Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-05-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
An Epitome of the Happenings
of Two Hemispheres.
What is Transpiring in the United
States Congpess-0ther Very
Interesting News.

Interesting News.
The report of the New Jersey Dair,
Commission shows that of 2 BOZ food ar
tices analysed ! ,l02 were adulterated.
Ell Rio Rey, the great runner is sale
to be in perfectly sound condition. The
story that he had becomes "roarer" had
no foundation in any condition the horse
has been.
The New York, Fort Wayne & Chi
cago Railroad Company was incorporated
at Columbus, o., with the principal
Offices at Cincinnati, and capital stock
of $4,000 900.
The statement is published that Rich
ard Croker, Tammany leader now at
Weishaden. is suffering from an affection
resembling cancer Of the liver and will
probably not recover.
Chief Justice Chase's historic home ut
Edpewood, overlooking Washington, il
soon 20 be purchased by =, Indicate Of
wealthy Senators and divided into lots
The estate embraces about fifty acres.
The recent order Of the Massachusetts
Police Commission makes it ncumbent
on the liquor dealer to furnish tables and
chairs in his saloon. at which his guests
NAV he served as freely as under the old
system
Last years ship-buiding season in
Maine showed a great increase over pre-
vious seasons, and a careful review OF
the field seems TO make it safe to state
that this years building will greatly ex-
coed that of 1889.
The total gross exchanges for last week,
as shown nv dispatches from the leading
clearing houses of the United States ard
Canada, were 81 1882 39S ,273. an increase
OF GIL per cent as compared with the
corresponding week of last year
Judge A. w. Tourgee, the author of
"a FOOLS Errand," has been given a
pension at the rate of 81 a month from
1868 to date and thereafter at the rate of
so per month This will give him tie
sum Of $3.50 90 He is sufferer from
paralysis.
United States Commissioner FtzCerald
at Buffalo decides that the three China
men smuggled into the United States
must be sent back to Canada, whence
they came, and they will he conveyed
across the river by q deputy United
States Marshal.
Actor Joseph Jefferson is defendant in
suit brought in Brooklyn by his former
intimate friend, Henry b Witty, to &C.
cure possession III real estate valued at
800, 900. The suit grows ont of the
foreclosure of mortgages held by Jeiler-
son on WHY'S property in 1875.
A proposition is under consideration to
raise 5000 to hasten the contemplated
action of the John Hopkins College Trrs-
tees in opening a school in connection
with the college to secure 10 women the
benefits OF the highest medical training,
which they are at present compelled to
seek in the great foreign schools OF vi
emma. Paris and Switzerland
The New York Herald the other day
devoted page TO d scription of the de-
fenseless condition of san Francisco har-
Dor against an ordinary war V, ssel If an
enemy, and explained the necessity of
the governments prompt action in pro-
vlclng prop deienses. The arguments /
are the same az those cons anlly adj +.
yanced by san Francisco journals.
Assistant secretar, Tichenor has made
an award OF 5000 TO :. T. Moorehead a
citizen OF San Francisco, for service in
connection with the seizure of a large
francisco a year ago The award WAS
the maximum above ed b, law 1t is said
that Moor head was offered large DE IL
mary inducements not to b, tray the
smugglers, and spurned them all.
A dispatch from Leavenworth. Kan.
says la'ge scheme, with millions t. ha, k
1t, ~ on foot for a transContiuental short
line from New York to the Pacific. The
enterprise is in the hands of body If
English capitalists and American railroad
men. A S, Indicate has been secretelv ut
work for a long time from Lcavenworih
to ID nNer. Hhe route surv we'd two wear.
ago and known as the DENY Short Line
and more recently rs the Leavpnworth,
Denver and Utah Short Line will re use1
This survey is eighty mile shorter than
any existing line OF raj road now running
From Denver To Salt Lake CITY, the con
tinua'ion OF this survey 200 miles is
@ved. Il
The report of the special commission sent
out by Brunette, hquidator OF the Pan J
anna Company, 10 Investigate the cnudi.
uon OF The caual estimates that it would
cost 49,, goo 600 francs to complete the ,,
canal on the lock sys EN-. 70 this should
tie added per cent lur unforeseen cN-
penses, and - per cent for EXPENSES of !
AMI interest The total
cost is fixed at 900 ,000, 900 france The
report further says that it would take q
between seven and eight years to com
plete the canal. The annual cost OF tho 4
management is estimated at 10 OOO, 900 I
francs. According to the estimates of i
the commissioners, the net receipts for i
the first three years after opening would n
be 2S,000,0o0 francs annually, graf. h
lally increasing year 10y wear until n
.welve years after the opening when n
they would an cunt to 81 900, 900 francs. a
The material of the old company and II
work already performed il valued at Y
q, 0O0, 900 francs. -