The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-09-26
FOREIGN NEWS.
Blowing Up the Iron Gate Of the
Danube Begun.
Many People In Bohemia and Hungary
Rendered Homeless by Heavy
Storms and Floods.

Patti will give concerts In this country
next season.
A Cabinet Minister OF Health Ia seri-
ously proposed for England.
Russia proposes TO keep Cinnamon out
OF Ussuri by laying heavy tax on them |
The Federal Council OF Switzerland
has decided TO recognize the Republic OF
Brazil.
| The Turkish government will appoint
a commission TO inquire into the Armen-
ian troubles.
Marriages of convenience, which have
been bane OF social life In France, are
said 10 be on decline there.
The Austrian war-ship Taurus, with
crew Of sixty-nine men and four officers,
has ioundered in the Black sea.
Il il proposed to erect an Eiffel tower
In Melbourne, and company with cap
ital Of k5OO,0O9 has been formed for the
purpose.
Irish anti-home-rule members appeal
for aid for thirty men in Tipperary
whose business has been ruined by the
boycott.
Adelina PATHS theater on her estate
in Wales, Craig-y-nos, has been COM
pleted. and there was an informal open
ing recently.
Roumania and Servia are negotiating
with Vienna bankers for a refunding OF
their public debts at more favorable
rates Of interest.
A resident OF Ceylon says the Java
coffee plant is dying out, and this uni
versal breakfast beverage will soon be-
come a costly luxury.
Many people in Bohemia, Austria, and
, Hungary have been rendered homeless
bv the heavy storms and floods, which
are general throughout Europe.
In view Of recent developments at
| Tripol the government has ordered the
French Mediterranean and Levantine
squadrons to proceed TO North Africa.
The ex-Emperor of Brazil thinks of
settling in the neighborhood of Vienna,
and negotiations for the purchase of a
, suitable abode for him have been set on
} foot
II is rumored in London that an Eng
, lish man-of-war had arrived at Lisbon,
and the officers and men landed were at
lacked 10y mob and compelled 10 re-
. embark.
r The announcement that the German
authorities at Bagamoyo, Africa, have
issucd proclamation authorizing traffic
in slaves is believed in Berlin TO be a
I. mistake.
The Czarowitz and his brother, Grand
Duke George, are To start toward the
. end of October from Corfu on voyage
r to India, China and Japan, terminating
8 at San Francisco.
r A Zanzibar dispatch says that Emin
+ Pasha hoisted the German flag at Tab
| ero, captured a lot Of guns, ivory and
' cattle from Sultan Sike and then pro
!, ceeded to Usokuma.
n Great excitement is caused at Caps
Town. South Africa, by the arrival OF 1
Portuguese steamer loaded with kid
y naped natives from Mozambique eI
route to the West Coast.
q The work of blowing up what is calleC
= the "Iron Gate of the Danube" the
i great rocky pass on the Serylan border
through which a navigable channel wa
, cut many years ago, has begun.
= The total cost OF the London dock
= has been upward of $l00, ,000, 900. and /
|, has been computed that half of this ex
/, penditure was sheer waste. London ha
no public control over its docks.
= A sanitary commission has starte'
. from Rome for Massowah, where death
= from cholera average fifty daily. Euro
. peans are not affected. Strict measure
10 for the isolation of natives are adopted
a The Prime Minister of Spain, belieN
n ing that free trade is responsible for tn
= evils of the Spanish workingman's pos
tion. has recommended a policy of prC
n lection for both farmers and manufact
y urers.
10 For the first time since its foundatio
es a Jew, Professor Julius Bernstein, ha
es been elected Rector Magnifctus of tn
ed Halle university. Up TO within con
or paratively short time no Jew was pei
is mitted even to teach there.
n Returns that have been made to Pa
IS, lament show that there are in Great Bri
ne ain and Ireland $500 miles of inlan
ms navigation, of which 1000 miles are 9
OF open rivers, leaving 800 miles of canal
lis the greater part of which are in En-
k. land.
is The Berlin Post says: Germany new
in had any intention of unqualifiedly abe
", ishing all forms of slavery in Afric
tut The Reichstag agreed that the measu
,ot would be taken only by degrees. wit
IN: due regard for the existing order
! . things.
D., A sad spectacle was witnessed in Sa
FOR tiago, Chill, recently, when hundreds
ice Italian immigrants just arrived from Ti
oh cahuano implored passers-by for alm
NO some of the men offering their coats al
~ shirts for sale in order to procure som
&c thing to eat.
"a A number of representatives of Swi
and other Continental banks recent
met at Berne, under the presidency
In M. Hammer, to deliberate on t
iy. issue of loan of 40,000,000 francs
'od the purchase of Swiss railways by t
ck- Confederation.
1ar The merchants of Belfast are maxi
re. every endeavor to place as much lin
my as possible in the United States befC
ass the Mckinley bill goes into effect. T
son Majestic, which has just sailed, has o
g." of the largest cargoes of linen eN
out known 20 have been shipped. Ma
re- shippers are unable to secure freig
ror space.
as The following Cabinet appointmei
1si- are announced at Buenos Ayres: M
NO lister of Finance, Cane; Interior, Phi
lie dosi Public Works, Huego. DIR. Pl;
~, is about to start for London to arrang
ing loan to pay off the public indebtedn
ing coming due. 1t is reported that Caser
be President of the Provincial bank, v
as resign.
Is 1t is stated that Barrundia's wild
1er- carries with her to the City of Mex
of certain papers of her late~ husba
flo, showing that the latter was in 1887
, is mitted as a protege of Mexico, he h
out ing taken out preliminary Mexican n
snt. uralization papers. She will seek
~. iuterposition Of Mexico to secure ds