Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-12-28
The Brigands in the Caucasus
Becoming BOlder.
LIBERAL HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD
Missionaries of the Russian Church
Fail in Their Effort Among
the Khingese Tribe.


count 300 900 members.
The Argentine navy now comprises
fifty-four first-class vessels.
Austria will tax all foreign insurance
within her borders.
Finland is to have a State telephone
line at cost OF 100, 600 marks.
The total mileage OF railways now
open to traffic in Japan is 1,7l7.
Mr.. Astor's London newspaper has
got him into S400, 900 libel suit.
Princess b. atrice has presented three
tigers to the London geological gardens.
The Pitcairn Islanders have been pre-
sented with lifeboat by Queen Victoria.
The famine in Russia has made the
condition OF the peasants more deplor-
able.
German troops are to be sent on long,
forced winter marches to make them
tough.
A French Deputy, NJ. Leygues, pro-
poses an increased duty on corn from 81
to $1.60.
Austrian Socialists will inaugurate a
universal strike as protest against the
army bill.
War between Ecuador and Peru over
the boundary dispute seems to be abso-
lutely certain.
Free trade ruins many farmers in Eng
land. They wish they could move their
farms to France.
The influenza epidemic in Kiel spreads
rapidly. Three hundred marines are
under treatment.
The Bavarian War Minister asserts
that dueling cannot be abolished in
civilized countries.
The English government proposes to
place tax c' penny in the shilling on
:tL.,,..,r admissions.
There are 5000 cases of influenza at
Hamburg, and the epidemic is spread
ing all over Germany.
Paris is trying the experiment of paw
ing a street with mahogany. 1t is cost
ing only 80 a square yard.
There is report that Greece will give
Russia a Mediterranean port, or that
France may give her Ajaccio.
A royal decree has been issued at
Brussels appointing a commission to
investigate speculative stocks.
After all the fuss the Bank OF Eng
lands loss through the cashiers loans
on bad security is but 100000.
DIR. Siemer's report on Northern Pa
citic securities has sent Berlin's Deut-
sche Bank securities up three points.
The Bank OF England destroys about
$50, 900 OF its notes every week to re-
place them with freshly printed ones.
St. Petersburg newspapers are growl-
ing over the defeat OF the recent French
Cabinet as treason to Russo-French
alliance.
An attempt is being made under the
auspicies OF the Royal Geographical
Society to renew interest in Antarctic ex-
ploration.
Canon Farrar is about to erect in St.
Margaret's Church, London, small but
beautiful memorial to the late Dr. Phil
lips Brooks.
Drs. Libbertz and Laubenheimen, col
leagues OF Prof. Koch, are preparing an
antidote to diphtheria and are confident
of its success.
The Manchester canal, now finished,
has cost the lives of 15S men, the perma-
nent injury OF 1856 and the temporary
injury OF |, ,404.
The house OF Rotschild has made its
annual gift OF 100, 900 francs to assist the
tenants in Paris who are in difficulties
over their rent.
1t is announced that France and Eng
land have agreed as to Siam. This
means that there will soon be one less
nation in the world.
Brigands in the Caucasus are becom-
ing bolder than ever before. Extra
ordinary stories OF their recent outrages
are coming to hand.
An outbreak of most infectious type
OF influenza is the prevailing topic of
personal concern not only in England,
but throughout Europe.
Irish constables have been instructed
not to interfere, directly or indirectly,
with the collection of funds for the
benefit OF evicted tenants.
The Mayor OF Milan and other promi-
nent persons have issued call for sub
scriptions ior erecting monument in
that city in memory OF MacMahon.
The Swiss government denies that it
is about to expel hundreds of Anarchists
from the Republic, They won't be
molested as long as they keep quiet.
The sales of sealskins have lust
closed in London. Nearly l20, 900 skins
were disposed OF for Sl,Sl0,0O The
prices have fallen Off from 10 to % per
cent,
The Vienna iron ring has collapsed
1t was formed in 1890. II the Bohemian
and Moravian iron works would have
in the ring, it would have been
Germany has decided to paint the YES
sells OF her navy u dull yellowish brown,
which would make it difficult for the
enemy to distinguish them even at short
distances.
Mr., Astor is said to have popularized
his Pail Mall Gazette by "a series of a,-
tacks on public men," Most of these
public men" happen to live in the
United States.
4 dispatch from Cairo saws that the
khedive on December 5 opened the
railway connecting lsmalia with Port
Said. The British gunboat Dolphin
salutcd the khedive.
Nine. Rodriguez, noted Partisan
dressmaker, died recently in lunatir
asylum. Her fame was great, and she
always refused to make dresses for
women with poor figures.
An Important extension OF the tele-
phone system OF Germany is at present
being carried out by the establishment
NJ u double line between Berlin and
Cologne, distance OF about Sg5 miles,
Depression in the shipping trade is
in the return OF Suez canal NJ.
'eiptS for the first nine months of tbis