Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-03-19
FOREIGN FLASHES.
THE UNITED STATES AND COLON
BIA AT LOGGERHEADS.
The German Squadron Ordered to Sa-
moa-Grand Duke Vladlmir's Dis
graceful ConductA Cana
dams Brilliant Idea.


w. II. Gladstone, son OF the statesman,
is dying.
Scotland's WOODEN mills are running
over time.
The cost of the Paris exposition will be
100000 900.
The Empress Frederick has returned
to Germany.
OF the 100000 foreigners in Paris only
1902 are Americans.
Chile has passed law excluding Chi
nese from the country.
Germany has given q large order to an
Austrian factory for rifles.
Canadian pork-packers have petitioned
to exclude American pork.
Belfast, Ireland, will have an Interna-
tional exhibition next year.
The Sultan of Morocco has ceded a
strip of territory to Germany.
Oscar Wilde has published an essay
entitled The Decay OF Lying"
Cardinal Charles Sacconi is dead. He
was senior in rank of cardinals.
German papers claim that Klein, OF Sa-
moan fame, is German subject.
The Rothschinds are forming a COM
panv to work the Burmah ruby mines.
It is intended to run new line OF
steamers between Leith and Baltimore.
The report of the death OF Hippolyte
| A. To hp
untrue.
The bank of England building, Lon
don, covers eighta acres and employs 1000
persons.
There are more than $780, 900 women
in Belgium who are engaged in industrial
pursuits.
Boulanger acknowledges that it is his
intention to invade Germany within the
next six months.
1t is reported that General Des Bordes
the French commander, has been muir
dered in Tonquin.
The French chamber of deputies hai
passed the bill to insure the freedom ant
secrecy OF the ballot.
The London Mansion House fund TO
, the relief of sufferers from famine in Chi
ma, amounts to $4,000.
"White Caps" attempted to murde
J. p. Smith, editor OF the Minneapolis
News" Thursday night.
The boot and shoe workers of the larg
, towns in Massachusetts, will Withdraw
, from the Knights OF Labor.
James Robbins, of Franklin, Ind, ha
p been sentenced to two years in the penl
> Tertiary for stealing two chickens.
A gas well, estimated to have capaC
| ity of 100000 feet, was struck in TIL
3 heart OF the city of Lancaster, Ohio.
John Powers, OF Middletown, N. Y.
: has become raving maniac from the ell
4 fects OF excessive cigarette smoking.
i. Canada proposes to pass law that wi
| destroy that country as the paradise {
$ boodlers and bank cashiers.
!. Marshal Won Moltke will, on March Stf
: complete his SEVENTEEN year of activ
D service in the German army.
I Admiral Symonds and other Englis
authorities think England and Franc
s well matched in naval power.
IL Paul de Roulede, president OF the Patr
y otto league, and other leaders of that OF
ganization, have been arrested and pros
It ecuted.
j. The Chinese Emperor was marie
Z last week with splendor that contraste
painfully with the famished condition
l. millions of his subjects.
e The Eiffel tower, Paris, will be finishe
" April list. The tower is now S25 fet
high and weighs 1900 tons. There al
1t to be added 300 tons more.
y VIM. X. Vanderbilt is seeking to oil
= tain lease of the house now leased b
the Duke of Sutherland. The propert
J. belongs to the royal family.
ST Countess Larsh has been condemne
y to perpetual exile because OF the part 81
played in the events which led to I'll
h death OF Crown Prince Rudolph
IS The statistics of suicides in Venr
"a show that with its population of about
million and a quarter it has had in recel
"a years about $50 suicides annually.
is The Afghan forces are advancing fro1
Ne Herat, and the Ameer of Bokhara is pr
pairing to attack them. The Russian p
pers have adopted Il war-like tone.
y A statue of Edward the Confessor is
\ adorn the great screen, now in course
renovation, in Winchester cathedra
England. The Queen will donate it.
II Count Bombelli, chief of the late Grow
e Prince Rudolph's household, has r
q signed. The Emperor has bestowed upo
II him the grand cross of the order of lie,
pold.
a 1t is reported that the Gar is scanda
st lied by the irregular life of his brothe
L and has ordered the Grand Duke Vlad
d mir to resign the commandership of IL
guards.
J. The cathedral of Seville is reported
v be in an alarming condition. Unless tt
4 building is shored up and strengthens
! the greater portion is liable to fall at an
> moment.
Piggott, the forger of the letters in IL
is Parnell case, and on which the Londc
l. Times" based its chages against IL
e Irish statesman, committed suicide
l. Vienna Friday.
The German squadron in the Pacific
# to be strengthened, in order that punisl
IS ment may be inflicted on the natives
# Samoa for numbering German marin
l. and injuring German interests.
A curious crop is Il harvest of 4Oi
sponges. 1t was obtained by an Ari
n TRAN savant as the result of an expe,
n ment OF literally sowing small parts
tt,a II II.