Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-08-23
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Railways In Ireland-To Have faoho
Musical Ciock-Mrs. Belva Lock
wood in London.

Mary Anderson's health is much I'M
proved.
Rev. Horatio Ronar died at Edinburgh
ON the LIST.
Engand's biggest ship has $4,000
horsepower.
The Scotch harvest promises to be early
and abundant.
The Gar has approved Count Tolstol's
reform projects.
The practice of cremation is spreading
rapidly in Italy.
London's policemen number l4,2i1
hackmen, l4,261.
The notorious Nine. Restell is said to
be living in Paris.
Schnadhorst, the leader of the English
Socialists, is dying.
A new poem by Lord Tennyson will
bloom in September.
Spain has floating industrial exhibit
ton at South America.
Deserters from Wadel Semi say he in
tends TO fight to the last
Bismarck hopes to bring the three EN-
perors together mt Potsdam.
There is a gold dining hall in the I'm
perial residence at Moscow.
Frousie Indignantly repndiates the re-
ports that he is a Home Ruler.
The Shah OF Persia bought black dia-
mond for $4,000 in Paris, last week.
The municipal council at Rome has de-
eided to .orm Pasteur institution.
Queen Natalie will be permitted to
meet her son only outside OF Servia.
Hungary has cut railroad fares to II
and Is cents for fifteen and twenty miles.
The whole of Abyssinia has submitted
to King Menelek except the Province OF
Tigre.
England has annexed the Union and
Phoenix group OF islands, in the Pacific
Ocean.
William OBrien has applied for new
trial of his libel suit against Salisbury Tor
Islander.
The italian Parliament has suddenly
been prorogued. /, caused general
surprise.
Not only is the city OF Pisa bankrupt,
but ten other Italian towns have become
insolvent.
Canada has in view the project of a
steamship line between Chilean ports
and Quebec.
There has not been single death from
smallpox in London this year. No Chi
namen there.
The international sugar bank agencies
have announced that they have capital
of $l5, 10000.
The British House OF Commons has
agreed TO grant $1,000, 900 to build rail
ways in Ireland.
During the past season Liverpool took
zoo, 900 and London 100000 barrels Of
American apples.
Thirty persons were killed and eighty
injured by the recent earthquake on the
Island OF Kiu-Siu, Japan.
Privy Councillor Kruger has been ar
rested on suspicion of being concerned
in the German naval frauds.
Queen Victoria desires TO visit India
but does not think her health sufficient
to stand the long sea voyage.
NJ. Stanley is reported in an Austria
/ liam interview as saying that THE good
/ old race of singers is dying out.
The deepest artesian well in Russia
opens with depth of 2090 feet. The
sinking operation took two years.
The Italian cruiser Sardegna has the
| largest steam engine. 1t il four tripl,
expansion and has $4,000 horsepower.
Fears are expressed that there will bt
| massacre at Port-au-Prince, Hayti, i
Hippolite succeeds in his work oil cap
trre.
. Mrs. Belva Lockwood. now in London
. is expected ION account oil her extreme
individuality" to be ''much sough
after.
1t is though that Crispi, the Italian
Premier, is near the end OF his power
and that with him will fall the terribl,
alliance.
The Spanish Government supports
Austria in advising the Pope to take VI
his residence in Portugal ii Obliged t,
leave Rome.
Lord Mayor OF Dublin Sexton persist
in charging the British Government will
having opened the letter President Har
rison wrote him.
Boulanger says his mental condition
never was better, and is amused at the
reports circulated in Paris that he haC
committed suicide.
The greatest house in London befor,
long will perhaps be Lord Portman's pro
posed reproduction OF Woolsey's famous
palace at Hampton Court.
The Cretan Mussulmans have burne,
over a hundred houses in Il village nea
Canca. The insurgent lealers have ap
piled 10 Greece for assistance.
1t is reported that Mrs George Pendle
ton Bowler, of Cincinnati, has been cap
tured by bandits in Italy. She has beer
travelling in Europe for years.
A small committee has been formed o
members OF the House OF Commons VII,
are interested in the welfare of the Ar
menian subjects OF the Sultan.
Premier Salisbury SAYS the increaset
war preparations of the powers are grea
security TO peace. He does not admi
that there will be an early conflict.
A cable message from the European
Union OF Astronomers announces tn,
discovery OF an asteroid of the thirtietl
magnitude by DR.. Palesa OF Vienna.
Melbourne, Australia, is to have a pub
lie clock, which will roll off popular ali
every hour excepting during Sunday
when only sacred music will be played
Ristics, who has no long been a centra