Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-05-17
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
The Mascaret This Year Reported
the Greatest on Record.
GAMBLING is RAMPANT IN SPAIN.
Elections In Victoria, Australia, Result
in a Complete Victory for the
Government.

The militia in England is to be mobil-
lied.
It is said that the Berlin prisons were
never so crowded as at present.
The Sultan of Turkey is annoyed at
the diplomatic victory OF England IN
Egypt.
A German Centrist leader declares the
defeat of the education bill due to shout
ing free thinkers.
The Jamaica Legislature has increased
the grant for the Chicago Exhibition
from $40 900 to $4,000.
Emin Pasha has reconquered his old
province in equatorial Africa, and shoots
rebel officers who show fight.
The Archbishop OF Canterbury practi-.
cally has declared himself in favor OF
opening museums on Sundays.
The government methods of Russian
izing colonsts is likely to lead to the
wholesale emigration of Germans.
The yellow fever has extended into
the interior towns OF Brazil, and many
small places have been abandoned.
King Humber has intimated his read
mess to accept reduction OF 100000
lire (about 100000 in the civil list.
Herr Jaeger, chief cashier OF the great
house OF the Rothschids at Frankfort,
is deiaulter for over 1000, 900 marks.
The Polytechnic Wheelmen's Club of
England has altered the distance OF its
road championship from 80 to 100 miles.
1t is reported that the White Star line
is going to build two immense twin-screw
passenger steamships OF Il, 900 tons each.
Sixty torpedo boats will join the Ital-
ian reserve squadron during the for TIL
coming experiments in naval mobiliza-
ton.
British copper magnates have declined
to accept proposal by American mine
owners for a Is per cent. reduction in
outputs.
1t is proposed to unite all of the ISL
ands OF Japan by system OF submarine
telegraph cables at an estimated cost oil
$2,00o, 900.
MERCER, the Canadian ex-Premier,
has been placed under arrest to answer
the charge OF conspiracy to defraud the
government.
The elections in Victoria, Australia,
have resulted in a complete victory for
the government, which will have a ma
jority of to l..
Nj. Nakamura a member of the Jap
anese Parliament, has been sentenced to
six months imprisonment at hard labor
for libeling the Cabinet in his speeches.
The government troops of Venezuela
are reported to have been routed by the
insurgents under General Mora near Pu
erto Caballo. The news is of conflict.
ing character.
Preparations for the proper observ-
discovery of America by Colum bus are
pices of the Queen Regent.
News from Venezuela shows successes
Of the rebels under Crespo, who is NOV
ing slowly ON Caracas. Palacio is aware
OF his perils, and will, if closely pushed
take flight from the Republic.
The King of Dahomey has written the
government of Porto Novo, warning thu
French that, if they touch his towns
he will destroy Porto Novo and all thu
French ports in sight of the Blight o
Benin.
Negotiations are taking place between
Switzerland and Italy for the modifica
ton OF the frontier of the canton of I'll
elmo with the view of preventing the diff
/ ficulties arising from smugglers.
The gently published story about
fighting in Uganda, East Africa, between
the Protestant natives and Catholic con
verts led by King Mwanga is confirmed
The casualties are said to be heavy.
The great equinoctial tide called tn,
mascaret, which drives a solid wall o
water up the Seine, and which is one O
the great seaside spectacles of France
was this year the greatest ON record.
Rains have flooded the cities of Sal
Paulo and Santos, Brazil, and caused
much damage. In Santos thirty or forty
persons are said to have persisted, an(
the damage to property is estimated t,
be over 81, 800, 900.
The estimate of revenues of the Brit
! ish government for the current year il
$3.50, 100000. These revenues COM
chiefly from tariff duties, which prov,
England's claim to the title OF free trad
country q misnomer.
; The proposed plan for the postal tub
between France and England is to sus
pend two tubes, each about three feet il
diameter, by means of steel cable
: thrown across the channel 1870 feet aboy,
the level of the water.
Unemployed workmen in London
numbering many thousands, are prepar
ing to march through the streets, de
handing work or bread. The purpose il
to terrify the people and the authorities
, to opening relief funds.
A great cutlery is being made through
out Great Britain at the frequency O
outrages, real and imaginary, in frs
, and second-class compartments of rail
way trains, and the adoption of tn,
American passenger-car system is bein,
urged.
The Compagnie Transatlantique ha
instructed its captains ON the Havre
New York line to avoid as much as pos
sible passing over the Banks of New
foundland during the fishing season, a
the banks are then always swarmin,
, with craft.
/ According to statistics Just publishes
| the production of gold in Russia in 1881
amounted to 2, 406 pools 81 pounds 9TH,
: pood equals 40 Russian or SO English
pounds, compared with 2,271 pools 8
pounds in 1889. The increase is said I,
j be due to the development of Siberia,
! gold.
s Two Portuguese travellers, Messrs. Car
mage and Elbo, with a small retinue
r have recently brought a large force o
4 slave hunters to grief near the nortl
end of Lake Tanpayila who bod I'll .