Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-02-01
FOREIGN FLASHES.

rara, Italy.
A large force OF Italian troops have
been sent TO Palermo.
Cashier May of the Bank of England
defaulted for E13O,OOO.
Austrian iron producers will limit pro-
duction for three years.
The Belgium Diet has rejected the mo-
tion for universal and equal suffrage.
The annual civil list or salary paid to
King Humbert of Italy is about $3,0OO,-
600.
France will begin this year the con-
struction OF thirty-two war ships OF all
classes.
Diphtheria has killed nearly every
child in the government OF Saratof,
Russia.
A long-distance telephone will soon be
put into operation between Berlin and
Stockholm.
1t is estimated that in the whole OF
Europe over 600, 900 women hold public
appointments.
The amount OF gold and silver bullion
in the Bank Of France at the present
time is els, ,578, ,55l.
The cartoon bismarck in Berlin "
has got its publisher into Jail as libeler
OF Chancellor Caprivi.
The iron masters of Austria and Hun
gary have agreed to renew the iron ring
for another three years.
Eight cars loaded with human hair ar
rived in Paris recently, consigned to
dealers in that merchandise.
So far as murder and robbery are con-
cerned, Sicily and Corsica are the two
worst countries on the globe.
A commission has been appointed by
the government OF Cape Colony to in
quire into the leprosy question.
The new simplon tunnel from Brieg in
Switzerland 10 lsella in Italy viii be
twelve and one-half miles long.
The London Times apologies for the
methods of the Bank of England, and
says that they are being improved.
For the coming Paris Exposition the
history of gardening from the most an
cient days is to be illustrated in gardens
at Versailles.
Irish members of Parliament will be
asked to prevent the transfer of Anglo
American mails from Queenstown to
Southampton.
The Russian census returns for 1893
show l24,0O0, 900 population. 1t is be-
lieved that these figures are smaller than
the actual population.
The Sultan has conferred the Grand
Cross OF the Imperial Order OF the Med
jidie upon Mr.. Maxim, the inventor OF
the quick-fring guns bearing his name.
A special American building, contain
ing 26,500 square feet OF space available
to exhibitors, will be feature in the
coming Industrial Exposition at Ant
werp.
The inhabitants of Rio are heartily
tired of war, and the epidemic raging
there makes a desire for peace all the
stronger on the part of the citizens gen.
orally.
Excavations in Palestine go to show
that the hot-air blast, which has been
credited to be the invention of Nelson
in 1928, was used 400 years before
Christ.
In Rome they think four inches OF
snow terrible fall, and telegraph the
incident OF the storm all over the world
with the added information that "street
traffic is impeded."
The Kroner Bros, until recently OF
the Gotta publishing house, Stuttgart,
have finished printing Bismarck's men,
oirs in six volumes. The memoirs will
be withheld until after the Princes
death.
Emperor William has taken steps tc
have milk produced on his farms Mt Pots.
dam sold in Berlin. Carts bearing his
name may be seen in the streets OF the
capital, the drivers of which retail the
fluid to any one.
The coffee crop in Nicaragua is suffer-
ing, and much of it has been lost through
the scarcity of pickers, who have gone
with the troops. For lack of men to dc
the work the authorities are pressing
women into service.
The Cunard Steamship Company has
ordered the laying down of two new
cargo steamers. Each vessel will be o
5000 tons burden. They will be built
by the London and Glasgow Engineering
and Iron Ship Building Company.
The most important point agreed upon
is that France has not only reached the
highest possible point OF military devel-
opment, but that she cannot much
longer maintain it without sacrificing
the financial superiority which she now
enjoys.
An outbreak OF mouth and foot diseas,
in the central slaughtering houses o
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pigs and cattle destined for market must
be killed, and further exports of cattle
and pigs were prohibited until the dis
ease is pronounced extinct.
Mr.. Maskeline of the Egyptian Hall
London, is going to issue volume or
Modern Methods OF Cheating ut Games
OF Chance and Skill" 1t will constitute
an exposure OF the methods and device.
employed in cheating at the present day
and revelation OF the secrets of the
modern gaming sharp.
Mile. llumbolt. famous court beaut,
in the reign of King Louis Philippe, has
Just died in Paris at the age of 81. Fol
many years she lived in nabiect wretched.
ness in u garret and passed oil as beg.
gar, but after her death u valuable col.
lection OF pictures was discovered in tn,
garret and some thousands of pounds in
bonds and bank sewed up in her mat.
tress.
Theodore Runyon, United States Am
hassador to Germany, wishes to contra
dict the newspaper statement that al
the Emperor's New Years reception he
wore uniform not authorized by his
government. lie wore the uniform of a