Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-07-14
The Holy Coat to be Ex-
hibited in August.
BIOGRAPHY OF Won M0LTKE.
Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy and
Switzerland Form a Great
Customs League,

Hog cholera is on the increase in Great
| Britain.
Germany will send two men-of-war to
| Chinese waters.
Austria will build more forts to scare
Off the Russians.
Emperor William will edit the biogra-
ply OF Won Motke.
| Kaiser William will buy Carl SGhurz'
broth -in-law's country seat.
Diamonds OF the purest transparency
| have been found in British Guiana.
French and German goods are driving
| those of British make out OF Russia.
Rudini says the dreibund compels
great ornaments on the part of mbers.
A choir of twenty natives of South
Africa has gone to London to give con
certs
A deficit of $Sl 600 is shown in the
public accounts of Prince Edward Island
for the last year.
President Carnot in a letter to the
Pope expresses his high appreciation of
the latter's encyclical on social questions.
Count Munster will be retired from
the German diplomatic service at Paris,
and Count Won Wedel is to be his sue
cessor.
The sum collected in Germany for a
church to be erected in memory of the
late Kaiser William amounts to about
720, 900 marks.
Another Manipur Prince, Sana, has
been sentenced to death for warning
against the Queen and for abetting the
massacre OF her officers.
The French Chamber of Commerce
Committee declines to consider requests
to obtain the governments assistance to
complete the Panama canal.
1t is reported that Sir Charles Upper
will be offered the seat in the House of
Commons for Kingston made vacant by
( the death Of Sir John Macdonald.
William Walter Phelps, the American
Minister, who has been quite i'll with in
/ huenza at Berlin, is still confined to his
bed He has undergone painful opera
ton.
The report OF the Leprosy Committee
at London, composed of eminent physi-
clans, gives hope for the discovery of a
cure for this hitherto supposed irremedi-
able disease.
The French Senate rejected the bill
recently passed by the Chamber of Dep
uties RENTING 5000, 600 francs OF the
tax on land sown in wheat in the past
spring season.
Official opinion in France generally
tends against the prosecution of De Les
seps, but Constans says the public feel
ing demands that the famous engineer
be placed on trial
Sailors are so scarce in England that
it is doubtful whether the intended ma
val maneuvel W Il be held unless a sui
licient compleme 1t is obtained by the
detention Of war ships destined for In
dia.
A nugget OF gold weighing thirty-fve
pounds has been found in the gold dis
trict recently discovered in British Gui-
ana, and has been sent to England as Il
specimen of the auriferous deposits in
the colony.
The new model for the great national
monument to the late Kaiser William,
which is to be erected in Berlin near the
old royal palace of Schloss, will be ex-
hlbited in the royal arsenal Inter den
/ Linden in July.
a dispatch from Calcutta states that a
war is threatening in Asia between the
French and the Siamese Anamites. who
are tributary to France, and have already
come to blows with the Siamese troops
on the banks of the Mekgon
Comte de Monticello, who replaces De
Laboulaye as French Ambassador at st.
Petersburg, will be specially charged to
obtain definite information from the
| Gar as to the action of Russia in the
event OF war between France and Ger
many.
The great event of the London season
Will be the marriage of the Queens
granddaughter, Princess Aribert of an
halt, which will be celebrated at Wind
Sor Castle July 4. The Queen has con-
tributed handsomely toward the brides
dowry.
Mr.. Sturgeon, with number of other
ministers, has signed a manifesto declar-
lng%ior thorough Calvinism and accept
ing both festaments, on inpiration and
SaDhath-keeplng as the word of God
saying the two must stand or fall to-
gether.
The Porte refuses to be intimidated bv
the threats of the French Embassy into
nasty action in the matter of the recent
riots at Jerusalem between Greek and
Roman Catholics. The Porte ignores
French interference, and is going about
the investigation i'll deliberate way,
The Home Rulers of Ireland exnect
aid from the Queen. In one of her lot.
ters which she has permitted to be NH
Iished it is intimated that she accents
the verdict of the country on home rnla
and will use all her power and personal
lhIiuehce to prevent the Lords from op-
posing it,
The holy coat" which, it is alleged
Is the seamless coat worn bv our Savior
VIII be exhibited in August at rreves at
the Cathedra OF st. Peter and St. Helen
where 1t has been since 1886. 1t is said
TO have been discovered by the Empress
Helena during her memorable visit to
Palestine In the fourth century.
Germany, Austria. Hungary, Italy and
switzerland have formed a great central |
European customs league. The leagrn
Is to be an intimate commercial allinnrn
IN which no one of the contracting now.
ers will be privileged to form trade
treaty with any other outside the nnion
unless it first obtains the ass nj If t,a
other parties.
Emperor William, while ayowedly
proud OF the Guelph connection md
considering himself member of That
family, has given it to be understood
that he will not tolerate any disparage'
ment OF Prussian supremacyin Uanoyer
and that the agitation among oflicioil
favorable to the Guelph movement mnst
be sternly repressed. - ''