Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-04-30
OVER THE STATES.
NATURAL GAS DISCOVERED IN
KENTUCKY.
Thu Wife of Theodore Thomas Dead
An Attempt to Assassinate the
Gear of Russia-General
Boulanger Refugee.

| Murders are on inc lncreasc III "iio
Labor strikes in Germany continue.
A regency has been established in Hol-
land.
Denver has organized law and order
league.
General Boulanger is refugee from
France.
Natural gas has been discovered in
Kentucky.
Onions are one cent bushel in Can
astoga, N. Y.
The Eifel tower in Paris will be 1000
feet in height.
Gladstone presided at the Parnell ban
quet on the 1lth.
A heavy snow storm ragged throughout
Old Virginia last week.
The wife of Theodore Thomas died at
New York Wednesday.
The town OF Smithfeld, N G., was de-
stroyed by fire last week.
A panic prevailed at Percyville, Ia,
last week, over mad dogs.
Henry George has made n number OF
speeches in England recently.
Four " marbled polecats " are the lat
est arrivals ut the London ZOO
An attempt was made to assassinate
the Gar OF Russia last week.
Governor Wolhcy was hanged in eiligy
at Flagstaff Ariz., Thursday.
The Lincoln monument at Springfield,
H., is rapidly falling to pieces.
The Michigan legislature has made it a
criminal oliense to sell a cigarette.
The Smithsonian institute has re-
ceived three elk from Buffalo Bill.
The German man-of-war Olga recently
beached at Samoa, bias been floated.
The recent losses by fire in Savannah,
Georgia, is estimated to be VI ,000, 900.
The report of the English admiralty is
that the navy of that country is inefficient.
The effort to declare the present Chi
cago city government invalid, fell through.
The worlds conference of Latter Day
saints was held at st. Joseph, Mo-, last
: week.
Canada is in favor of partial but not
an entire reciprocity with the United
! States.
Lewis Conklin, of Port Jervis, l.. L.,
was Drained by his wife with an AK
Tuesday.
The Oklahoma boomers encamped
around Caldwell, Kan, Wednesday, mum
l bered 1000.
A negro at Clinton, Wis, broke his
neck while trying to pull his own tooth
Wednesday.
Thieves steal horses and buggies a
' Chicago and ship them to Denver where
they are sold.
Snow as black and dirty as il it has
:, been trampled under foot, fell at Aitken
Mimi, last week.
Mosella White, a music teacher, wa
! arrested at Susquehana, Pa, Wednesday
: for stealing $4,000.
Sandy Carly, negro desperate, killed
Police Captain John h. Miller at BESSIE
), mer, Ala, Sunday.
rs The U. s. steamer Pensacola, whicl
went down in a storm last week at Nor
=, folk, has been raised.
=, The Sultan of Turkey has discovered
% plot to depose him and to place hi
brothers. heir on the throne.
1t The d-the-world baseballst
;. were entertained in sumptuous style o.
10 their arrival in New York last week.
Major Armes has made an abject apo
" ogy to General Beaver for pulling tn
y latter's nose at Washington recently.
." Lee Sing, a wealthy merchant of Den
yer, was arrested in Chicago Tuesday io
20 clipping with another Chinaman's wife.
Russell Harrison was arrested in Ne'
York Friday, on a charge OF criminal /
bel against Ex-Governor Crosby OF Mon
A. tana.
A. There are said to be only three of tn
N war governors now hving-Blair of Mich
igan, Curtin OF Pennsylvania, and Kirk
- wood OF Iowa.
It The Emperor OF Brazil is about to il
n sue an edict prohibiting Brazilian Cir
J. from marrying until they arrive at TIL
age of ten years.
10 Ellison Hatfield, one of the Hatfield
I Mccoy gang OF Kentucky desperadoe
10 now in Jail, confesses to three COLI
rp blooded murders.
Maillard, the chocolate eonfectioner
New York, has sent 10 the Paris expo
- sition two statues of Venus in soil
=, chocolate, weighing 800 pounds each.
ne 1t is proposed to have monster demon
STATIONS all over the country on Jul
4th, in support OF the movement to il
as augurate an S-hour system on May
Dr 1870.
p Meredith Stanley, OF Cincinnati, IL
t'e athlete, leaped from the iron bridge ov,
:" the Kentucky river Il distance OF .
feet, and was taken from the water III
H. injured.
IN kilrain and Sullivan have agreed
,H fight Tor Il wager of $4,000. 1t is earnes
n ~ hoped by long suffering public thu
a it will be IA Kilkenny in every sens
OF the word.
y The prohibition state of Iowa has hg
five murder trials 50 lar this year With
~ its borders, in each of which intoxic
y ton was urged by the defense as Il init
4. eating circumstance of the crime.
Andrew Carnegie, in speech in Il
PENNSYLVANIA house OF Representative,
SC Tuesday, declared that the Pennsylv
q, MIA Central railroad was injuring Il
&c value Of property in large sections OF Il
= state.
1t is said that lack OF coal at Page p
20 harbor, Samoa, was the cause Of Il
1n recent disaster to shipping. The ahsen'