Idaho semi-weekly world., 1890-09-02
THE OLD WORLD.

Ex-President Greyy is seriously i'll.
A decree has been promulgated in
Brazil establishing the National Mort
gage bank.
The medical exhibition in connection
with the international Medical Congress
at Berlin il closed.
Michael Davitt says that the potato
crop in Ireland is almost total failure,
and thousands of small farmers will suf-
fer.
The recent report of the destruction
of 5000 acres of cotton and rice in the
Gabieh Province, Egypt, is officially de-
clared to be untrue.
The London Times believes that the
eventual result of the American silver
coinage act will be the adoption by
| America of the silver standard.
The conference of American Consul
Generals held at Paris has agreed to
| favor leniency in enforcing the provis-
ions of the Mckinley tariff bill.
The agreement between France and
England separating their spheres of
activity in Africa does not affect the
rights of the Porte over the region south
OF Tripoli.
Sixty thousand persons attended the
mass meeting held at Buenos Ayres to
rejoice over the fall OF President Celman.
General Mitre was cheered as the future
candidate for the Presidency.
France and England are in state of
increasing excitement over the Ameri-
can tariff, and are sitting up o. nights
trying to patch up some scheme by
which the measure can be defeated.
A surgical operation has been per-
formed upon General Saussier, Military
Governor of Paris, who was critically ill
and reported few days ago to be dying.
The operation afforded immediate relief.
An international congress for the pur-
pose of fixing a common meridian is
proposed to be held in Rome next year.
The meridian of Jerusalem is mentioned
to replace Washington and Greenwich.
In the House of Lords Salisbury stated
that the English agreement with France
maintained the rights and privileges OF
the missionaries in Madagascar and in
! sured the freedom of religious teaching
At the instigation of the Irish mem.
bers of the House of Commons influen,
tial Catholics urged the Pope to transfe,
the Most Rev. Edward I. O'Dwyer
Bishop OF Limerick, to a diocese in Eng.
land.
1t has now been practically decided
, that Vienna shall, in the course of mex
, year, be enlarged by the demolition o
the boundary walls which separate it
! tiscally as well as materially, from tn,
: suburbs.
In the British Parliament August /.
DR.. Tanner called Matthews, the Hom
Secretary, "the meanest and loves
skunk that ever sat on a treasury bench,
2 for which the Chairman compelled hin
4 to apologize.
. The Cabinet of President Bermudez o
Peru is announced as follows: Premie
and Minister of Public Works, Seno
Valcarsel; Foreign Affairs, Senior FL
. more; Commerce, Senior Quintana; Jus
! tice, Senior Chavrez; War, Seno
: ! Suarez.
= The natives of Yap, one of the Care
/ line islands, recently attacked an un
. armed Spanish garrison and killed on
: Lieutenant and twenty-seven soldiers
It A man-of-war has been ordered to tn
scene. fap has about 5000 population
: A complete suspension of the shippin
: trade of Australia is threatened in cor
4 sequence of the demands of the Marin
u Officers Association for an increase {
> pay. The situation is made worse b
: the action of the Shearers' Union, whic
. demands that shippers shall refuse I
: handle non-unionist wool.
c During the battle in the city of Sa
d Salvador the forces of the provision;
e government seized the American Con
y sulate of that city, hauled down the fla
/ and damaged property The Unite
1t States demanded reparation, and Mini
ter Mizner reported that the provisions
government of San Salvador had hoiste
= our flag over the United States Consulate
;, at the same time saluting with twent,
- - one guns, and that the Consul had bee
reinstated and the rights of the Unite
: States and its citizens guaranteed.
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