Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-05-20
The Amount Of Money Spent by
Americans in Italy.
EAST INDIANS GAIN MORE RIGHTS.
Glasgow to Erect Generating Station to
Supply 10000 Incandescent
Electric Lamps.


possessions except Massowah.
The measles bacillus is reported as
discovered by DR.. Caron at Berlin.
English capitalists are complaining. at
the number OF steamers that are lying
in that country.
Swiss hotelkeepers are hard at work
preparing for the summer influx OF
American tourists.
An agency in London supplies weekly
papers with the best jokes taken from
American journals.
Spain will try to raise IS, 900, 900 addi-
tional revenue by reducing salaries and
increasing taxation.
The London Times thinks it advisab BILE
for England to meet her colonies half
way in their trade offers.
A large sum has been asked by the
French Minister of Marine to increase
the strength Of the navy.
The French still fight an average OF
4 900 duels year without any percepti-
bic influence on the death rate.
1t is stated the manufacture and sale
of explosives in Austria and Hungary
will be made State monopoly.
The Archbishop Of Canterbury has de-
clared in favor Of opening picture gal
leries and museums on Sundays.
1t is proposed to endow Shakespeare 8
house in Stratford on Avon, 90 that it
may be free to visitors for all time.
Russian Black Sea ship owners are pc
titioning for an increased number OF
lighthouses on the shores OF the Crimea.
The immigration of Poles to Brazil,
owing to the unhealthy condition of that
country, is being directed to the United
| States.
1t is computed that during the last
ten years the average annual expendi,
ture of Americans in Italy has been $35,
600, 90.
Manchester (England) cotton manu-
facturers decide that, owing to the pre-
vaiing depression, a curtailing OF pro-
duction is necessary.
Germany possesses 24,843 miles Of
railways; France, q 1896; Great Britain
and Ireland, 1881; Russia, 1898
Austria, Is, 442 miles.
Fear of the Anarchists has affected
the attendance at the Paris theaters anG
notably reduced the number of people
in the streets at night.
The woman suhragists in England
protested against the recently defeated
bill, which allowed only spinsters to vote
ignoring married women.
The Queen Regent OF Spain has com
muted the death sentences of nine Grim
inals out of the seventeen that are await
ing execution in Spanish prisons.
India bids fair to arise in the level o
Importance ere long, judging from the
fact that there are over 200 women at
tending the various medical schools O
India.
Premier Salisbury and Chancellor 0
the Exchequer Goschen of Great Britain
have consented to receive a deputatior
Of leading merchants in favor of bimet
allism.
The London grand jury has found
true bill against the editor and publishe
of the Commonwedl, an Anarchistic pa
per. They are charged with exciting t,
murder.
A motion has been made in the British
House of Commons that Canada be rep
resented in Washington by Canadians
who should be attached to the British
Minister'S staff.
A Spanish sailing vessel bound for AL
huclemas, the Spanish prison settlement
in the Mediterranean, while becalmel
off the coast of Morocco, was boarded
and looted by number OF pirates.
In the event of war Russia could show
an army OF 100000 men, beside Cos
sacks; France, on war footing, an army
OF 100000; Germany, an army 0
2,30l 900 under twelve years service.
Lord Salisbury has addressed not,
OF remonstrance, couched in stron.
terms, to Secretary Blaine on the sub
iect OF the persecution of the English
sparrows in certain parts of the country
The man who caused the bomb explo
sion near Guise Barracks in Tours
France, and was almost fatally injured
by the explosion, is wealthy grocer
well known as pious man and a roy
alist.
The movement in New South Wales
to supplant the old Trades and Labor
Council by federation of labor, EN-
ploying political methods beside strikes
and boycotts, is continually gaining
strength.
The corporation OF Glasgow, Scotland
is about to erect a generating station
large enough to supply 900 incandes
cent electric lamps. The total expendi
ture for the work will be between $500.
900 and $350,000.
As concession to the native agitation
for larger voice in Indian affairs the
British authorities have announced thai
certain higher civil posts, inc udinp
judgeships and under secretaries. from
which natives have been excluded. will
now be open to them.
1t is said that in no three cities in the
world have greater advances in santa.
ton been made during the last twenty
years than in Bombay, Ma,lras and Cal.
cutta. This is beginning, though late
at the right place.
Crespo, the leader of the Venezuelan
insurgents, declares that if his son is
put to death, an act it has been reported
will follow his capture by President Pa.
lscio, the latter will be burned at the
stake in the plaza in front of the Case
Amarillo in Caracas.
The Rome correspondent of the Lon.
don Chronicle says: The Pope has con.
tirmed the decision OF the Propaganda
in favor of the plan advocated by Arch
bishop Ireland, allowing American Cath.
Ollie schools to be taught by State teach
ers, religious instruction to be given
after school hours, the object being to
relieve Catholics of the burden OF ex.
pense OF separate schools.
Locusts in vast numbers have appeared
near Jericho in the Jordan Valley. caus.
ing great alarm. The roads leading 10
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