Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-03-18
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INFLUENZA AMONG ANIMALS.
Coal Mines Discovered in Argentine
Republic : Bismarck Will
Attend the Diet.


South Africa is taking steps to prohipn
Chinese immigration.
It is stated that Denmark is now Will
ing to sell St. Thomas.
British Guiana produced nearly W.
OOO, 900 worth Of gold last year.
Mail is being sent between Paris ana
Berlin through pneumatic tubes.
Senior Saenz Pana, Independent, Will
contest the Presidency of Argentine.
Bismark will attend the coming session
of the Upper House OF the Prusslan Diet.
Three companies have been formed in
London to work the petroleum beds OF
Peru. -,
It is proposed to construct a new tele-
graph line from Valparaiso to Buenos
Ayres.
Emperor William will cruise off the
coast of Norway during the approaching
summer.
No case of foot and mouth disease has
occurred in Denmark for the past seven
teen years.
A terrific gale is reported near Oporto,
Portugal, and 200 fishermen are supposed
to have lost their lives.
The great emporium OF Berlin, known
as the Kaiser Bazaar, which is in liquida-
ton, was sold for 81 10000
Count Ernest d'Ursel, 26 years old, a
Belgian who commanded the military
force in Luluabourg district, Congo, is
dead.
The grip epidemic has disappeared in
Paris, the rate of mortality being again
normal. In German towns the disease is
also abating.
Lord Salisbury has the credit of being
the most industrious and hardest.work-
ing Premier that England has had for
many year.
English capitalists leave ruptured ne
gotiations for properties in Southwest
Africa, and forfeited $4,000 20 Ham
burg syndicate.
The President and other officers of q
bank at Corrintes, Argentine, have been
put in Jail for robbing that institution
OF 300, 900 pesos.
The foot and mouth disease has spread
to nineteen districts in Schleswig- Hol-
stein. 1t is presumed that the disease
was propagated by manure.
Mendoza Cortez, peer Of the realm
in Portugal, was recently sent to prison,
because he could not make good deficit
in the bank of which he is President.
NJ. Carnot's term as President oil
France will expire in December, 1894,
and the rumor is already going about
that he does not wish to be re. elected.
The magazine rifle recently issued to
the British regulars has been withdrawn,
and weapon sighted for use, with cor
dite ammunition, will be issued in its
place.
The newly discovered coal mines in
the Argentine Republic have caused q
cancellation of the contracts with Eng.
land for coal for the railroads in that
country.
Count de Lesseps, who lost fortune
by the failure of the Panama canal en-
terprise, is in more than comfortable cir.
cumstances through his interest in the
Suez canal.
Word from Athens announces that Dr.
Waldstein has discovered at Argos the
foundations of the Temple of Hera, de-
s'royed by fire 429 B. c., together with
many curios.
Arrangements have been made by an
educational institution in London by
which workingmen will be able to visit
the Columbian Exposition next year al
reasonable cost.
The first volume of Count Won Moltke's
war correspondence is of interest chiefly
to students OF military tactics. The vol
nme contains LAG letters relating to the
Danish war of 1854.
An English journal states that the
consulting rooms of the oculists are
crowded with patients suffering from ir-
ritatlon of the eyes, caused by exposure
to the unprotected electric light.
Three hundred thousand Germans
whose ancestors settled in the Volgs
provinces during the reign of the EN-
press Catherine the Second by her invi-
tatlon, are preparing to emigrate to the
United States.
The cause of the shortage of crops in
Russia, as reported by the American
Consul, was owing to excessive heat, fol-
lowed by hail storms; not to the unsuc-
cessful methods of Russian farmers as
previously reported.
A communistic experiment ia tn he
tried in Africa by number of German
enthusiasts; The selected territory lies
within Engand's sphere of influence in
Africa, in the region OF Mount Kenia in
the equatorial highlands.
The statistics of the London fire dc.
partment just published shows that
there were nearly 5000 fires in London
last year; and during that time 81 lives
We're lost at fires and 207 lives were saved
by the tiremeu. There were Az moro
hres last year than in 1899 and 69l more
than the yearly average for the last ten
years. 'oi'
The coffee crop of Costa RIGA ia lint
TWO thirds the amount of the previous
years harvest, and the price is station.
airy at $S5 per quintal. There is much
anxiety In commercial circles, and it is
feared that several houses will fail.
The last year has been one Of tho
WORST business years ever known in Sax.
ony. over 10000 distress warrants were
issued in Dresden alone, an increase 81
nearly ~ per cent, and the number al
mented. "'y aug
Inc influenza is attacking the animals
abroad: In Italy the poultry is affected
IN Berlin the horses, and in AmsterJo y,
the Wild animals in the Geological CO..
tota, anu with the latter it is generally
up to date. 'io'iihs
A letter from Cairo gives a curious ac.
J S OF the ceremonial performed every
gay ey al the burial place OF Khedive Tew.
nk. bis mother attends daily for the
purpose, OF prayer, and over ono n vno