Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-02-09
LIVELY TURNS OF THOUGHT.

Crude petroleum was successfully used as
fuel on locomotive in Ohio.
7 largest pulp mills in the world will be
erect, at Somerset Mills, Me.
A theft OF $50 in printed treasury notes
was discovered in Washington.
A large transfer boat and passenger cars
were burned in New York har or.
Iron works at Cleveland, o.. were destroy
cd by fire, causing oss Of s2OO,OO0
The Union Labor party elected 70 assem-
blymen and state senator in St Louis.
A trial Of the dynamite cruiser vesuvius,
gave a speed Of 81 AZ 100 knots per hour.
A new cable from the straits Of Belle Isle
TO the coast Of Scotland or Island is talked
Of
About 1000 goo feet Of lumber was burned
at Muskegon, Mich, causing a loss Of $780,
/ coo.
A bill has bcen introduced in the house Of
Representatives 10 divide California into two
states.
There ara 5000 Roman Catholic parochial
schools IN tbs United States, with 81, 600
pupils
At sale Of thoroughbred horses in New
York city recently very low prices were OBJ
tanned.
A cattle disease IA Bucks county, Pa, Is
causing considerable apprehension among
farmers.
The president has issued an order extend
ing the civil service rules to the railway
mail service.
/ A haa 2vN~ tn, 461
OF Representatives 70 repeal the Interstate
commerce law.
The normal school building at Lock
Haven, Pa, was destroyed by fire causing
loss Of $4,000.
Since the war the farmers of Georgia
have produced and sold more than 81 ,000,.
100000 worth Of cotton.
The pension appropriation bill completed
by the sub COMMITTEES appropriates Ssl, 7o7,-
SEQ for the next fiscal year.
The U. S. senate has taken up the senate
substitute for the Mills tariff bill and viii
push it through as fast as possible.
At the next session Of the Wisconsin
legislature the question Of hiring out con-
victs by contract viii be considered.
Ii is said that the grangers OF Delaware
will take hand in the choice Of o. S.
senator by the legislature Of that state.
The wages of the feather workers In
/ New York city have been decreased for
the last four years from So TO IS per week
Colonel Duncan, NJ. p, noted English
soldier, died recently from painters collie,
| traceable 10 sleeping in house newly
| painted.
The meeting Of miners at Columbus, o.,
last week has resulted in two organizations
OF miners, one In the west and one in Penn
| sylvania.
An attempt was made to blow up whisky
warehouse in Chicago with dynamite. The
owners charge the whisky trust with the
attempt.
A movement is on foot TO organize all the
railroad employees in the United States
into Federation with a membership OF
about 10000.
Mr. Edward Atkinson viii read paper
on "Creeds considered as an obstruction &c
the progress OF religion before tho Unita-
rian club Of Boston.
Tho increase on horseback riders in Wash
| ington is truly marvellous. In no city prob
| ably has this pleasant and healthful pastime
made such rapid strides.
-Four government vessels have been sent
20 Hayh 10 enforce the demand OF our gov
ernment that the seized steamer Haytian
Republic shall be given up.
Suits aggregating sis,oOOOOO have been
commenced against persons and corporations
in Carson City, New, for cutting timber on
unsurveyed government lands,
A pitched battle occurred at Macon, Mo-,
between Swedish miners and striking min
ers. A number We're wounded and neigh
boring buildings were riddled by bullets.
A bill has been introduced in the house OF
representatives TO establish graduated
income tax on incomes Of s., 900 and upwards
per year. The tax TO range from . TO 10 per
cent.
William Vantassell, Of tho New York AUG
| tion firm Of Yantassell & Kearney, fell
through an elevator shaft at his place OF
business, and fractured his skull, dying soon
after
Miss Grace Litchfield, whose writings arc
familiar 70 all readers of the leading maya.
zines, will spend the winter in Washington,
| where she has taken house on Connecti-
| cut avenue.
II Is said that Mr. Whitney has had every
newspaper reference TO him since he became
secretary ofthe navy clipped out and pastet
into n scrap book. The scrap book now
comprises forty large volumes.
Penny Wilkins, aS-year-old negro boy in
Coffee county, Georgia, weighs ls4 pounds,
and his sister, Charity Wilkins, aged II
| years, weighs 214 pounds. They are said 70
| be the largest children in Georgia.
Isaiah v. Williamson, the Philadelphia
millionaire philanthropist, has carried the
same umbrella for fifteen years and it is
easier for him TO give away 900 than pur.
chase suit OF clothes Cor himself
In purchasing the Wordsworth Tower
property on Taleott mountain, between
| West Hartford and Avon, AIR. Robert Hoe
| Of New York takes TO himself the most
slightly and picturesque OF oounecticut's
| pleasure grounds
MIR. w. c. vandergriff OF I4ithonia Ga,
had a game rooster To commit suicide by
| jumping into n well last week because he
was whipped by another rooster. The
rooster had never before been whipped, and