Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-05-04
An Appeal for an International
Sanitary Code Issued.
THE INCREASE OF THE OCTROI
Large Tunnel Between Capri and
Acquafredda, Italy. Success
fully Driven.

Imperial federation is being urged
upon Mr.. Gladstone by many OF the
British colonies.
Some successful attempts to purify
sewage with electricity have been made
in France and England.
The riots in Belgium have caused
prediction that before the end of the
century Belgium will be a Republic.
A commencement is ere long to be
made with the construction OF the rail-
way tunnel under the Clyde at Patrick.
1t is stated that the South Austrian
railway, one OF the largest lines in Aus
tria-Hungary, is to be purchased by the
State.
England is considering the advisable
ity Of entering formal protest against
Turkish outrages on Christians in Ar
menia.
A bimetallic league of Australia has
been formed in Melbourne to promote
bimetallism by international agree
ment." ...
The President OF Ecuador denies that
there is treaty pending with the United
States for the possession OF one OF the
Galapagos Islands.
Coal has been discovered in the Eiffel
region near the Rhine, which is declared
by experts to be Devonian anthracite
coal with an admixture of pvrites.
The Medical Committee of the Cancer
Hospital in London has published a
statement that tomatoes neither predis-
pose to nor excite cancerous formation.
The Berlin police have arrested Count
Olaf Won Gazern, a member OF one OF
the most powerful families of Germany,
on a charge of committing several frauds.
The Sultan OF Turkey, who maintains
a rigid censorship over the press has or
dered that no newspapers shall be pub
lished in his kingdom until in the after
noon.
Nine. Bernhardt has recently appeared
before an official in Vienna whose bust
ness was to judge on moral grounds OF
the appropriateness of her stage cos
tunes. .....
The jury system in Bengal is not to be
abandoned after all although the gov
ernment last October declared it must be
abolished or greatly modified in the in
terests OF justice.
The English trade in frozen beef from
Autralia, like that in frozen mutton, has
increased enormously during the past
year-the export, 10000 cwt., being al
most double that of 1891,
The Anti-Slavery Society in Germany
has become bankrupt, notwithstanding
its lottery netting several million marks
1t is probable that the government viii
intervene to avoid big outburst.
1t is said that several members OF the
British Cabinet favor plan by which I
choice between government by Dublin
Parliament or government by British
Parliament shall be granted to Ulster.
A lottery is under consideration il
Germany for the completion of the Kai
ser Wilhelm Church, but lotteries do no
take well now, as the intelligent classe
notice that only the bankers profit b,
. them.
: NJ. Leroy -Beaulieu says that at tn
, rate things are going in France ther
will be Il regular annual deficit of iron
r $40 900, 900 to 500, ,000, 900 and the nee,
, of a loan OF $500, 10000 every three o
four years.
Y Baron Mundy of Vienna, the vetera,
: sanitarian, has issued strong appea
for the establishment OF an internationa
sanitary code, and suggests the summon
|, ing of an international conference t
discuss and arrange such a code.
"The Irish home-rule BILL" declare
Michael Davitt, NJ. p. for North Meatl
in a forcible speech in the House c
, Commons one day last week, Twill be az
! cepted by 1900 600 of the Irish race a
; apact ofpeace to be honorably observed.
The large tunnel between Capri an
q Acquafredda on the Pisciotta- Castro
cucca railway, Italy, has recently bee
successfully driven. The tunnel, whic
: is three and half miles long, was CON
! menced about three and half year
ago.
: The method Of treating snakebite b
: injections OF strychnine is to be submit
ted to exhaustive trial in India unde
9 the sanction and supervision of the GOV
ernment. The method has proved high
ly ettectual in many cases reported i
, Australia.
a The canal across the lsthmus of Coz
lnth is soon to open to navigation, an
has cost 2O,OOO,OO0. II has been bull
I with French capital and under Frenc
y direction, the original concession havin
V been granted some twelve years ago {
a NJ. de Lesseps.
J, Some OF the French papers are tryin
u to stir up ill-feeling against Lord Dut
, ferin, the British Ambassador at Pari.
! They accuse him OF trying to make trou
BILE between France and Russia, an
with giving financial help to the Tripl
Alliance and its agents.
i On account of increased railway rate
n the British Army authorities hav
adopted the novel method of sendin
. transports required for various maneu
= vers by road, in trains OF wagons draw
u by traction engines. The cost has thu
been reduced fully one-half.
n The disturbances by Mohammedans i
which Christians were said to have bee
4. persecuted, had their beginning in Turk
lsh or Armenian conspirators incitin
=, the people to revolt. Letters addresse,
= to the American Legation were no
! opened by the Turkish authorities.
Professor Baer OF the Munich Uniyer
p sity has found upon mummy certai,
. cosmetics used by Egyptian ladies Q
= fashion S,4OO years ago. He has anal
wed them and ascertained their compo
, siton, The properties OF these cosme;
les were to impart avcrlant sheen L
y the iris OF tue eye.
Since the famous Ioewe gun trial IN
German government has refused TO or
der sabers from private firms. They ar
= now produced exclusively at the Stat
y arsenAls. This mclsnra hns rln..l -