Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-02-12
MISCELLANEOUS.
OLD LIBBY PRISON TO BE REMOVED
INTACT TO CHICAGO.
An Ohio Murderess too Depraved for
the Gallows-A Remarkable Well
Near Pittsburg- Fruit ofthe
Dime Novel in Boston

| volunteer.
The wife OF the Gar OF Russia has
| become insane.
A threshing machine in England is
run by electricity.
Teams crossed over the Mississippi
on the ice last week.
All the American war ships will
soon be ready for sea.
A portion OF the imperial palace at
Peking has been burned.
The Mormon settlers in Minnesota
are selling out and going to Utah.
Oranges are now being moved in
Florida in bnlk, the same as potatoes.
The Nah lis followers are said to
have made saint of General Gordon.
At the Paris exposition this year
there will be q band OF 1900 must
clans.
A new naturalization bill has been
reported to the House judiciary COM
mittse.
The bodies OF Nine. di Murska and
her daughter will be sent to Gotha to
be cremated
Shoals Of black cod in enormous
numbers are reported off the coast
near San Diego.
A Wichita, Kan, clergyman has
been asked to resign because his ser
mons are too long.
Three murders similar to those OF
the Wbitechapel fiend have been per
petrated in Jamaica.
Three hundred houses were de-
stroyed by an earthquake IN the Saba
ret valley, Asia Minor.
The house in which Lord Byron was
born in London will be demolished, to
enlarge Diapers shop.
The cotton crop this Dear will be
he largest ever made. and will APP
proximate 7 ,500,00O bales.
A Paris letter states that the whole
Of DsLesseps' fortune disappeared IN
the Panama canal scheme.
The Kansas house has passed the
senate resolution favoring the opening
Of Oklahoma for settlement.
1t cost a Nebraska county nearly
$4,000 to run the poor farm last yeai
There were but two paup-rs.
The ST lawrence river rose thir-
teen feet in four hours, last week, and
submerged the wharves of Montreal.
There is apprehension OF trouble
during the centennial celebration OF
the French revolution next summer.
Duling the past two months Mrs.
James G. Blaine, jr, has been study
ing hard for her debut on the profes-
sional stage.
A young physician of Fall River,
Mass, is laid up vii III disease of the
tongue, attributed To excessive ciga-
rette smoking.
On December |, three strong earth
qutkes were felt in Iquqne, Peru,
with an intermission of only from five
10 nine seconds.
DR.. j. Mile Jenkin, who correctly
located the bullet in G,rtield's body,
dropped dead at Wilkesbare, Penn, OF
npoplexy, last week.
A dispatch from Sydney, N. S. W.,
says the German gunboat Olga has
taken Malietoa, * king of Samoa, to
the Marshall islands.
William Pierce, probably the Oldest
convict in New York i'll point OF
continual penal servitude, has been
discharged from the asylum for in
sane criminals.
A rocking stone in New MARI
borough, Mass, is so nicely balanced
that, notwithstanding it weighs many
tons, the pressure of single finger is
sufficient to move it about an inch.
The Canadian knights of Labor are
seeking to secure the exclusion Of for
eign labor from the Dominion, and de
mand that the government pay no
more money to secure immigration.
Joaquin Miller has finished the
novel he was to write, as his contri-
button to the literary syndicate. 1t
is entitled "The Buried River" He
was engaged but six days in its COM
position.
A remarkable well has just been
struck at Pittsburg, Penn. 1t pro
duces at one and the same time pure,
cold water, salt water and flow of
gas that when ignited ilumines the
entire surroundings.
The Empress of Germany cannot
use the imperial crown ON her coat of
arms, but must be content with the in
sigma of the Queen of Prussia. This
Ia the latest token of the tilial affec-
sion Of her eldest boy.
The prize fight between Frank
Shepley, of Helena, and John Cronin,
of New York, which took place at
Missoula Friday, was a remarkably
brutal affair. Cronin was knocked in
,i6le and seriously injured.
At Boston Sunday George Gretzen-
gar, aged twenty, held up his fathe r
with pistol and secured $40 After
ward he attempted to hold up his
mother but she called the police. He
shot two policemen before he sur
rendred.
Libby prison is to so to Chicago
The work of taking apart the old
structure is now going on in Rich
mond, Va, and as the bricks and
beams are displaced they are rum
bered so that the building can be put
together again just AS it stood in Vir-
giuia. The interior of the old prison
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