Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-01-15
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
Brief Mention of Matters OF Gen raj
fnterest.-Notes Gathered from
Home and Abroad.

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$4,000 fire Tuesday night.
The steamer Silver Star was sunk
near Portsmouth, Maine, last week.
A conference of wool-growers will
be held in Washington on January III.
Sunday trips OF tho Fifth avenue,
New York, stages have been abolished.
New York and Washington were
surprised Tuesday with pleasant wea-
Their.
Pittsburg has the walking mania.
A 72-hour match was in progress last
week.
Canada prohibits the importation OF
improper literature from the United
States.
The secret service of the Missouri
Pacific road will cease to exist after
January l.
The Butchers Protective associa-
ton &C Cincinnati, has declared boy
colt on Chicago dressed beef.
A heavy fall Of snow in Michigan
has enabled the lumbermen to begin
the winter logging operations.
Two thousand people witnessed a
game of baseball at Philadelphia last
Sunday, played indoors at the state
fair building.
Mrs. John Priestly and her grand
son we're murdered last Saturday and
then burned in an incendiary fire at
Forest City, Penn.
The French Eversoll actions in
Kentucky are heavily armed and pre-
pairing for fight. The French party
has So men, heavily armed.
Francis Murphy has made 1000 to-
tai abstinence men in indianapolis.
His methods appear to be more effec-
tive than the prohibition vote.
There have been three heavy snow
slides on the Canadian Pacific rail.
road in the mountains during the last
few weeks, all at or near Field.
The owners OF the released steamer
Harlan Republic, demand damages
from Hayti amounting to $2OO,OOO
and the ships crew $4,000.
Bogardus was defeated in a pigon.
shooting match at Cincinnati by Al
Bandle. The latter killed all his
birds, 100; Bogardus killed IS.
Four woman had an 8-hour bicycle
race at New York Tuesday night. Lot
tie Stanley made 80 miles and secured
$500 and the diamond medal.
G. J. Kershaw, who failed for two
millions in the Cincinnati wheat cor
ner, has arranged to pay nearly &c
cents on the dollar on all the claims
Foster, Dixey's advance agent
Jumped from a swift moving train
while 80 miles from Cheyenne, Tues
day. He was not killed, but badly
bruised.
Since 1885, and including the one
last week, nine explosions have oc'
CURED at the powder works in Wind.
ham, Maine. Altogether 33 lives have
been lost.
Indictments have been found in
Jefferson county, Ind, against every
pilot who took out Sunday excur-
sion from that locality during the
past summer.
Lincoln, Eeb., has ,itizer named
John McAllister, worth $4,000, who
lives alone in small room in a state
OF abject squalor. He is monoma
MAC on "logic."
The football team at Durham, N
c., has had powerful electric lights
suspended over its grounds and pro-
pose to play the game during tn.
evening hereafter.
Fount Horner, aged 20, while crazy
drunk, ran through the streets oil
Charleston, w. Va, Tuesday with a
club, hitting everybody he met. He
struck Edward Ames, who stabbed
him TO death.
General David Stanley was arrested
recently by order OF the mayor OF Aus
tin, Tex, but the jailor refused to in
carcerate him. The general was exc.
cutting an order Of ejectment issued by
the war department.
The model of the monument which
is to he erected in Haymarket square
Chicago. in memory OF the policemen
VIII fell in the encounter with the an
archists, has been finished, and will
be sent TO New York for casting.
The st, Louis Post Dispatch Christ.
mas fund reached $4,000. The sub
scripuons started at 10 cents. Fully
$1,000 poor children received pres
ents Tuesday, and for hours the vicin.
ity of the exposition building was
packed.
A riot broke out afresh at Bevter
Mo, the scene OF the recent mine
troubles, last week. The negroes were
the aggressors, and not only did they
grow boistsrous, but attempted intimi-
dstiou by the free use of firearms. The
militia acted promptly, and Tuesday
night FIVE of the leaders were in the
guard.house.
Arkansas has received the honor
able mention of showing the greatest
number and best varieties OF Seeding
apples before the Illinois Horticultural
Society. That state won the same
award at New Orleans, Boston and
RIVERSIDE.