Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-03-03
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
Proposition to Connect Ireland and
Great Britain by a Tunnel.
EXCESSIVE COLD ALL OVER EUROPE
The Medical History Of the Cholera In
Russia Last Summer of Highly
Encouraging Nature.

Over $4,000 people emigrated from
Germany during the year 1892.
The floods at Brisbane and other parts
of Queensland caused loss of $4,000
600.
The sentiment in favor OF protection
is said to be making rapid progress In
England.
A Russian officer, Captain Smoiloff.
has succeeded in training falcons to
carry dispatches.
Boulangist groups are to be excluded
| from participation in the Labor-day eel
ebration in Paris.
| The prediction that cholera will be
epidemic all over Europe this spring ia
obtaining strength.
Italy proposes to increase her revenue
by controlling monopoly in petroleum
and alcoholic liquors.
The Bank OF Spain will consolidate
the Cuban debt, and will issue large
loan to Cuba and Port Rico.
Earthquakes at Zante have caused in
creased panics. The people are fearful
that the island will collapse.
1t is reported that there was a falling
off in the value of both the imports and
exports OF France during 1892.
Only forty one pleuro-pneumonia cases
have been discovered in six months in
American cattle imported into England.
New South Wales will impose per
cent tax on the income derived from
property in the colony by absentee own
ers.
In Moscow the temperature averaged
10 deg. below zero for over thirty days
during the end of December and the first
weeks of January.
| An English court ia trying to settle
who owns the 1925, 900 left undistributed
when the law recently checked the
"missng word contest"
"Mlle. Nevada" has an engagement
to sing in the French Italian Opera
Company. Her voice has gained in
strength since her marriage.
The crinoline question is settled once
for all, as the Princess of Wales has
taken decided stand against the re-es-
Establishment of hoops in any form.
The New South Wales Legislative As
sembly, like the Victorian Legislature,
has adopted resolution in favor of the
taxing of absentee owners of property.
The American Minister has requested
Turkey, to inquire into the burning by
Moslem mob of American girls college
at Marsovan.
Arrangements have been made in
London to transport to Chicago for use
at the Worlds Fair seven English
coaches and sixty horses, together with
| profpaainnal 1riyarc nd fy,y rIo
| The statement that the Gear of Russia
ia soon to assume the title of emperor
of ASIA as set-off to the title of EN-
press OF India, assumed by Queen Vic
toria, is generally believed in European
political circles.
| The present year will see some ener-
getic work in London in connection with
electric railways, that between Finsbury
Park and Moorgate street being already
in forward state for commencing the
actual construction.
The people of Bristol, England, are
about to construct costly harbor works.
with view to the attraction of ocean
steamship traffic. 1t was Bristol ship
that first touched the shores of the
American Continent.
1t was reported in Vienna three weeks
ago that the Russian town of Tikhvin,
| in Novgorod, was beseiged by wolves,
famished and driven to desperate bold
ness by the intense cold and snow and
| consequent scarcity of food
| The cold has been excessive In St
Petersburg and for weeks wood fires have
been burned in the squares and streets
of the city in an effort to make necessary
outdoor business endurable. The streets
have, how ever, been practically deserted.
1t is said that mail matter dropped in
the postoffice at Paris is delivered in
Berlin in an hour and a half, and some
times in thirty-fi minutes. The dis
lance between the cities is $50 miles and
the mail lie sent by means of pneumatic
tubes.
The medical history of cholera in Rms
STA last summer is of a highly encourag-
ing nature. 1t shows that by proper
sanitary measures cholera can be kent
out or stamped out to a greater degree
even in districts most favorable to its
development.
The long distance marching competi-
lions by volunteer soldiers in England
are discountenanced by the Commander
ln.chief in recent order. He thinks
they result in no practical good, and NAV
cause individual harm through undue
stress OF effort.
The sentence on De Lesseps is a sem
tence on France" says the London
Times, land the ignominy poured down
on that feeble old man is degradation
for the people who dattered and caressed
and gloritied him as long as the capital
was left to spend"
French War Office experts are divided
In opinion concerning the value or dan.
ger OF EitfePs tower In case of a sejpe Of
Paris. German staff officers have written
quite freely about the matter. princinallv
holding the view that the tower wonid |
afford a fine target.
A proposition is made to connect Great |
Britain and Ireland by tunnel driven
under the North Channel of the Irish
Sea at Its narrowest part, between Conn
ty Antrim in Ireland and Wiptown in |
Scotland. The length of the tunnaI
would be some twenty miles,
Cesare Orsini, whose appointment as
Italian Envoy to Mexico Is announced
Is brother to the leader in the at
tempted assassination of Napoleon TIT
whtie the latter was driving To the onara
-Felice Orsini, whose name was oivan
to the kind OF bomb used on that occa-
sion. Viva
All Europe, from the Arctic to tbe
mediterranean, Is experiencing a winter
severity this season such as it has moi |
known Tor many years. II is necessary