssinia. has decreed that
khn coi i1ura w vaa upv rrootad o.us.~- A.