Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-06-11
EASTERN ITEMS.
WILLARD AND THE OREGON TRANS
CONTINENTAL.
Secretary Bayard's Marrtage-Woman
Suffrage Factories Established
Prisoners Lashed-Miners
Resume Work.

Maine farmers complain of scarcity
Of help.
Natural gas will soon be piped to San
dusky, Ohio.
President Harrison will not talk poll
tics on Sunday.
Congressman Samuel S. Randall is con-
valescing rapidly.
The Chicago Drainage bill has passed
| the Illinois senate.
Worms are destroying the cotton crops
! in Southern Arkansas.
Anarchist literature are being extern
sively circulated in Chicago.
The Atlanta is to relieve the Omaha as
| flagstaff Of the Asiatic station.
Oil has been struck at a reported depth
OF 1900 feet in Terre Haute, Ind.
No new developments have been made
in the Cronin mystery at Chicago
The Woman's Municipal Suffrage bill
was defeated in the Michigan senate.
All of Mrs Langtry's stage properties
are to be sold at auction on May 18th.
A Northern syndicate has purchased
| 80, 900 acres OF land in North Carolina.
A Chicago meat firm will build five
story refrigerating depot at Mckeesport.
Compulsory education laws are likely
to break up child labor in several states.
'Uncle Dick Tate" ex-State Treasurer
of Kentucky is believed to be in Caliior-
MIA.
A report in the West Virginia Guber-
material contest is not expected before
July.
A million dollars in gold bars has been
ordered for export to France from New
York.
Eleven prisnors were dashed and five
of them pilloried at New Castle, Del, re-
Gently.
The town of Cummings, H., suffered
from disastrous fire last week; loss
100000.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland has received
from the Queen Regent OF Spain, a pho
tograph.
1t is thought the sum of $1,000 900 will
pageant.
The Illinois house has passed the bill
reducing the rate of interest from 8 to Z
per cent.
Fx-Commissioner OF Pensions John G..
Black VII make his home at Chicago
hereafter.
Willard claims to have secured a ma
jority Of the stock OF the Oregon Trans
continental.
Horrible stories are being told of the
management OF the asylum for the Chi
cago insane.
The coming conference of North Amer
lean nations at Washington promises to
be Il success.
The Pennsylvania legislature appro-
priated So, 900 for dress uniforms for the
State militia.
Mrs. A. +. Horton, of San Diego, was
thrown from cab at Washington, last
week, and killed.
The Canadian Fisheries Department is
already sending out its armed cruisers to
watch American fishermen.
The New York legislature has appro-
priated 100000 for a monument to John
Ericsson, in New York city.
Artesian wells have future in this
country. The towns in Dakota are put
ting them to important uses.
a wind and hailstorm passed through
the northern portion of Texas, last week
doing great damage to crops.
1t is said that the negroes OF Louisiana
and Mississippi are moving out by thou
sands and are going to Kansas.
Nearly eight thousand miners have re-
sumed work at Pittston, Penn, after al
idleness OF over seven months.
A mob at Wycklife, Ky, on the 18th
inst, hanged Joe Thompson, who hac
criminally assaulted little girl,
V;scount Adolph de Nallcourt, dis
tinguished Frenchman, died suddenly a
San Antonio, Texas, of epilepsy,
At a recent birthday celebration il
Fairhayen, VT, thirteen persons vert
present whose ages aggregated 1913 wears
| William Hansen, o 17-vear-old boy
was wantonly shot at Joliet, H.. las
week, by Il colored policeman nance
Babb
Fish in the Iowa river are dying b,
thousands from Marshalltown down. |
is believed the glucose works have pois
soned the water.
Denver, Col, authorities are making
vigorous war on vice. Over four hun
bred prostitutes have been arrested with
in the past few days.
woman's walking matth is in pro
greSs at Baltimore, one of the condition!
being that 800 miles must be covered il
SIX days or no money is paid,
Francis Wayand Goddard. of Provi
dence, X. l., died suddenly in dentist
office in Boston, on the 18th inst II,
was widely known in the state.
The marriage OF ex-Secretary Bayarc
to Miss Clymer, daughter of DR.. Clymer
OF the United States navy, Cf Washing
ton, will occur early in the summer.
The Sioux Reservation in Dakota
which Is expected to be soon coded to tn,
United States, is five times as large a,
Oklahoma and five times better farn
lands.
! Twenty factories, with the aggreeat,
capital OF 81 800 900, have been establish
ed in Florence, Ala, town of som,
25OO people, during the seven month,
just passed.