Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-10-20
The Coal Product Of the
United States.
GEORGIA TO TAX BACHELORS
Arrangements Complete for the Poly
technic Excursion to the
Worlds Fair.

Club has assigned.
1t is said Canada intends to reimpose
an export duty on logs.
Ohio this year produces the largest to-
bacco crop in her history.
A cooking school is part OF the pub
lic-school system OF Milwaukee.
The validity Of the convict lease sys-
tenn in Tennessee is to be decided by the
courts.
Turkeys flag has been the first to be
unfurled on the Chicago Worlds Fair
grounds.
piped to Cincinnati, taking in many
ether cities en- route.
Most OF the fires In Wisconsin were
confined to districts burned over last
spring. The rains have checked them.
A factory is to be built at Minneapolis
| by parties who claim to be able to tenn
| per copper 60 that it can be made hard
| as steel.
| The Miliionaires' Club Of New York
will erect a $3.50, 900 house. The proposed
| site is on the corner OF Fifth avenue and
| Sixtieth street.
| The people in Emmons county, N. ID.
who lost their property by prairie fires
sre said TO be in a deplorabie condition
without food or shelter.
Since the passage of the American
copyright law it is said that one New
York song publisher has paid $4,000 in
London for manuscripts.
| France, it is believed, will next month
rescind the pork prohibition laws. Italy
promises to rescind her prohibitory reg
ulations after France acts.
| 1t is stated that the government has
realized 1000, 900 from the sale of lands
in that part OF Kansas which is beyond
the line OF certain rainfall.
In the Red River Valley, N. d farm
labor is very scarce, and the railroads in
that section carry men free to various
points where they are needed.
The large yield and high price of wheat
will, it is estimated and expected, make
this seasons Dakota crop equal in value
to those OF the five preceding years.
A railroad surveying party that went
up the Big Horn Canyon in Colorado
nearly two months ago has not been
heard from, and there are fears that the
members have been lost.
Vessel agents and mariners on the
Great Lakes are urging the establish
|
the lakes to look out for the vast mari
time interests centered there.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge, |. O. o.
f., has voted down the proposition that
mbers could become eligible to the
degree of Patriarchs Militant without
going through the encampnent.
Georgia is going to tax bachelors. A
bill for that purpose has been brought
into the Georgia Legislature, and the
House Committee on Hygiene and Sani-
tation has reported it favorably.
An extra session of the Pennsylvania
Legislature has been called with view
to remove the Auditor General and State
Treasurer, whose connection with the
financial scandals has been charged
openly.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge OF Odd
Fellows has voted against the eighteen
year limit to eligibility to join the order.
} The vote was l07 to IS. The question
regarding liquor sellers was postponed
until next year.
In a drunken fight on train from
Mount Vernon to Carmi, ILL.,, William
Robertson stabbed Sheriff Williams
slightly, and man named Stanley, who
went to Williams assistance, was badly
cut and will die.
The conductors, switchmen and brake
men on the Southern Pacific Atlantic
system have demanded an increase in
wages, and strike at an early day is
possible, as the company refuses to ac-
} cede to the demands.
Florida's Secretary OF State, Mr.. Craw-
ford, refuses to attest the commission oil
ex-Congressman Davidson, appointed by
Ex-Governor Fleming to succeed Senator
Call. Mandamus proceedings will be
taken by the Governor.
A secret organization is terrorzing the
people IN the neighborhood OF Tellviile
, Ark, 1t is composed of moral regu.
lators," but they are brutal in their
treatment of those who come under the
ban of their disp leasure.
A committee OF physicians at Louis
vile is examining the case of Mrs. Stuck
, enburg, who, it has been widely pub
lished, on Fridays goes into a trance
when the stigmata or bleeding wounds
similar TO those of the Savior when on
the cross are said to appear.
Internal Revenue Commissioner Mason
|. having found that more inaccuracies oe.
cur from gauging than from weighing
whisky, it is probable that the latte,
method will he used bv the bureau. The
result would be a large reduction in tn.
force of gaugers and the consequent say.
ing of great expense.
The arrest at Durango, Col, of Baron
, Nordenskjold for removing relics from
ancient cliff dwellings is liable to assume
International proportions, as the acting
Secretary of the United States. Mr.
Wharton, has telegraphed the Mayor OF
Durango to write him the facts concern.
ny the Baron's arrest.
i Arrangements are now complete TO,
ne polytechnic excursion to the Worlds
I Fair at Chicago. The party, which will
include about 100 men and women
mostly mechanics, clerks and bosrd
school teachers, will 90 straight TO New
York from London, and all noted place
in the vicinity will be visited.
The coal product of the United State
reached total OF l4l ,2Sa, 5l3 short ton
in the census year, and was valued al
the mines before any expenses for shin
ment at $l60, 226, 1923. The product in,
cluded 1900, i37 short tons of Pennsyl-
yania and other anthracite, worth $65.
$40, ola, and 795, 1884, short tons ot
bituminous and Ignite, valued at s94,
346, 500.
At the Gravesend race track at New
York an ingenious trick, by means Of
, which the bookmakers got news of the
races, was discovered. A coachman >
with a big hat was arrested in the field