Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-05-19
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Bloody Battle Fought in Rio
Grande do Sui.
SMALL INsURRECTION IN CUBA
Crimean Typhus Epidemic In Some
of the Paris PrisOns-Nine
Catholic Prelates.

The drought in Germany threatens a
vegetable famine.
The plans for the Paris Exhibition OF
1900 are assuming definite form.
The Johannesburg gold mines produced
| ,525, 1874 ounces OF gold during 1892.
Mary Benton, aged l02 years, was re-
Gently married at Grimsby, England.
Racing has been overdone in Austria
| liza, and all the jockey clubs are getting
in debt.
| A census of the trees Of Paris shows
that the French capital has $1,000 green
growths.
| The National Bank of Australasia at
Melbourne has failed. 1t has extensive
agencies.
Influenza has broken out extensively,
but not severely, in Paris and other
French cities.
The popularity of the study of Dante
has of late years had an extraordinary
growth in England.
There has been decided decrease in
grave crimes, as murder and brigandage,
in Egypt OF late years.
A remarkable increase in the use OF
OIL as luel oIl husSldu IHilIoauo ~
shown by recent statistics.
| Five hundred stevedores have struck
at the Victoria Docks, London, against
the federation OF free laborers.
The new Cunarders, Campania and
Lucana, will earn subvention from the
British government Of 5000 year.
Bicyclists to the number of $3.50 rode
their wheels through the fifty-five gates
of Paris one sunshiny spring day re-
Gently.
Seven hundred tons OF butter arrived
in London in one shipment from Austria
liza recently. Its total value was about
$340, 900.
The Norwegian Preserving Company
uses large quantities OF reindeer meat
for canning, and when fresh it is consid-
cred delicacy.
The drummers OF the Austrian army
have been armed with the regulation ri
fe. This adds 1904 available fighting
men to the army.
Another penny in the pound has been
added to the income tax in England.
This, coming in season of drought,
causes much dissatisfaction.
OF the nine Catholic prelates deprived
OF stipends for hospitality to the French
Republic all but one have been restored
to full rights and privileges.
A new postage stamp was issued by
the Italian postoffice on the silver we'd
ding day Of the King and Queen, bear
ing portraits of the King and Queen.
Reports from Brazil are to the effect
that in an engagement between the gov
eminent forces and the revolutionists in
Rio Grande do Sui 400 were killed on
each side.
The European correspondents of the
English press are devoting a good deal
OF space to stories about the new "bul-
let-proof" uniforms invented by Herr
Dove and others.
Phelps, the American Minister to
Germany, reports that the German for
eign office knows nothing about the ex-
pulsion OF American missionaries from
the Marshall Islands.
During 1892 324, 900 tons of fish, other
than shell fish, were landed from the
fisheries OF the United Kingdom, valued
at 94,629,000. The value of the shell
fish landed was G354, 900.
Last year 462 mistakes were made in
London by doctors in notifying cases of
infectious diseases for removal to hospit-
ais, with the result that 102 of the mis-
taken cases resulted fatally.
The French Senate has thrown out the
proposal, recently passed by the Lower
House, to tax pianos 10 francs a year.
and has also reduced by half the tax on
cycles, making it five francs year.
In an effort to cope with the rabbit
pest in New South Wales 632 miles of
rabbit-proof fencing have lately been
erected at a cost of s51 900, and 4O4
miles of similar fencing are building.
Marseilles is the headquarters for the
sale OF false hair. Twenty huge bales of
Chinese human hair recently arrived
there, and will be manufactured into
curls and frizzes for fashionable ladies'.
As the result of the prohibition against
theatrical performances in the Russian
language during Lent the greater part of
the Russian theatrical profession was re-
duced to state of the greatest poverty.
The revenue returns of Queensland
and Western Australia for the quarter
ending with March show, in common
with all other Australian colonies so far
reported, decrease, compared with last
year.
In Germany zoe, 900 families are SUM-
ported from the care of the forests, upon
which about 100000 is expended an
nually, 5000, 900 people more finding
employment in the various wood indus.
tries OF the empire.
All the smokeless powder made in
Russia during the last eight months has
been found to become useless shortly
after having been stored. Efforts are
making to remedy the defect, but SO far
they have been fruitless.
The filthy water of the river Netbe is
purified for use in Antwerp by being
passed through revolving cylinders con-
tanning small pieces OF iron. Fifteen
pounds of metallic iron will purify |
100000 gallons of water.
The heavy banking failures in Ans.
tralla draw attention to their system Of
overdrafts. A man worth e10, 900 man.
ages by oyerdrafts to get possession Of
$50 900, and naturally bad wool season |
knocks down the banks like bricks in a
row. ~
Adyices from Havana are that 400 in
surgents In Eastern Cuba are MAKING an
active campaign. The Spanish Cahinat
has authorized the Governor of Cnha ~
draw for any amount necessary for mill IL
ty supplies Warships and troops are
held ready to go to Cuba. WV
The late Alfred Name of Tours. Franco
was the greatest publisher of Roman
Catnollc literature in the world II -