The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-03-12
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

is the happy mother of twins, one of which
weighs pound 10 ounces, and the other only
pound 8 ounces.
Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, introduced a
memorial into the Senate Feb. 10Th, numer-
ousy signed by citizens Of Oregon, represent
ing that the people of Oregon and adjacent
territories are deeply interested-that vast
extent of country lying between the Cascade
mountains and Salt Lake, is without means OF
transportation, and that the Portland, Dalles
and Salt Lake railroad is an enterprise calcu-
lated to assist greatly the wants Of commerce,
and to develop the country in natural resourc-
es-that the isolated condition of this country
is a continued drawback to it's growth and
prosperity, and praying the passage of Mr..
Mtchells bill.
Feb. 9th, murderer, an American, name
not gwen, was hung by mob in Arizona,
composed of about $50 persons of both sexes
He murdered an unfortunate woman named
Molly Howard, and when taken by the mob
and threatened with hanging, confessed the
crime, saying he did it because she owed him
dollar. which she would not pay; whereupOn,
q Mexican woman tied a rope around his neck,
drew the other end of it over a cottonwood
limb, and herself, and as many more, men and
women, as could get hold of the rope, lifted
the wretch off the ground and left him hang.
ing He died in about fifteen minutes.
Senator Wigfall, of Texas, is dead.
bo)o aU;o in
Cardinal Antonelli invites all of the Catholic
Bishops to Rome, as the Pope desires TO see
them before he dies
The insurrection is spreading rapidly in ia
pan, and foreign residents are leaving the
threatened towns.
New York ladies have organized 5000 strong
to "go after" the saloons Of that Gomarrah.
Three. card monte dealers have received pri-
vate but positive information from the author
tiles at Battle Mountain, Nevada, that their
presence is no longer indispensable to the pros
perity of that town.
A rencOntre at Watsonville, California, be-
tween Dr.. Cleveland and a man named Gil,
Ky, resulted in the instant killing of both, with
six.shooiers They were drunk, but aimed
their shots with fatal certainty.
The Legislature of Montana appropriated
So, 900 to aid the Philadelphia Centennial.
The harbor at San Diego, California. is about
to be ruined by the discharge of sand into it,
from the San Diego river.
The Supreme Court of California lately de-
cided that under the Fourteenth amendment
to the Constitution of the United States, COL
ored children have a right, in that State to at
tend the public schools; and that the legisla-
ture has right to establish separate schools.
The temperance crusade has got as far west
as Iowa.
Ex Queen Isabella, of Spain, has offered to
provide for the education of Bazaine's chill
dren.
Rev. Thomas Binney, the theological writer.
died in London, Feb. Oath, aged IS years.
The Maine legislature refused to pass the
bill abolishing the death penalty, by vote of
81 to- 73.
A shooting affray occurred at Gold Hll,
Nevada, lately. between Thomas Coleman and
Charles Cullen. Cullen was hit in the temple,
but not seriously hurt. Coleman was held to
answer before the next grand jury. They were
both little salubrious when the shooting took
place.
A terrible affair is reported to have taken
place in the State of Vera Cruz, Mexico, on
Feb. 18TH A quarrel between townsmen OF
Quimxlan and Huascallca, resulted In gen.
eral fight, in which II were killed. After
which the citizens of Huascallca went to Quinn
ixlan and begun an indiscriminate massacre,
killing children and cutting off the breasts OF
women, until neighboring town sent de-
tachment of militia to stop the atrocities. The
The Sonix indians, in despair of being able to-
initiate this little episode in the annals of civ.
;lzed life, will retire into shame-faced obscure
tv when the above facts come to their knowl-
edge.
An engine-house in San Francisco was burn
cd lately; loss $4,50O.
The Deer Lodge people are enjoying seas
son of "severe colds, pulmonary affections and
fevers." -a 7 a H
There is now in the United States $4,000
Oranges of farmers. with an aggregate mem
bership Of 100000.
THE Lewiston Signal publishes Senator
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