Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-06-02

FOREIGN NEWS.
Prince Bismarck Issues
a Card Of Thanks.
FESTIVAL TO SIGNOR CRISPI.
Austria Proposes to Reduce Her Jar
risons in Provinces of Bosnia
and Herzegovina.
FESTIVAL TO SIGN0R CRISP.

sic for labOrerS during dlhher HouI.
The cultivation of tobacco has been
prohibited in Egypt by the Khedive.
An exhibition OF fruit from Australia
is made in London, which is remarkable
for size and quality.
News received at the City OF Mexico
from Honduras says the rebels OF that
country have been dispersed.
English workingmen's clubs are in
creasing. The rooms contain billiards,
books and gymnasium apparatus.
A conspiracy to overthrow President
Rodriguez of Nicaragua has been discoy-
cred, and the leaders are in arrest.
Great Britain is likely to have another
war with the Beers in South Africa, and
troops are being sent to Bechuanaland.
Hon. John 7. Brunne of the English
Parliament for Norwich has endowed a
chair OF economic science in the Liver
pool University with 100000.
Work has been begun in Columbia on
the railroad that is to connect the port
of Cartegena with the Magdalena river
about eighty miles above its mouth.
Englishmen, jealous of French ascend
tIltN, oii VIC Ivy ipib htti pCi ,
the Damascus road and the Jatla and Je-
rusalem railway, are promoting a rail-
way from Saba to Damascus.
In order to have them ready for sud
den attack the German and French gar
risons near the frontier are aroused in
the middle of the night and made to
turn out with arms ready for battle.
The mem bers of the various labor and
other associations in Palermo, Italy,
have decided to give great festival in
honor of ex-Premier Crispi on May rs,
the anniversary of Garibaldi's entrance
into Palermo.
A committee has been formed at Ham
burg to organize festival in celebration
of the fourth centenary OF the discovery
OF America. All prominent persons in
the empire will be invited in addition to
representative Germans in America.
There is great demand for Russian
sugar in Central Asia, especially in Per-
STA, whittier it is transported by way OF
Batoum and Poti. This demand has
caused many large sugar factories in he
South to double their working capacity.
Austria proposes to reduce her garri-
sons in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the
troops in those provinces having sue
ceeded in destroying the bands OF rob-
bers that had their haunts in the mount
aims and forests OF the Montenegro
frontier.
Duke Gunther, the Kaiser's brother
in-law, is under cloud for absence with
out leave from his regiment in Berlin.
The Kaiser, to whose knowledge the
matter came, has intimated to his rela-
tive that he must give strict attention to
his military duties.
An outbreak has occurred at AmapoIa,
Honduras, which proved successful to
the insurgents for only few hours. The
government troops recaptured the garri-
son, killed one Of the rebel leaders, Gen
eral Bardales, and inflicted great loss on
the body of the rebels.
Much excitement has been caused at
Valparaiso by an attempt to assassinate
the leading members of the Cabinet.
The persons engaged in the plot at
tempted to take the lives of the Minis
tiers by means of a bomb thrown at the
intended victims in the street
The Kaiser has given orders through
the Minister of Public Works that no
person shall be permitted to ride free on
the government railways unless actually
engaged in the service of the govern.
ment, and that officials allowing any vio-
lation of this rule shall be dismissed.
The Queen Regent of Spain was APP
pointed umpire in the dispute between
Colombia and Venezuela over the bound
airy lines between those two Republics.
She establishes the boundary lines along
the rivers Orinoco, Atahapo and Negro,
which gives Colombia the whole of Goa
jiro, San Faustino and Aranco Territories.
Germanys Officers Association has
raised fund to help the 1000 starving
weavers in Silesia. Cotton and wool
will be bought and placed in their hands
Tor manufacture into cloth. To discour-
age the overcrowding of the industry
only professional weavers of more than
q years will be assisted.
The appeal of the Italian government
to other European governments to unite
IN demanding from the United States
protection for resident aliens is laughed
at in Berlin in view of the great increase
OF Italian emigration to America. II is
believed that Germany will refuse to
take any part in such demand.
The workingmen of Geestemunde pro-
pose to present testimonial to Schmal-
field, the Socialist shoemaker, in mem
DRY OF his championship of the Socialist
cause against Prince Bismarck in the re-
cent election. Schmalfeld has received
letters from all parts OF Germany and
Europe congratulating him on the run
winch he made against the ex-Chan-
cellor.
The jubilee OF the tonic-sol-fa move
ment will be celebrated in London bv
two special festivals-the first, a service
at 1T. PauPs Cathedral on July T. Adj
mission Will be limited to those holding
lohlc-sol-ia certificates, so that the en-
llre congregation of some 10000 persons
VIII consist exclusively of trained vocal
lists. The second festival at the CRYSTAL
Palace will take place on July 18 The
900. +' u -o'
Between January and April l of this
year rs bodies have been cremated in
the cities Of Gotha. Zurich. Milan Rome
Padua, Bologna, Florence, London. New
ork, Cincinnati, st. Louis. Lancaster
Los Angeles, Washington, Buffalo, stock,
holm and Gothenburg. The crematorias
IN Manchester and Hamburg will he
opened next July. Eighteen Bnrliners
nave been cremated this. year. and the
Berlin Society for Cremation has in
creased its membership to 100.
=, Bismarck has published this card.
. On my birthday received congratnla.
TONS from Germans all over GERMANY
ana sLo the rest OF the world. Nv pleasure
tnereat renders it necessary for me- 10
give all equally warm ackn0wledg,nort.