The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-09-19
FOREIGN NEWS.
Emperor William Will Become
an Editor.
The Guatemalan Government Decides to
Exile Barrundla's Daughter for
Shooting at Miner.


siding.
Francis Robert st. Clair Erskine,
fourth Earl OF Rosslyn, is dead.
II is estimated that the losses by
floods In Central Europe will reach 10, |
00O, 900.
Advices from Spain say that the En-
press of Austria intends TO visit Havana |
and viii travel ineognita.
The maneuvers OF the German navy.
according to experts, show the eondi-
tion Of the fleet TO be excellent.
The province of Ferrea, in Italy, is
being devastated by rats, and has already
been damaged TO the amount Of $780,
0OOf
The mock war going ON before Hall
fax is much enjoyed by the people. The
whole fleet will take part in /" the siege
OF Halifax
The long-talked-of scheme of render
ing the Seine nayigahle as far as Paris
for sea-going vessels Is at last likely TO
be carried out.
Emperor William has expressed in
speech at Berlin great pride in the
working Of the fleet as displayed at the
recent naval maneuvers.
William o'Brien advises the Irish
peasants under the present condition OF
the potato crop TO paw no rents until
their families provided for.
The latest reports from Tonquin am
nounee the arrival there OF a portable
cathedral. 1t was imported from the
town of Kesub, and is of iron.
Owing to the damage to the beet crop
by the recent floods In Central Europe,
1t is likely the Austrian sugar exports
will be 60 per cent. under the average.
A bell, cast recently for the Kharkow
Cathedral, contains 90 per cent of pure
silver II weighs GAG English pounds,
and its vibrations last several minutes.
As soon as the telephone between
London and Paris is completed arrange
ments will be made to extend the
system to Brussels, Bordeaux and Mar
seilles.
Laguerre, well-known supporter of
Boulanger, Is preparing speech in
which he will renounee fealty TO the Bou
langer party and assume the position of
reyisionist-
The cholera is preparing for the fall
business in various European Capitals.
But, being better understood, il is no
longer regarded as the dreadful disease
it used to be.
| The Anglo-French agreement with
reference TO the parceling out of African
territory seems 10 give mutual satis-
faction. Each country thinks IL has the
better of the other.
The Guatemalan government has de-
cided to exile the daughter of Barrundia,
who attempted to kill Minister Mizner.
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be ordered from the country.
The Berlin Kreus Zeitung alleges that
| Emin Pasha has not received the arrears
of salary due him by the Egyptian gov
ernment. Germany pays him 5000 a
year, the salary Of Maior-General.
On and after October 1, the Emperor
of Germany will publish newspaper TO
be inspired directly by himself, and to
ubjects-military civil and political.
A committee has been formed in Ger
many for the purpose of purchasing
Moltke's birthplace, the object being TO
present il to the nation on the occasion
of the great warriors ninetieth birth
day.
One of the wedding presents to Stan
lev was a gold geographical watch from
a firm of wafchmakers, the first of the
kind ever manufactured. 1t tells the
time in almost every important city in
the world.
A cablegram from Berne says the adj
vanccd Liberals are taking a leading part
in the opposition to the Conservative
government. The government became
unpopular, owing to the Treasurer's re-
cent embezzlement.
The recent mutiny in the First Bat
TALON of the British West India Regi-
ment at Jamaica, by which Sergeant
White lost his life, was a deplorable ex.
hibition OF want of discipline and de
moralization in the regiment.
The English journals berate Lord
Sackville for his action in respect to the
Stratford-on-Avon monument. The Man
chester Guardian says it amply proves
how unfit he was for the position of En-
voy or Minister to anywhere.
A passenger elevator to the summit o.
Mount Blanc is proposed by an Ameri
,, can mining engineer. The shaft is K
be of eight compartments, each six fee
: square, intended to carry a triple
decked elevator for twenty-six passen
; gers.
The Indian government publishes
return showing that in the years 1887
1888 and 1889, 372 males and 1872 females
were tortured by dacoits in the centra
: division of Upper Burmah. One hun
3 dred and eighteen cases resulted il
t death.
s DIR. Henry Muirhead, the late Presi
D dent of the Glasgow Philosophical So
. cietv, has bequeathed the sum of 1925,
, 600 for the erection and endowment of
college which will be devoted entirely t,
the instruction of women in the theor,
and practice of medicine.
a The large sums of money that tn
/. government of India devotes annuall'
as rewards for the destruction of snake
, has brought about an unexpected result
:. The snakes are being bred and reare,
! by the natives for the purpose of OBTAIN
! ing the usual head money offered.
An important feature of the cavalr
q maneuvers at London was the attemp
e of twenty officers of the Guards to swir
}, cavalry horses across the Thames. Dash
It ing into the river amid great excitement
s several succeeded in reaching the oppc
! site bank in safety, while three rider
. fell off and had to be rescued by boats
1t is held that the trial proved the futil
!. ity of attempting TO swim cavalry horse
I across stream in body.
i The ravages of phylloxera are causin
: CONSERVATION in the Champagne dis
triet of France Extensive preparation
have been made to give the ground
thorough drenching with a solution {
: carbonate of sulphur, and the govern
= ment will render assistance in the worl
% wing to the apprehensions of the win
farmers, the market has been affected
3 and the price of fine grades Of char
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