Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-03-31
THE OLD WORLD.

The new gold fields in Western Aus
tralia are said to be overcrowded.
French statesmen have offered 81 900
reward for the best athletic game.
The French army maneuvers this year
will be on greatly extended scale.
1t is reported that sac, 900, 900 of Brit
ish capital is invested in Paraguay.
A Russian scientific expedition will
shortly leave st. Petersburg for Abys-
sinia.
Austria now requires Russian Jews to
hold special concession to trade in the
| country.
Bismarck's candidature for Geesete-
munde, it is said, is embarrassing to the
German government.
1t is stated the French government
will reconsider the whole question of
betting on horse races.
In the Argentine Republic the Pres
dent has recommended on export duty
and higher import duties
Russia will check German immigra-
ton at the south, and will curtail privi
leges of Germans now there.
The financial panic at Buenos Ayres
is about over Radical changes in bank
governments are to be made.
The Khedive's proclamation of general
amnesty to the S0udanese was hailed
with much rejoicing Mt Suakim.
The question of paying members OF
! Parliament for their services is now be-
ing widely agitated in Great Britain.
The heirs of Charlotte Won Stein in
tend to offer for sale by auction the let
tiers addressed ly Goethe to that lady.
The geysers of Iceland, which have
been among the greatest attractions of
the island, are gradually losing their
force.
The Spanish government is about to
send a large force OF troops to Cuba on
account of the increasing political agita-
ton there.
No less than 1900 young girls and
women, houseless, friendiess, helpless
and foodless, sleep in the open-all-night
shelters OF Stepney Green, London, in
year.
The Bank of France has in its vaults
$500, 900 GOO, of which $242, 100000 is
gold and S24S, 000,0 coo silver. lisa thor
lied paper circulation of legal-tender
notes is over S633 000,0 900.
Sir Charles Dixie says that he is con-
dent that he will be able to clear his
character and return once more to polit-
zeal life. He could not definitely decide
at present to contest seat.
Captain Algernon Sartoris, who mar
ried Nellie Grant a number of years ago,
is reported to be dying in the south of
France. Mrs Sartoris has two daugh-
ters and a son aged Is years.
The Mikado of Japan is to visit Wies-
baden next summer, partly for the wa
tiers and partly for the spectacle of in
nocent merriment." Six villas have been
engaged for the Emperor and his suite.
The hard winter has told heavily on
NJ. de Lesseps. His strength, it is said,
declines so rapidly that doctor never
leaves his side and administers caffeine
and other stimulants whenever he thinks
them needed.
The German colony of Moscow has
procured permission from the govern
ment to raise monument to Alexander
IL. in the park of theirchidren's asylum.
The statue will be made in Berlin of
German marble.
The French Senegal expedition has
won another victory on the Niger with
native troops and French officers. The
natives of Diena were beaten, with a
loss of 600 killed and wounded, includ-
ing their chief. The French lost eleven
killed and many wounded.
All the American Consuls in Italy have
joined in a report to the government on
the condition of trade between Italy and
the United States, with the view of call
ing the attention of American merchants
to the opening afforded there for an ex-
tension OF their foreign commerce. The
people OF Italy, the report says. are ia
vorably disposed toward American prod
ucts.
The Gar prohibited the street sale of
the Nor0e Iremgd, owing to an article
ridculing Prince BartenieH, recently
sentenced at Warsaw to eight years pc
nal servitude for shooting his mistress.
a Polish actress named Nisnerskaia.
The physicians of Vienna are greatly
interested in the announcement of a cure
for cancer made recently by Prof. Nose
tig OF that city. The cure is applied in
| the same way rs kochlne, and is said to
render the formation of cancer cells i'm
possible.
1t is authoritatively stated that the
electrical underground railway IN Lon
don has proved that a speed of twenty
four miles an hour is practicable There
are bills before the House of Commons
from many other British CITIES of rapid
transit on the same plan.
There are indications that large gang
OF murderers are engaged in the work OF
killing men who make large winnings at
Monte Carlo, and doing the act in such
way that death would appear to have been
caused by suicide The investigation
into the death of DR.. Liedermann has
brought to light that he was shared by
woman, and that she and her paramour
took his life and lis money.
The Madrid Herdldo says of the Cuban
annexation talk: The peop'e OF Cuba
are strongly Spanish and equally opposed
To becoming part Of the United States.
Probably, with the exception of trades
men, there il no one in the island who is
at all DESTROYS Of annexation, and Spain
would shed her last drop Of blood in re-
/ zistinO any attcmpt 10 deuriVa her III her