Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-06-30
EASTERN ITEMS.
Dr.. Brooks Appointment
as Bishop Confirmed.
CALL IS ELECTED SENATOR.
The Government Will Cooperate With
the British Authorities in the
Behring Sea Matter
CALL IS ELECTED SENATOR.


Nevada.
st. Paul women have begun an anti
Sunday theater crusade.
A new tunnel between Detroit and
Canada will be 8, 433 feet long.
The Commercial Cable Company has
declared a dividend of 1 a per cent.
The Councils of Kansas City say the
companies must reduce the price of light.
The election of Senator Call is consid
cred a defeat Of the Alliance men in
Florida.
A New York Judge has decided in an
interesting suit ut Utica that "truth is
not libel.
The penny-in- the-slot weighing ma
chimes have been removed from Central
Park, New York.
Would-be settlers are picking out
choice spots in the Sac and Fox lands
soon to be opened.
The students of Harvard and Yale
were recently relieved of $4,000 by
pair of card sharks.
The New York Continent is to become
the Morning ddreHiser, and will be is
sued as Il one-cent paper.
The Massachusetts, House has rejected
the bill making eight hours days work
for State and city employees,
The Illinois Senate has voted y to q
to lay on the table the bill to extend
municipal suffrage to women.
A granite sarcophagus for the remains
of the late +. T. Barnum is approaching
completion at West Concord, n. H.
A % g, L.,
lied at Brooklyn, N. Y, as part of the
Thirteenth Regiment of State troops.
The strike on the Midland Ind. rail
way is at an end, and the company has
paid all its back debts to the strikers.
The effort to make tobacco staple
crop in Florida is being continued on a
large acreage and with apparent sue
cess
The late John T. Parish of New York
city left the liberal sum of S2S0,0 to
various religious and charitable organi-
cations.
Acting Secretary of the Interior Chan
dler says, if the Kaweah colonists are to
be reimbursed, it must be by special
act of Congress.
Mad dogs are 50 numerous in Georgia
that the Legislature will be urgently
pressed to legislate concerning dogs at
the next session.
The American Nurserymens Associa-
ton at Minneapolis has strongly pro-
tested against Maxwells confirmation
as chief OF the horticultural exhibits at
the Worlds Fair.
The Directors of the Union Theolog-
zeal Seminary have declined to accede to
the veto of the Presbyterian General
Assembly, and DIR. Briggs will continue
his work at the seminary.
A trade organization has been effected
among the Southern plaid mills to obtain
a uniform standard of production and
better representation of the Southern
plaids in the markets of the world.
Governor Pattison of Pennsylvania has
to consider 263 bills passed by the re-
Gently adjourned Legislature, which he
must approve, veto or allow to become
laws by failure either to approve or veto.
Augustus st. Gaudeus OF New York.
Henry Mitchell of Boston and Charles
+. Barber of Philadelphia have been APP
pointed by the Secretary of the Treas
ury to select the designs for the new sill
yer coins.
The whisky trust has at last acquired
outright the only remaining important
antitrust establishment in the West
the great Chicago distileries owned by
Shufeldt Il Co. and the Calumet Distili-
ing Company.
The new postal cards will be along
soon. There will be a size for ladies'
use and one for business men, the former
smaller and the latter larger than the
card now in vogue Grants portrait
constitutes the stamp.
The Treasury Department has under
recent decision Of the Attorney-G General
converted the seiLnorage accruing from
the coinage OF silver dollars into stand
ard dollars, and is now issuing silver
certificates against them.
The President has appointed Edward
7. Thompson postmaster at INDIANAPOLIS
Ind, vice Wallace deceased and ex-Con-
gresham Owen OF Indiana Superintend-
ent of Emigration, an office created at
the last session of Congress.
Major General John NJ. Schofeld. SEN
ior officer of the United States army. il
is stated, is soon to be married to Miss
Georgia \. kilbourne of keokuk. la.
The young lady was a schoolmate of
General Schotield's daughter.
A bright old lady Of New York b.s
that The managars ~ tt''9
Worlds Fair as matter If rot;omnI
nride rs we'll as for tho ostonisbm,o,,t 'f
foreign visitors shonld MAXI nniIoat;a ",
of Americans over I0l wears all ''o''
The letter carriers If s. Ionis rro,,os,
to fight the rule which nreyants 't tbo9,
from holding nicnic beranse in d ,,H,
sn thav come nndnr Tho orJer ,yLioI, fi