Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-08-17
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Influenza in London Believed
to be Dying Out.
A POSITIVE CURE FOR LEPROsY'
The Farnese Palace in Rome Bought
by the Geman Government
The King of Assam.

said TO be dying.
Italy officially announces eminently
health reports.
Milan is SO satisfied with its municipal
lighting experiment that it is now build
ing street-railway system.
A pedestal and bust have been placed
over the grave OF the late Charles Brad
laugh at Brookwood, England.
Sympathy for the unemployed poor Of
London would be greater if so many OF
them were not seen intoxicated.
The Prussian Home Secretary has is
sued an order to the provincial depart
ments to expel Russian immigrants.
The Italian Catholic mission at Mien
Yang, ninety miles from Hankow, China,
has been destroyed by native rioters.
Revolutionary movements have begun
in the provinces OF Buenos Ayres and
Santa Fe, Argentine, led by the Radicals.
A Continental medical journal says that
of 545 morphinomaniacs brought under
observation 289 were doctors of medi-
cine.
The German Emperor is said to "per-
sonally regret" the retirement OF Hon.
w. W. Phelps, the former American
Minister.
Ex-Premier Depretis of Italy is re-
ported to have received 100000 from
1alongo, the imprisoned ex-manager OF
the Bank of Rome.
From an observation tower on the
Brocken in the Harz Mountains eighty
nine cities and 66S villages can be seen
in clear weather.
The Cardinal Manning memorial fund
in London has reached total of $50, 900.
The money will be given to the homeless
poor Of that city.
The Indian government has refused to
modify the terms granted to exchange
banks, who have appealed to England
against the decision.
1t is announced that during the Gar
owitz' visit to England Queen Victoria
will confer on him the Order of the Gar
ter at Windsor Castle.
There was something pathetic in the
King OF Slams request to the French
invaders that they should stop shooting
and let diplomacy have chance.
The Siam fracas has spread more gen.
eral knowledge OF that Asiatic country,
its style Of government and its resources
than any other event possibly could have
done.
Cholera has broken out in st. Louis,
Senegal, capital of the French posses
sions in Senegambis. The deaths have
already reached an average of fifty
daily.
The remarkable price of 1900 was paid
in London recently for a fossil egg Of the
@pyornis, an extinct wingless bird that
inhabited Madagascar in prehistori,
times.
The new Belgian Constitution will pro
vide that three.fourths of the Sa-,.
shall be elected by direGtnSAH",enai
frage and the oth.-I, ~ universal sui
Council. - S!sfer fourth by Communs
80.
Austria is having a hard time over tn
resumption of gold payments. Gold /
at premium at Vienna, as it ia every
where in Europe when wanted in an
quantity.
1t has been calculated that the annua
income OF the London Hebrews is nearl
Go, 900, 900, which means that they ar
eight and one-quarter times richer thai
the Gentiles.
Shippers were astonshed to learn re
Gently that from the comparatively nm
known port OF Rosario, Argentine Re
public, 100, l4l tons OF wheat we're ex
ported last May.
The German War Minister has decided
that the handles OF all hatchets, axe,
anu besleging material of the German
army must hereafter be made OF Ameri.
can hickory wood.
An overhead electric railway for Ma.
Piles is proposed by Sig. Avena, A local
engineer. On account of the narrow
streets and steep grades surface transit
is not advantageous. 4
Several of the principal London~h5or = /,
nave informed their clerks that durinc
the hot weather no repraach will be casi al
on them ii they come to business in
light coats and straw hats.
DR.. ToRazoli, noted Russian nbvo;-
cian, is hbout to make public what be
claims 10 be positive cure for lenrosy
Inc cciei ingredient in the remedy ia a
wheT obtained from sheep. 80 "
Daniel Colladon, whose death At Ca.
eva occurred recently, was one of swift.
riands most famous men. He first
lighted Geneva with gas in lS4S The was
then II years old, and afterward % ins
vented the fairy fountain"
Women bootblacks have been m.Lirc
thelr appearance in increasing numhars
iaiely IN Ioulon and other French towns
tidy and coquettish girls, who weor
gauntlet gloves in their efforts to ont'
shine their male competitors.
Influenza is believed to be dvinc IN,
IN London after being more or less prey.
slent since the first outbreak over H.
world several years ago. For a cnps;J'
cradle time the number OF deaths irrn,
Ihe malady have been about twent,
week. During the second week Of IL"
'hly SIX such deaths occurred.
The German government has ho,,h.
he Farnese Palace in Rome onS snfI
! 's'aoilsh ~ IN 1t school of fine arts for
,'i1l ,er'hah painters and sculptors. The
,aace belonged TO the Naples branch % Of
ne bouroons, and is a splendid ola |
airs. avn VI re-
Dr. Hafkine has inocula,ed over ano
'ersons at Simla for cholera. inrlra;no
issny msdlcal men, high officials and
'uies' ,i several native Indian States
ave N taken up his system OF inoculation
hu IL Is USED at Agra, Delhi and Iuct'
ow' In one British regiment over 100
len have been inoculated. w" foV
The Ming of Assam has 200 wiye, who
re divided into nine classes. When nono "no
These ladies dies her BODY is let 5omn Ue
yer the palace walls and then brr;nsi
Is against the law for A dead b>iui bi,eu
: tSlFiSH ,Sn Tin out through the palace doors ,
Sr,,;sIHg r,'e nIng death his oonsorts receive ,
his 40 hiAsta aNNA'No 70 any {