Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-12-01
EASTERN ITEMS.
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All the Coal Miners in
Indiana Strike.
THE KENTUCKY ALLIANCE.
A New Haven Tobacco Dealer Says the
Sale of Cigarettes TO Yale
Boys is Falling Off.
THE KENTUCKY ALLIANCE.

70 into effect December l..
Over 52,7O0 immigrants arrived in {
his country during September.
The Baron Hirsch trustees have pur-
chased 5000 acres at Woodbine, N. j.
Day and night shifts OF men are now
worked on all the exposition building.
The remains OF Jefferson Davis are to
be placed in Hollywood cemetery, Rich
mond. Va.
The Baltimore american says: Balsi-
more has not had bank failure for fifty
seven years.
Heavy Losses are being sustained by
stockmen in Texas, owing to the the Sc
we're drought.
About fifty Of the released Tennessee
convicts have been captured in Kentucky
and returned.
Arrangements are being made to lay
cable from Nassau to Jupiter Inlet on
the coast OF Florida.
Out of respect to State laws the Fed
eral government will not sell customs
liquors by auction in Maine.
Pennsylvania loss by the dishonesty |
of Bardsley & Co. was 1886, instead
of 81 1856, 37S, as first reported.
The earnings Of the Denver and Rio
Grande for October are $S47 900, de-
crease Of $24, lS9 from last year.
The designs for the new fractional cur
rency OF the country have been approved
by the Secretary OF the Treasury.
A tobacco dealer in New Haven, whose
trade in the main Is with Yale boys,
says that the sale of cigarettes is falling
off.
Steps have been taken by the Cham
Der OF Commerce in st. Paul to start an
immigration movement in that city and
State.
Heirs Of George w. Morse of Louisiana
will sue the government for $4,500,00O
for infringing his breech-loading rifle
patents.
A column of masonry in Kansas marks
the exact geographical center OF the
United States, evidently without count
ing Alaska.
| The success Vi the Brooklyn bridge
has suggested to capitalists to form a
company with capital OF $24, 000, 900
for the purpose of building two more
bridges across the East river.
The new Hebrew Orphan Asylum in
Brooklyn cost about $l25,0j0. 1t is to
be five stories high and to have front
age OF 1870 feet. 1t will accommodate
several hundred orphans.
The retired commander of the Seven
teenth Infantry, General Miner, has
been placed in private asylum under
treatment for softening of the brain.
The annual report of the Board of
General Appraisers Of New York recon-
| do that ha WIGHT NJ annual ha vast afi
4 in the Secretary OF the Treasury only.
Two men have been arrested by United
States troops in the Indian Territory, ac-
! cused of selling thousands of lots in the
, alleged future capital OF the Cherokee
Strip.
The Chicago City Council has granted
right of way to the Chicago Elevated
Terminal Railway Company. This is
the much discussed line projected by
General Terrence.
This season no less Ala horses have
made records of mile in the teens, tC
say nothing of the records that have
been made in the tens by Sunol. Nancy
, Hanks, Palo Alto, Allerton, Nelson anC
! Arion.
} The Farmers Alliance in Kentucky
! has opened store in Louisville anC
3. taken options on thirty-fve Others
i throughout the State, with the avowet
intention of revolutionizing the farm
{ supply business.
The new Board of Directors of tn,
7 Denver and Rio Grande road has elected
George Coppell Chairman of the board
Edward T. Jeffrey, President and Gen
eral Manager; j, q. Gilluly, Treasurer
and W. Wagner, Secretary.
a The allotment OF land in severalt,
. among Arapahoe and Cheyenne Indian
. on the Milk River reservation is goin,
steadily forward, and by next spring i
| is expected the remainder of their reser
4 yation will be opened to settlement.
a One of the big Florida hotels has thu
e great orchestrion which was exhibite,
q at the Paris exhibition. Telephones ar
e placed in each room, and are connecte,
with the orchestrion so that each CUES
may hear the music when he wishes.
= A New York jury has awarded Thoma
: Fortune, the colored editor of the Ne,
y York Age, 1926 damages in an actioi
- hrou hit against the proprietor of
: SixthaVen hotel for being assaulte
:, and refused drink because Of his color
- W. W. Long, member of the Mort
y Carolina House of Representatives, an
!, a number of other large planters in tn
e Roanoke bottoms are completing al
h engagements to bring to their plantation
d some 500 OF the expatriated Russian
a Jewish farmers.
d Not for years has the supply of drink
q ing water been SO low at New York, no
/ has the danger OF genuine water famin
a been greater than at the present. Con
e missioner Gilroy says unless there
q rain the water will last only fifteen c
twenty days more.
y The Cherokees since Judge Green
decision that they do not own the Stri
!" are now ready to renew the negotiation
e which were broken off last year, for tn
sale of the land to the government
y Chief Maves, II is said, favors the dispt
!, sition of the outlet.
AZ The miners of hituminous coal in Ii
!, llama have decided to strike for advanC
IA If cents per ton. The block-coal mil
> RS have already struck for 10 cents a,
,n vance. The operators refuse TO paw IL
n, increase. All the miners in the State
m indiana are now out, and long an
!, desperate battle is looked for.
r The notorious Bob Musgrave, who il
~ sured himself for s25, 900 in an accdei
le insurance company and then procured
8 'keleton, placed it in a cabin near q
indian village, burned the cabin and |
means OF confederates spread the ney
that he was burned up, has been ca
tured in St. Paul by detectives.
rs OF the Tonkawas only sevantv-aig