Idaho semi-weekly world., 1890-10-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
An Epitome Of the Happenings Of
Two Hemispheres.
What is Transpiring in the Congress Of
the United States-0ther Very
Interesting News.

New York police are raiding Chinese
gambling houses.
A company has been formed at st..
Louis to build a big distillery.
The Alabama Farmers' Alliance is
cornering the cotton crop Of that State.
The next convention Of the Souvenir
Grand Lodge, l. 0. o. r., will be held
In st. Louis.
Ocean freights are lower at Quebec
than they nave been for sixteen years,
especially on lumber.
Indians, about three hundred OF them,
have been in Camp at Athens, Mich,
trying to get converted according to the
civilized way.
The increase Of the earnings Of the
Illinois Central the past year IL II 1885,
40b. The increase In thu net earning
was but s5l ,76l.
General Grierson's insane son, who
made his escape from q private insane
asylum at Jacksonville, ILL.,, has been
found at st. Louis.
An agitation has been begun for the
formation OF Western Cattle Owners
Association, TO keep cattle off the mar
ket and raise prices.
The packing house companies at Ne
braska City have filed suit TO prevent
the building OF bridge across the Mis-
souri, river at that city.
The Board Of Education Of st. Louis
has ordered that the American flag shall
be made to float over every school in the
city during class hours.
Jersey City has law under which
fines OF 800 each are TO be imposed
upon persons detected drinking malt or
alcoholic liquors in her new parks.
Official figures published at Ottawa
show that while Canada in 1888 inn
ported 2,l34,784 tons Of hard coal, the
imports during 1889 fell to 1,276,0S8
tons.
Swedes, Canadians and Germans are
taking the places OF the strikers in the
morocco trade at Lynn, Mass, and II Is
reported that the workmen have little
chance Of winning.
Colonel Livingston, the President OF
the Farmers Alliance in Georgia, has,
il is said, withdrawn from the canvass
against Governor Gordon for the United
States Senatorship.
1t is estimated that during the past
four years the revenue OF the saloons at
Jefferson Mo-, has been decreased one
third by the establishment OF building
and loan associations.
Henry A. Brown. as ex-Treasury De-
partment sugar expert, has sent a letter
TO the conferees on the tariff bill en-
bodying vigourous protest against the
proposed sugar schedule.
BY the will OF the late Mrs. Frances
Brownell Holland OF Hartford, Conn,
the sum Of 100000 is devised to the
proposed Episcopal Cathedral OF New
York City. Mrs. Holland was a
daughter Of Brownell.
Louisiana is greatly disappointed at
the result of the Federal census. Out
side of New Orleans the increase OF pop
ulation has been small in the past de-
cade. The population will not appar-
emily much exceed 100000.
The total gross exchanges for the last
week, as shown by dispatches from the
leading clearing houses in the United
States and Canada, are 81 ,265, 1863 ,623,
an increase OF 2l.5 per cent. as compared
with the corresponding week last year.
All the Western lines except the
Alton and Rock Island have resolved to
openly disobey the Interstate Commerce
Commissions order reducing grain rates
and to dispute it as illegal.
The State Veterinarian has officially
declared that he does not consider the
disease that is prevalent among cattle
in Missouri the foot and mouth disease,
nor does he consider it contagious.
John Granahal has decided to resign
his membership in the City Council of
st. Louis for the reason that his sense
OF self-respect is shocked by the brib-
cry and corruption he sees in that body.
The men who were arrested for wreck
ing New York Central train have con-
fessed, and implicate Master Workman
Edward j. Lee Of Troy, who, they say,
gave them money TO do the work and TO
leave the country.
DR.. Walfred Nelson, who has spent
number OF years at Panama, has Just re-
turned to New York City from Paris,
where he completed series OF investi-
cations concerning the present status
OF the canal. DIR. Nelson says the feel
ing in Paris is one of profound despair.
Socially, financially and scientifically
Ferdinand de Lesseps is dead.