The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-11-27
SERIOUS FLOODS IN SPAIN.
The Municipal Elections in England
Forecast the Triumph Of The
Gladstonians. N
London has 5000 telephones.
England has 10000 barmaids.

London has ten main railroad lines,
Switzerland han abolished national
banks.
Serious floods arereported in Valencia.
Spain; also at Cadiz.
The potato crop In Northern Hungary
has Jailed, and famine Is ieared.
Prince Bismarck opposes the law which
reduces the army service In Germany to
two years.
Catholic prelates In Italy have no
doubt that Pope Leo's successor will be
an Italian. T
The Argentine Senate han passed 4
bill repealing the tax levied upon private
bank deposits.
The Austrian police have con nascated
the report Of the Brussels international
Labor Congress.
Lady Dixie has decided on continuing
her trade-union campaign among thee
women workers. N
Thirty thousand men are idle through \
the strike oi the engineers Of the pahr
side Durham, England. %
The municipal elections In England
forecast o triumph for the Gladstonlane
in the coming Parliamentary elections.
The duty which France proposes to
put on American pork iH 25 francs per
lW kiloa, equal TO about 2s cents Der
pound.
Il 10 daily becoming more clear that
French financial houses are aaddIed with
more Russian stocks than they are able
to carry.
The people 81 Afghanistan, groaninp
under the heavy taxes their ruler I'M
poses, are skipping over the border ut a
lively rate.
Rain has fallen In torrents in the NOV
ince o. Malaga. The Iower-iying Guar
ters Of Golila and Perchel have been
submerged.
Earl Duiferin'aappointmen as Warden
OF the Clnque Ports 10 viewed In England
as bribe to cause him 10 adhere to the
Conservatives.
The height Of fashion In Paris Ii 10
have everything Russian, the glamoarof
the French Russian understanding en-
phasizing the fad.
Abill has been read the first dine In
the Brazilian Senate, the object Of which
is 70 close the coasting trade to ahips
under foreign flags.
Birmingham has beaten London In
the struggle ior the possession Of great
watershed In Wales as permanent
eonrceof water supply.
There are rumors at ST. Petersburg
affecting the stability Of ten bsnkine
honsea, come Of which are considered
thesoundeBt In that city.
Inquiry 10 being made into the nnIaw
iui extension Of mining galleries 1T Iich-
tenau, endangering the safety oi the
Bilesian Mountain railroad.
Emin Paeha has written letter stat
ing that he intends to enter the territory
Of the King of Ruhanda, which has
never been visited by Europeans.
Those Alsatians Of official prominence
who attended . late Ferry banquet are
being dismissed from office OF forced to
resign BY the German government.
The House Of Representatives d New
Zealand has passed bill granting resi-
DENTAL suffrage to women aud qualify
Ing them Tor election to Parliament.
In recent report oil the municipal
head q Moscow II 10 shown Thai the
corruption Of the Court Of Probate and
Public Administration is very great.
The Moscow Gazele demands tho ior-
nation Of Q Ministry Of Agriculture
which, It sets forth, would prevent the
policies leading to the famine.
The Emprees Of China has recently
been endeavoring to give an impetus 10
the manufacture of silk In that country.
BY starting . ailk-wesving department 81
her own. "a
A new paper, Tls Wandering PeopJs.
viii % started In London next month,
II will pc publiahed in the gypsy tongue
4, and edited by George Smith, the King 81
the gypsies.
The Danes do not require the makeys
o. oleomargarine to stamp the kegs In
which y is packed, but they do REQUIRE
that It BE- nearly white In order 10 dis-
tinguish II from butter.
Much disappointment ID reported 10
be felt IN Vatican financial circles III the
extremely meager results Of THE offer
Inge Tor Peter's pence from England The
being only about Gb0O.
It is said the Russian peasanta a,e