Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-07-08
THE OLD WORLD.

Russia is negotiating for the purchase
of war material in France.
The Duke of Orleans is going to make
tour of the United States in the fall.
The Gar has conferred upon President
Carnot the Grand Order of St. Stanislaus.
German linen merchants ask the gov
ernment to threaten reprisaIs If the Nc
Kinley tariff bill is passed.
1t is reported that John Dillon. William
O'Brien and John Redmond will come TO
the United States in the autumn.
Bismarck is urged to accept the caudi-
dacy from the Fourth District of Pots
dam, and it is believed he will accept.
The Russian Government, says Brus-
sells dispatch, has begun the construction
of line OF railway from Vladikakas to
Tifls.
Several fresh cases of cholera are re-
ported at Puebla de Rugat, Spain, and
two-thirds OF the people have fled the
town.
Various projects are on foot for the eel
ebration of the discovery of the new
world by Columbus to be held in Genoa
in 1892.
In Finland railroad is building from
Viborg to the falls of Ymatra in order to
accommodate the everincreasing num-
Der of tourists.
In Italy the popular connections are
coming to partake more and more Of the
Socialist and less and less of the purely
political character.
The National Council at Berne, Swift
erland, has almost unanimously adopted
the principle Of State insurance against
illness and accidents.
" The workmen would not be contented
II they should get rich, as the rich are
not contented," is the latest mot quoted
by Bismarck on the labor question.
Much suffering is said to exist among
fishermen on the Newfoundland coast
The people at Flower Cove are destitute
and in great need of wholesome food.
There is little boom in @ 1akerdom,
England. For perhaps 100 years there
have not been so many accessons to the
Society OF Friends as during the past
year.
The English and French delegates to
the Teleg 'aph Conference at Paris are
negotiating for the establishment of a
telephone system between Paris and
London.
According to the Cologne Gazette NJ
de Glers is about to retire from the Rus
sian Ministry Of Foreign Affairs, proba-
bly, to be succeeded by Prince Lobanoff
Rostowsky.
The first Russian organ to appear in
Central Asia will soon be issued under
the editorship of M. Poltoranof, who
has been authorized by the Minister of
the Interior to do so.
1t is currently reported and largely be-
lieved in English military circles that
General Sir kidvers Butler will succeed
General Lord Wolseley as Adiutant-
General of the army.
The announcement is made that Lord
Salisbury intends to purchase the Chat
eau d. u, near LIE Treport, on the Eng
hsh channel, in France, now the prop
erty OF the Comte de Paris.
Steps have been taken to establish in
st. Petersburg society for the insurance
OF crops against climatic IN snaps. The
A sricultural Society of the metropolis
has initiated the movement.
Great fears are entertained for the
safety of st. Paul's cathedral at London
III consequence of the new underground
railway to be construct d within a few
hundred yards of the building
Two weeks ago the contributions to
the Bismarck monument fund amounted
to SAG, 900. A significant feature of the
subscription list is the extraordinary
number of South German names on it.
In New Zealand Mormon convention
has just closed its sitting, at W hich it was
officially reported that there are 1900
Mormons i'll that colony, and that 500
converts were made during the past year
The Paris Egalite commented severely
upon the action OF the Anarchists at a
meeting to express sympathy for the Nj
hlllsts, and in revenge thirty of them
made an attack upon the offit e of that
newspaper and demolished everything in
sight.
Premier Whiteway of Newfoundland,
speaking of the French shore fishing
trouble, says; England dare not ignore
the situation any longer, for there are
tour courses open - the purchase Of
French rights arbitration, war or annex
alton to the United States. y
Only seven Waterloo veterans have ri
sponded to the invitation given them hv
General Van Meren of Harlem TO cole
brate the approaching seventy ffth an
nlversary ct the battle. The oldest OF
them was born in 1893 and the Youngest
in 1898. Six out of the seven are in a
state OF complete restitution.