Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-01-18
FOREIGN FLASHES.
a famine prevails in Central Asia.

The drouth in the Argentine Republic
is causing serious damage to crops.
The annual cost of the British army il
Gl7,OOO,OOO; Of the navy GA, 900, 900.
Tin-plate workers of Meath, Wales
have had their wages cut 10 per cent.
1t is reported that Italy is negotiatint
a loan OF 100000, 900 lire in Germany.
The Shah OF Persia will visit Berlin
st. Petersburg, Paris and Vienna mex
spring.
The Kaiser has ordered that alumni
ium cooking utensils be used in the Ger
man army.
The Barcelona police have hit upor
another factory containing forty pear
shaped bombs.
Two thousand new books will be pu
on the market by London publisher
alone this year.
England, it is said, will spend more
than GlOO, 100000 on her navy within
the next five years.
Greece will probably be forced by the
creditor powers to reduce her army and
navy and pay her debts.
Morocco ought to pay Spain $4,000.
600 indemnity for the Melilla troubles
says Madrid newspaper
The Prussian government has demon.
strated that petroleum is reliable scale
preventer in steam boilers.
1t is announced that a charter for a
university for Wales has been signed by
the Queen, and consequently has become
law.
A committee OF the London Stock Ex.
change is at present celebrating a plan
to abolish or at least cripple the bucket.
shop business.
France intends to abandon her demand
Tor the extradition OF DR.. Herr, because
1T is alleged she is averse to reviving the
Panama scandal.
The annual returns Of the CLYDE ship.
building industry show that the total
output for 1895 was 208, 900 tons, against
1886, 900 last year.
Japanese feeling against foreigners
continues to increase. The chaplain OF
the British legation was recently as
auted in Tokio's streets.
Seven persons have been arrested at
Odessa, Russia, charged with having
formed combine for the purpose of rob-
bing the famine-stricken peasantry.
A Buenos Ayres paper says that the
agricultural products of Argentine have
trebled in the last ten years. The value
OF this years crop amounted to $S7 ,0OO,-
600.
The Royal Commission reports that in
Scotland, as elsewhere, the supply of ag-
rlcultural laborers is much less than
twenty years ago. They have gone to
town.
The electric railway has penetrated
even the Businesses of the Tyrolese
Mountains, a road twenty seven miles
long being projected between Riva and
PinZolo.
Paris is to have mahogany roadway.
a part OF Rue La Fayette is being paved
with that wood. 1t is only an expert
ment, but it sounds like very expen-
sive one.
The Cairo correspondent of the Lon
don News says that the native Egyptian
press is renewing its violent attacks on
the British and melting the people to
rebellion.
Lord Salisbury's recent speech in the
Upper House during the debate on In
dian finances is regarded as a definite
pronouncement in favor of international
bimetalism.
The Vienna publcans have started a
boycott against Pilsener beer on account
OF a rise in the price, and they are agi-
tatlng throughout Austria Hungary ior
cooperation.
A portion OF an "Adventurer's share 4"
in the New River Company has been
sold, making the price of one share more
than E45o,OO0. This is the highest fig
ure ever reached
A significant sign OF the hard times is
seen in the fact that the Scotland Yard
have after much discussion
voted to allow the London police to carry
pistols for this winter only.
The British government has decided
to expend large sum on STRENGTHENING
the defenses at Portland. Half a million
sterling will be required, and the works
are expected to occupy ten years.
Mr.. Holinsworth has given to Bir-
mingham some rentable houses, simply
rs an endowment for a city. The Town
Council accepted, with the hope that
his will be the first OF long line of
such gifts"
In Holland women and persons of
'ither sex under the age of l6 are now
orbldden to begin work earlier than 5
NJ. or to continue work after 7P. NJ,
lor can their work exceed eleven hours
! day in all.
A British old fogy laments that what
vas once :" thank you, sir" long ago
ost the 81" and became THANK YOU,
in" Then the sir" was dropped, and
oon THANK you" became thanks"
nd then " Thanks, awfully," and finally |
las disappeared.
The German War Minister, Won Asch. |
Ias given semi-sancton to dueling in
speech in Parliament. Under the pres
mt circumstances OF society, he said, |
ueling cannot be abolished in spite o.
he law. The speech raised storm OF
rotests in the Diet
Captains White and Donovan, who
ere III the Matabele country, have gone
D London. They have given detailed
ccount of the fighting. Captain White
enies the story OF immense slaughter of
ne Matabeles, and says not more than
800 or 1000 warriors were killed in the
hole campaign.
Missionary Robert Ashe, who returned
'tely to London from Uganda, asserts
nat dangerous Arab ferment threat
ms TO disturb the whole country. The
rabs are well armed and prepared with
he saws, and unlimited