Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-05-12
FOREIGN NEWS.
Phylloxera Devastating
Hungarian Vines.
BRITISH STEAMER FIRED ON
Owing to Failure of the Wheat Crop,
France Will Probably Suspend
the Tariff on Cereals.
BRITISH STEAMER FIRED ON.

Petty thieves have been lately operat
| ing with much success at the hotels Of
| Cannes.
The French government will consent
to the burial of Prince Napoleon's body
at A iaccio.
Welsh tinplaters are obliged to shut
down for a month on account OF the Me-
Kinley bill.
All idea of the transatlantic steamers
landing at Milford haven appears to have
been abandoned.
unusually large number OF the po-
tentates of Europe are on the sick list at
the present time.
Queen Victoria has presented a richly
caparisoned Indian elephant to the EN-
peror of Morocco.
Ireland is only visited now by people
who are anxious for a fight or have i'm
portant business to transact.
The much-talked-of Siberian railway
will soon be begun, the condemnation of
land for the first section having taken
place.
A petition against the employment of
young girls as barmaids has been pre-
sented the King of Sweden. The petition
has 10000 signatures.
The Portuguese in Africa have fired
upon the British steamer Agnes, convey
ing the Willoughby expedition, and
seized the cargo of boats.
Crop reports from Hungary say that
phyl oxera is devastating the vineyards
there. The price of Hungarian wine has
risen one-third within a year.
Revolutionary documents have been
discovered baked in rolls sold by st.
Petersburg baker, whose customers are
revolutionary. The baker has been ar
rested.
The first installation of electric trac-
ton in France is soon to take place at
Marseilles, where a street railway COM
pany is about to introduce the overhead
system.
The census returns just completed
show the population OF the Indian en-
pie to be 2S5, 900 600, an increase of fully
10000, 900 since the last census taken in
1881.
The pope has ordered 100 churches in
Rome to be closed, they being unable to
support themselves on account of the Sc
questration of their goods by the govern
ment.
Referring to the New Orleans lynching.
the London papers print statistics show
ing that the Italian murder returns ex-
coed those OF every other nation on the
earth.
consignment of 1873, 900 francs in
gold from the Bank of Genoa to a Venice
firm has been stolen in transit. The DO
lice are as yet without a clew to the
guilty parties.
The CHILEAN men-of-war Imperial
Lynch and Condell are starting for the
north under orders to attack the squad
ron commanded by the officers who re-
volted against the government.
The Berlin Post says that assurances
have been given in the most authorita
tive quarters that peace is less ensan-
gered than ever, and that the relations
OF Germany and Russia are friendly.
Fifty thousand francs have recently
been given to the American charity fund
IN Parls The management of the fund
last year devoted 170, 900 francs to send
ing penniless American citizens home,
The Baroness Alexanderissa is enter
tanning Berlin young men nightly at a
cate chantant with abbreviated skirts
ana risky songs. She is the wife of one
OF the proudest of Hungarian magnates,
The German government has deter
mined to strongly fortify the important
commercial city of Osnabruck, Hanover
Beside the defenses of the city itself
three forts will be erected outside tha
ines. VIC
Denunciations sent to the German
government, protesting against the RING
n wheat and rye forcing prices to a ficti
ious height, have caused the Govern ,a,
natter. '''0
A serious riot has just occurred at
.e'da, Sicily, growing out of the opposi-
ION to the poll tax. Two thousand meas
nts took part, and released a comrada
rom prison. Troops have been dis
PATCHED to the scene. NO
The reported successes of the insrr-
ents in Chill come in such shane tbot =
equlres considerable credulitv TO beIieve
hem. One thing seems to be- assnroJ
b hu tllat Is there is much suffering for
'' VI PROVISIONS.
The British government has decided 70
lrengthen the existing Qualifications Of
ne Thames and to erect a new hnavu
attefy at Sheerness, and all the river
'rJs are to be supplied with new guns nj
tie and approved patterns. $500 -
signor Imbriani has given notice in
ne ltailan House of Deputies that he :
TENDS TO question Premier di Rudini in |
.sMfu 70 the refusal of Inspector Byrnes {
New ork city to accept the decora-
." sent TO him by King Humbert. /
A lively encounter has just taken place q
stween the gendarmes and brigands in !
lie province of Foggia. about loo Mia $
ON Naples. The bandits were disnnrso5 t
Ter one had been killed and nrmhar t
The leader of the onfiaws c
as captured. W 0u''a"s +
Every telegraph pole in the remote a
'uhtry districts OF Norway has 70 be
watched on account of ~ {
ears, which have a mania for climbino II
lie poles and sitting on the cross haanlgs g
'iaylhg backward and forward until ~ P
Die finally falls. y ui''ii the "
The Asian and Australian mail a4-- !,
mp line, which is owned by tba ' Nall y
erman Lloyd and has received ON ~ "a Il
lal subsidy of 1, 500 900 marks from an an ar .
y eminent; iI lost nearly 100000 marks
MT -, 90; 20 years business, or AZ per
NJ on us immense capital. ~ d
:, according to leading MarseilIes ~, {
n the French government in ,.io,, pa :,
Il 4 prospective failure of the harvest 81 :,
neat and the DEAFNESS OF bread viii :.
oppose IN the Chambers temnor 49,, !, :,