Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-08-09
FOREIGN NEWS.

Emperor William continues to enjoy !
his trip to Norway, and is doing his
best to suit the popular taste.
Ferdinand OF Bulgaria says the Rus
sian Svet has professed readiness to en-
brace the orthodox Russian creed, have
his heir baptized in the orthodox Rus
sian Church and reinstated in the Bull
garian army all the military Protestanst,
if in return they will only recognize him
as Prince of Bulgaria.
W. w. Thomas, late United States
Minister to Norway and Sweden, with
Mrs. Thomas and their boy, are spend
ing the summer at Lysekil, Sweden.
He is employing his leisure in writing
lecture on Sweden and the Swedes,
which he will deliver in various parts OF
the United States during the coming
winter.
The Prussian committee Of the Vistula
| basin reports twenty-five deaths from
cholera and eleven new cases OF that
disease during the past week. A strict
river inspection has been adopted at
Dusseldorf and Cologne. Suspicious
cases have been reported from Thorne,
Bonsack and Grautz. The cholera COM
mittee Of the health office met in Berlin
to determine upon the precautions to be
taken along the Russian frontier.
In connection with the withdrawal OF
the Equitable Life Insurance from doing
business in Prussia 1T must be said that
public opinion in Berlin is not favorable
to the American enterprise. 1t is said
that the Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany is in the same fix as the Equitable.
1t must be added, however, that the new
position OF the government is directed
against all companies, among which are
many English ones and all the German
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The heat throughout Germany has
been intense, causing much suffering,
and many sunstrokes have been the re-
suit. Outdoor work has often been sus-
pended, and complete lethargy prevails
in Berlin. Every one able to do SO has
left town, and those who remain are
sweltering in the torrid atmosphere.
This hot wave is another fulfllment OF
Fallbe's prophecies. and he predicts the
warm weather will last for another fort
night, after which there viii DC much
rain.
Tho suoor morufacturers bave hold
ooyarol confaranoa ot tbo oft;ces of tbo
imperial treasury to discuss the new SILL
car tariff of the United States. They
are almost unanimous in begging the
|, government to retaliate in case the Amer
lean import tax on sugar be increased
, but the government treats their propos-
ais coldly. Official opinion is thoroughly
opposed to ANYTHING like a tariff wal
with the United States. Under the
treaty of 1891 Germany would still be
the most favored nation, even if the tar.
iff be left at the figure fixed in the Ger.
man bill,
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