The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-10-31
FOREIGN LANDS.
Influenza Again Rages
in London.
THE SHORTAGE OF WHEAT.
Capt Blunt Declares That Smokeless
Powders Are Absolutely Use
less for Small Arms.

The influenza is again epidemic in
England.
The English railways have begun a
revision OF rates.
More than one-third of Germanv,s
freight traffic is by canal.
Belgrade is building tanks for the stor-
age OF Russian petroleum.
Inc excavations at Delpi under the
auspices of the French government will
be begun this fall.
The shortage of wheat and rye in En-
rope IS estimated at 200, 100000 bushels.
The Liverpool elevated railroad run-
ming along the line of docks, is RAPIDLY
nearing completion.
The operatives of every bottle factory
IN france, with the exception of those
at Blanzy, have struck.
The collection of works of Russian
art recently on exhibition at Berlin will
be sent to the Chicago Fair.
New Brunswick is to be officially ex-
amlned as possible source of supply Of
horses for the British army.
President Fonseca of Brazil is very i'll
and there are intrigues afoot regarding
the succession to the Presidency.
Sir Micael Hicks-Beach is prominently
mentioned as the leader of the Conserv-
atlves In the British House of Commons.
The entire railway mileage Of Great
Britain is now 20,073 miles, or less than
one-eighth Of that Of the United States.
AS the cold weather approaches, there
is gmarked incrEgst III the want and
misery among tf working classes in
In a certain r'rtion of the Ural dis
trlct camels are the only working cattle
use, some large farms possessing 100
camels.
The new remedy for consumptive pa
tients called chlophenol is said to have
shown remarkably good results in Italian
hospitals.
Mr.. Spurgeon seems lively, and ex-
presses himself as confident of his ulti-
mate recovery. He still needs much
care, however.
1t is reported from st. Petersburg that
25, ,OO0, 600 persons are unable to paw their
taxes, and that this will cause budget
deficit of Gl2,000,000.
The Argentine government as meas
ure OF economy has abolished its lega-
ton at Vienna, Berlin, Lisbon and
Mexico, thus saving 100000 a year.
London advices say that the strikes Of
dock laborers and other employees about
the Caron and Hermitage wharves, Wap-
ping, is showing signs of collapsing.
The greatest trades union, the ANAL
gamated Engineers, having an executive
department in Great Britain, America
and Australia, is about to reorganize.
The Argentine Republic has sold to
Baron Hirsch 900 square miles in the
province OF Chaco for Hebrew colony.
The price paid was 900 gold pesos per
mile.
The chief rabbis have ordered PRAYERS
In behalf of Russian Jews to be deliv-
cred in all English synagogues at the
beginning OF the season of fasting and
prayer.
The Chinese coolies imported by the
land barons of Eastern Prussia To re-
place the emigrated peasants have re-
fused to do the hard work imposed on
them, and have gone on a strike.
A wave of hysterical religion is pass
ing over some parts of France. A num-
Der OF Protestant peasants are travelling
WIN tenIs, preaching the end of the
world, bareheaded and with naked feet.
The effect of the strikes on the port of
London alone is shown very clearly this
year by diminution of sol vessels en-
5erlng inward, which is a loss of is per
cent. and can be attributed to no other
cause at all.
The criticisms of the London Times on
'he poor financial condition of italy
lave stirred up the press of that coun-
iry, the gravamen of the offense having
been found in the fact that
he charges are true.
The bread baked by the famishing
peasants on the Volga is made up Of
iour Of goose feet (chenOpodaula rubrumJ
With the admiXture of a small QUANTITY
4 rye. The bread is black, light Of
weight, and looks like turf.
The estimate made by the Agricultural
department. of the Argentine Republic
I the crop for the current year is as fol-
ows: Wheat, 100000 tons; maize.
100000 tons; alfalfa, 5000, 600 tons
ugar, $4,000 tons; wool, 135, 900 tons.