The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1893-12-23
FOREIGN CABLES.
Extension of the Telephone
System of Germany.
THE INFLUENZA AT HAMBURG
France and England Have Agreed a.
to Siam-Preparing an Anti.
dote to Diphtheria.

Paris lie to have q worlds fair congress.
The Socialist associations Of Sicily
count 800, 600 members.
The Argentine navy now comprises
fifty-four frst-class vessels.
Austria will tax all foreign insurance
companies within her borders.
Finland 10 to have State telephone
line at q cost OF loo, 600 marks.
The total mileage OF railways now
open TO traffic in Japan is l,7l7.
Mr.. Astor's London newspaper has
got him into 500 600 libel suit.
Princess BEATRICE has presented three
tigers to the London geological gardens.
The Pitcairn Islanders have been pre-
sented with q lifeboat by Queen Victoria.
The famine in Russia has made the
condition OF the peasants more deplOr-
able.
German troops are to be sent on long,
forced winter marches to make them
tough.
A French Deputy, NJ. Leygues, pro-
poses an increased duty on corn from 81
to 81. go.
Austrian Socialists will inaugurate q
| universal strike as q protest against the
army bill.
War between Ecuador and Peru over
the boundary dispute seems to he ALSO
lutely certain.
| Free trade ruins many farmers in Eng
land. They wish they could move their
farms TO France.
The influenza epidemic in Kiel spreads
rapidly. Three hundred marines are
under treatment.
The Bavarian War Minister asserts
that dueling cannot be abolished in
civilized countries.
The English government proposes to
place tax OF penny in the shilling on
theater admissions.
There are 5000 cases OF influenza at
Hamburg. and the epidemic is spread
ing all over Germany.
Paris is trying the experiment of paw
ing a street with mahogany. 1t is cost
ing only 50 a square yard.
There is a report that Greece will give
Russia a Mediterranean port, or that
France may give her 4 iaccio.
A ROYAL decree has been issued al
Brussels appointing commission &c
investigate speculative stocks.
After all the fuss the Bank of Eng
lands loss through the cashiers loan,
on bad security is but 100000.
DR.. Siemers report on Northern Pa
cific securities has sent Berlin's Deuf
sche Bank securities up three points.
The Bank Of England destroys abou
$50, 900 of its notes every week to re
place them with freshly printed ones.
St. Petersburg newspapers are growi
ing over the defeat OF the recent frencl
Cabinet as q treason to Russo frencl
alliance.
An attempt is being made under tn
auspices OF the Royal Biographies
Society to renew interest in Antarctic Ell
p!oration.
Canon Farrar is about to erect in s.
Margaret's Church. London. a small bC
beautiful memorial to the late DIR. Phi
lips Brooks.
Drs. Libbertz and Laubenheimen, co
J leagues of Prof. Koch, are preparing .
/ antidote to diphtheria and are confidei
Of its success.
. The Manchester canal, now finishes
, has cost the lives of l5S men, the perm
| hthN va AeO nav sH>
, injury Of ! ,ioi.
. The house of Rotschild has made j
annual gift OF loo, 900 francs to assist u
/. over their rent.
, II is announced that France and En-
land have agreed as to Siam. Tn
means that there will soon be one le
nation in the world.
\ Briyands in the Caucasus are becor
ing holder than ever before. Extr
r ordinary stories OF their recent outrag
d are coming TO hand.
3 An outbreak of q most infectious ty
e of influenza is the prevailing topic
+ personal concern not only in Englan
d but throughout Europe.
: Irish constables have been instruct
( not to interfere, directly or indirectl
,. with the collection of funds for I
benefit Of evicted tenants.
! The Mayor of Milan and other p ron
n nent persons have issued call for gu
: scrip,ions for erecting monument
J. that city in memory OF MacMahon.
The Swiss government denies that
is about to expel hundreds Of Anarchi
from the Republic. They won't
& molested as long as they keep quiet.
:, The sales of sealskins have j,
% closed in London. Nearly 10000 Ski
:, were disposed of for $l,Sl0,oOO. I
10 prices have fallen off from 10 to % |
u cent.
E. A dispatch from Cairo says that
At Khedive on December opened
1t railway connecting lsmalia with II
al Said. The British gunboat Dolpl
IN saluted the Khedive.
re Nine. Rodriguez, noted farisi
ID dressmaker, died recently in luna
or ASYLUM. Her fame WAS great, and ,
no always refused to make dresses
AZ women with poor figures.
NJ An important extension Of the te
al phone system Of Germany is at pres
in being carried out by the establishm'
-. Of a double line between Berlin 9
w Cologne, q distance Of about S95 mil
"a. Depression in the shipping trade
". reflected in the return OF Suex canal
"a. ceipts for the first nine months OF
- wear. They were 1854, 900 less Il
nv Nv those for the corresponding period
On last year.
IA The missionaries Of the Russ
~, Church are reported to have failed
w their effort among the khingese tr
:" Almost all the Steppe people elias
. under the name OF heathens are fiock
| l., . kn.lv 40 Mnha MADAME