Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-09-27
EASTERN ITEMS.
aEAyY STORMS ALONG THE At
LANTIC COAST.
Pension Commissioner Tanners Hesis
Lation Asked for-Trytrg TO F1sn1
a Duel-The Cronin Murder
"Sunset" Cox Dead.

are reported.
There is a rush Of Boston school chh-
dren to get vaccinated.
Rice birds are playing havoc with the
rice crop in South Carolina.
A lipht frost is reported iii the northern
part OF Kansas and Missouri.
An epidemic of typhoid fever has brok-
en- out at New Concord, Ohio.
The Sioux reservation is becoming
resort for criminals Of all kinds.
Sioux City's Corn Palace for 1889 is to
be more magnificent than ever.
Fifty persons were poisoned by eating
cheese at Bettsville, o., recently.
Fourteen hundred men are now en-
ployed at the Brooklyn Navy yard.
Louisville has voted down the question
OF teaching German in the public schools.
Governor Hoards. of Wisconsin, is
making il uncomfortable for prize fighters.
A Soldiers and Sailors monument has
lust been completed at Winslow, Maine.
Congressman "Sunset" Cox died at
New York on the 10th inst. OF heart DIS
ease.
1t is estimated that the Illinoise corn
crop will not exceed half good average
yield.
One hundred and fifty Mormons arrived
| i'm New York on the 18th inst. en- route 70
Utah.
A device for firing dynamite from ordi"
nary cannon has been invented at SYRIA
cuse, N. Y.
The Bell Telephone Company has IN.
creased its capital stock from $io,VOoVoo
to $l2 900, 600.
Considerable sensation was made by
the appearance of sun bonnet in Hyde
Park, recently.
A postoffice in Fulton county, Pennsyl-
vania bears the brief and unromantic
name of "Sis."
Many public improvements are going
National Capital.
The President has appointed Henry O.
Yarmouth, of Louisiana, collector OF Gus
toms at New Orleans.
A letter-stamping machine that can
cells "a 900 stamps an hour Is on tria1 II
the New York postofiice.
James Il. Keene denies he is leadini
the present speculation In sugar uus
certificates in New York.
CD. Wright of the Northern Pacifi
denies lie has sold out his holdings In tn
Northern Pacific to Willard.
The wife of Cronin, the suspect, com
plains that her letters are opened q
Chicago before they reach her.
, The crops throughout New England ar
reported 20 be in good condition, with Tn
exception Of potatoes and apples.
Tie Supreme Council of the Order
Chosen Friends begun its seventh bier
NAL session at Minneapolis on the l0tl
. A Chicago policeman now bobs up wit
= startling facts regarding the murder
0 DIR. Cronin, Why has he kept mum
long?
: Lawrence Barrett has returned fro
/ Europe with new play, "Manelon
. which he will open the season with
= tie fall.
. BY the death of Mrs. Ellen Nj. Gitior
It at New Haven, her estate which IN value
r at 81, DOC, 900, reserts to local charitan
a lnktltutlOIs.
% San Domingo is the only Americ'
l. country tnat will not be represented
the Conference Of American Nations
10 Washington.
Il The fifty American workingmen a
If women who went to Europe last july
q investigate the condition OF Europe
., workmen, have returned.
% A Young sailor who was tarred u
H. ieatherd on the steamer Baltic, ir'
'r sOwenSound to Toronto, committed
Of eide in sight OF the passengers.
The statement OF the Boston Monta
+ Consolidated Copper and Silver MINI
81 Company for one year ending June u
o. shows mining profit OF $l,ol4,9l7.
~ The Governor of Georgia has asked
y Governor Of South Carolina TO arrest I
OF members OF the Georgia Legislature "
he have crossed the state line to fight dr
al The clam pearl fishers in the vicin
OF Albany, Wis, are said to be hna
some valuable gems. One was found
" other day for which the owner retu
oh $4,000.
CORPORAL Tanner. OF the Pension off
~ Washington, at the request OF the III
Is dent, bundled in HIS resignation on
70 18th inst. Is is said he worked his
We too much.
]" The six days Anniversary OF the
ht fence OF BALTIMORE in the sencond
rn with Great Britain, commenced there
an the 9th. inst. Presidet Harrison was
ns attendance
en- st. Louis is entertaining five Govern
at her Exposition, viz, Francis
Missouri, Eagle of Arkansas. Lowry
Mississippi, Hovey of Indiana and
rabee of Iowa.
Long Island Sound navigstors
oil promise OF revival of practice, once L
I a Gus Oh the Mississippi, of racing the z
out passenger boats that ply between I
rss York and Fall River.
1t is positively stated by eye witne'
,ys that Steve Brodie, the man who
,ad Jumped from the Brooklyn bridge, dis
over the American Falls, notwithst
- reports TO the contrary.
Of Captain Z. c. Pope, Commsndan
-, the marines at the Washington n
Yard, is being tried by court-nartia
cruelty to soldier while the latter
under sentence on drunk and disord
charge.
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