Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-01-28
News of the Week

The whaling schoeners, G. H. White
and James H. Lewis have sailed from
+. Washington for another cruise. They
will proceed along the southern coast as
far as Lower California, then retrace
their course and coast along the shores
of California, Oregon and Washing on.
When Behring sea or ems, the vessels,
with about twenty others, will enter and
catch seals. few days since the out
look was that but few sealers would go
north this season, but now it is predicted
that this will be very active sealing
season. The Alaska Commercial Com
pany's lease is about to expire, and many
hold that there will be an interim be-
tween it's expiration and renewal, during
which time there will be a general on
slaught upon seals.
The secretary Of war has issued gen.
eraI order directing that at all military
posts there shall be time set apart Tor
supper betSee 5: 10 and 6:15 Hereto
fore the dinner call and supper call we e
blown 90 close together that men were
often obliged to go hungry at night
Breakfast shall come at reyeille, dinner
at ~ or IL 10, and supper at the hour
named. The men shall be allowed not
less than thirty minutes for dinner.
The influenza has greatly advanced the
death rate in New York City. At Ans
terdam there are 1000 cases. At Niagara
Falls half the railroad men are off duty
on account OF it. At Philadelphia the
death rate 10 so and go larger than COM
mon week. Two Thousand Boston
children are out OF school, and the death
rate is the highest ever known.
In an opinion on the well-known Ed
elliott costoms case, the supeme court
holds that silk and cotton ribbons are
exclusively as hat trimmings are duti-
able at twenty per cent az trimmings Tor
hats, bonnets anC ha,ds, not at fifty pre-
cent, as materials of which silk IS the
component OF chief valne. The govern
ment will by this decision be compelled
to refund about $8,0'W,0O0 to importers.
Judge David J. Brewer was sworn in
as associate justice of the supreme court
of the United States at noon Monday IN
the presence OF large assemblage. he
Immediately took his seat vi on the
bench.
General Louis Laduc died at his farm
at Chenoa, ILL.,, aged 81. Laduc was
born in France, entered the army at an
early age, was private se' rotary to the
Dur d'Audinot and aidede-camp to LOUIS
Napoleon. He came to Illinois after the
downfall Of the latter.
The Angus Smith system Of elevators,
"a, "B" and CO." at Milwaukee were
sold to the English syndicate. The price
paid is not given, but it Is understood to
he more than million dollars. Their
storing capacity is 2,000,O00 bush els.
The syndicate is the same one that
bought the breweries in Cincinnati, Ohio,
and Syracuse, N Y, short time ago.
Several more carloads of negro emf
grants from upper South Carolina and
North Carolina have passed through
Columbia, all bound for the Southwest
This emigration OF negroes is profitable
chiefly to railroads. Laborers on large
plantations in Louisiana, Mississippi,
Arkansas and Texas are very scar ce.
At Butte, Mont, the output of the
mines during the year $3.50 amounted to
$22 ,54s,6 1888 The largest part OF this
value was in copper, of which 100, 900, 00o
pounds were produced, valued ut about
eleven cent" pound.
In a street fight with revolvers between
DR.. Morris and DR.. W. q. Larribee, at
Marion, Mo-, three persons were
wounded, two of them fatally.
-Four children were suffocated In a
house at Erie, Penn, Tuesday. The bed
took fire, owing to tie carelessness OF
their drunken uncle.
Jack Dempsey is sick at San Francisco
The Nonpareil has for the past ten days
suffered from severe cold, which has
settled on his lungs.
-Four men from Placer county, Cal,
appeared at the county Jail at San Fran
cisco, and identified Frank Williams, re-
Gently arrested on charge of robbing
numerous stages in the interior OF Cali
fornia