Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-08-26
THE OLD WORLD.

The French Senate mas passed the
| sugar-tax bill
The district messenger service has
been organized in London.
railroad is now actually talked OF
between Mecca and Jedda.
Prayers for cessation OF rain have
been ordered i'll Great Britain.
Russian banishments to Siberia as iu-
diclal punishments have been abolished.
Picking, Tung Chow and Tientsin.
China, are submerged, and business IS
paralyzed.
Miss Eleanor Calhoun has made a ia
vorable impression on the London thea
ter-going public.
The oil borings in Beloochistan have
lately proved very successful. The daily
output of oil is doubled
The corporation of London has made
contract for supplying electric lights to
large portion of the city.
France pays $400, 900 out of the public
funds to subsidize newspapers for the
support of the government.
The Argentine Cabinet has decided in
favor of forced currency, and that an
eendeayor will be made to stop gambling
IN gold currency.
Private advices from Zanzibar state
that all the foreigners there excent tho
Germans welcome the establishment of
a British protectorate.
Colonel Morales Bermudes has been
proclaimed President of the Republic Of
Peru, vice General Caceres, whose ten
ure of office has expired.
The natives OF India are now Begin
ning to breed and rear poisonous snakes
Tor the purpose of obtaining the usual
head money offered
Count Tolsto SAYS the United States
is really and truly a government Of The
people, natural goyernment-and the
only real Republic in the world
work has now been resumed AT the
Channel tunnel deep behring's after being
temporarily suspended to admit of more I
machinery being erected.
The three ocean cables between lawn
ina Australia were all broken on the |
same day recently, and it is believed il
hust nave been done by an earthquake.
Telegraphic communication has now
leen established between Mecca and
'edda, the famous pearl-fshing and
radlng station on the coast of the Red
Ca -'N'
Major Palma, whom President Celnan
Il the Argentine Republic denounced as
II liiiorlner and military conspirator. is
cad; 1t is asserted that he was poi
oned. Poi'
report that the Anarchists of Iiepe
'ould attack Emperor William. extra
recautions were made, but nothinw
larred the enthusiasm of the Kaisnr,S
'eleome in Belgium.
1t is stated that the leader of the lato
lsorder IN Constantinople was A Rms
an American. He is said to have fired
he frst shot. 1t is believed he was act
y under instructions.
a syndicate OF Austrian and Berlin
lnkers bought y, 100000 francs worth
SILVER IN Roumania in June last Tho
rgest part of ii was sold in London and
he remainder in India.
General Rivas, instead of being can
red in the capital of San Salvador. was .
ken prisoner in Aculpuaca, a suburban
wn, and brought to the capital with
any other leaders OF the Indians and
ot. ''''' :
The Paris Steele has received a climber
spatch from St. Petersburg saving Thar
dynamite mine had been discovered
der the railroad station at Rasik. This ,
ace Is ON the route to be taken bv Em- !
ror William on his Russian trip. l
Henry NJ. Stanley foresees trouble NO !
cen Protestants and Roman Catholics :
Africa II the native converts be NOT {
PIT well IN hand, but has no fear of t
pnammedanlsm in the future. That
IN, he thinks, is fast diving. and he b
INJURIES to prophesy that within five o
airs there will not be one Mohamme- =
II south OF the equator in Central Al !
The Swiss Federal Council has abont =
i I, to exxpel Mormons from the Re y
bic. Petitions in favor of the expul- h
n nave been signed by tens of tbou- el
lds OF the working people, who cannot Il
crate the Mormon doctrine. In several /
tances the Mormon missionaries have -
an subjected to personal violence y
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