Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-07-06
FOREIGN FLASHES.
A Suit Begun 152 Years Ago
Just Concluded.
OIL WELLS OF THE CASPIAN.
Mummified Bodies of Three Massa-
cred Missionaries Brought
Back From Africa.

France is buying Irish horses for
cavaly use.
The manufacture Of wine is becoming
a thriving industry in Palestine.
The total tonnage launched in Great
Britain in 1892 was 35,OO0,0 900 last year.
The value of England's exports of
metals and machinery fell off $35, 900, 900
last year.
Lord Lorne receives a salary OF $1,000
year as Governor and Constable OF
Windsor Castle.
The Town Council of Bruges, Bel
GUM, has resolved to give $500, 900
toward ship canal.
Married couples in Norway are privi-
legged to ride on railroads at fare and
half for each couple.
The Emperor William will command
in person the Sixteenth Army Corps at
the autumn maneuyers.
Loud complaints are heard on all
sides OF the continued high price of
butchers meat in Paris.
Ten war vessels of the British navy
were condemned last month as unfit for
service and ordered sold.
Sharpshooters riding in steel-clad ve-
hicles will be feature of next autumn's s
German army maneuvers.
The Hamburg Tank Steamship Com
pany will 90 out Of the business because
OF improbable freight rates.
Paris has a new playhouse called the
| Theater of the Poets. The success of
the new venture is not assured.
Quite number of express locomotives
are fired principally with oil on the
Great Eastern railway OF England.
London's most famous playhouse
| Drury Lane-is to be torn down and
another structure placed on its site.
1t is stated from Batoum that famine
for some time threatened, has suddenly
become acute in some districts of Ar
menia.
OF the American cities represented al
the Firemen's Congress at London
Kansas City made the most creditablt
showing.
Police and artillery had to be used a
Berne, Switzerland, to disperse rioters
who had attacked a gang of imported
Italians.
Argentine bond holders at Londor
are considering the agreement between
the Rothschild committee and the
Republic.
Russian Jews are reported to have
settled in South America in large mum
bers, and are among the most prosper
Gus colonists.
Salmon from California have beer
successfully acclimatized on the lakes
of the Marne and Saone canal a.
Nievre, France.
Prince Bismarck will go to Kissinger
with his family next month to drink
the waters. a palace has been placed
at his disposal.
In France the railways employ 24, 0SC
women. Most OF them, however
merely receive a small sum for opening
and closing gates.
Owing to the effect of the recent
drought in Germany on the farmers, q
suspension of the duties on corn and
maize is proposed.
One thousand and tifty-six lives were
saved by life-boat men on the coast Of
Great Britain during the last year and
without the loss of one life-b man.
\ suit in the English Chancery Court
begun l52 years ago was concluded the
other day. The government duties and
legal fees covered nearly the entire sun
fought for.
The Swedish government has estab-
lished on the coast nine stations fol
medical observation. The object oI
this measure is to protect the country
from cholera.
The Constans party in France is
making strenuous efforts, in view of the
illness of President Garnet, to make
political capital out OF the Panama
canal scandal.
Five acres of park land per week is
the record OF the London County Coun-
ell, rs since its organization few years
ago it has purchased and made accessible
no less than 994 acres in parks.
All the wells of Berlin have been ex-
amined, and out of some 500 one-fourth
were declared doubtful and one-fourth
unfit for use. Similar examinations are
being made all over the country.
1t is believed by the engineers and Of
ticials OF the enterprise that the Man
chester ship canal will be opened for
traffic along its entire length from Liver
pool to Manchester by next February or
March.
Lady Brooke of the baccarat scandal
tame has contributed an article TO Mr..
Astor's Pail Mall Magazine. She writes
on What is Society,"" and has given
some very optimistic views on various
subjects.
During the year 1892 the mint of
Great Britain issued S75,000,0OO worth
OF coins. The quantity of gold coins
was exceptionally large, but the silver
coins required were less than at anv
time since lSSS.
About $4,000 couples have been
divorced in France during the last five
years, and now law has Just been read
in the Chamber OF Deputies for the first
time designed to make a severance OF
the matrimonial bonds much easier
still.
An Englishman who died recently be-
queathed 5000 to the ROYAL National
litehoat Association on condition that
il should furnish his executors with a
signed agreement to use the funds in
building liteboat to be named the Min
ME Moon.
Aluminium is to be used wherever
practicable in the accouterments, arms
and equipments Of the German army.
Ky Its use the weight carried bv infantry
will he a tride over tiity-seven pound:
where now 1t Is about sixty.eight and
onc-halt pounds,
\ constant and large increase is noted
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