Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-06-30
CABLEGRAMS.
The Gear Sounded on an Invitation to
Visit France.


The French Senate has passed the bill
reducing the corn duties.
1t is said Salvador and Guatemala have
warned foreigners to secure their pass
/ ports.
1t is announced that the British Par
Lament will be prorogued the first week
of August.
Lieutenant Riders expedition to ex-
| plore East Greenland has started from
Copenhagen.
Sir Charles Dixie has agreed to con
test the Forest OF Dean at the next gen
eral election.
1t is reported that ex-President Pierola
of Peru, who escaped from prison in that
| country, is in New York.
Veuve, Dufetel, Grimans 4 Co., bank
ers Of Amiens, France, have suspended
operations. Liabilities, 81 200, 900.
The epidemic of outrages in China on
the foreign population is increasing, and
the Mandarins appear to encourage the
feeling,
The French squadron threatens to
lombard Nankin unless the sufferers OF
the recent riots are promptly Unidentified
| by China.
Empress Frederick has caused an old
ruin near her new castle to be turned
into a hospital and she personally at
tends patients there.
The appointment by the French gov
eminent of Antonin Proust as art com
missioner of the Chicago Fair is warmly
approved in Partisan artistic circles.
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Grafton of the Red Cross upon Mrs.
Grimwood, wife of Commissioner Grim
wood, who was killed in the recent re-
bellion in Manipur.
The peasant inhabitants of the Tersk
district in Russia blew up with powder
schoolhouse while it was filled with
children, ten of whom were killed and
twelve seriously wounded.
There is to be presented to the Portu-
guese Chamber project TO sell all the
Portuguese colonies, except Angola, st.
Thomas, Principe and Cape Verde, with
view of redeeming the national debt
French Anarchists attempted to place
wreaths on the spot where the Narlin
Communists were shot in 1871 and near
the Montmartre Basilica but the polio
prevented them and arrested six of the
leaders
Messrs. Turpin, Tripone, Feuvrier and
Fessler have been committed at Paris
for trial on a charge of treason i'm con
spring to sell the secrets of France, par
ticularly the manufacture of the new
explosive melinite, to foreigners.
Buffalo Bill's success in Brussels seems
to have been remark able. The Queen of
the Belgians visited the Wild West show
thrice. Thousands We're turned away
for want OF room ut most of the perform
ances notwithstanding the inclemency
of the weather.
Henry Irving's two sons are about to
follow in the footsteps OF their cele-
brated father and don the sock and bus
kin. The elder one, Harry, will soon
leave London for California, and the
younger, Lawrence, will follow his
brother on to the stage.
The baccarat revelations have stirred
to the deepest depths the whole religious
world. The news that the Prince of
Wales is habitual gambler, taking sup
plies of cards and counters wherever he
goes, has blasted every chance of the
nation granting him relief for his debts.
The government of Sweden has or
dered an inquiry as to the conditions in
parts of that country said to be almost
denuded OF young men by emigration to
America. Young women OF the domes-
tic service are also very scarce, and the
wages demanded by servants have risen
to double the figure Of few years ago.