Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-09-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
An Epitome of the Happenings Of
Two Hemisphere.
What IS Transporting in the Congress of
the United States-0ther Very
Interesting News.

The reorganization OF the sugar trust
is effected.
Chicago is to have III elevated termi-
nal railway.
The Argentine government proposes
10 put tax on tobacco.
!. The population of New England has
increased nearly half million in ten
years.
1t is proposed to run canal boats by
electricity similar in method to the cleo
trio cars.
The Belle Telephone Company is lay
ing some of its wires under ground in
Montreal.
The fear il expressed at Montreal that
non-intercourse is to be the American
policy in Canadian affairs.
The loss of the Delaware peach-grow-
ers by the failure of this seasons crop IL
estimated at from $2,000,000 to $1,000
900.
The Canadian Parliament will be dis
solved shortly. Sir John Macdonald
will appeal TO the country before Christ
mas.
Senators Frye and Hale in an inter-
view published in Portland (Me.) pa
per have come out fiat footed in favor of
BlaiDe's reciprocity scheme.
The new census gives some of the
towns of South Dakota as follows: Sioux
Falls, 1900; Yankton, 300; Pierre,
$780, Aberdeen, $3.50; Huron, 3,IOO !;
Watertown, 200; Mitchell, $500.
1t is reported from Norfolk, Va, that
&. p. Huntington says that, if the sub
sidy bill passes, he purposes building
several ships, to sail under the American
flag, to run between Hampton Roads
and Liverpool.
At Panama an anti-Chinese society
has been formed, and the Colombian
government has been petitioned to pass
restriction laws. Several Chinese were
roughly handled few days ago during
public demonstration.
Guatemala has decreed that from Au-
gust ! of the present year $2will be paid
as export duty on each 100 pounds of
coffee sent out OF the country instead of
81, as heretofore. A real estate, spirit
and salt tax is also established.
The island Of Cuba is now in a state
of excessive lawlessness. The bandit
chiefs appear to be in control. In fact,
even in the large cities of Havana, San
tiago, Payamo and Ciepfuegos it is un-
safe to go about after dark unarmed.
The total gross exchanges for the last
week, as shown by dispatches from the
leading clearing houses of the United
States and Canada, were 81 ia ,S31 ,246,
an increase OF 20.1 per cent. as compared
with the corresponding week of last year.
Captain Marshall, U. S. A., in charge
of the river and harbor improvements
ut Chicago, says the outer harbor of Chi
cago, which it is proposed should be
filled up and used for Worlds Fair site,
has long been worthless for navigation
purposes.
syndicate, with l.. J Rose of Los
Angeles and Senator Hearst among the
incorporators, has been formed to con-
troll the Hoffman house at New York.
This is only one of many hotels in New
York and neighborhood the syndicate
proposes TO control.
In st. Louis the Western Union tele-
graph operators have been compelled to
sign an agreement not to speculate in
grain and provisions, as doing so on in
formation they obtain unsettles the con-
tidence of patrons in the security of the
telegraph as medium of confidential
exchange between business men,
Rev. DR.. Burtseil, late pastor of the
church of Epiphany at New York, who
was removed from his charge on account
OF his expressed sympathy with the ex-
communicated priest, DIR. McGlynn, has |
been temporarily suspended from the |
exercise of his functions as a Roman |
Catholic priest in the diocese of New |
York
The Colorado Midland has arranged
with the Southern Pacific railway to run
through sleeping cars from Denver to
San Francisco over the new broad-gaupe
line across the Rocky mountains by way
OF Salt Lake City and Ogden. This viii
be the Pacific Coast route of the Rock
Island, Burlington and Milwaukee and
st. Paul Companies.
The will of j. III. Wade, the Cleveland
90 millionaire, has been probated. The
liuron-street hospital, Cleveland Protest
ant orphan asylum and the Children's
Industrial home each get $1,000. Mrs.
;. I. Everett, granddaughter of Mr..
Wade, will receive 100000 and her
husband $4,000. Other legacies are left
10 relatives, and the remainder of the !
estate, valued at 5000, 600, will 90 to j. 6
II: Wade, Jr, grandson of the deceased S
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