Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-11-24
EASTERN ITEMS.
River Making Inroads
on New Orleans.
ELECTRICAL PROCESS In IRON
Black Diphtheria Spreads at Alarm
ing Rate in an Iowa Nor
wegian Settlement


iron Is 70 % MADE III Ohattanooea ny
III eiectricai process.
The Supreme Court Of North Dakota
sustains the prohibition law III every
particular.
The people OF Brooklyn have sounded
an emphatic call Tor another bridge
across the East river.
Nicaragua needs water badly, and
American well drillers with pumping
outfits are In demand.
Georgia statesmen have resolved to
return to the old custom Of annual meet
ings OF the Legislature.
A rich amber deposit. IL ia reported
has been discovered in Ontario, the esti-
mated vaiue Of winch Is N,Wo'Voo.
Louisiana sugar men are Directing
strongly 10 the appointment OF negroes
as inspectors under the bounty law.
The inroads OF the river on New
Orleans continue, and may prove a
rather serious matter Tor a part OF the
city.
canal 70 connect Jamaica pay WIN
the dreat south bay, on the sonth
shore OF Long isiaho, 10 SPOKEN oi as
propapie'
Before the close OF the year four new
cruisers-two al baitiIore, one ~ NOT
,oik ana one IN rhiiaueiphia--wi'i nave
oeeh iauhci'eu'
The number OF postofiices in the
United states Is oiliciaiiy stated 70 De
o4,ooi, showing ". ihcrease oi |,ooo over
last year NJ TINS tiine'
BY an order the Secretary OF War has
reuuceo from thirty-hVe 10 ,hirty years
the maximum age at which army re-
cruits VIII DC accepteo'
lgnatius Donnelly has begun two
more libel suits against the st. Paul
ptonetr,iress. lie Is not satshed with
the Veruict just gwen 10 nun.
The Delaware Indians have lust re-
ceiyed $454 600. being one half al the
sum given them by the government for
lands in the Indian Territory.
An ingenious person in Chicago has
invented an automatic Adelina Patti.
IL is life-siyed wax figure. which imi.
tates her smiles, gestures and poses.
D,r;,a ,ha lao, o;oh, o,.h, .ho
MN ar 81 'i ,oooo.;, asu. oa.as tn1
ron, IL Irn;tad States . ,,.sa oso seu
,u'tbr.a ~, ~ 1890 we ~ "sas
~ 800 :" '"o corresponding po''ou
- aooV.
Ia ray;,l,, aij;n "a," w a,.l'' ~
maxipunn and ? up ,u9 aa,ns W va
nrnara,,,,,,, c. ~ $3.50 aS nNeu
P'.s, ",'' :, 'o' WIG "i''e' uii',
All the liquor dealers IN Bar Harbor,
Me-, including proprletors OF summer
isasJ n;nia,;;a " W ,bo TN ,l ~ 'o' ar
'en -, ''o'"''o' VI 'n0 ''iuo' laws
me government proposes to build
another timber dock In the navy yard
at brooklyn, the accommodations OF the
otner TWO DOCKS Delng insufficient 1t
~ We apoo' ooo iee' IN ieigt"'
Inc Go,nmerciai Ciup OF Kansas City
mas called convention to meet Deem
per 10 ahu TO- 10 urge upon congress
systematic improvements OF the Mis-
souri, ana lower mississippi rivers.
The Governor of Tennessee has offered
reward OF so,oo0 Tor the arrest and
convection OF Inc leader OF the Brice-
Viiie riot, ana a reward OF $50 each for
she capture OF the escaped convicts.
An agreement has been concluded
with the Tonkawa tribe of Indians of
the Indian Territory, by which the
Indians cede to the United States 80 600
aores OF iahd, the consideration being
sSu,0"'
Kansas City officials have been
wrought up to high state of excite
ment by the discovery Of gold in samples
OF strata pierced by drill while drilling
Tor the water-works tunnel under the
Missouri river.
PRESIDENT Noel OF the Olympic Club at
view orieans mas teiegraphed Sulllvan's
asen.s III new York onering We, 900 for
the olaVin,Suiiivan contest for March !,
a.so so,io goid pitcher emblematic OF
'he worlus supremacy.
Black diphtheria is spreading at an
alarming rate in Norwegian settle
ment in Soldier Valley, Harrison comfy
IOWA fourteen persons recently died
oi inc disease. One family OF ten lost
SIX members Inc place has just been
quarahtiheu.
George Ford, Chairman of the Board
OF County Commissioners of Pitkin
county, Col, and one of the pioneer
business men OF Western Colorado, has
absconded, leaving behind him debts to
rme a Ess " SI s'u' mostly borrowed
foiI "'' 'i'ii's o"uSeo MS down.
nv
me new transatlantic steamers which
are building by the Cunard line are to
MAINTAIN sea speed OF twenty-one
knots per hour. An offer of an English
company guaranteed twenty-five and
one nalt knots per hour, but was re-
for first.class nassensers sp"'e o"ereo