The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-05-24
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King Alexander to be Crowned in June
Emperor william g Yes Audience
TO the Oh nese Minister.


The Greek Government is concluding
n loan OF g5,000,0OO in London.
\ The attendance at the Paris Exposition
thus far has averaged II 900 daily
The cash deficiency Of the Melbourne
\ Exposition is over a million dollars.
There is no improvement in the mental
condition Of the Empress OF Austria.
The American delegates have arrived
at Berlin 10 study the German river
system.
4 William 0'Brien, NJ r., has obtained
a writ against Lord Salisbury on charge
of libel.
The newest word in London is ''omni-
boat" II describes the river steamers
and is success.
An enormous landslide occurred at
spiesback. Switzerland, destroying cattle,
villages and forests.
Duornovo, Director OF Charities, will
succeed the late Count Tolstoi as Russian
Minister OF the Interior.
lord Lonsdale says that he saw in the
Attic country a cataract 200 ieet high and
two and a half miles wide.
At the York, England. spring meeting
Ring-master won the great northern
handicap and 800 sovereigns.
Emperor William gave audience last
week to the Japanese Minister Of the
Interior who is making a tour Of Europe.
The Joneses are al the head Of the
English clergy list with $50 representa-
tives, while the Smiths follow with BIS.
Miss sybil Sanderson appeared at
the Paris Opera Comique in Eselarmonde
last week, and her friends predict great
success.
Emperor Francis Joseph has paid
Crown Prince Rudolph's debts. They
only amounted to the trifing sum OF
g4S0 900.
Houstholm, Jutland. has the worlds
biggest electric light. 1t is Of 100000
candle power, and has a range OF twenty
six miles.
The Rothsehilds have arranged for a
Russian conversion loan Of $40, 100000
in conjunction with the Disconto
Gesellschaft.
1t cost the English government $780,
1873 to keep the royal palaces in order
last year, and $445,O65 for royal parks
and gardens.
Some Of the boulevardiers are wearing
Eiffel Tower waisteoats, covered with
figures Of the great tower couple OF
inches high.
1t has been arranged that the young
King Alexander OF Seryia shall be
crowned at the monastery OF Zissa in the
month sf June.
Instead OF encouraging emigration, as
hitherto, the authorities OF Ireland are
discouraging it, the people are leaving
the country 30 last.
The authorities in Holland have de-
creed that women cannot serve on
School Board. In Sweden it has been
decided that they can.
Ten thousand weavers employed in the
cotton factories at Thizy, Department Of
Rhope, are on a strike. II is feared the
strike win extend to Lyons.
T. p. O'Connor says that the Prince OF
Wales never pays tailor bill. The
his patronage affords is all
the remuneration Poole wants.
In the British House Of Commons a
motion in favor OF the disestablishment
OF the Church Of Wales was recently
rejected by vote Of 2S4 10 2Sl
Already great deal OF diplomacy and
intrigue is said to be on loot in order to
get the post 0f Poet Laureate when Ten
nyson dies The salary is e72 a year.
A rich bed of pure coal, computed TO
contain about 225, ,000,0 900 pools, has
been found at place called Pendshakata,
on the line Of the Transcaspian Railway.
Boulanger, who has hitherto been
mostly ignored by London society, dined
recently with Baroness Burdett-Coutte
various dukes and duchegses meeting
him.
Nearly s9000,00O have been appro-
priated from time 10 time by the French
Legislature for the Paris Exposition, and
tine buildings and parks occupy a space
81 nearly two hundred acres.
The death oi King John Of Abyssinia
and the assumption OF the throne by his
rival, King Menelek Of shoa, promise to
be OF advantage to Italy in her efforts to
secure firmer foothold on the Red Sea
littoral
The street.car drivers who have been
on a strike in Vienna, and who have 4
finally succumbed, average about go
'ents in wages for a day beginning at Z |
in the morning and ending 1T midnight |
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The London Times says: The Samoan
Conference has come TO an agreement in
regard to the Land Commission question
llso, regarding restriction on the sale Of |
firearms and spirits to. the natives. The |