Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-10-29
EASTERN ITEMS.
UNCLE SAM CAPTURED FIFTY
THREE PRIZES.
Cut the Electric Wires-A congressman
Dead-A Hotel MANAGER Skips-
Big Failure-Publicly United
Suicide of Dude.

Suicide of Dude.
Congressman Nutting OF New York, il
dead.
Land all over Missouri is advancing il
val1e.
The Indian Commission is at Guthrie
Oklahoma.
John L. Sullivan says he is ready t.
fght again.
The statement that Kansas is out o
funds is denied.
Large numbers of deer are being killed
in Eastern Maine.
The Peking railway project h. . been
temporarily postponed.
A II year-old boy, near Philippi, W
Va, weighs $50 pounds.
Johnstown, Pa, has over three hun
bred cases OF typhoid fever.
1t would take train 1925 miles long
to carry the Kansas corn crop.
A piano tuner, totally deaf, has been
found by Cincinnati reporter.
In New York smoking cars are to be
provided on the street railways.
Quail and jack rabbits are about to take
possession OF Jefferson City, Mo.
The funeral Of Bishop Vail took place
at Topeka, Kan, on the l4th inst.
The Cabinet ON the 18th discussed our
commercial relations with Mexico.
Ex-Governor L. A. Percy, of Florida,
died at Galveston, Tex, on the 18th.
Secretary Tracy has given his consent
for Il . Baltimore TO have another trial.
Pueblo has let the contract for the
| foundation of its Colorado Mineral Palace.
The Brotherhood of Railroad Brake
men opened a session at st. Paul Oh the
10Th.
One company now has control OF the
seventy-two miles OF street railway at
| Omaha.
The work OF laying cable between
Halifax and Bermuda will commence in
November.
South Dakota will urge upon Legisla-
tnre and Congress the necessity for irri-
CATION in that State.
Governor Hill and his personal staff
passed through Washington last week.
They called on the President.
Robert Barrier was taken from Jail at
Lexington, N. c., last week, and lynched.
He murdered his mother-in-law.
The discovery OF the white fungus,
which lays out the chinch bugs, has
proved "a great thing for Kansas.
Ex-Tax Collector Lederer, at Bloom,
ington, H., has confessed TO forgery,
larceny and classifying the records.
fifty-year-od grapevine grows in
Germantown, Penn, or IA trunk which
meai ures two feet and hall round.
H. f. Martin, manager OF the Hotel
Delmonico ut Kansas City, has disap-
peared with several thousand dollars.
Clark Il Keen, Philadelphia manufac-
turers OF worsieds, have made an assign
meat. Five hundred hands are affected.
The Laundrymens National Associa-
in session at Buffalo, is discussing the
effect OF Chinese work ON American labor.
Atlti ATLlluT tl tilt DIOtHtTnODu Ol
Locomotive Engineers, is opposed to a
federation with other larbor organiza-
lions.
Complaints have been made against
certain cotton planters in Texas for inn
porting Mexican labor to harvest their
crops.
A company has been founded at Jack
aan Mtaa In h,,N a 10 af al
able land in Arkansas owned by Jefferson
Davis.
The Supreme Court met last week at
Washington, and aiterward, according
to the annual custom, called upon the
President,
There are over forty Pension Office
employees drawing large salaries who
were rerated by Commissioners Tanner
and Black.
II is estimated that 500, 200, 200 worth
Of pune landa have been released 10
public use by treaties with Indians in
Minnesota.
The authorities of Missouri are prepar-
ing To put in force the Anti-Pool and
Antitrust law passed ut the last session
OF the Legislature.
Efforts are being made TO secure pur-
chaser for the Panama Canal plant--one
who will obtain renewal of the contract
and finish the work.
Hon. Frank Pettigrew OF Sioux Falls
and Judge q. c. Moody of Deadwood are
chosen TO represent South Dakota in the
United States Senate.
The Government, il is believed, will
take some steps to recover the money
which has been paid 10 all those pen
sioners who have been rerated.
A special Naval Board, now in exist
ence, will, 1t is said, recommend the APP
preparation of $4,000, 900 for the extern
sion and improvement OF the Brooklyn
Navy Yard.
AT the International Exhibition in
Paris in 1878 the United States took ten
grand prizes. At the Worlds Fair this
year Uncle Sam captured fifty-,hree
grand prizes.
A sensation has been created hy the
discovery OF deficiency of $1,000 in the
of William II. Stowe, quarter
OF Admiral Foote Post, Grand |
Army of the Republic, at New Haven,
Conn.
G. o. Wheeler, at present super'n |
dent of the Wisconsin Central and form |
erN connected with the Michigan Cen
trial, is to be made general superinten-
dent OF the Santa Fe, vice ID. J. Chase
A bride and groom were publicly united |,
at the Raleigh, n. c., State Fair on the /
10th, whose clothing was mrde entirely |