Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-01-13
The Most Costly Piece Of Railway
Work in the World.
RINDERPEsr SPREADS IN GERMANY
Peasants Dying Like Flies From Hunger
and Disease in the Famine Dis
tricts Of Russia.

Oh opaln.
The cholera in Hamburg is showing
no diminution.
Nottingham ;England) girls have
formed short.skirt league.
|. Emperor William says he does not IN
tend to visit the Chicago Exposition.
A company is to be organized In Eng
land for the manufacture OF electric d.
cycles.
It ia stated that Cornelius Herr black
mailed Baron Reinach out OF l0,0O0,O0O
francs.
The report that De Freycinet, Minister
OF War in France, is to resign is IN
founded.
Germany complains Of the United
States quarantine laws as obstructing
commerce.
Famine in the government OF Ulea.
borg, Sweden, is causing an exodus oil
the poorer people.
The failure OF the November rainfall
has made this the worst cotton season IN
India in twenty years.
Negotiations are underway for mill
tary ride between Vienna and Rome, the
distance being 1900 klometers.
Tiburzi, an uncaptured Italian bandit,
died of old age recently. He had been
sentenced to death thirty seven times.
During the campaign in Dahomey the
French soldiers found the Dahomeyan
women much more redou btable than the
men.
! A French syndicate, it is said, is about
to ask for a concession to build ship
railway across the Isthmus Of Tehaun-
tepec.
Jules Simon thinks that France would
accept the proposal to disarm with en-
thusiasm If it were made by another
power.
An Australian engineer intends carry
ing passengers from Vienna to Pesth bv
an electric engine at the rate of 1923 miles
al hour.
The Colombian Congress has passed
law sanctioning the introduction OF Chi
nose workmen for all classes OF indus
trial enterprise.
A project to establish a submarine Ca
BILE between Cartegena. Colon and other
Colombian ports is under discussion in
the Colombian Senate.
A bill will be presented to the German
Reichstag in January to imprison and
fine persons aud contiscate newspapers
revealing military secrets.
The question OF opening museums of
art on Sunday has reached in England
the point of belligerency. just now the
openers have it all their own way.
Wolves in Russia destroy annually up
! 81 oE - 4
mails valued at 5000, 600 rubles. Their
number does not appreciably decrease.
The Salvation Army is about to make
a fresh camraig en- in France, apparently.
At any rate General Booth is being ex.
tensively advertised in the Paris news
papers.
Jeruaaem has been enjoying boom
since the completion of the railroad that
connects it with Jaffl. Over 800 houses.
hotels. stores and residences have been
erected.
The rinderpast has spread to five hith-
erto-uninfected estates in Mecklenburg,
Germany, and to seven estates in Hol.
stein. Many cattle are dying of it also
in Jutland.
The most costly piece of railway work
in the world according to Sir E. Watkin
ia th9t between the Mansion House and
Aldgate street in London, which used up
$l0,0u0, COO q mile.
The fact has just been made public
that during the Ire ort Ministry in Hun
gary 40,000,000 forms were embezzle d
in the Department OF Education and
Public Instruction.
st. Helena, Napoleon's prison place.
is not prospecting. The revenue of the
island decreased $75, 900 in the past wear.
and immigration has fallen of, while
emigration has increased.
The. latest practicable balloon, war
ranted to go in any desired direction.
is the invention Of Carl Tn odor Geiss.
Ter, a Hamburg gardener. Experts have
made favorable reports concerning it.
The British Consul, who has visited
the famine districts OF Kietf, Bessarabia.
khartof, Khoursk, Razan, Orel, lula
and Vorenesh, Russia, reports that the
peasants are dying like flies from hunger
and disease.
There are said to be 1900 Jews idle
10 the East End OF London. The dis
tress IS 80 great that they had even
offered their children for sale to the
Jewish Unemployed Committee in order
to buy b; cad. - 0iN''
"Balmaceda's millions'' are still se-
curely retained within the walls of the
Bank OF England, and it seems by no
means certain that the bullion will he
returned to the Chilian government.
even within the next twelve months.
Former Medical Director Kraus of
t1am burg, who was driven out of Office
curing the epidemic OF cholera by COM
paints that his negligence was resp nsi-
pie ior the spread of the plague, has died
suddenly. 1t is suspected that he COM
mitted suicide. WIN
Judging from the taurine stat;s,;o,
pDu'l,hgnung Is not decreasing in Spain.
Gu'lng the past year the number of first
ciass nuli nights in important cities bae
Teeh zS', the bulls killed being 1894
mere nave also been S07 fights OF vouny
slaughtered. "eie
Complaint comes from all denomin.-
LIONS OF Nonconformsts in England that
there are too many candidates for tha
ministry. The output of ministers 10
steadily increasing, while there ia no
corresponding increase in the demand
'or their services. ''i'
The old cathedral in Berlin is bein,
pulled down and new one erected The
emperor has consented 10 allow naner-
weights TO be made OF the marble nave.
ment and the steps of the altar whsro
1ne late Emperor Williams coffin stood
they are to be sold for charitable pur.
/ poses. pur-
Inc Brazilian government has entered