The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-08-22
FOREIGN NEWS.
Great Discomfort Reported to Pre-
vail in Finland.
The Excessive Heat Causes an Alarming
Amount Of Sickness in The
Austrian Empire.

The King of Holland is in a feeble con
dition.
Professor Alphonso Favre, Swiss geol-
ogist, is dead.
The estimated fortifying of Heligoland
viii cost 81, 100000.
Persiani, the Russian Minister TO Ser
via, has become insane.
A slave trade in Punjaub women has
been discovered in Scinde.
Workmen on Parnells Arklow quar-
ries at London have struck.
Baron Leon of Vienna has been killed
by falling over precipice in the Alps.
Prince Waldemar's name is withdrawn
ms a candidate for the Bulgarian throne.
A diamond has been found in the
Kimberly mines OF South Africa weigh
ing 1873 carats.
Emperor William captiyated every one
he met in Brussels by his gracious and
cordial bearing.
England has put in claim of $4,000 :
600 indemnity for the recent row in the
Argentine Republic.
0ne-half of the town of Monetier,
France has been destroyed by fire and
many persons injured.
Leighham Court, Streatham, near
London, comprising sixty-six acres, has
just been sold for s90,000.
Major Wissmann's lieutenant saws
that the former will, so far as known,
resume his duties in Africa.
The Maharajah Dhuleep Singh has
lattar IN kka I..a.
forgiveness for his past acts.
Herr yon Gerson, the Austrian engi-
neer recently captured by brigands in
Circassia, has been released.
The Government contemplates fur
ther important reduction of the British
army of occupation in Egypt.
One hundred and twenty-four head of
cattle are to be slaughtered in Yorkshire
on account of pleuro-pneumonia.
The Chin expedition reports that
some of the tribes it has encountered
belong to the most degraded stage of
barbarism.
Cameron, the English African explo-
rer, favors the introduction of Chinese
and Indian planters into Africa, particu-
larly the former.
Joseph Arch, the apostle OF the Eng
lish farm laborers, has been adopted as
the Liberal candidate for Northwest Nor
folk at the next election.
The London Times has at length com
plettd the payments on its expense ac-
count for the Parnell Commission, the
tetal being understood TO amount to
sI50, 900.
In Australia the labor organizations
have secured the g. hour day with half
holiday on Saturday, and now they are
agitating for 7-hour day with no work
on Saturday.
The Russian Government has espec-
tally invited General Boisdefrie, the
Adjutant-General of the French Army,
to attend the Russian Army msneuvers
at Krasnoe Selo.
The Congo Free State has annexed the
kingdom of Monatayamyo, which COM
prises vast extent of territory south of
the present frontier of the Congo State
and extends in the direction of the
Zambesi river.
The Australians are beginning to doubt
the wisdom of importing so many stoats,
ferrets and weasels to exterminate the
rabbits. These creatures multiply most
rapidly, and have begun attacking chill
dren and lambs.
The difficulty regarding labor at Zan-
zibar has reached an acute stage. No
porters are available, owing to the drain
from the Congo and the German sphere
of influence. The question is vital, both
TO Zanzibar and to the British company.
The migration of settlers and laborers
from the interior of Russia to the Cau-
casian and Siberian districts is still in
creasing. The cities on the various roads
are literally overflowing with emigrants,
among whom great distress prevails.
The greatest discomfort prevails (savs
Daily News correspondent throughout
Finland owing to the PRONUNCIATION of
the imperial ukase which abolishes the
Finnish Post and Telegraphic Admins
tration and amalgamates il with that of
Russia.
The King of Italy contemplates copy
ing Queen Victoria by adding a colonial
title to his Royal dignities. He would
call himself Emperor of Erythrea and
and Eastern Africa" in view of his pro-
tectorate of Abyssinia and colonies on the
Red Sea coast.
The Steele says that French agents in
the Upper Senegal country have made
treaties with Chiefs Macina, Yatenga,
Aribunda, Gourma and Moussi, by which
they secure a protectorate over that
territory and greatly extend French in
fiuence on the Niger.
A California salmon has recently been
caught in the Mediterranean, near
Banyuls. Probably it found its way
thither from the River Aude, into which
many young fish of this species have
been introduced, in the hope that they
may be acclimatized in France.
A mine of pumice-stone, it is stated,
exists on the Teneriffee Peak, of which
the working was only started in 1888.
The stone is found in that part of the
peak called the "Canadas' at about
1900 feet above the sea level
While Chill favors the scheme for an
international railway, and will build her
own system to the northern line, and, if
necessary, assist Peru to perfect her por-
ton of the system, she will oppose the
projected system of arbitration, as will
also the entire press and people OF
Chill.
M. Constans, Minister of the Interior
| in France, speaking at banquet at Ro-
dez. congratulated Republicans upon
their unity. The Republic, he said, was
strong enough to be conciliatory. The
day was approaching when the enemies
of the Republic would have Generals,
but no soldiers.
The excessive heat is causing an
alarming amount of sickness in Austria.
In the military camps of the southern
army the death rate has risen 80 per
cent Deaths from sunstroke are dailv