Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-11-19
EASTERN ITEMS.
BANKER DRExELS DAUGHTER
KATE, TAKES THE VEIL.
Murat Ha'stead To Be offered the Rus
sian Mission Charges Against
Oarsman Teemer New
York's Registration.

Jay Gould is trying to secure an indie
pendent outlet to Boston.
North Dakota's Legislature will as
semble on November 18th.
Kansas expects to make two million
pounds 0! sugar this year.
The whole village Of Powelton, Center
county, Penn, is advertised Tor sale.
Philadelphia is to have new million
dollar hotel, called the "Metropole.
Ex-Mayor seth Low, of Brooklyn, has
accepted the Presidency Of Columbia
College.
The contest for the speakership OF the
next House is now centralized in WASH
ington.
II is reported in Washington that the
Russian Mission is to be offered to Murat
Halstead.
The long session Of the Brotherhood OF
Locomotive Engineers at Denver has
come TO all end.
John Barry, son of policeman IN New
York, has been driven insane by the ex-
cessive use OF cigarettes.
II is reported that large amounts OF
counterfeit money are IN circulation In
the State OF Puebla, Mexico.
The customs authorities are endeavor-
ing TO stop the opium smuggling on The
Canadian Western frontier.
The official announcement has been
made that at last the White House has
been entirely cleared o. rats.
IL is understood that Secretary Tracy
will recommend that the Boston Navy
Yard he fitted up to build modern ships.
Frank NJ. Smith, agent OF an aid soci-
ETY. ard building association at Min
neapolis, has skipped and rewards are
offered for him.
The names OF 2,067 colored voters were
stricken from the lists in Lynchburg, Va.
Otherwise they could have voted at the
recent election.
The Nebraska State Board of Trans
portation has issued an order requiring
The railroads to put in force the coal
tariff, recently prescribed by the Board,
within thirty days.
Complications have arisen in the
Maryland oyster business. A fight Tor
Western trade has begun between the
Baltimore Exchange and the Peninsular
Packing ASS citation.
Experts say, according to the Pittsburg
Dispatch, that with natural gas and other
advantages, steel rails can be turned out
near that city for less cost than they
can be made in England.
Five men were killed and three injured
by the breaking out OF molten iron In
Coleman Furnace No. |, at Lebanon,
Penn. The men we're overwhelmed by
the rush Of molten iron.
In a bulletin issued by the Ohio State
Board OF Health, diphtheria is shown to
be prevalent TO an alarming extent in
Cincinnati, Toledo, Springfield Dayton
Columbus and other places,
The New York Post returns the
Worlds Fair subscription books with the
ceive subscriptions, but will oppose the
Fair II entral Park is chosen.
The National Maritime Exposition was
held at Boston. On all sides were
models of yachts, steamers, life-boats
berths and samples OF everything per
tanning to ships and shipping.
The total registration in New York cit,
is 2lS, 800, the hghtest know in the city
since 1885. Last year, which was the
Presidential year, the res istratioa reached
2s6,b70. In 1887 II was 233 ,436.
Burglars near Hume, Bates county
Mo-, tortured Mr.. and Mrs. James, al
elderly couple, to force them to tel
where their money was hidden. Mrs
] Ia,,aa Itnl frn,, har ipipriaa
Jerry Cotley shot and mortal,
wounded his wife at I4eadville. The
murdered woman's maiden name was
Mary Gallagher. and she was brought
up at Virginia City and Pierce, New.
The Presbytery in special session al
New York has adopted the proposition
to revise the confession OF faith by 4
vote of ~ to %. The extent of the re-
vision OF the confession is undetermined
After Miss Kate Drexel, the Philadel
phia bankers daughter, takes the veil
she " i'll 20 West to establish schools iol
Indians, and South to place means O
education within the reach of the coloreo
people.
The Pittsburg, Penn, Window Glass
Manufacturers Association has decided
To advance the prize of glass V per cent
making 10 per cent advance this fall
Other districts are expected to take SINH
lar action.
A type-written will has been declared
valid by the courts of Berks county
Penn. This establishes the claim oil
typewriter woik to be called writing
while the patent Office has officially
classed it as printing"
NH
Bagga Westhrook fractured his wife's
skall with hammar while she slept
and his three daughters while asleep
were assaulted in the same manner
All were fatally injured.
The Duke of Northumberland recently
presented to the Astor Library four vol
umes of the annals of his ancestors, one
Of whom, Lord Percy, served in the at
tack on bunker Hit and the storming
of Washington Heights.
The epidemic of typhoid fever at Que
bee was caused by milkman washing
/ his cans in water from foul we'll.
( Nineteen out of Twenty-Five families
whom be Supplied were stricken, among
which were eleven deaths.
! Commander Francis Higgiason has
! had charges made against him Tor plac-
l ing GUY Andrews, a young apprentice
/ in the hold of the New Hampshire, which
/ vessel had been declared filthy. An
drews was taken sick and died.
There seems to be settled belief in
the Eastern States that the whole Bender
family was exterminated shortly after
their crimes were unearthed. The dis
covery" of members OF the family now
and then creates no excitement.
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