The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1894-02-17
FOREIGN CABLES.
Large Decrease in the Italian
Customs Receipts.
FAVOR BIRcHING BAD BOYS.
Church of England Clergymen Going
Over to the Church of Rome
The French Navy.

| ~A~ AhNh@h &soNys
More than 200 Jews have started
from Odessa on their way to England.
The Italian bank circulation will be
increased by the issue OF l25, 600 600 lire.
The French navy lis to be strengthened
by the addition Of 10l swift torpedo
boats.
| France voluntarily pays $50, 900 in
demnity TO Italy for the Agnes Mortes
| massacre.
Hon. Joseph Chamberlain denies anv
knowledge Of Unionist scheme for
home rule.
The number Of books published in
England last year WAS 6,3S2, SAYS the
London Telegraph.
France is uneasy over the political
significance OF Bismarck's reconciliation
with the German Emperor.
The Pope is said 70 be preparing To
| Issue an encyclical on Catholi: Poles in
| tone conciliatory to Russia.
The Austrian Cabinet has decided to
Introduce in the Reichsrath a bill in
| crcasing the tax on corn -four TO francs.
Fewer German emigants left the port
of Hamburg, the great point of embar-
kaiion, Last year than in any year since
1879.
The tax of 10 francs year on cycles.
which WAS imposed in France last April.
Welded in the first half year over 1S0,-
| 900 francs.
The French authorities of Corsica
have forbidden English and German
doctors 10 practice their profession in
that island.
The Appeal Court in Dublin has
granted 10 Michael Bavitt a certificate
in bankruptcy. thus rendering him again
eligible 10 sit in Parliament
Only five out OF the iii;rtv-three MEM
beers OF the new Standing Committee on
Customs Duties in the French Chamber
oil Deputies are not pro,ectionists.
For the first time in her known his
tory the city OF London has fallen be-
hind the rest OF England and Wales in
the rate oil population for decade.
Henceforth all Russian emigrants en-
tering Germany en- route for the United
States must be healthy, and if over 10
wears OF age, be possessed OF 400 marks
in cash.
The fortune of Cecil Rhodes. Premier
OF Cape Colony in Africa, is set a, some
where from Sol. 900. 900 to SIS .o0o. OOO-
all made in the diamond mines OF that
country.
The French Senate by a vote of I32 To
81 agreed 10 give votes to women en-
gagged in business at elections for tribu-
mails of commerce. This lie the begin
ming OF woinan's suffrage in France.
Orders for $50 locomotives and several
Thousand railway carriages have been
given by the Russian government TO
Austrian and Belgian firms, presumably
required for the Trsnsiberian railway.
There was a decrease OF 1000. 900 lire
IN the italian customs receipts during
last month, while the revenue from in
direct taxation shows a total falling OF
o! 100000 lire in the last six months.
Even Bulgaria, with her 100 or less
miles of coast line on small inland sea,
has caught the naval fever. and the gov
eminent has Just voted sum equal TO
about $1,000, 90 for the establishment Of
navy.
The political leaders in the Basque
provinces OF Spain will send to Mr.. Glad
stone goid-mounted casket containing
an address and sprig from the historic
oak of Guernica, the symbol OF Basque
liberty.
A government decree has been issued
at Madrid abolishing the obligation of a
special passport for entry to the Phillip
pine Islands, " nich for centuries has ir-
ri'ated foreign visitors and closed the
archipelago.
Attention was called in the House of
Commons the other day TO the in Justice
OF maintaining the Church of England
establishment in India by taxation raj sed
almost entirely from persons of the Mos
lem and Hindoo faith.
A CONNER ,ial museum +" is about TO
I've established at Tangier, Morocco, in
which manufacturers and merchants
irom all countries NAV exhibit samples
OF those of their wares which they think
best adapted to the Moorish market.
Women typewriters, who have hith-
erto been employed in the government
offices in London as supernumeraries,
are according Ia decision of the Treas
ury Department henceforth to be incor-
porated into the regular civil service.
Thnce clergrmen of the Church of
Rome in the course of one week of last
month. Fourteen English clergymen
have thus changed their church since
the Judgment in the noted Lincoln case
A resolution in favor OF hirchinc bad
boys instead of sending them to prison
has been sent to the British Home Sec
rotary, signed by a number of Mayis-
trates. The proposition is to birch bows
under IL for all otienses at the discretion
of the Magistrate.
The Argentine Republic is rapidly be-
coming prominent competitor in the
business of supplying grain to the Eu-
ropean markets. Ship owners of Nova
Scotia and New Brunswick are taking
advantage of the trade and finding EN-.
plo' M mt for their vessels.
though jules Verne's works of scien-
tiiic fiction have sold by the hundreds of
thousands and returned millions of
francs TO the publishers, they have
earned for their author only $4,000
vear--not even enough for him to buy
the house he rents at Amiens.
The Governor OF Sierra Leone tele-
graphs confirmation Of the report Of an
other engagement between French and
British forces on the frontier OF Sierra
Leone, and SAYS several were killed on
both sides, and that the French attacked
the British, whose force consisted en-.
tirely OF natives. Touching on the AZ
fair. the Pail Mall Gazette saws: "we
cannot have these things happen weekly. |
No time should be lost in settling the |
affair with France"