Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-04-23
OVER THE STATES.
A CIPHER DISPATCH RECEIVED
FROM BISMARCK.
The Cordial Relations Existing Between
Mexico and the United States
Election of the President by
the Popular Vote.

Valued Policy Insurance bill.
The annual report OF the Silk Culture
Society has been submitted.
American lard will be admitted into
Mexico subject to inspection.
The Sunday closing issue was defeated
in the Denver election recently.
John McComb, millionaire of Della
ware, has sued his wife for a divorce
f. w. wilkins killed his wife's para
mour near Marshall, Texas, Thursday.
The Democrats have elected their en-
tire ticket at Chicago by 5000 majority.
Mrs Stonewall Jackson is said to have
been offered the postoilice at Richmond,
Va
The report that Billy Birch, the veteran
minstrel is dead, is now declared to be
false
Senator Dolph has been mentioned as
possible candidate for the vacant JUS
ticeship.
After June Princeton College will have
added to its Permanent Endowment
fund $4,000.
A banker at Geneva has committed
suicide. He suffered heavy losses in cop
per speculations.
SrJulian Pauncefote, the English Min
lister to the United States, will sail from
England on the 18th inst.
The New York Assembly has ordered
to third reading the bill repeating the
Saturday half-holiday law.
Steps have been taken by the Mexican
Government for the re-examination and
settlement of the La Abra and We'll
claims.
The will of the late Justice Stanley
Mathews has been filed for probate. All
his property is left to his widow and
children.
A negro burial ground at Camden, N.
j., is in such shocking condition that
stray dogs are said to feast on the bones
OF corpses.
Miss Clara Soften has recovered $751;
900 from G.. r. Reed, proprietor of the
Holman House, New York, for breach
OF promise.
The Emperor and Empress of Ger
many dined ut the British Embassy re-
Gently. Representatives OF other royal
families were present.
The steamer Wyanoke run down and
sunk the schooner Ruth Darling off Del
aware Cape. Two seamen were drowned.
The fog was very thick.
A banquet will be given at the Hotel
| Metropole in London on May ID, in
honor Of Waller the retiring United
States Counsel-General.
Eighteen thousand dollars have al
ready been subscribed to the Popular
fund to erect building for permanent
Republican Headquarters at New York,
The President has been asked to issue
a proclamation requesting public worship
in the churches on the centennial ami
versary OF Washington's Inauguration.
The Florida Legislature recently ex-
hibited strong feeling in favor of choos-
ing the President by a popular vote and
doing away with the Electoral College.
The White House was a scene of beau
ty and brilliancy recently ut the recep-
ton given to Prince and Princess Take
hito and the members OF the japanese
party.
Three white men suspected of cattle
stealing, who failed to leave the country,
were turned over by vigilance commit
tee OF Splingmud, Mob, to Dakota In
dams.
George Powell, who stole some iewelry
while dressed in the garb OF priest ut
| Toronto, Canada, confessed, and was
! 10 l. tt,r
years.
The Lower House of the PENNSYLVANIA
Legislature has passed resolution de-
claring Major Armes, who pulled the nose
OF Governor Beaver the other day, "a
cowardly potroon."
Sir George Baden Powell, who has Just
returned to Montreal from visit to Brit
ish Columbia, reports the urgent neces-
sity of properly certifying the British Co
| lumbia Coast.
The MeXican Congress opened Monday
Diaz, in his message, reviews the foreign
policy of Mexico, and congratulates the
country on its excellent relations with
the United State.
Sir John Macdonald does not think the
Behring Sea proclamation was intended
to affect Canadian interests that it was
done to warn Americans. Perhaps he
4, will become better informed by and by
The change in the office of Treasury
and Assistant Treasury in New York will
necessltate the count OF all the moneys
and securities in both offices. This is 4
work of great magnitude and will take at
least four weeks TO accomplish
The German Minister ut Washington
received a cipher dispatch from Bismarck
which, it is stated, called for information
concerning the American vessels sent tC
/ Samoa and of the condition of the Amer
! lean feet including the cruisers building.
! The Mexican Government has decided
| that citizens of the United States can en-
| ter Mexican territory free of restriction,
! but subject to custom regulations as to
! the inspection of baggage and goods
This leaves the way to Lower California
open.
The recent hurricane in the South Pa
citic swept over l2,000 geographical miles,
| embracing in its track the tIervey and
! Society Islands. The American ship
| Red Cross, bound from New South Wales
| to san Francisco, was driven ashore at
/ Raratonga and wrecked. The crew was
saved. The American ship Ada, Owen
master, was wrecked ut Quara. The
crew was saved. The wreckage form the
British ship Suakim, from New South
Wales for San Francisco, was seen at
l.. / 1T al,