Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-03-05
OVER THE GLOBE.
PROMULGA ZION OF THE NEW CON-
sTITUTION OF JAPAN.
Meeting of Union and Confederate Ves'
erans-No Change in the Status OF
the Samoan Question-Sans
Culottes of Rome


Prince Bismarck is threatened with
facial paralysis.
The steamer Haytian Republic has
arrived at Boston.
Less than 80 per cent OF Chcagos
population is foreign.
Gray hair for women is now the
fashionable thing in Paris.
Within weeks notice Italy can
place 1900, 900 men in the field.
Thousands of emigrants are flock
ing into the Argentine Republic.
The official trial OF the gunboat
o.ktown was complete success.
The percentage Of suicidesin France
is greater than in any other country.
The members of the French mimic
try, headed by Floquet, have resigned
The Knights OF Labor will return to
absolute secrecy in all their proeeed-
ings.
Samuel J. Tilden's birth day was ex-
tensively celebrated throughout the
East last week.
1t is proposed to consolidate all the
express companies OF the coun ry into
enc corporation.
This Ohio State prison was not only
self-supporting last year but yielded a
profit of SIS, 1888.
A man was sentenced to AIT days
imprisonment at Rutland, VT, recent
ly, for getting drunk.
The value of the plumber secured
by the mob in the recent riot at Rome
is estimated at $l25,0O0.
Men are swarming through the gas
territory in Wabash county, Indiana,
taking oil leases from farmers.
The Pennsylvania Central railroad
will hereafter haul no freight on Sun
day except such as are classed perish
able.
A bill has been introduced in the
Delaware legislature exempting wo-
men from the punishment OF the
whipping post.
Ovey five hundred women of Bangor
have signed remonstrance sent to
the Maine legislature, protesting
against woman suffrage.
Professor d. Henzel was severely
beaten by three unknown parties at
St. Paul, Saturday. They mad pre-.
viously warned him 10 leave town.
Emigration agents are draining
! North Carolina Of able-bodied negroes
The tanners will be unable now tC
handle their crops the coming season
; Mrs. McNulty, aged sixty, and Air
ME Mcclure, aged eleven years, were
frozen to death about 200 yards fron
home, near Ottawa, Canada, in the
blizzard of last week.
1t is reported that affairs among the
laborng class on the Panama cana
are in a deplorable condition. The
canal project is hopeless failure, ant
work will soon cease altogether.
Another tragedy was enacted a
Lake Starnberg, Thursday, when two
/, persons drowned themselves. Since
the suicide of King Ludwig, clever
persons have drowned in the lake,
t The Indians on Battle River reser
+ Walton are suffering greatly from Al
affection of the throat and neck
, which prevents them from swallowing
food. The complete determination 0
the tribe is feared.
: The steamer Carondelet sailed from
New York Friday afternoon for Sa
f moa. She had on board 1873 cases O
A riffs, shells and ammunition, whicl
: were brought here by the steame
2 Westernland last Wednesday.
The excursion of Canadian legisla
Y tors through the United States, givel
s by American merchants with the viey
: of furthering the annexation scheme
n will be Il grand affair. Itexpected tina
fully 400 will visit the principal cite
OF the Union.
q There is danger of an cutbreaI
!. among the half-breed Indians in Bart
4 lett county, Dakota. The military a
st. Johns have been ordered out b
the sheriff, but the commanding o.
a ticer says that the sheriff has no au
IS thority to do so. Serious trouble i
: feared.
At n meeting of the Union and Con
federate veterans at Washington
S Thursday, the plan of preserving ant
IS marking the field of Chicamauga, un
e der the auspices of joint memoirs
n corporation repre- ,enting all the State
that had troops there, was cordial
approved.
+ The new constitution of Japan wa
5 promulgated from the throne las
l. week. 1t establishes house of peers
members of which are to be partl
hereditary, partly elective and partl
, nominated by the mikadc, and
house of commons of 300 member,
. The right of suffrage is given to a
men of the sge OF twenty five year
and over who pay taxes to the amour
a of $25 yearly.
s Late advices from Samoa say tha
{ there has been no change in the sitl
u alton since the last report. There Ina
/ been no fighting, and Tamasese an
Mataafa remain in their stronghold
O The British consul has warned B tits
\, subjects not to supply the native
l. wish arms, and to maintain a stri,
t neutrality. The British war ship Ca
IT iope has replaced the war ship Ro,
l. dist The German and America
war ships remain stationary.