Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-05-05
CURRENT EVENTS

This week tuu htuaeN
Jassy, Russia, for America
CLANS sprec,les win erect $4,000 sugar
refinery in the Quaker Cliy'
Mrs. Cleveland employs secretary no" "
write all her autograph letters
Snow has just fallen In Formosa' emma i0'
the first time within the memory OF uAn
Bessemer, Alabama, Is just one year olu
ava has between three and four thousand IN
habltants.
One hundred thousand butterflies OF all Sizes
shapes and colors are TO be put on eAni0i'0n
In New York.
A Battle Creek, Mich, man recently naiur-
allied, who couldn't get TO the polls sent III
his ballot by mail.
A few years ago cotton seed was thrown
away as worthless, but to-day the seed Is As
valuable as the lint
MIR John b. Fry, who was once prlsate
secretary Of Henry Clay, Is living at sidney
N. ", nearly 20 years old,
Mrs. Cleveland always eondnes herself 10
Apollinaris water at dinner and wears no BUS
tie when she goes to church.
Included In the exports from New York city
during the past week were 1874 live cattle
6,2ss quarters OF beef and 1855 live sheep
Professor A. j. Deyoe the New Jersey
weather prophet, says that August 2 3 ana =
will be the warmest days Of the summer,
Miss Olive Green and Mr.. Ivory White
were welded IN an Iowa town recently, inc
Rev. Mr.. Black performing the ceremony
More than 500, 900 Of capital Is said TO
have been invested within the last twelve
months in southern enterprises and lands
The heirs are still contestlng the viii OF
the late Vice President Wheeler. He leaves
about s35,O 900 to charity and $1,000 to rela-
tlYes
Murat Halstead IL now spoken OF as the
very worst writer in the country. His chlFog'
raphy Is worse than was that OF Horace
Greeley.
~ guess we have so many things to learn
at our schools that we doa't have any room
to understand them I'M said little girl pa
thetcally.
Mrs. Senator Hawley takes her full share
of her husbands large correspondence, and u
acquiring familiarity with American political
platforms A
The obseryant w.. Grandy remarks that
a'the typewriter as an invention for catching
husbands becomes more and more successful
everywhere"
A Philadelphia firm Of soap manufacturers
have kettle that holds $4,000 pounds OF
LIQUIDS and six kettles that hold 10000
pounds each.
A bill providing for a monument over the
body OF John Gray, the last Revolutionary
soldier, who died some years ago, has been
into Congress.
Roswell p Flower was one OF nine children
born 10 poor country tailor He started
In life on a salary Of IS per month, and kept
his expenses within his income.
Gov. Hill spends nearly every Sunday IN
New York, aud II Is hi nted that Just nov hs
is more concerned about bis matrimonial
prospects than his presidential boom.
Puttlson jolly, the oldest printer 10 tho
world, died recently At Dublin, Ireland Ifs
was lO4 years old, and printed the drsE sheet
Of the Edluburg JoGrlsai more than " years.
ago.
A young lady Of Fort Valley. Ga, recently
her lover with an deliberately con-
structed pen wiper, aud was astoulshed the
Sunday 10 see him come 10 church
wearing It as a craVat
Pope Leo has ordered that the walls around
The Vatican palace be heightened. High
have been erected ia the uelghbor.
hood which overlook the garden 10 VIII ieh the
Pope takes his daily walk
Mr.. r. VI osterbaut, Of Tuukhannock, Pa,
aged 50, has been sued BY Caroline NJ Coon
FOR $4,000 damages for breach Of promise.
This Is n case In which the Coon oeeks TO
make the hunter come down.
The richest child In America is said 10 be
May Sharpless, a little miss Of years, who
s worth s9,OOl, 900 10 her own right ET.Goy.
srnor Leon Albeit, Of New Jersey, e her
guardian, her father being dead
One Of the Oldest religious edthces In the
country Is the Old swcds's church at WI.
nington, Del, which was bulis Ia 1893 Ia
he church yard rest the remains Of the wife
md daughter Of Secretary Bayard.
Bald Mountain, in North Garcia "a
moving signs Of commotiou IN TIA Interior.
People living netr u think that IL Is really A
volcano, and expect some DAY 10
lee II burst out with food Of lava.
A Chinaman named ConFueIus has
cached England on visit from his native
and He claims to be direct deceudant IN
he seventy-second generation OF the famous
lonfuclus who gave Chana a religion,
Queen Victoria has showed no desire 10
eceive Queen Natalie OF servia, who is also
taying at Florence and in the vicinity of he,
English Maiesty's villa. Tie serylan Queen
5 considered to be oil color by her royal sis.
erA
Il Is proposed TO erect monument 10 the
memory Of John Elliot the Apostle TO the
ndians," In Elliot square, Roxbnry, Mass.
md unveIl IL at the two hundredth anuiyer.
airy Of bis death, which occurs IN about two
ears
Says Mrs. Frank P. Blair, apropos OF her
wo thousand-doilar a year pension; When
ny husband died his estate, which had once
eeu valuable, was estimated at $500. he hav.
ng spent his private means TO equip his regE
nent"
Charles T. Caldwell, a prominent West Viz
inla attorney, known heretofore from his in.
deity as the "fngersoll Of the West yir.
mia bar" has been appointed and licensed
$ minister Of the Methodist EpIscopal
burch.
Worth, the famous Paris costumcr, receives
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