Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-09-04
1000, 900 NEW VOTERSIN 1892
Arizona Will Ask TO Be Admitted Into
the Union as a State at Next
Session of Congress.

| the w Orlufs Il air zoo.
Kansas papers speak OF the corn crop
as practically assured.
| There are to be Ss7 polling places in
New York city tbisyear.
The agricultural building for the
| Worlds Fair will cost 1850, 900.
A million young men will cast their
| first vote for President next year.
At the next session of Congress Ari-
IONA will ask for admission as State.
Complete census returns give Iowa
population OF 1,9l 1896, gain OF 287 ,2S
since 1880.
The irrepressible George Francis Train
| proposes tour around the world in forty
days by party of 1000 persons.
Connellsville, Pa, will drop natural
gas and use coal for fuel. The gas is
nearly all exhausted, and rates are high.
| 1t is reported that 900 acres of land in
| Cape May county, Nd, have been pnr-
chased on which to colonize Russian
| Jews.
A German doctor, advertising in New
| York an Institution OF European staff
Physicians has been prosecuted for
| fraud.
States should cede the arid lands under
proper restrictions to the States and Ter
ritories.
Bellew is furious about the report of
his alleged marriage to Mrs. Potter. He
says she cleared 100000 on her Austral-
ian tour.
An advance OF 10 cents per ton on an
| thracite coal has been ordered from Sep
tember at New York by the producing
companies.
There are more boats now running on
the Missouri river than at any time dur
ing the last ten years, and every one of
them is making money.
More than 5000 clerks, salespeople,
teamsters, porters, janitors and other
wage earners are out OF work because of
the recent big fire in Chicago.
The drought in the Lower Rio Grande
has put all the ranchmen in debt, and
the great scarcity of money is causin.
the sacrifice of cattle and sheep.
According to the recently published
statistics there is one pauper to every
6l3 inhabitants in this country and one
to every thirty-eight in England.
James Phelan of San Francisco has
sold the historic Stevens House, 81 to q
Broadway, New York, to w. H. Mairs of
Brooklyn for 81 ,000, 000-partly in cash
and partly in Harlem property.
An estimate received by the Bureau of
Ameri, an Republics places the value of
wool which will be available for ship
lnent to Europe in October and Novem.
Der for the Argentine Republic at $780,
600 900.
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Executive Commissioner of the Worlds
Fair by the Pennsylvania State Commits
sioners, dropped dead within an hour
and half after his election from heart
disease.
The new chinch bug remedy by inocu-
lation discovered in Kansas has been
tried with apparent success in Wisconsin,
some OF the imported infected insects
causing the death of millions of the bugs
in wheat field.
One OF the little bands of Russian He
prev refugees sent out from New York |
to homes IN the country by the trustees
OF the Baron Hirsch fund complain that /
they are starving and have been swim
died and abused.
The employees of the Union Pacific
having entered into contract previous |
TO the passage of the eight-hour law in |
Nebraska and the contract still being in |
force, they are not taking part in the
struggle To enforce the law
There has been great deal of exag.
geration regarding the dismissal of vet
Grams from the New York Customs.
house. Out of eighty-three employees
dismissed only sixteen were veterans,
and OF these three have already been re-
instated.
Postoitice Inspector Stuart at Chicago
Is in receipt OF many letters which show
that the National Capital Savings, Build
ing and Loan Association was even p
greater swindle than at first supposed.
Victims are being heard from ali over
the country.
owen Murphy, a former Tammanv Of
hclal, who stole $4,000 of the funds of
New York city and fled to Canada in
1871, turns up as one of the PRINCIPALS
IN the corrupt dealings that have been
brought to light by a legislative commit
tee at Ottawa.
cardinal Manning in letter lust made
public denounees the employment of lot
.erles and rattles at bazars for worAs of
charity or religion. "The Lords works.
ne says, ought to he done in the Lords
lwn way; Christians must not encourage :
over motives"
After an investigation there appears
Q he no real cause of complaint by the
Russian Jews who are colonized in New P.
Jersey. They thought Baron Hirsch had ,
provided for them life of ease and thai :
money would pour into their pockets !,
When they reached America.
Amos Toward Fiske of South Fran.
ngham, Mass, has been appointed chief r
ngineer of the Leland Stanford Jr +
University. Otto Willweber. late man, !
ger OF the Southern Pacific restaurant, !
i Sacramento, has been appointed stew v
nj OF the boarding hall OF the uniyer- r
ity.
An irrigating ditch to run between
reka and Little Shasta is to be con. ;
at cost of about $500, 900 The /
ume will he twenty feet wide by forr n
eep, and will not only irriyate thon. I
ands OF acres, hut also float lumber il
rom the Upper Klamath mills to the 4
abroad. WIG :.
The successful run across the Atlantic h
the new whale backed" steamer q 2
' Wetmore, with the statement that
he was found less susceptible to the ac. y
on OF winds and waves. less pitching d
nd rolling. than the ordinary tyne al k
essel. has stimulated the designing of il
lch vessels for the passenger trade. and :
Is understood that a Western marine A
rchitect has already planned such n a
an. with two decks for passenger Nc. o
r