Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-03-12
NEWS MISCELLANY.
A RUSSIAN PRINCE INCARCERATEE
FOR GRAND LARCENY.
Naptha the Latest Female Vice-Ilicit
Distilleries Discovered in Chicago
Insanity OF Con sicts In the
New York Prisons.


judged insane.
De Freycinet has undertaken to form
the new French cabinet.
The Germans in Samoa are furious over
the escape of Klein from Samoa.
An effort will be made in Boston to
suppress prize fighting altogether.
A famine prevails in the southern por-
ton of Corea and many people are starry
ing.
The U. s. war ship Hartford has been
ordered to Hayti and the Vandaliato Sa-
moa.
Governor Larabee, Of Iowa, has been
indicted by the grand jury OF Polk county
for libel.
Prize-fghtng in Montana is now re-
garded as one of the Territory's leading
industries.
1t is again rumored in Paris that Stan
ley has been murdered by natives near
Maugamba.
A bronze statue of Stonewall Jackson,
to cost $50 900, will soon be unveiled at
Lexington, Va.
O'Brien has been sentenced to impris-
onment with hard labor for six months
under the crimes act.
The rumors concerning the uprising of
the Indians in the Flathead country,
Montana, are grossly exaggerated.
A destructive cyclone passed over a
portion of Alabama and Georgia, Satur-
day, killing and wounding many people.
A bill has passed the Colorado legisla
ture to punish lawyers who advertise
their ability to obtain "secret divorces.
The courts of London have rendered
decision upholding the electric light
patents of Edison and Swan against other
patents.
The completion of the submarine cable
625 miles in length, between Coatzacval-
cos, Mexico, and Galveston, Texas, is
announced.
DIR. Tanner propose to take upon him
self trance state and in this condition
be buried for four weeks. The idea is
good one.
A scandal of huge proportions is an
nounced from the Bordentown, N. j.,
female college. All the students but
three have left for home
The Indiana legislature is again in
volved in trouble. The Republican SEN
ators threaten to resign, thereby leaving
that body without a quorum.
The revenue officers of Chicago are on
the scent of illicit whiskey manufacture
ing, said to be in the heart OF the city and
engaged in by prominent men.
1t is said that the English parliament
will vote $500, 100000 for the construc-
ton Of twenty men-of-war, fifty cruisers
and for increasing her torpedo service.
Three rabbit hunters near Cheyenne,
We're pursued by herd of cattle last Sat
urday and two of the number were
trampled into an unacceptable mass.
By the explosion of boiler in Hart
ford, Conn, hotel last week, the building
was set on fire and between twenty-five
and fifty people were burned to death.
A silly rumor has gained currency that
President Cleveland is firm believer in
the doctrine of spiritualism. The New
York " Sun" is the author of the canard.
Six convicts have become insane in the
N. Y, prison. Last week four
others were adjudged insane and sent to
the asylum. Their insanity is attributed
to idleness.
Sam d. Ford, recently arrested on the
train at Tucson for forgery committed at
ILL.,, was married in iail last
Sunday to the woman with whom he had
been travelling.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
last week to wreck Louisville and Nash
vile passenger train. A carload of sill
yer was probably the inducement for the
dastardly crime.
An investigation of the sensational re-
ports from the Wisconsin pineries CON
cerning dance houses and cruel treatment
of the women inmates, has shown the
stories to be highly exaggerated.
After an unparalleled lengthy trial at
Minneapolis, Tim and Pete Garrett have
been sentenced to hang on the 22d of
March for the unprovoked killing of a
'treet-car driver over year ago.
While boring for gas at Litchfield, Ill.
recently, the drill passed into a tunnel
1f the Litchtield Coal company. and a
mule which was standing beneath the
irill was killed
The internal machine discovered in
he rear of the Salvation army head
quarters, at Deer Lodge, Montana, turns
'ut to be nothing more serious than a
huge tire-cracker.
Frank l.. Silvers, a well-known horse-
breeder of Tecumseh, Mich, shot his
VIE, his two young daughters and then
himself, thus wiping out of existence the |
,ntire family. The victims We're all shot
through the temple.
1t is said that Germany will demand Of
he United States the arrest and nmn;sb.
nent of Klein, the American corresnonJ-
mt of the New York "World " on a
'harge of leading the Samoans ayainst |
he Germans.
Naptha is the latest female vice. The
urls employed in the New York rubhar
actories are addicted to the inhalation If
laptha fumes, and in consequences arc
made drunk. Its effect on the system
$ said TO be terrible.
The marriage of petite Miss Alice Il
iagaboom, of Vermont, and dapper Al |
red 5. Thompson, of New York, is an
bounced. The bride tips the hay scales |
t 900 pounds, while the groom weighs
en- pounds short of a hundred.
In the months of December and jan
lary several disastrous earthquakes oc-
uriJi u! San Jose, Costa Rica, and many |
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