Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-09-14
Trade Greatly DemOralized in
British India.
WOMAN MURDERS AN ATTORNEY
Frances Vineyards in a Healthy
State Gear Turns His At
tentiOn tU Railways.

fall.
A writing table which once belonged
to Lord Byron was sold the other day in
London for $55.
Permission has been granted for tele-
phone wires i'll Manchester, England, to
be placed underground.
The reduction in price OF the rupee
below l shilling and 4 pence has greatly
trade in India.
Birmingham, England, has been sue
cessfully operating storage battery
street railway system for over year.
The Emperor of Russia is giving earn
est attention to the making of the rail-
way between Moscow, st. Petersburg
and Siberia.
A gun exploded on the French cruiser
Duguay Truin during target practice at
Sydney, N. S. W., killing four men and
injuring many.
The first effect Of closing Indian mints
to free silver coinage was to cost English
holders Of Indian securities $3.50, 200, 900
by their immediate fall.
The German Anti-Slavery Committee,
which started on its career with a capi-
tai of 1000, 900 marks, has ended in total
and irremediable collapse.
On many OF the railways in Germany
the practice Of starting ldr3riotive fires
with gas instead of wood has been
adopted, and proves economical.
Baron Albert Rothschild has been
given the Iron Crown by the Emperor OF
Austria for his part in carrying out the
Austro-Hungarian currency reform.
A new loud-speaking telephone has
been invented in England. The receiv-
ing instrument is said to speak loud
enough to be heard all over the room.
The Turkestan Gazette says that the
Ameer of Bokhara has broken with Mo-
hammedan traditions, and will throw
open his country to European civiliza-
ton.
An Englishman, whose will has Just
been probated, left $4,000 to various
charities and the remainder of his es-
tate-$375, ,O00-to Sir Henry Thompson,
the scientist.
The newest fashion among the ladies
at st. Petersburg is to arm themselves
with long canes when they 90 abroad.
Some of these canes measure six or seven
feet in length.
The diadem OF the Russian Empress
contains 1886 large diamonds and a sim
gle ruby valued at 100000. The private
jewels of the Empress of Austria are
worth 81 100000.
The London Times never prints pict-
ures or uses scare heads, but on the day
OF the recent royal wedding it had a
tiowery border a quarter of an inch wide
around each page.
Frances vineyards have apparently
completely y recovered from the phyllox-
era, and this years grape crop is report
ed to be the finest that has been gath
cred in thirty-tive years.
The Queen OF Italy is taking her usual
annual holiday among the Alps. She is
attended only by two of her ladies' in
waiting, and with them she proposes to
make an ascent OF Monte Rosa.
The Italian government is likely to
order the suspension of the Catholic pill
grlmage to Rome in the event of the
cholera in France, Hungary and other
countries continuing next month.
Miss Thornton, Queen Victoria's old
est servant, who has been state house.
keeper at Buckingham Palace, has lust
resigned at the age OF so years. She has
been forty years in her Majesty's service.
The occurrence of two cases of cholera
at Northafen, on the canal fed bv the
Spree, leaves little doubt that the river
is infected. The German government
has ordered the closing of all river baths.
At Montpelier, France, during mass
an elderly lady entered the pew OF Jean
J,ouissant, prominent lawyer, and shot
him four times, killing him. She claimed
he had refused to retpra sg2a OF money
to his care.
An agricultural writer reckons the loss
this year to the English farmer at G2 an
acre, which means that the farmers have
upward OF &c, 200, 900 less to spend than
they would have had if the crops had
been up to the average.
Lady Dormer, the widow of the popu-
lar General lately in command Of the
British forces at Madras, announces that
she ls bringing home with her baggage
he head and tail of the ferocious Indian
ilgress that killed her husband.
Naval people in England are Begin
nlng to ask whether the ram NAV not he
almost as dangerous to the shin which
bears II as to the ship rammed. II is
most certainly less Trustworthy weanon
man most persons have been led to sup
pose. "P
In London some thousands of women
md girls belong to what are called drink
hubs, small sum being paid by each
member weekly in order that several
lines yearly all may meet at some nnh-
ic house and drink what has been con-
rbutcd. WI
When Miss Sybil Sanderson was SING
ny at Paris the other day she noticed n
'hlld initiating her. As her song died
'way she listened to the echo of tbe
'hlld's voice, and was so fascinated nv
Is sweetness that she decided TO ednc,te
he little singer.
The lnfanta Eulalia's spun.Class dress
n which an American manuiactnrin,
company made her a present while sbs |
Vas the nations guest, has aroused creat
'urlosity among the ladies of the Snons
Sh Court, who very properly regard il
Is something very remarkable i'm tba
way OF feminine attire. '"'
London is to have tobacco show from
september L to October :, dahlia and
'ladiola exhibition for three days in the
,eglnning OF September, three chrysan. |
hemum shows, one in October and The
'thers IN the two succeeding months. n
age bird show the last OF October and |
bulldog show in November.
Right Honorable Henry Chaplin holds
he English government mainly resnnn.
ihle for the failure OF the Brussels Mon.
tary Conference, and charges that i, |
'illtully threw away an opportunity, Ls