Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-01-07
EASTERN ITEMS.
COLORED BRETHREN AT KANSAS
CITY CROSS RAzORS.
Clan-na- Gael Policemen Removed In
Chicago-Hanlan Challenges the
rld-Cigarmakers on
Strike.

Minneapolis is excited over smallpox
scare.
Whittier has just celebrated his SD
birthday.
The European influenza has appeared
in New York.
Hanlan has challenged the world for a
sculling match.
A Buffalo elevator worth 1920, O0O
burned to the ground.
Chicago is removing the Clan-na Gael
men from its police force.
General Malone has taken a house at
Washington for the winter.
The baseball pitchers box will be en-
larged next season to 6x4 feet.
A general readjustment Of Northern
Pacific officials is on the taps.
William s. Harrison, nephew of the
president, has just died at Chicago.
George Guther, of st. Louis, was beaten
to death by his l7-year-old son, Emil.
Oliver l.. Barbour, the eminent legal
authority, died at Syracuse, aged ~.
The city clerk of Council Bluffs gam bled
away $1,000 in city funds and resigned.
The more silver men study Secretary
WINDOWS new plan the less they like it.
Judge Thurman's wife is Frustrated on
account of grief at her daughters noto-
riety.
The Allen House burned at New Or
leans. Lodgers escaped in their night
clothes.
Yale will hereafter row only against
Harvard. She is declining other chal-
lenges.
Governor Lowry has refused to allow
Kilrsin to pay his imprisonment penalty
by fine.
Robert Dalton, of Toledo, fell on cleo
trio light wires and was roasted to death
by electricity.
The Keokuk, Iowa, grand jury has re-
turned forty-two indictments again 81
saloon keepers.
Barrett has cancelled his engagements
and will probably be unable to 20 upon
the stage again.
DIR. Daniel Ayres, of Brooklyn, gives
the Wesleyan University and endowment
fund OF S250,000.
Five prominent Mormon officials al
Salt Lake are under indictment for appro-
priating public moneys.
1t is said that the Northern Pacific has
| decided upon Canadian route from St
Paul to the Atlantic ocean.
A. Meyer, Wells Fargo's defaultine
| agent Mt Phoenix, Arizona, was sentenced
to five years imprisonment.
1t is now said that W Scott Clifford
who married Judge Thurman daughter
| already has wife in the East.
Kilrain's sentence was 5000 fine and
two months imprisonment. He is ou
on 5000 bail pending an appeal.
The commissioner of public works in
New York city is cutting down the poles
OF the electric light companies.
The destitution in North Dakota is not
so serious as feared. Help is coming in
and the people are in better spirits.
A discharged drunken cook set fire t.
the Oklohoma House, at Kansas City
and one ledger was burned to death.
AS far as can be learned, no trace has
vet been found of the present where
abouts OF absconding Cashier Sicott.
Key West cigarmakers are out on
strike. Shipments are only fifty cases
per month instead OF the Gust mary 1900
! The Cherokee Indian commission failed
to secure the willingness of the Indians
to sell their land and have returned tc
Washington.
| Owing to large sales of land in Mime
sofa, the Northern Pacific road officially
announces that it will retire 10 900 shares
of preferred stock,
AT the session of the Pan American
conference President Blaine appointed
various committees, and the conference
adjourned until after the holidays.
The Rev. DR.. W. s. Rainsiord, of st
Georges Protestant Episcopal church
New York, has paid S27 rs for shooting 8
Long Island quail out of season.
Mrs. Richard A. Proctor, widow of the
astronomer, who was carried off by vel.
low fever, is gaining livelihood by de
livering her husbands lectures.
Julius Hotter leased Louise Epperson
OF Bakersville, Mo, until she was exas
perated beyond endurance and she shot
him in the head. He died instantly.
The st. Louis Post Dispatch prints the
names OF several Missouri state senators
whom it charges with having been bribed
to vote against the dressed meat bill.
A farm hand named Gilmore. nea,
Grand Rapids, Mich, tried to persuade
the wife of his employer TO elope with
him. Failing in this, ne shot fatally both
the woman and himself.
Frank B. Gowen, wealthy lawyer and
railroa man, and at one time presideut
of the Reading road, shot himself fatally
in Wormley's hotel, Washington, d. c.
No cause is yet known for the act
George w. Evans. alias William F rank
lin, a noted bank thief, was arrested al
New Orleans while trying, in company
with a confederate, to steal $l0,00(
money package from an express office
Sales of Chemical bank stock were
made last Saturday in New York at $4,000
per 800 share. 1t is said to be the high
est price for any bank share in the world
Thomas Potter, a well-known citizen
died in Washington, aged SO. He was
one of those who drew Lafayette's car
riage into Washington from Baltimore in
1924.
The Hon. Proctor Knott is said to be
making strong campaign for the succec-
sion to Mr.. Blackburn as senator from