Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-07-07
EASTERN ITEMS.
A New Explosive to be
Tested by Experts.
REV. SAM SMALL DROPPED.
An Attempt to Amend the Compulsory
Education Bill of Illinois
Has Failed.

The Odd Fellows are to build $780,
| 900 temple at Chicago.
The antitrust law in Iowa proves to
be inadequate to accomplish the pur-
pose desired
| Ordnance experts are to test new
explosive manufactured in Virginia and
called Americanite.
Milwaukee liquor dealers are to build
distillery of their own, so as to be free
from whisky-trust exactions.
IL. c. Bile of Los Angeles has been
engaged as Professor of Greek at Black
burn University, located at Carlinville,
| Ill.
Bank Examiner Drew at Philadelphia
has been suspended pending complete
! investigation of the matters now under
| inquiry.
Armour, Morris and Swift are to es-
| tablish stock yards at Tolleston, Ind,
where their packing houses are to be es-
tablished.
The Worlds Fair Association OF Com
mercial Travellers has been formed at
! Chicago. Foreign drummers will be
asked to join.
The appropriation for completing the
work of the last census is running low,
and an army of clerks will be dismissed,
delaying the work.
The whole audience at the Princeton
commencement cheered Dr. McCosh as
he entered the church where the exer-
cises were being held.
One OF the railway tunnels under the
Hudson, connecting New York city with
the Jersey shore at Hoboken, will be
finished in about six months.
Comptroller of the Currency Lacey has
made his report relative to the downfall
of the Keystone Bank of Philadelphia.
1t contains about 5000 words.
Crowds are still calling upon the priest
physician, Rev. Father Mollinger, at
Pittsburg. No cures OF miraculous ma
ture have been reported lately.
1t is now announced that the Kentucky
log cabin in which Abraham Lincoln's
parents were married has been secured
for exhibition at the Worlds Fair
Idlers and criminals are it is said, sent
to Canada from England, and from there
they come across the border into the
United States in violation of the immi-
grafton laws.
The international Typographical
Union in convention at Boston has re-
fused to admit women compositors into
local unions on an equal footing, wages,
etc, with men.
The Indians in the Lower Brush reser-
walton in South Dakota are much OPP
posed to their removal. The agency is
to be removed to point nearly opposite
the Crow Creek agency.
The attempt to amend the compulsory
education bill of Illinois has failed. Be
fore the Legislature al journed bill was
passed granting women the right of suf-
lrage in school elections.
d. G. Knight, former Director of the
Nicaragua canal, charges the Nicaragua
Canal Construction Company with gross
extravaganza. Counsel for the company
declares the charges false
The strike of ore handlers at Ashta-
bula, o., threatens to become serious,
and the calling out of the militia to pro-
tect those who are DESTROYS of returning
to work is being considered.
The total gross exchanges of the prin-
cipal cities of the United States and
Canada Tor the past week were 5000, POI, :
BOO decrease, POI per cent. as compared
with the same week last year.
The following officers of the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas have been elected :
President, ii. c. Cross; Vice President,
j. Waldo; Treasurer, J f. Nedville /;
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Joel
+. Freeman.
The Colorado Conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church at Denver has
dropped from membership in the church
Rev. Sam Small because of his trouble
in connection with the Methodist Uni
versity at Ogden, Utah.
The graduating class of sixty-five ca
diets at the Military Academy received
their commissions as Second Lieuten-
ants at the hands of Secretary of War
Proc or, who delivered an address full of
good advice to young soldiers.
DR.. Henry A. Todd, associate in Ro-
nance Languages at the John Hopkins
University, has accepted the Professor
ship of Romance Languages in the Stan
ford University. He was graduated at
Princeton in 1876 with honor.
The Conference Committee of the IL
linois Legislature has agreed on an APP
preparation of 100000 for the Illinois
exhibit at the World s'Fair. The Sem
ate has adopted the report, and the
House will undoubtedly do so.
The full bench of the Massachusetts
Supreme Court has decided that an
adopted child has all the rights to prop
erty on the death OF the adopting par.
ents that it would have il it were born
to such parents in lawful wedlock.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
sustained the Superintendent of the Blu
reau of Printing and Engraving in his
dispute with the Knights of Labor,
growing out of the recent dismissal of
certain plate printers on the ground of
INSTRUMENTATION.
The affairs of the Philadelphia Cen
tennial Exposition are finally wound up.
There was a cash balance on hand of a
little more than $4,000, which was do
mated to the Pennsylvania Museum and
the Historical Society, it being deemed
not worth while to declare a dividend
for the 1895 stockholders, who are
| widely scattered.
| In order to determine exact longitude
of Montreal and other points the obsery-
atory at the Mctiill University sent bv
way OF the Canadian Pacific Telegraph
and the Commercial Gable 100 signals to
| Greenwich observatory. The average
| time of transmission over the round cir
cult of 5000 miles was .05 seconds, the
whole number ranging between and III
seconds.
President Patton in his closing adj
dress at Princeton announced the follow
| ing gifts: $3.50 900, including the Conn