Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-08-16
EASTERN ITEMS.
AN ENoRMoU WELL OF NATURAL
GAS DISCOVERED.
It Costs Quarter to Hear Him-Amer'
lean Ladies Imprisoned-Henry
George Given Dinner-An
Entrance to Toronto.

Chinese are pouring into Mexico.
yellow fever is making terrible pro-
press in Mexico.
Seven hundred men are at work on the
Nicaragua Canal.
The Bennington Battle Monument is
now 100 feet high.
The New York Central HAS secured an
entrance to Toronto.
Hon. Samuel J. Randall has been again
Frustrated by Illness.
The Standard Oil Company is grabbing
all the gas lands loose.
August 18th is set Tor the trial oil the
new cruiser Baltimore.
| An airline railroad from Tamra, Fla,
to Chicago is projected.
II has cost New York about 500, TO
conduct the f,oodie trials.
A rabid dog bit four persons at
Hoboken, \. j., last week.
porooi se-shootng with the rifle ID a
sport Tor Cape May visitors
The longest row oil corn in the world is
in waubunsee county, Kan.
Two OF Ok.ahama's new counties are
ua,n.d Harrison and Cleveland.
The natural gas companies OF ONO ana
Indiana are talking consolidation
At Malone, y. Y, 800 New York child
rem are having a two week = outing.
The eourt-martial TO try ea-Commana-
ant Fletcher at Omaha is nov IN session.
The BARRIERS OF Philadelphia have de-
cised to keep their shops closed on sun
day.
The number OF prominent Americans
now in London and Paris IS unprece-
dented.
Thirty-four Philadelphia school build
ings have developed defective drainage
. all at once.
+ May /, 1890 has been fixed for eight
honr demonstrations throughout Europe
, and America.
II is represented that the resrrange-
ment Of the Ottawa Cabinet is giving
much trouble.
I Chicago claims the Exposition OF 1879
on the ground that she has more room
Tor ii than New York
seven hundred operatives at the FISH
, Back Rolling Mills at Pottsville, fehh'
, struck for an increase oi pay.
To make the battlefield OF Gettysburg
/. complete memorial it il proposed tina
the rebel lin, also shall be marked.
Gu, Of the 773 delegates elected to thu
New Jersey Prohibition Convention las
week, hut $40, or less than half, attended
: II is now estimated that %, 0,WH
+ bushels OF wheat will he sent To marke
. from the country along the Manitob'
- railroad.
Thre. editors were arrested at VII
b lia,nsuort. Penn, charged with sendin
= Obscene and lewd literature through tn
q mails.
u About the only thing that the resuh
Is mission furry in Kansas has accom-
?. plished is to revive the state Temperate
d Union.
Twelve acres in Prince George county
= Va. have sunk about sixty feet, and
\ lake two acres wide has formed upon it
y surface.
$ The assessment OF the city OF Nashvill
y for this wear shows an increase OF VI 900
vi 900 in property value over last year
81 assessment.
H. The new electric road TO Bay Rldg
Il, near Baltimore, just opened, IL runnli
,d satisfactorily and carrying crowds
passengers.
o. Henry George was given dinner
10 Brighton Beach last week, at which
RS predicted the ultimate success oil II
IL. iand-tax system,
es Deaths are numerous in the Conemaus
ae Valley, Penn, largely the result OF u
n severe mental and physical suffering Il
people have endured.
There has recently been a wild boo
at Ashland, Wis, which has just &C
to laps,,d and left n numbcr OF bankrup
So and interesting stories rs reminders.
W. An Elizabeth, n. j., man being pu
W sued by the police, leaped from the thi
us story o. his home TO the ground and n
of of. He wasn't injured in the shghtet
w All Kentucky is stirred by tie ne'
pe that an enormous we'll OF natural gas h
ge lust been discovered at Cloverport
of Breckinridge county. on the Ohio riv,
The latest Mormon party to arr
from Europe numbered 1872. One thot
"a and in all are expected this summ'
Tor The missionaries complain OF their la
49, Of success.
t, The wealth OF the 300 citizens May
Grant called together TO consider /
=, holding Of a great Exposition in \,
Etat 4 - lssAai mi
Wv 81 500, 900.
in Trials OF the new Wall street and Ma
be street electrical railways in Cinclnn
,er demonstrated their entire satisiactC
lth working, and regular trips are NJ
GO. being made.
I "a The Association of Centenary Firms
"a. Philadelphia has been organized. /
~ association consists OF firms that Ina
rs, carried on business III that city for
years or more.
~.
led The state Department Is cnsageu
ma earnestly investigating the case OF
~, three American ladies' who we're imp
.'o oned at Mentone, France, Tor non-sett
e'- ment oil milliner's bill.
a Trusts cost their founders sometlrii
:, The Salt Trust had to pay $4,000 tax
'ne the State OF New York on the charter,
use certificate OF organization. That v
mo come out of the people who buy salt.
~ sam Jones is preaching at the hi
Bridge camp grounds in keptucl
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