Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-10-04
FOREIGN FIAsHEs.
Good Templars In Icela1c-Tae Tiser
Plague-Endeavoring to Break
Down the Cotton Corner.

Mrs. Mackay is in Paris.
English railways pay ~ a ton for COAL
Cholera is reported at Athens, Greece
The safety Of the Greek currant crop is
assured.
Socialism has lately spread rapidly IN
Galicia.
Rismarck's law makes strikes con-
spiracies.
Hanover has warmly received the
Czarowitz.
The mackeral catch in the south OF
Ireland is failure.
Mr.. Gladstone speaks very highly oil
the Paris Exposition.
! Switzerland has an electric railway up
a ,33J-foot mountain.
Famine prevails throughout Tigre,
province Of Abyssinia.
| 1t has been decided to close the French
/ Exposition October 3ist.
Anti-German agitators in Alsace-Lor-
raine have been expelled.
1t is stated that King Leopold contem-
plates trip to the Congo.
Evangelist Moody will hold services in
London during the coming winter.
The market for the Congo products is
now regularly established at Antwerp.
Mr.. Gladstone thinks the Irish Catho-
! lie University will die before 1t Is born.
Queen Charlotte, the wife OF King
George |, ruler OF the Tonga Islands, is
dead.
The whole OF the sewage OF Paris will
soon be used for the purpose of market
gardening.
Edison, before his departure for Berlin,
gave 10000 francs for the benefit OF the
poor OF Paris.
The Bimetallic Congress at Paris will
submit no proposal to a vote. 1t Will
adopt no resolutions
The Irish police have been ordered not
to shadow English members OF Parlia-
ment travelling in Ireland.
Christine Nillson writes to the Figaro OF
Paris to say that she is not suffering from
deafness or loss of memory.
A curious feature OF the theaters in
Melbourne is that they are mostly all
equipped with billiard-rooms.
Miss Lincoln, daughter of Minister to
England Robert Lincoln, has become an
acknow lodged belle in London.
M. Barbedienne, the famous bronze
founder of Paris, exhibits at the EXPOSE
ton clock that is valued at $4,000.
There are nearly twelve thousand
pleasure-boats, including Households,
used on the upper ranches OF the Thames.
DR.. Fricke, who was with General
Gordon at khartoum, has returned tn
Berlin after fifteen years spent IN Africa.
Mrs. James Brown-Potter cables from
Europe canceling all her American
engagements, giving illness as the cause.
The defense of Adriano de Vale, the
woud-be regicide, at Rio de Janeiro
who is to be tried soon, will be drunken
ness.
Liverpool authorities have voted an ap-
preparation of 100000 for the establish
ment of petroleum storage at isolated
points.
The latest report from Stanley, the
African explorer, is that he expects tc
reach the eastern sea coast by the end Of
October.
The Emperor of China has had cour
astrologer beheaded for making a false
prediction. The Emperor is very pro
gressive.
Lord Zetland will be sworn in as Lore
Lieutenant of Ireland on October LIST
: He will make his state entry into Dublin
on December 3D.
The young King OF Servia has writer
to his mother, ex-QueeA Natalie, implor
ing her to return to Belgrade, and she
has determined to go.
, Portions OF Java are being deserted
owing to the tiger plague. The tota
population is about Coz, 900, and in 1885,
sixty-one we're killed by tigers.
Captain Wissmann has set price O
95 900 on Chief Bushirl's head on ac
! count OF the threat OF the latter to attack
missionary stations in the interior
The six hours which make the workine
/ day OF the British Civil Service will be
l extended TO seven if the Recommendation
OF the Royal Commission is adopted.
English operatives are endeavoring tC
| break down the cotton corner that is par
( alyAing the trade OF Lancashire. The
weavers and manufacturers propose /
combination.
Berlin merchants complain that Mr.
| Edwards, United States Consul. subject.
exports to trivial vexations in the matte,
OF verifying invoices, thus hamperins
trade with America.
Over three thousand French deserter,
who have been living in Geneva hay,
been benefited by the late Amnesty law
/ and have left with their families to re-
turn to their country.
: A Siberian explorer has left Pekin.
with the intention OF penetrating Thibet
he is accompanied by Chinese escort
/, The route will he along the Great Wall t,
Lanchow and Lake Koko Nor.
1t is announced that the son of Tppo,
lib has arrived at Zanzibar in order IL
act as "peace-maker" between the Ger
mans and the natives inhabting tn,
towns and villages along the coast
Mrs. julia d. Grant, the widow of tn,
General, who has been spending thu
summer in Vienna With her son, the
United States Minister, expects to return
TO this country and pass the winter il
Washington.
The pilgrimage which the Empress O
Austria expected to make on foot to III,
famous Spring of the Virgin. at Mariezel
in Syria, has had to be abandoned ou,ine