Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-02-03
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
Provisions Growing Very Dear in
b the Russian Capital.
EPIDEMIC AMONG AFRICAN CATTLE.
Movement Against Privileges Enjoyed by
the Prussian Bureaucracy Stir
ring Middle Classes.

Russian reflners have formed sugar
trust.
The Socialists OF Magdeburg, Germany,
are boycotting the treweries.
EiffeIs reputation seems likely to be
knocked higher than his tower.
There are at present, it is stated, about
8, SOC, 900 mich cows in the British Isles.
Liverpool's elevated electric railway
along the line of docks is to be opened
on February A.
It is reported that the Bank OF France
has removed the premium 1t had been
paying for gold.
Russia is spending great deal OF
money In extending and improving her
railroad system.
The body OF q woman cut into 173
streets Of Moscow.
The little trip to the continent which
the Queen OF England makes each spring
costs about 100000
Provisions are growing 80 dear in st.
Petersburg that it is almost impossible
for q common laborer to live on his
wages.
The attempt to establish penal stations
in the prisons OF the central provinces
of European Russia has been relin-
pushed.
Snow, sleet and high winds prevail
along the coast of Great Britain, and
many email accidents to shipping have
been reported.
nooo,cI Coras;or ~ q ,oJIoJ $1,000 De-
ident Carnot to deny the truth Of the
date for the Presidency.
There is an iron works in the neigh.
borhood of Essen, Prussia, where work.
men are discharged If their wives have
more than two children.
A German chemist has proposed the
sterilizing of rivers by the means of an
electric current, which he claims will
kill cholera and other germs.
1t is reported that Count Munster
German Ambassador in Paris, will be
summoned to Berlin immedi ately to re-
port on the situation in Paris.
1t is thought that De Lesseps intends
to sell the castle La Chesnaye at auction
in order that his wife may have all his
property when the crash comes.
The silver wedding OF King Humbert
OF Italy will be made memorable to Ital.
ian exiles and political prisoners by q
general proclamation of amnesty.
Within the past year and half ter
rible epidemic has destroyed millions oil
the cattle of Africa and inflicted crush
ing blow upon the pastoral tribes.
The French courts have decided that
a young man born in France of French
mother and an English father must
serve his time in the French army.
Statistics of the cost OF the late gen.
eral election in Italy show the amounts
spent on treating" to aggregate total
of 100000 lire (abont $4,000, oOO).
A district messenger service is to be
established and put into operation inn
mediately in Paris under concession
nom the government to NJ. Hollebecque.
| British warships have been ordered
hereafter to return home at the end OF
their commissions for new crews instead
OF having the crews sent out to them by
troopships.
By the explosion of large quantities OF
gunpowder and dynamite on the Congo
railway fifty persons were killed, includ-
ing Lequeque, the head of the society
Anonyme Beige.
The French syndicate which is build
ing the much-talked- of railroad from
Jerusa EN- to Jaffa finds that the esti-
mated cost of 8 100000 francs will be
considerably exceeded.
Cock fghting is legal in Scotland.
Seven judges at the Edinburgh High
Court OF Justiciary lately quashed a con-
viction on a charge of cock fighting, OBJ
tanned under the cruelty to animals act.
Mrs. Chaloner, Newmarket eng
land) woman, has license from the
Jockey Club, and personally conducts a
horse training establishment, perhaps
the only one in existence that is run by
a woman.
The new President of the Swiss Re-
public--who has held the office during
six previous terms-is Calvinist cler-
gyman, and was regarded until lately az
one of the best all-round athletes in
Switzerland.
Listok of Saratov reports that in tho
whole Volga region the sacredness of the
nuptial ties is disregarded among the
common people. A marriage can be dis
solved by any three men at the REQUEST
OF the husband or the wife.
1t has been estimated that government
persecution has reduced the Jewish non.
ulation OF Moscow from so, 900 to So 900
All over the Holy City the houses from
which the Jews have been driven are
placarded with notices "to let"
st. Petersburg is troubled with largo
numbers of mendicants, who grow bolder
every oay. Every person of respectable
standing is importuned by begging let
tiers and oftentimes by the personal in.
truslon OF beggars, who impertinentIv
insist upon compliance with their de-
mands.
AS first step toward the Russo. Ger
man commercial entente cord,ak the ST
petersburg government is about to can.
Gel the decree prohibiting the Russian
railway companies from buying material
abroad, but the feeling in Russian court
circles because of Chancellor Won Ga.
privis speech may alter this position.
The Emperor of Austria has inst nro.
sented his relative, the Queen Reoent y,
Spain, with beautifully built cart for
tandem driving. In return Queen Chris
tina VIII send the Emperor three cream
colored mules from Andalusis. which
are to form team for the little Arcb-
duchess. daughter OF the late Grown
Prince Rudolph. '0""
After summer and autumn that were
aonormally healthtul the death rate Of
London has been suddenly almost donh
led. The mortality is now above tbirt,
to the thOleapd THO ;no. ,Aey