Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-06-02
CABLEGRAMS.
Emperor william in IA Speech at Bonn
Justified Students Duels,

Natalie says she will not voluntarily
leave Servia.
Valparaiso is terrorized by secret as
sassination societies.
The Manipuris, it is stated, have
yielded to the British in India.
The Prince of Wales is said to owe ST.
800, 900 to trades people.
The frontier towns of Germany and
France are swarming with spies.
Rotterdam is to have great exhibit
ton OF toys under royal patronage.
The Prussian Diet voted los, 900 marks
for the Koch Institute Notwithstanding
Virchow's antagonism.
The census Of France shows an increase
in population of los, 900 yearly, as com
pared with an increase of 1876 900 yearly
in Germany.
The Jews at Corfu are in constant
danger OF their lives. All the synagogues
are closed, and the Jewish quarters are
constantly threatened by incendiaries.
The new British cruiser Tartar, sister
ship to the Inflated Serpent, has been
ordered to the North American station.
She will be the fastest vessel of that
squadron.
The Russian Minister of Finance has
decided to permit to remain the 300, 000,-
600 rubles in gold deposited in the for
eign banks. Paris houses hold half of
this amount.
The decree suspending the expulsion
of the Jews at Moscow allows year 5
grace to Jews who do not own real prop
erty and two years grace to those who
do own real property.
Rochefort in the IntrdnSigeam has
blamed M. Isaacs, Sub-Prefect of
AVesnes, for ordering the troops to fire
on the rioters at Fourmies. The result
will be duel between Isaacs and Roche
fort
The Brit sh government has raised the
wages of 200 laborers at Woolrich ar
senal a shilling week. Some Liberals
claim that the object is to win the votes
of these men in a general election near
at hand.
The Kaiser has given great offense to
the orthodox community by ordering
court chaplains to curtail the length of
their sermons, which in the future must
not exceed fifteen minutes, whatever
may be the occasion.
In speech at Bonn Emperor William
justified students duels, saying they
were largely misunderstood by the pub
lie. The official report of the speech
CLOSES over the references to this part of
the Emperor's remarks.
Talking of the recent scandal develop
ments with friend, Gladstone said
there was nothing exceptional in the
cases OF the public men exposed; that
the importance of tho cases lay in their
being symptomatic of social and moral
disease, requiring vigorous, united Christ
ian action to amend it.
The census returns for Northampton-
shire show that in the purely agricultural
districts there has been an average re-
duction Of 20 per cent, but in the man
ufacturing districts, where the shoe trade
is the staple industry, there has been an
increase OF from 30 to On per cert, and
several of the larger villages have more
than doubled.
Sir Henry James has introduced a bill
in the British House of Commons ena-
bling members to resign without resort
ing to the fiction of applying for the
stewardship of the Chitern Hundreds.
1t has been judged rs designed to enable
other culprits to sneak out silently, and
has got to be dubbed the Parliament
blackguards relief bill. !"
A compromise has been arrived at in
Benares in the case of the temple, which,
it is hoped, will prove acceptable to ali
parties. The municipality has resolved
not to destroy the whole temple, but to
leave the idol undisturbed and to build
small shrine over it, allowing free ac-
cess to wOrshipers. 1t is understood that
this will satisfy the orthodox.
The Rome Italia says: The Italian
government is about to address a circu-
lar to the European powers submitting
the conduct OF the United States govern
ment in the New Orleans affair to their
judgment. Italy will thus be the intia-
tor of an international agreement to
compel the United States to find means
to guarantee the protection of foreign
subjects.
A plausible statement has been pub
lished in London defending on a novel
ground the Russian persecution of the
Jews. 1t is to the effect that at the rate
OF increase OF Jewish families, compared
with the increase of the Russians proper.
the empire in the course of few gener-
atoms would be mainly Jewish, and the
orthodox subjects of the Gear would be
in a hopeless minority. !