Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-06-18
EASTERN ITEMS.
A MORMON COLONY TO BE FORMED
IN MEXICO.
The Life of Martin Van Buren-Postal
Appointments California Raisins
in London-Brewery Sold
Secret Ballot Bill.


cent.
Severe frosts are injuring crops in Da-
Kota.
Rev. Sam Jones is shaking" up Dan
vile, Va.
Rochester, N. Y, is to be lighted with
natural gas.
President Diaz has officially received
Minister Ryan.
Malarial fever is playing havoc with
horses in Chicago
A feeling OF uncertainty still pervades
the copper market.
A pension has been granted Peter
Withers, OF Idaho.
Eastern men have bought the biggest
brewry in Montana.
A 100000 Cuban sugar grinding fac
tory has been burned.
The Secret Ballot bill has passed the
Connecticut legislature.
Adjutant General Drum has been
placed on the retired list.
Rose Terry Cooke, the authoress, is
seriously ill at Pittsburg.
California cherries at ~ pound are
admired afar in Pittsburg.
Rails have been shipped for the road
from III Paso to Chihuahua.
The Government printing Office at
Washington is said TO be unsafe.
The mother Of Jake Kilrain, aged So
years, died ut Baltimore on the 2Sth.
The popularity of lawn tennis is rapid
ly increasing in some Eastern cities.
The Connellsville, Penn, region is
pestered by band OF colored tramps.
II. s. Simpson has been appointed
postmaster at Amity, Yamhill county, Or
1t is ruluored that Catholic Congress
will be held this summer in Washington
The Sioux Indians are said To be will
ing to negotiate the sale OF their reserva-
ton.
A heavy consignment of last years CAL
ifornia raisins has just been sold ut Lon
don.
M. A. Robertson has been appointed
postmaster at independence, Polk county,
Oregon.
j. Florey has been appointed post
master at Eagle Point, Jackson county,
Oregon.
The New York Legislature authorized
the appointment OF six female factory in
spectors.
BENJAMIN Hoover, has been commits
stoned postmaster at Matches, Crook
county, Or.
A committee has been formed in Lon
don to arrange for a national memorial Ia
John Bright.
Duncan G. Ross nearly killed Pete
Laroyer in broadsword contest, at Mon
treat, last week,
Denver, Col has been seized with an
epidemic OF murders and suicides to an
alarming extent
1t is claimed that there are defects in
the construction OF parts OF the postotiice
building at Baltimore.
+. S. Brubaker has received his com
mission rs postmaster Mt Mount Tabor
Mutnomah county, Or.
"A pttullNT ulStNSt', ItHtllpitllS uistlttI tSt
fever, is prevalent among horses in the
vicinity OF indianapolis.
In the May parties held in Contra
/ Park, New York, recently, there were nj
less than 1879 children.
A tremendous hail and rainstorm, re
Gently, caused washouts between Kansas
City and Lawrence, Kan.
Idaho and Wyoming begin to ieel lone
some as Territories. They want to come
into the sisterhood of states.
Seventeen-year locusts have made then
appearance in countless numbers in the
, central portion OF Tennessee.
George Bancroft has recently completed
| life OF Martin Van Buren,, to be pub
lished by the Harper Brothers.
The reward OF $50, 900 for the arrest o
! Tascot. the murderer OF Banker Smell al
Chicago, will hold good for sixty days
The wheat crop in Sonora Mexico, il
! immense. For the first time in the his
tory of Mexico there will be a surplus.
The presidents family will spend tn,
summer at Deer Park, Md, whore ht
will be able TO join them every Saturday
The Galveston News SAYS that NOR,
cattle have been shipped from Texas tC
the North this season than for many
years.
John w. Norton of st. Louis, has beer
granted a divorce from Emma $. Norton
who eloped with Henry Moore less thar
u year ago,
A plot was unearthed last week for
general delivery Of convicts confined IL
the Hudson County penitentiary, a
Snake Hill, \. j.
The Canadian Pacific has applied I,
the Secretary OF the Treasury to he bond
ed as a common carrier between ports o
the United States.
| 1t is proposed to make importan
changes in the monitor Puritan, Sh,
will be transferred into an arInored yes
sci OF modern type.
No one has vet been decided on to i'll
the vacancy on the Supreme Bench, al
though there has been considerable spec
uation on the subject.
Mr.. Young, telegraph operator a
Charles City, Iowa, has invented Il square
hole boring machine. Prominent me
chanics testify to the success OF the in
vention.
Leading Mormons of Salt Lake recent,
bought "a, 900 acres OF land in Northern
Mexico, on-wnich they propose to plan
q Mormon colony. They are disguste'
with the Republican party and want t
move out.
Durinr services Mt the Christian