Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-05-14
HOME AND ABROAD.
Hundreds of Boomers to thu Oklahoma
District Reurning-Heavy Hall
storm in Georgia-Notes.


Pacific has been reelected.
Four murderers escaped from the
Kan, Jail, last week.
Hundreds of disappointed Oklahoma
boomers are on the back track.
The sleeping car interests are to be
united in one enormous concern.
Jackson, Miss, after being dry nearly
two and a half years, is again wet town
For the fourth time in English history |
the title OF the Duke OF Buckingham has
become extinct.
The monastry of Melk, in Austria, has
just celebrated the 800th anniversary OF
its foundation.
Signs OF effort to establish a Whisky |
Trust have become manifest in the
United Kingdom.
The City OF Mexico proposes to follow
New York's example and clear the streets
OF wires and poles.
Otto Fake has started in small boat
from Bangor to New Orleans. The trip
is made on wager.
The heaviest hail and rainstorm ever
known in that section OF country, fell III
Atlanta, Ga, on the 24th.
The fellows who crowd the White
House to keep certain other fellows from
getting Office are called "spikers."
Claim jumpers in Oklahoma are Great
ing considerable trouble, and several OF
them have been killed in consequence.
The Russian Gar is suffering from ex
IRENE nervousness and excitement, being
in constant dread OF attempts on his life.
A Swedish laborer who landed in New
York few days ago, was shipped back
to Sweden under the contract Labor law.
A remonstrance from leading property
owners against an elevated road in Bos-
ton, is published in the papers OF that
city.
Lord Brownlow denies that he has ae-
copied the viceroyship of Ireland He
says that he has never been offered the
post.
G. j. Smith has been appointed general
manager Of the Oregon Railway IL Navi-
CATION Company, with headquarters at
Portland.
1t is officially announced that Prince
Ferdinand, nephew Of King Charles, has
been selected us heir to the throne OF
Roumania.
The Farmers Alliance of Mississippi
has obtained room in the penitentiary
building to operate bagging factory OF Il
capacity of 5000 yards day.
A bill is pressed in the legislature of
Michigan to estabiAh the business OF
Irvine manufacturing i'll the state prisons.
These movements are hostile to trusts.
Bouanger says he fed from Paris be-
cause the government had formed Il plot
to assassnate him, and failing in that, to
sentence him TO death by IA one-sided
| court-martial.
The French Ambassador at Rome has
| just discovered there a famous portrait OF
| Voltaire that has been missing for more
than half a century. 1t represents him
in his youth.
Topeka, Kan, has the largest electric
railway system in the world. There are
sixteen and half miles of track in oper-
alton, and Il speed of fifteen miles an houi
can be attained.
| The Mammoth hotel at Rockaway
beach, which was built by the Rockaway
Beach Improvement Company in 1879
has been sold for $40 900. The building
will be torn down.
There were more than 1900 saloons
in Ohio. Under the policy of taxation by
regulation this number has been reduced
one-half and the revenue amounts K
| 81, 800 900 IL year to the state.
The debtor who does not pay in Sian
must become the slave of his creditor
who charges him from 10 to 80 per cent
year, puts him in chains and takes hi
work as the interest of his debt.
| Applicants for country postotfices ar,
now sending their photographs to Wash
ington to be filed with their papers of in
dorsement. 1t is noticed that nearly al
photos represent very good looking men
The Connecticut State Board OF Chair
ties has Investigated charges mad
against officers Of the state prison O
Weatherstield, and II shameful state O
immortality and lack OF discipline wa
shown.
The Texas Spring Palace at Fort Worth
Texas, will be opened on the 10Th OF May
Its object is to exhibit Texas to the pee
pie from other states, and to induce Incl
and women to see the South for them
selves.
Grand Old Man Gladstone is to be hon
ored with a great natural monument
The highest peak OF the Finisterre rang
in New Guinea is TO be christened Noun
Gladstone 1t is said no white man ha
vet reached its summit.
| Count Papenheim, formerly adjutan
to the late King Ludwig OF Bavaria,
reported to have absconded to Americ
with the funds he obtained by the sale {
estates, leaving II large number OF cred
tors to bewail his flight.
Governor Taylor, of Tennessee, la
vetoed the bill providing Tor the remov,
OF the state penitentiary. The measur
was regarded as the first step toward til
abolition of the convict lease system an
the governor has raised storm OF popu
lar Indignation.
Observations upon the sway of Ia
chimneys during high winds show til;
one of ll5 feet in height and four feet
total diameter, at the top waved twent
inches during heavy gale, and anotht
l64 feet high, but wish six and ha
feet diameter OF tiue, moved through Il
are of only six and half inches.
The Department of Agriculture
Washington has decided to send an e.
pert to Southern California to investiga
the new vine disease, having been III
able TO make anything OF the specimen
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