Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-11-05
EASTERN ITEMS.
A WOMAN STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
FOUR TIMES.
Roasted Aiive--The Treasury Robpeo-
The International Congress-Tne
War Against the Jute Trust
"A Dividend Declared

Uphtheria ID PreVaioh' Nv
Penn.
Eight thousand cigarmakers are locked
out at Key West.
There were 1914 deaths ia Boston IN the
week ending October 18th.
The State forces have been Withdrawn
from the work at Johnstown.
A giraffe was born at the Cincinnati
geological Gardens on the 10th.
Subscriptions to monument TO Cap
tain Eads have begun in st. LOUIS.
There Ia an epidemic Of typhoid fever
at Grandin. N. D., and great alarm Is 'eit'
There is no longer any reasonable
doubt that this Ia to be cheap food year.
A company has been formed to build a
coffin factory in vt. Louis to fight the
trust.
An attempt was made to wreck Rock
Island train, near Mcfarland, Kan, ON
the 18th.
The Pullman Palace Car Company has
declared its usual quarterly W per share
dividend.
An experiments OF using steel ties is
now heins made by the Chicago u Wes-
tern Indiana.
West Virginians want one OF the new
cruisers named the Wheeling, after the
city OF that name.
Anthony Hamilton, the colored jocky,
rides for August Belmont next season al
a salary of OF 10000.
Eight citizen of New York have been
killed by badly insulated electric wires
within eighteen months.
syndicate is examining the cable
railway system a. Kansas City, with
view to purchasing the same.
BIT. Rabbit, the famous soap manu-
iacturer, died in New York ON the Zoth'
He was aged an even 80 years.
| The delegates to the international Con-
gress are 10 he given possum barbecue
when they visit Nashville, Tenn.
A legal flaw has been discovered in
nearly all the mortgages held by loan
companies on Kansas homesteads.
| Bradstreet's weekly trade circrlar
| states that the prices in California wines
are strengthening on the short crop.
jeremiah Ahern of California, clerk
/ in the Geologic Survey at 5000 per year
1 has been promoted TO the $l40O class.
| The r. B. Stone Lumber Company o.
| Chicago has made an assignment. The
assets are $50, 900; liabilities. $46'ooo.
,r. 81 - -. no,,arnor Harfranf
necesstates the appointment OF q new
member OF the Cherokee Commiss'oa'
A test will shortly be made Mt Chatta
noopa, Tenn, OF the newly patented pra
cess for making steel direct from cox
pig.
Maggie Mitchell, it is said, has mar
, ried Charles Abbott, the leading man
, the company in which the actress is
star.
: A Pennsylvania woman who has bee
, struck by lightning four times has sus
tained no injury beyond losing conscious
ness.
The Boston Chamber of Commerc
proposes to build 100000 building
! Site, corner OF India street and Centr'
wharf.
Rev. DIR. A. Judson Barrett OF th
Iake-ayenue Baptist Church at Roche
ter, N. Y, dropped dead on the street o
the Goth.
The Texas Pacific round-house at lor
. View, Texas, with seven new engine
:. has been DESTROYED by fire. The loss
: 100000.
q Bill Nation, the oldest moonshiner
southw estern Texas has been capture'
Officers have been hunting him Il
. twenty five years.
3 II. ID. Brooge OF Topeka, Kansas, III
lust been declared to have forfeited Soo
: because he loaned that sum at intere
: above the legal rate.
i. Governor Melette of Dakota has &c
d warded the Constitutions OF North al
! South Dakota and the official eiecu'
returns to the President.
IS Rev. John Mcdowell Leavitt of Ne
la York. of the Protestant Episcopal Churc
:, has withdrawn TO become REFORM
Episcopal Church minister.
L. The Ordnance Department OF I
ic United States Army is looking INTO L
NJ subject OF smokeless powder, and tee
i. are to be made at an early day.
,r George Haxleton, formerly Republic
10 Congressman from Wisconsin, has be
l. appointed Attorney for the District
40 Columbia. to succeed Mr.. Riddle.
or At Greenvlle, Ala, a negro pour
Id gasoline over white man and a broth
$50 negro touched the fluid with tiam
q, The whiteman was literally roasted ali'
cs The Treasury at the City of Mexico b
been robbed of negotiable interior dc
u bonds to the amount OF $2,50O,OOO. II
,r eral ari ests have followed and more q
N expected.
u The sheriff at Denver was charged vi
III favoring defendant IN obeyine veni
- and at the request OF the States Attorri
the selection OF jurymen was placed
other hands.
The Rowan county, KY, fued is
ry heved to have ended by tn" marriage
ro Frank Tolliver and grace Martin, broti
m and sister OF the leaders OF the opposi
y, bloody factions.
IN David p. Winnie, manufacturing ag'
I'd for twinas and cordage in New York.
assigned. His liabilities are 49,, o
al He formerly had large trade and bran
at San Francisco.
hn Montgomery, Ala, will have next y,
us what is intended to be the best exp'
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