The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-09-05
FOREIGN NEWS.
Prince Bismarck Muzzles the Ger
man Press by a Threat.
The Provincial Treasurer of soochow
China, Becomes a Great Moral
Reformer of the Drama.

HN--AAN
Several steamers have taken military
supplies up the Danube TO Seryia.
Several earthquake shocks have re-
Gently been felt in the Danube valley.
A New York dentist has the pleasure
ot operating upon the Gar of Russia.
Prince Bismarck is clo,.elv watched 50
that he IS unable to talk with newspaper
men.
There is said to be an alarming increase
IN the death rate at Naples the last few
months.
Englishmen rejoice that the proposed
restoration OF Westminster has been
postponed.
Experiments with steam life-boats
have recently been made at Liverpool
and Havre.
Fires have swept the Soukaras forest
IN Algiers. Two villages were DESTROYED
BY the confiagration
Surgeons in the French army bv a re-
cent military order have been forbidden
to practice hypnotism.
Army men, who profess to know all
about IL. assert that the mueh-talked-of
smokeless powder is not success.
OF late there has been an increase az
the bitter feeling in Paris toward Ger
mans, especially in public places.
And now comes news of phosphate
trust headed by the Duke of Wesfmin-
ster and Others OF the English nobility.
Resident Hebrews in London are m
build in that city the largest and finest
synagogue in the world, to cost eIO9.-
600.
Great Britain intends to use a part of
the revenue 10 be derived from the new
duty on spirits to promote technical ed
ucation.
The returns from the excise revenue
in England are this year so good that
Mr.. Goschen viii have very large sur
plus 70 devote to free education.
The Corn Millers' Association of Leeds.
England, has advanced the price of flour
Is 81 per sack. This makes an advance
OF As Sd within month
s Herr Krupp, the great gun nanufact-
urer, has a plan for connecting the citv
Of Vienna with the Danube bv canal
The Austrian government is considering
it.
tf~AOt W lc llOt. IL IL reported.
at all generous in the matter of walls y
as sratuities left by royal personages are
called. The English fiunkies at the pal
ace are disguised with him.
Count yillanova, accompanied by
guide and porters, recently started 10
make the ascent of Mount Blanc. Moth
ing has been heard of the party since
and it is feared that all have perished.
Reports from twenty-five centers of
population in County Donegal. ireland,
show that the potato blight is gravest in
congested districts like Falcarragh AID
Gwodore, where the crop is a total fail
IRE.
1t is stated that the Sultan has agreed
in principle to number of reforms in
Armenia involving communal autonomy
and the admission of Armenians to a
share in the administration of the vii
ayets.
A dispatch from Rome says that a big
Socialistic intricacy has been unearthed
in that city. A large number of bomb
shells We're found in the houses of work
ingmen belonging to secret societies, to
be used in case OF an outbreak.
The French government has accented
the Italian governments proposal for a
convention to establish an International
maritime service on the Red sea. The
object is the suppression of cholera.
England's adhesion is doubtful
Terrible stories of distress are reported
from Tokay, where the fire is not vet en-
tirely extinguished. Men, women and
children are constantly running about
the desolated streets wringing their
hands and calling on heaven for help.
A bombshell was thrown into the Of
fee of the Chief of Police at Trieste, and
severely wounding the Secre-
tary. 1t is supposed to have been the
work of italian Republicans, who advo-
cate the annexation of Trieste to Italy
Chinese supremacy in the tea trade
bids fair TO find rival in few years in
Asiatic Russia. Already large shipments
from the tea plantations in Russian Cen
trail Asia are made to England annually,
and considerable proportion of the
product finds its way to the United
States.
Prince Bismarck threatened some time
ago to publish list of writers whom he
kept in his pay, with the
he had given them, ETC., and it
is to be noted that many German papers
that used to have great deal of fun
with the ex-Chancellor have stepped
him.
A speech by the Burgomaster of Nu-
remburg at the close of a CONCERT in the
choral festival hall at Vienna, proclaim
ing union of all German-speaking races
in peace OF on the battlefield, made the
so enthusiastic that theAustrian
and German conductors embraced and
the audience kissed and hugged one ar
other.
The Bismarck monument fund, which
is being collected despite the ex-Chan-
cellor's prejudice against monuments of
himself, now amounts to some $135, 600.
The members of the reading room of the
Society of German Students in Prague
resolved to subscribe $3.50 to the
fund, but were prevented by the Chief
Of Police, who threatened to dissolve
their organization in case the contribu-
ton should be made.
The moral reformer of China is the
. Provincial Treasurer of Soochow." He
has issued proclamation commanding
managers of theaters in Shanghai to de-
sist from the representation of immoral
plays. Restaurants and other places of
public interest must discontinue employ
ing female performers. ssImmoral
plays" the Provincial Treasurer saws,
: excite the female mind, and sometimes
lead women to initiate the wicked ac-
lions portrayed on the stage" Because
theaters have been established so long
that it would be impossible to wean the
public mind from them so far as to per-
nit Of abolishing them,'' all that can be |
done is to purge them from their . SEN
degrading and icentious" !"
dramas.