Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-12-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
An Epitome of the Happenings of
Two Hemisphere.
What is Transporting at the Capital OF
the United States-0ther Very
Interesting News,

Inc issue OF III INV treasury hOtNS &c
called the edition de luxe.
Mexico will soon adopt the metric sys-
tenn OF weights and measures.
The Board Of Underwriters at Kansas
CITY il threatened with disint grafton.
Diphtheria at Lexington, H., has
caused the closing OF the public schools.
Deserters from the British squadron
of the North Atlantic are thick in Hall
fax.
1t is estimated that fully $50 white
York.
Striking salesmen at Pittsburg have
compelled employers to accede to their
requests.
The penitentiaries Of Texas have con'
tributed s7l 900 to the State treasury the
past year.
A large company is going from Kansas
CITY TO join the communistic colony ut
TopoIobampo.
The Indians who were with Buffalo
Bill say they were Wen treated and have
no complaint to make.
The Supreme Court of Illinois has de-
eded against the right OF cities to tax
drummers and peddleFs.
A project is on foot to construct ship
railway which will give Chicago direct
communication with Europe.
Brazil starts out as Republic under
peculiar conditions. Out Of 800, 600 reg
istered voters at the recent election only
10000 voted.
The lack OF transportation facilities
by the Union Pacific is threatening
coal famine along the line Of the road in
Nebraska and Wyoming.
Minnie Palmer refused to cease visit
ing her mother at the request OF her
husband, John b. Rogers and IT II stated
that separation has followed.
The School Board at Cherokee la.,
announces that hereafter every teacher
will be REQUIRED to sign a contract not To
get married during the school year.
The Commissioners Of the District of
Columbia have decided that none but
citizens OF the United States shall hold
licenses to sell liquors in the district.
The pressure OF natural gas wells in
Indiana and Ohio is steadily diminish
ing, the dimnution having already
amounted to between 30 and 10 per cent,
A new automatic machine used for
stamping in the New York postotlice viii
cancel, postmark, count and stack letters
and postal cards at the rate of % 600 per
hour.
The Seeger and Guernsey Company OF
New York viii shortly issue a Spanish
edition Of the Cyclopedia OF the Man
uiactures and Products of the United
States.
Rev. Oswald Burchell has forwarded
to Ottawa from England a request backed
by influential names for the surrender
OF his brothers. body, which was buried
in Woodstock Jail yard, TO Mrs. Burch-
ell
Stories Of the arming OF the Sioux In
dams are brought to points neighbnrng
on the reservation, aud much excitement
and uneisiness are occasioned. The war
authorities do not think there is any
danger
The Kennebec Iumbermen will operate
more extensively in the woods this win.
ter than ut any time for several years
past. II is estimated that the to al cut
will exceed that OF last winter byat least
l0,000,O00 feet.
Every peace officer in Young county,
Tex. was in Jail one day last week, hay
ing been indicted by the United States
grand jury for participating in the ia
nous mob which assaulted the Jail to
hang three murdercrs.
Secretary Spaulding of the Treasury
Department has decided that all cattle
that have simply crossed the line into
Mexico can be brought back without he
payment of duty, but duty must he paid
on calves born in the interim Oh Mexican
soil.
A Hartford woman has left 100000
for the great Protest mt Cathedral i'm
New York, and Miss Edison OF that city
has heqlfeathed 100000 more and made
the cathedral her residuary rgutee
However, Miss Edison will is being c.n-
tested.
The dreadful spotted fever that made
its appearance lRst March near Fountain
Head. about fifteen miles from Gallatin,
Tenn. killing about 90 per cent ot the
victims, has reappeared. The doctors do
not know how 70 handle it,
Two diamond bracelets valued at Sl2,-
090, which were supposed TO have been
stolen from Mrs. Commodore Hateman
at New York 10y her French maid were
found in the very room from which they
We're thought to have been stolen.
The work of putting the wires uudel
ground in New York go on steadily
and with considerable progress. The
electric-light and power companies have
many miles OF cables in the subwavs
and are obtaining very fair results.
Secretary Proctor heartily commend,
every intelligent effort to increase the
efficiency of the National Guard and t.
bring them into closer relations with the
War Department, and hopes that meas
ures to that end may receive favorable
consideration OF Congress.
Representative negroes OF Chicago
will hold a meeting to consider the ques
ton OF separate exhibit in the World
Fair for their race There have beer
many protests because President Harri
son did not recognize the race in hi
Worlds Fair appointments.
A Cincinnati paper prints the sensa
tional story of an alleged attempt mad,
last May TO assassinate the President
The crank was seized and confined in al
insane asylum near Richmond, Va II,
was a small storekeeper near Peters
burg, Va, and claimed TO be an - Oh,
Republican Soldier"