Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-03-17
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
Mcdonnell, the Bank Of England
Forger, in Limbo Again.
THE NEW PRIMATE OF AFRIrA
A Movement In France Looking to the
Sub ,titutlon Of Aluminium for
Copper in Small Coins.

LUpUtI Ill Cludli SoluSs
The Brotherhood of Minor Poets is
the name of recently formed society IN
England.
There is an electric railroad twenty
seven miles long in the Tyrolese Mount
aims in Switzerland.
A railroad is to be built from Athens
Dadion and Larissa.
Chancellor Caprivi in answer to a ru-
NOR that he is about to marry says he is
too old Tor such step.
The Chinese government will send out
an expedition shortly to extern its tele.
graph system through to Kashgar.
1t is proposed to hold a grand national
exhibition in Geneva in 1896 on the
model of the Zurich Exposition OF 1883
1t is said that negotiations are about
to be resumed between Great Britain
and Spain for new commercial treaty.
Not since 1S49 has such prolonged
period of frost or such intensity of cold
been known in Hungary as has prevailed
this winter.
Coal of an excellent quality aud in
large deposits has been discovered at
Diebeli- Ebou- Feyaz in the district OF
Zor in Asia Minor.
The death is announced from Cape
Town OF Kreli, ex-Chief of the Galekas
in the Transkei, who was deposed by Sir
Bartle Frere in 1877.
A new treaty which has been made
between Venezuela and Colombia is the
first step toward triple alliance, which
is to include Ecuador.
The Brazilian government has ordered
| &c, 1000 small caliber rifles aud 80, 900, 900
cartridges from the Lowe smsll-arm
mandatory in Berlin.
The Rome police surprised twenty.six
anarchists working a bomb factory on
the outskirts of the city. A large guam
tity OF explosives was seized.
Mrs. Lille Langtry, recently arrived
at Malta on her yacht from Marseilles,
was subject to ten days. quarantine on
the ground that Marseilles is an infected
port.
Several mllowners in Haywood, Eng
land, have closed their factories so as to
assist in bringing about the desired re-
duction OF wages. Thousands of looms
are idle.
Queen Victoria has immense wine Gel
lars in her various palaces. Her old
port, sherry. East India, Madeira and
Cabinet Rhine are said to be the finest
in England.
Pere Charmatant, founder of the order
of the White Fathers, who was born in
France in 1874, has been appointed to
succeed the late Cardinal Lavigerie as
Primate of Africa.
1t has been decided to call out the en-
tire militia force of the United Kingdom
and the Channel Islands for training
this season. The number of men under
arms is expected to reach 1851 900.
Amovement has been begun in France
looking to the substitution OF aluminium
for copper in making small coin. The
advantages of aluminium in point OF
lightness and cleanliness are unquestion-
able.
MIR. Mundella, President OF the Lon
don Board of Trade, has decided to send
David Schloss and Wi liam Barnett to
the United States to examine and re nort
on the question of stopping the immigra-
ton of pauper aliens.
As soon as they heard that William
Waldorf Astor had purchased the Lon
don Pail Mall Gazette and was trying to
make Tory paper of it, all of the old
EDITORS left. Thew have started new
paper called the Westminster Gazette.
A French vessel Of war has taken pos.
session OF kerguelen, otherwise known
as the Isle OF Desolation, in the Indian
Ocean, which was discovered by the
French navigator, Kerguelen, in 1772
The island is said to have beds OF coal.
The London County Council will give
its support to proposals made to open
the South Kensington and Bethnal Greer
Museums on Sundays. 1t will impose
condition that no official of the institu.
tons shall be required to work more
than six days week.
The Manchester ship canal is expected
to be completed and open for business
by the end OF the present year. Anothe,
100000 is being raised to finish the
work, half OF which is being subscribed
ny Stafford, three-eighths by Mancheste,
and the rest by Oldham.
The Porte has appointed Osman Pasha
Turkish Commissioner in Egypt in place
of Moukhtar Pasha, who has been re
called. The change is source of relic
20 the British officials in Egypt, Monk.
Jar Pasha having been the center o.
furkieh intrigues against England.
The Vienna Nea.e' Freie Presss saws
that the Metropolitan Michael has pro
nounced the divorce of ex-King Milan
and Natalie void. According to this de-
cision the first marriage is still valid
and hence second marriage, which was
contemplated, viii. not be necessary.
The railroads of France are rapidly
adopting electric train lighting appar.
atus, by means of the storage battery
system, using six, eight or ten-candle
power. Each car carries sixteen Gel o.
battery and each is independent of the
rest OF the train in its lighting outfit.
The old country is doing business with
the outside world. The QUANTITY and
value of iron and steel exported nv