Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-06-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK
An Epitome of the Happenings
of Two Hemispheres.
What is Transpiring in the United
States Congress-0thep Very
Interesting Items.


Temperance women at Topeka, Kan,
propose to raid Original package sa-
looms.
An endemic with fatal results prevails
among sheep in various sections OF Yer
mont.
Froste in Iowa and Illinois have caused
considerable injury to fruit and vege-
tables,
Anthony Comstock has caused the ar
rest Of Providence man for sending lot
terry tickets through the mails.
An examination OF the casket has set
at rest the rumors that President Gar
fields remains were not therein.
THE Dolus mine, east of Chihuahua.
Mexi O. has been sold by G. l.. Frich to
an English syndicate for $4,000
It is reported that the largest tin-plate
mill in the world will he erected in Pitts
bureh, Pa, if the Mckinley bill passes
The German societies have pet'tioned
Congress not to change immigration laws
and to construe the pauper laws ilDeraily.
avndicate composed OF parties inter
ested in the Canadian Pacific has pnr-
chased large block OF stock IN the Com
mercial Cable Company.
The report OF tho contemplated removal
nj the National Conservatory OF Music
from New York to Washington Is con-
tirmed by Mrs. Thurber.
At New York James Smith has been
awarded $1,000 damages from Francis
X Harte, for alternating the affections OF
tiu yyifa Olivia n Smith.
The policemen OF New York have all
signed affidavits that they are in no way
interested in the manufacture or sale OF
any spirituous or malt liquors.
1t ia said that Manhattan Beach will
be abandoned as a summer resort, last
winters storms having caused $2,00o,W0
damage to tho hotel and railroad prop
erty.
Barnum having declined to give the
Erooklvn Aldermen free passes to his
show, those patriotic statesmen increased
the license fec for crcuses from 800 a
year to $500 day.
There are some indications that the
agricultural depression in the West IL
ending. Corn has gone up from lb to 81
cents, oats from 10 to 81 and dollar
wi eat" seems again to be a possibility.
The street railroad lines OF Buffalo
have been sold to q syndicate OF capital
ista. including NJ A. Werner OF Pittsburg
N. Seller Mckee and others of Phila
delphia and Patton x Co Of New York
There is a plan afoot in New York tc
establish flower market in Uniot
square that shall rival the famous mar
kets of Paris and London. Five hun
dred men 60 to New York every day will
flowers to sell.
Secretary Tracy has directed that grad
yates of the Naval Academy shall not b.
ordered to other than sea duty until they
shall have made at least one cruise in ,
cruising vessel of war after the compile
ton of their six years course.
Secretary Proctor has issued standins
order that release from the army viii he
furnished upon application to eacl
deserter coming within the proVis on
OF the act of Congress approved April / /
1890, amending the lu3d article o. wa
In Brooklyn the price of ice has beer
advanced to 81 per 100 pounds Tor house
holders and to SO to STA a Ton for gro
GERS and ite-cream and liquor deal rs
The price of ice cream has been raised
and the advance in ice Is likely to max,
meat, fish and milk more expensive.
If indications in the East are any thing
baseball, as a profession, has gone to joir
the roller skate. For some TINS st tn,
old-time craze has been slowly slipping
into innocuous desuetnde, and now care
fully obtained figures leave little doub
that the great fad OF fads in America il
rapidly becoming thing OF the past.
The Senate Public L1nds Committee hal
reported a bill repeating the Timbe
Culture Land law, and amending tn,
laws relative to purchase of arid lands
In making final seti ement the bill rer og
ni2es the work already done in the wal
OF timber culture by the present holder
OF the land 1t requires the eXpenditm,
OF at least SO an acre on arid lands he
fore title to the same can be perfected.
General Schofeld has publicly cen
sured Captain Charles Morton, ThirJ
Cavalry, for publishing letter IA Chi
Cago newspaper cTiictslng the manage
ment OF affairs at West Point and in thu
Adiutant- Generals office, alleging i'm
position by staff officers upon officers @
the line. Future publications OF lik,
character will he the cause Of charg
against the offending ffeer and trial b,
court-martial.
Assemblyman Trenton, who suddenly
disappeared several Jays ago from lren
ton. n. ] with the leg slative copy O
the Newark levated railroad bill, has re
turned TO his home. He is out with
statement claiming ia substance tn { /
WAS the lobby that secured the passag
of the bill and not the Legislature or th-
people, and iustities his actions as
move made in the interest of the public
There was great excite for awhile Oh
Wall street over the report which wa
spread thai jam keene had been rangh
by recent drops of sugar and Chicago "a
and his stocks We're being sold ont
Everybody began to sell. and the averag
decline was between ard 3 per cent
Oregon and Transcontinentals droppe,
much more. keene asserted steutly th8
he hsd not been injured and was per
fectly solvent.
The police have discovered a Chimes
girl aged Is, held as slave and inhu
manly treated by her Chinese master OF
Mott street, New York Part OF he
story is that she wa lured from the car
OF Rev. Gibson, at San Francisco, TO h
held under the pretense of marriage
The Evening Sun prints three column
of the story, the most singular part c
which is that it treats this Ieatur of tn
Chinese question as ii it were somethin
new.