The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-01-23
FOREIGN.
A rs volution is reported In. Chilli.

4 r3 volution Is reported IL Chill.
Italy Is pleased with the Mckinley act.
Uruguay resumed specie payments
Jan. s.
The Glasgow strike has caused riots
and bloodshed.
A man froze to death on the street at
Preston, Eng, Jan. s.
telephone cable will probably be laid
from Dover TO Calais.
Gold went to 229 per cent premium In
Buenos Ayres Jan. 9.
Turkey is alarmed at the number and
activity of Russian spies.
coal-mine explosion in Polish Ostran
Jan. killed sixty persons.
The victory of the shlpowners over the
strikers at Hull was complete.
Railroad travel was stopped by snow
all over northern Europe Jan. 6.
The Indian government proposes to
raise the age OF consent from 10 to IL.
SaItoris, Nellie Grants husband, was
on Jan. II reported dying from delirium
tremens.
The Central American republics ask
the United States to send them separate
ministers.
Germany now allows the Importation
of pork from every country except the
| United States.
There is scheme on foot to have the
United States become practically the
owner of the Nicaragua canal.
The debt of Portugal has increased 400
per cent in forty years and the expenses
of the government 500 per cent.
The report comes from New Guinea of
the massacre of forty Inhabitants of a
village by cannibals, who also looted the
village.
Brazil proposes to open her continental
exposition In january, 1898, and after a
few months transfer the whole exhibit
TO the Chicago worlds fair.
The Glasgow railroad strikers have
been evicted from the houses they oc-
eupied, which belonged to the railroad
companies. but not without violence.
Gustave Rothschild, having lost sos
100000 in speculations, attempted suicide
In Paris but his valet caught him in the
act, knocked the pistol out of his hand
and saved his life.
Russia is refunding her 4I1-per-cent
debt at 4 per cent and it is reported that
/ RothSchild, Bleichroder Il Disconto and
the st. Petersburg bank will take the
whole loan of $60,000,000.
Large smelling works are to be built
at San Luis Potosi, Mex. the result of
! the duty imposed on silver-bearing lead
ores brought from that country which
the Mckinley act imposes.
The United states is Likely to demand
! from Spain Indemnity for the seizing of
the property of American missionaries at
| Ponape and the stopping of their work,
as well as their restoration.
During service in the church of St.
Michael at Havre man walked in, with
kindlings bound around him and q rope
around his neck, the outfit being soaked
with coal oil, and set fire to himself and
was burned TO death before the blaze
could be put out.
Germany did not recall Emin as re-
ported, but made him governor OF the
| lake region of the German East African
possessions a position coveted by Wiss-
man. Emin has established a fortified
station at Bukobo, on the shore of Vic
toria Nyanza, and is returning to the
coast.
The sultan of Vitu, whom the British
depoSed because some Germans who had
been arrested for rioting were killed
while trying to escape, has headed the
natives of Lamu in a revolt and the
British consul has asked the sultan OF
Zanzibar for troops.
The grand duke OF Mecklenbur-g
Schwerin, representing an older and
prouder house than the Hohenzollerns
Is Jealous of the success of the latte5
family and has asked Bismarck TO take
the presidency of the grand ducal min
istry. Though Bismarck declined, E,u-
peror William Is uneasy at the action o
the grand duke, who Is connected with
the Russian imperial family by marriage
and by sympathy.