The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-09-23
FOREIGN.

navigation, died in New York on Sep
TENDER Is.
FOREIGN.
The Finnish diet reassembled on
September Is, and reelected President
Svinhufd, who is persona non grata
to the Russian government.
The cholera epidemic which, orig
mating in southern Russia, has
claimed already upwards of 100000
victims, is stretching its way across
Asiatic Russia, and is officially de-
clared to threaten the province Of
Amur, in southern Siberia.
The Danish steamer Hans Egede
has arrived at Copenhagen with the
news that John H. Bradley, financial
hacker of DR.. Frederick A. Cooks
north pole expedition, is on his way
to Etah to secure the much talked of
records and instruments which DR..
Cook has said he left at the Eskimo
settlement northeast of Greenland.
There is trouble on the Austrian
railroads equivalent to a strike, as the
result of a dispute over wages. The
men have not quit work, but are fol-
lowing explicitly the exact letter of
he musty rules and regulations, and
as a result the traffic is so delayed
hat the southern railroad system is
tied up.
A meteorological examination in
hree fatal cases at Danzig, Prussia,
has established that death in
Zach instance was due to Asiatic chol.
IRA. Fifteen new suspects of cholera
lave been placed under observation.
The Bolivian senate has approved
he concession granted a syndicate of
British capitalists for the construc.
ion of a railroad from the Yacuma
liver to Santa Cruz.
Canadas total wheat crop this year
5 122785, 900 bushels. according to
he estimate of the government statis-
les officially announced. This is 49,
5000 bushels less than the yield of
9O9.
The cholera epidemic has been
Practically stamped out in Auplia, a
vision of southeastern Italy.
The United States transport War
en-, which went ashore on the coast
( Batangas province in southern Lu.
on, has been refloated.
The farming districts of Manitoba |
re So overrun by bars that have
cen starved and drive- in by forest |
res that thirty bear dos are to be
nported to exterminate them.
A workman in a brickyard at Mar
'nburg, twenty-seven milea southeast
Danzig. Prussia, died Of cholera on
lednesday. A number CT suspected
lses OF cholera have developed in
lat locality and of the patients two
iults and five children have died.
In accordance with its policy of en-.
the manufacture of beer,
lie Mexican government has granted
4 exclusive concession to "a brewery
the state of Sinaloa, the company
eing exempted from taxes for fifteen
ears, according to Vice Consul Par.
sr of Mazatlan.
The United States is to recognize
e Estrada government in Nicaragua.
is pointed out that there are varf-
is degrees of recognition, and as Els.
ada's government is, after all, pro-
sional one our recognition would be
| that basis.
The last armed opposition to the
w regime under General Estrada.
e provisional president of Nicara.
Ia, has ceased with the surrender of
sneral Fernando Maria Rivas with
700 men and eleven cannon.
Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole has been
by the Republican terri.
rial convention to succeed himself
delegate to congress from Hawaii.
The agitation against the restrie-
ms placed on the importation of
reign meats based on the inadequacy |