Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-11-09
FOREIGN FLASHES.
James Gordon Bennett Injured
in a Coaching Accident.
THE BIG APPETITE OF LONDON.
Chief Result of the General Election
for the Lower House of the
Diet in Sweden.

Constantinople is to be lighted by
electricity.
The Socialist movement ia making
rapid progress in Austria.
Italy is making an earnest effort to ex-
tirpate brigandage in Sicily.
The German soldiers cooking utensils
are to be made Of aluminium.
A new industry in France is the SELL
ing of milk frozen solid in cans.
England received 100000 letters
from the United States last year.
The Turkish cavalry is generally adj
mitted to be the finest in all Europe.
Belgian forces have captured Kirundu,
an Arab stronghold near Stanley Falls.
The increased expense of the German
army is to be borne by tax on wine and
tobacco.
The Sultan OF Morocco has forbidden
the export of grain from his territories
after December 8, 1893.
Brazieres, the Paris writer, claims to
have discovered the identity Of the Man
with the Iron Mask"
Following the plague OF wasps last
simmer, Europe is suffering from an I'M
usual quantity OF moths.
Marshal MacMahon's memoirs are
likely to be suppressed by his family be-
cause too critical OF contemporary men.
There are at the present moment
! eleven pretenders to the various thrones
Of Europe trying to make good their
claims.
The West Australian Parliament is
dealing with measure of Chinese re-
strction on the legislation Of the other
colonies.
Marquis di Rudini says Italy's mill
tary expenses should be reduced, as the
taxpayers are now burdened to the limit
OF their strength.
According to the Roumanian papers
the rumor that Queen Elizabeth contem.
plates an early return to Bucharest has
no foundation in fact.
The chief result of the general election
for the Lower House OF the Swedish Diet
has been to strengthen the Moderate
Free Trade or Center party,
According to statistics Just issued il
England the condition OF farm laborers
in thirteen counties of Ireland is now
better than at any previous time.
Social Democrats in Germany fine
great difficulty their annual report says
in providing speakers, organizers anC
reading matter to meet the demand.
Baron Rothschild has bought large
tract of land, the personal property o
OF the Sultan, near the Jordan. He in
tends to found there large Jewish col
ony.
France is going to try the plan o
printing postal cards in blocks, will
stubs, like check book, so that TIN
writer can keep notes of his correspond
enCe.
German fnanciers are disappointet
over the Italian Premier's exposition Q
ltaly's finances, and all chance OF tina
country obtaining a loan in Berlin van
iahes.
An encounter between the police an,
the natives on the Ord river, West Aus
tralia, resulted in one policeman bein
speared and twenty-thfee natives -bein
shot dead.
Irish railways carry great many NOR
iirst-class passengers than any othe
country in the United Kingdom, an
England heads the list in third-clas
passengers.
London has big appetite. 1t devour
every year over 1901 oxen, | 900, 90
sheep 100000 calves, $1,000 hogs, fowl
innumerable, and consumes 9,S00,0O
gallons of milk.
The government OF West Australi
proposes to float loan of G540, 900, t
be expended in railway construction an
in the development of gold fields an
other mineral resources.
Maps for the use of farmers, describ
ing the chemical qualities of the land i
various parts OF the country and namin
the best manures for each section, hav
been proposed in France.
A small scandal has arisen in BritisI
church circles from the fact that ther
were 500 applicants for place as chan
lain on yacht and only five for a curac
OF hard work in the slums.
James Gordon Bennett, who has bee
confined to his room by the coaching ac
: cident in Paris, is to be taken to tn
Riviera, but his friends are reporte
hopeless that he will ever recover.
An ex-chimney sweep, working o.
tribute at the White Cliffs (N. 5. W.
opal fields, recently struck a pocket G
gems which panned ont e36,00O. Tn
finders share amounted to ElS,OO0.
A patent has been granted in Auck
land, New Zealand, for a net to cate
whales, The mesh is big enough for
calf to pass through, and it is said I
have been used already with great sue
, cess.
) A locomotive is being built at Glasgoy
which is expected to make 100 miles Al
hour. IL is to have twelve-foot drivers
and the builders calculate that it vii
draw an express train eighty miles a,
hour with ease.
The Duke of Westminster, who own
a large number OF houses in the fashion
able district of Maytlower, London. ha
declined to lease or renew leases TO AN,
surgeon, physician, dentist or medica
man in general.
1t appears that the experiments 70
some time past in France for obtainin
a satisfactory method of color printin
on leather have been so far successful a
to open up a prospect of a new and al
tractive industry,
The contract for boring tunn,
throug h the Simplon has Just been sirnet
II has been undertaken on behalf OF m
Jura Simplon Railway Company by NM
Brand, Brandsu ( Co. OF Hamburg an
locher & Co. OF Zurich.
The monument which has been erec,e
upon the hattie field Of Solierino is ON
OF the largest, il not the largest, of Il
kind in all Europe. 1t consists OF
tower seventy-tour meters high. su,