Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-07-07
FOREIGN LANDS.
Repeated Earthquakes
Occur in Italy.
HONGKONG BURIAL GROUND.
Germany is Said to be Anxious to
Withdraw From Samoa Alto
gether-0ther News.
HONGKONG BURIAL GROUND.

will assume vast proportions.
The influenza continues to rage in
and is on the increase.
The repeated earthquakes in Italy are
creating panics among the people
The Car receives from his Siberian
gold mines about $l8 600 annually.
The increase of the population OF Lon
don in the last ten years is 1888
Over 100 miles of country has been de-
vastated by fire in New Brunswick.
It is again reported that Parnell will
marry Mrs. O'Shea at an early date.
Fishing off the Newfoundland coast is
said to be remarkably good this season.
The total wheat crop of France this
wear will be but little more than half the
average.
Pirates in the Black Sea fired upon
and killed six Russian soldiers and two
officers and then made their escape.
1t is said the Queen has reprimanded
the Prince of Wales and exacted prom
Use from him to never handle cards again.
Senaputv, mmander-in-chief of the
Manipuri forces, has been condemned to
hang for the crime OF rebellion against
the British,
Earth tremors, sometimes of terribly
ing violence, continue in the Verona dis
trict, Italy, threatening the complete de-
struction of the towns.
A dispatch to the Edinburgh Journal
states that a divorce suit to be instituted
by Lord Brooke and naming the Prince
of Wales as correspondent is imminent.
Burial ground being very scarce in
Hongkong colony, the government pro-
poses to take up and burn Chinese I'M
claimed dead buried for five or six years.
The famous crater OF Solfatara of Hoz-
zuoli near Naples is showing signs of re-
newed activity. This volcano was active
long before Vesuvius, but for ages has
been nearly extinct.
Germany is anxious for a pretext to
withdraw from Samoa altogether. The
Chief Justice there says his life is en-
dangered by conspiracies, and he is gem
orally made miserable.
The new Russian municipal reform
bill completely sweeps the municipalities
out of existence Mayors will no longer
have any power. The Governors will
hereafter be State officials.
Admiral WALTON of the French navy
says; "Our navy is still capable of beat
ing the allied fleets of the dreibund. If
the British navy was against us, how
ever, we could do nothing but retreat
into port"
The natives of the Cameroons, West
ern Africa, are reported to have cruelty
tortured the German prisoners before
executing them, and that many prison
ers committed suicide in order to escape
torture.
lie Jour of Paris announces that Liqui-
dator Monchicourt, with Chrispohle,
Governor of the Credit Foncer, has ar
ranged so that the affairs of the Panama
Company shall be taken over bya group
OF financial houses.
The harbor authorities of Southamp-
ton, England, the great mail port, have
decided to adopt electric cranes for the
unloading Of vessels on account of the
greater rapidity with which they will
enable work to be performed.
NJ. Eitfel, the daring civil engineer
who conceived the tower in Paris which
bears his name, lives up on the Jung
frau in the Swiss A ps. He has Just OBJ
tanned permission to build railroad up
the mountain to his very dwelling.
Nine. Sarah Bernhardt has Just bought
by cable a large tract of land at Neuilly.
a suburb of Paris, for $4,000, all made
during her recent American tour. 1t is
said that she will build a veritable pal
ace after she has finished her travels.
The London Spectator prints a some
what gloomy article on the decline in
the rate Of London's growth, as shown
by statistics just made public. The
writer sees in this fact that the empire
has passed the meridian of greatness,
There are now in Moscow Is, 900 per
sons waiting to be transported to Siberia.
rive Thousand are conycts, the others
are their wives or children who volun-
teered to follow them into exile. The
number has accumulated since the new
year.
Great distress is in the government of
Odessa, owing to poor crops and the fail
ure OF the Nolga to rise. In Simbriski
the winter crops are ruined altogether
and the peasants have no grain to sow
TOR the summer. More than half the
fields lie idle. ''i 'i'0
The latest election returns in the Ne
therlands show that out of 100 seats
composing the Second Chamber the Lib
erals have secured Al, the Catholics %
and the Protestant Orthodox II. A sec
ond ballot is necessary for the REMAINING
tWenty-siX seats.
Inc Arabs at Yemen arabia Felix
have revolted and attacked the imneriaI
troops, forcing them to retreat The
troops lost several officers and 100 men
Inc Grand Council at Constantinonle
has decided to dispatch 10000 tro6ns
from the Syrian garrisons.
After considerable additional debate j.,
me M Lower House OF the Prussian Diet
hickefts motion that the government
shouid submit to the House the material
upon Whlch the Chancellor based his re-
cent speech upon grain duties was re-
lected by vote of 223 to 20.
Inc brIgands who robbed a Turkish
tram and seized several rich Germons
VINO We're afterward ransomed have
Ceeh retreatng toward the Black Sen
ol tlle way they We're attacked bv RuI.
Sarlan gendarmes, and it is believed that
the 6rigand chief, Anastasius. was
The number of cattle in Australia is
estimated at S600,0Ol, an Increase Of
more than 2,5O0,000 in the last 6ftaen
Years; Sheep have also increased from
2};%,O0O,O 900 to 90,000,0O0. The peonia 81
England view these figures with gro ot
satisfaction, inasmuch as they indicafe
an Increased meat supply for the mother
country. Wv i''o'''er
aol me Bishops of Ireland, finding the
cost OF maintaining members in parIia.
ment heavy parochial drain. are wnri-