Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-12-21
Ex-King Milan Preparing to
Overthrow His Son.
THE NEW ITALIAN MINISTRY.
The Amount of Property in London
Insured in Fire Insurance
COmpanies-Ete.

Russia may build railroad to the
Arctic Ocean.
One-seventh of the land owners in
Great Britain are women.
London Anarchists claim to have allies
in the army, navy and police.
Fifteen Anarchists will be tried at Bar
celona for the fiendish bomb outrage.
The influenza is epidemic in Hesse,
Germany, 10000 cases being reported.
OF this years Russian conscription OF
252 ,592 men only one-fourth can read or
write.
President Carnot is charged with not
wanting new Ministry created for
awhile.
The betrothal of the Czarowitz of Rus
sia to Princess Helene of Orleans is i'm
minent.
The niece OF John Morley has been
converted to Catholicism, and will enter
convent.
Influenza is stated to be raging terribly
in Birmingham, and smallpox is also
prevalent:
The delimitation of the frontier OF
Ecuador and Peru will be submitted to
arbitration.
Friendly negotiations between Hon
duras and Nicaragua have been tempora-
rily disturbed.
There are indications that the phvs-
ical force party in Ireland intend resum-
ing operations.
Emperor William is said to be negoti-
ating for the purchase of the American
sloop yacht Vigil"nt.
The war office OF England has directed
all Sergeant instructors of volunteers to
attend foot ball matches.
In some parts of England barbed-wire
fences are still classed as a nuisance, and
their use is forbidden by law.
The new French Ministry had a bare
majority of thirty-one in the first en-
gagement with its opponents.
Acertain Peruvian heiress paid Worth
| $24 900 for gown trimmed with lace
OF this sum So, 900 was for the lace.
Great swarms of locusts are devastat.
ing the country around Bloomfontein
the capital OF the Orange Free State.
Instead of using hair cloth an enter
prising Parisian dressmaker has stiffeneC
the skirt of a ball gown with aluminium
In spite of the notoriously bad condi
ton of the lta ian finances the civil lis
of the country is the largest in Europe
Jerusalem has been modernized by {
railroad, and now a concession to estab
lish water works is being demanded.
The Hungarian vintage of the prssen
year has turned out the worst since tn,
appearance of the phylloxera and pero
nospora.
1t is rumored in London that the de
ticiencies in the Bank of England ar,
about to be brought to the notice of Par
Lament.
Last year according to the statistic
recently compiled 24,000 men and ,00I
women left Japan to find homes 10
themselves abroad.
All citizens of Ecuador now in PERI
have been placed under German protec
} lection, owing to the departure OF TIN
Ecuadorian Minister.
Iron visiting cards are among the lat
est novelties in Germany. Forty place,
one on the other are said to be only one
tenth of an inch in thickness.
A Marseilles (France) cable from
large importer OF Russian wheat said
"Wheat very depressed because OF larg
stocks and likely to continue so."
During the last year the property il
London insured by fire insurance com
panies and the underwriters at Lloyd
amounted to more than S400, ,000, 900.
1t is reported that Milan, ex-King @
Servia, is preparing coup to overthrow
his son, King Alexander, again ascen
the throne and fill his own exhauste
purse.
SIR Thomas Esmond, NJ. p, is conduct
ing a crusade against the English Ian
. guage in County Cork, Ireland. Th
effort is to make the English languag
, unpopular.
The banking house of Du Fresno. on
: of the oldest established banks in Flor
ence, Italy, has supended payment. En-
etaz, the manager OF the bank, commit
! ted suicide.
,, The Lord Mayor of London is manag
ing subscription for the benefit of tn
sufferers from the dynamite explosion q
, Santander, Spain. Lord Rosebery sen
check for Sl25,
Lord Charles Beresiord's proposal tha
within the next four years England sha
expend Els S,OOO,OO0 upon the navy ha
,, been received with friendly criticism b
the Liberal press.
The United Press correspondent i
Paris has been authorized to contradi,
fatty and finally the report that the d
vorced wife OF Edward Parker Deacon
about TO marry again.
: Last year the German Emperor Intro
: duced snowshoes into the equipment
e his army on the Eastern frontier, an
I this year the troops are TO be thorough
trained in using them.
The Crown Princess of Austria hI
, presented her bridal robes to the ChurC
OF Bozen. They have been made Il
! into beautiful chasuble, which has bee
worn at mass by the dean.
I The railroads in Italy are now usir
Q coal cars OF American pattern and thirt'
ton capacity, and they are said to [
/ giving greater satisfaction than the oil
$ type OF twelve-ton cars previously use,
Major Goold-Adams at Capetowi
l Africa, reports that King Lobengula hi
; written asking that the forces under NJ
! lor Forbes be withdrawn in order tn!
: he may come and discuss the position
e affairs.
: The inquest on the cause OF the deaf
of Prof. Tvndall at London resulted
u verdict that the professor died from a
, overdose of chloral. He had been accr
i toned to take the drug TO alleviate a
suiIerings.
. II is expected that the hetrothal Of ii
: widowed Crown Princess Stephanie ,
e Austria TO Archdukc Franz Ferdinan