Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-11-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
An Epitome of the Happenings of
Two Hemisphere.
What is Transporting at the Capital of
the United States-0ther Very
Interesting News.

Signor Succi has begun his I5~day fast.
Boston is pushing her rapid-transit
scheme ahead
New York is going to have a new hotel
ten stories high.
New York city has this year 245, 1854
registered voters.
A New Jersey bishop has begun Il cru
SADIE against race tracks and POOL rootns.
Over 700 head of cattle were shipped
from Baltimore to English ports last
week.
Lowell Mass, is to have new $2i0,-
900 city hall and a new Sl50,000 public
library
ing appeals to the congregations to aid
Ireland.
The Ohio law compelling the payment
of wages every two weeks was declared
constitutional.
"Old Faithful" the famous Yellow
stone park geyser is to be duplicated for
the Worlds Fair.
The general passenger agents Of the
Southern roads are anticipating a heavy
business this fall and winter
The Vanderbilts are said to have So
cured their interest i'm the Reading rail-
road at a cost OF over s. 100000
The Secretary of the Navy has ordered
the payment OF the reserve fund o. the
cruiser San Francisco, amounting to
1888, 3gs.
Judge Caldwell, Mt Little Rock holds
that the net OF Congr, 81 and the laws OF
the State in the original package case
are valid.
The $6,000,000 government building
in Chicago, having settled SO much as
to become dangerous, is TO be replaced
by another.
The Brotherhood OF Telegraphers at
Chicago has surrendered its charter
This will result in the reinstatement Of
Western Union men,
Director of the Mint Leech says the
coinage for the past fiscal year was the
largest in the history OF the mint, aggrc-
eating l2,693,07l pieces,
There are forty-eight saloons in King
fisher. Oklahoma, and the population is
composed almost exclusively OF people
from prohibition Kansas.
Currency is reported as being 80 scarce
In parts of Bolivia that citizens are cut
ting the notes into pieces and passing
them as fractional currency.
There is talk that il Acknowledgement
Miller is appointed to succeed Justice
Miller, Solicitor-General Taft will be
promoted to Attorney General.
II is proposed that part Of Washing
toms exhibit at the Worlds Fair shall
be series of pictures Illustrating the
city's progress during its 100 years.
The officers who were with Stanley in
Africa ask him to tell the public all he
knows, so that the CHARGES he has limited
at can be met by those whom he impli-
Gates.
New York is the first State ia popula-
ton in the Union, and Nevada the last
California ia twenty-second, Oregon
thirty-eighth and Washington thirty
fourth.
The stockholders Of the Colorado Mid
land railroad have elected new Board
of Directors, including Thomas Barring,
George Magoun and George MeCook Of
the Santa Fe
The Spanish Consul at Key West has
closed his office, owing 10 assaults by
Cuban refugees The Consulate will
not open until the United States guar
antees the privileges due it.
The product of gold from the mines
OF the United States during the calendar
= I'm. e.
the commercial value OF SAC. 20 900. and
coming value OF S64, $40, 464
Collector Erhart of the port OF New
York has been i'm office eighteen months
and has been sued 1000 times They
are friendly suits growing ouI OF the
Interpretation OF the tariff law,
Reports from the Arbucklr and Wicb-
ita foothills. in the Chcka-aw Nation
Of the finding of gold. silver and bead
are not exaggerated. A large territory
has been purchased by capitalists
Miss Nellie Burn. prcposseSsing
maiden, recently began $40 1000 action
against William Durham, proprietor OF
the North-ayenue hotel, Syracuse. \. y.
for damages arising from bl GIFTED af-
i''A'''i't t'IN " I'i , ''t'H JUST -if'il ''f
81 600
l.. l.. Polk, National President of the
Farmers Alliance, saws alliances have
been organized in thrty-tive States,
numbering in all 50 ono lodges, embrac-
ing membership OF > 600 coo He cx-
poets the membership to be increased by
bO0 600 within the next wear.
The Land Office Department holds
that an entry man who has submitted
final proof on a desort-land entry before
the official survey was fixed should not
be required when the land is officially
surveyed to make new proof showing
the proper reclamation thereof
The story is printed in Chicago To the
effect that negotiations are in progress
looking to an ayr ement between the
Northern Pacific and the Baltimore aud
Ohio, which, il consummated, will
will amount to practical consolidation
OF the two systems, thus forming a great
transeontinontal route.
An English diplomatist saws of Ward
McAllister's book in the New York Iri- F
bune: 1T will be work OF much dii- +
ficulty t. convince Europeans, after the
eX-cathedra statements OF McAllister, T
that this country is anything else than I
the headquarters of the most appalling (
snobbery and the most screaming yul- /
garity."
The LeaVenworth Times reprinted a
list of Catholic Fair rafIles, and the post
master threw the whole edition out, on