Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-03-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
An Epitome of the Happenings Of
Two Hemispheres.
What is Transporting at the Capital of
the United States-0ther Very
Interesting News.

Sir John Macdonald has published an
appeal to the electors of Canada for their
support.
The trustees of the Baron de Hirsch
fund at New York have signed the trust
deed prepared by the Baron. and on
March | will draw on him for 81, 800, 600.
Armour, Chairman of the Pan-Ameri-
can Congress, has issued a call for a
meeting of the general committee OF 200
to take place in Washington April 10
next.
The furnaces of the Illinois Steel Com
pany have resumed operations, the
strikers disavowing the action of the
sub committee, which ordered a cessa-
ton of work.
Senator MitchelPs bill to incorporate
the Transpacific Gable Company is now
in the hands OF the Committee on APP
preparations. 1t is believed favorable
report will be made.
Representative Vandever has intro
duced bill to prevent unnaturalized
persons from making final proof or OBJ
tanning title to any Of the public lands
under the existing laws "
Inc l.&M.lkiyH lpTafltn Vi iit MtCilufi-
les Cox fative Bank, the operations of
which WE Inade public last summer, is
closed, and no one can be found who
knows anything of its affairs.
President Gage of the Chicago Worlds
Fair Directory, says there is no inten-
ton to treat the trades unions unfairly,
and that he sgd no doubt satisfactory
arrangements would be arrived at III the
matter OF employment.
Representative Abner Taylor of Hi
nois has introduced bill to increase the
salary of the Appraiser at the port of
San Francisco to $1,000 Chicago, 80, 900 !;
New Orleans, $4,000; Philadelphia, &c.
600; New York, $1,000.
A food and health exhibition, similar
to the one held in London in 1886, will
be held in New York from March 8 to
the 2Sth. The proceeds will be used for
building an association hall for retail
grocers and grocers' clerks.
The Secretary of the Interior has de-
cided, as did ex-Secretary Villas, that To-
cations with Sioux hali-breed scrip on
unsurveyed lands are invalid unless
made for the personal use and benefit of
the Indians to whom the scrip was is
sued.
The visible supply of grain as compiled
at the New York Produce Exchange is
as follows: Wheat, 23,359 900 bushels,
a decrease OF 100000; corn, 2,592 900
bushels, decrease of $4,000; oats,
3,2lS 900 bushels, decrease of 30S, 900
barley, 3,650000 bushels, a decrease OF
$4,000.
Five table glassware houses in Pitts
burg, one in Wheeling, one in Fostora
and one in Findlay have joined in an
application for a charter for new trust
The combination is to be known as the
United States Glass Company, with a
capital of 81 200 900. This is said to be
the beginning of combination which
viii soon take in all the table glassware
factories OF the country.
One of the features proposed for the
Worlds Fair is a scheme for dropping a
projectile-shaped ear from a l,OOO-foot
tower into the water, in order to give
the occupants OF the car the sensation Of
falling n long distance without dangerous
consequences in stopping too suddenly.
The idea is that of a Frenchman, Aris-
ticle Begres of the Paris Polytechnic
School The details of the project are
being worked out by Charles Curran, an
engineer at Grenoble.