The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-08-15
Prof. Koch Resigns All
Public Offices.
RUSSIA PURCHASING CORN.
Cannibalism in the Free Congo State
Leads to an Expedition Against
the Offenders.

The Imperial Bank of Melbourne has
failed.
Emperor William will return to Berlin
August IL.
Duties on petroleum and ice in Argen-
tina have been reduced.
The French squadron was enthusiastic
ally welcomed at Cronstadt.
The educational bill has passed the
third reading in the British House of
Lords.
The proposal to construct canal from
the Tyne to the Solway, with depth of
fifteen feet, is again revived.
The Gear Of Russia will celebrate his
silver wedding next November in mod
est fashion near Copenhagen.
There is talk in Paris of an elevated
railway, but the project does not find
favor with the press of the city.
BY the will of the late Peter Carmi-
chael the Established Church of Scot
land is to receive no less than G100, 900.
Models of the Lloyd steamships are
features of the nautical part of the Ger
man Exhibition now open in London.
A lively agitation is going on at Co
logne for the purpose of making the
Rhine below the city navigable for ships
of the largest size.
A ship canal is proposed to connect
Venice with the Gulf of Spezza. It
would be 40 miles long, 240 feet broad
and cost Esq, 100000.
The area flooded in Moravia and ST.
iesia has increased. In the Tyrolese
Alps avalanches have fallen into the val
/ 1avS and pa1and great dQmaUe
The gas companies of Paris have in
| the last ten years paid over SAC, 000,0 900
! into the city treasury for the privilege of
supplying gas to the city at cost.
Agents of Mr.. Parnell, so it is ru-
mored, have been buying up Mrs.
O'Shea's picture as exposed for sale in
London shops and endeavoring to ar
range to stop it.
The Labor Expos ton soon to open to
the public at Paris will be very interest
ing to visitors. The history of trades
and manufacturers from the fourteenth
century will be feature.
The total population of France is 49,
095, $50. Thisis an increase since the
last census of pos, 5S4, and this is entire
ly in the urban population, the rural
population having decreased.
Queen Victoria has conferred upon
Earl Cadogan the title of Knight Conn
mander OF Jne Order of the Garter, thus
filling the varancy in the order caused
by the death of Earl Granville.
A boy delivering bread at Berlin en-
tered yard where there were two blood
hounds loose, and before the people of
the house could reach the boy the beasts
had literally torn him to pieces.
Russia has made large purchases of
corn, and the government is storing
large quantities of grain supplies. The
rise in the price of cereals in Germany
is partly due to Russian buyings.
Prof. Koch has resigned all public Of
fees held by him in Germany. This
step is associated with his supposed dis
appointment over the unsatisfactory re-
suits of his discovery of tuberculin."
Visitors in sufficient numbers to make
the Eiffel tower in Paris pay once more
are reported. The greatest crowds are
on Sunday, when all the elevators are
run, whereas only one is operated on
week days.
English shipping papers are agitating
for the formation of a volunteer naval
cadet corps to be recruited chiefly from
fishermen and fisherboys as volunteer
naval reserve and a feeder to the active
naval forces.
The Berlin National Zeitung announces
that a genuine brotherhood of French
men and Russians is unattainable, hold
ing that Russia is uncivilized and France
has " few points of sympathy with bar
barrie Russia"
I The Vatican lie absolutely decided in
fn ef Aha 81 ta oin ~
the monarchists to continue in France
the policy of adhesion to the Republic
in order to restore that country to union
and to religious and political pacifca-
ton.
Cannibalism among the natives in the
Free Congo State has led to an expedi-
ton against the offenders in which num-
bers of the natives were killed. The
Ba kumas at Stanley Falls are reported
to be returning to human sacrifices and
feasts.
In the British House of Commons Sir
James Ferguson said that the govern
ment had reason to believe that salts
factory arrangements would shortly be
made with the United States in the mat
ter OF arbitration in the Behring Sea
question.
Mrs. Maybrick's solicitor says that he
has been advised by Charles Russell that
her case can be reopened and new trial
had, grounded on the refusal OF the in
surance company to pay the policy. The
solicitor intends to carry out this scheme.
Much new evidence has been collected
In America. Mrs. Maybrick, who is still
In prison, suffers much from i'll health.
St. Paul and Minneapolis each claim a
population of 100000.