Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-08-14
A BIG SURPLUS OF WHISKY.
Census Office Report Shows the United
States is the Largest Producer
of Copper in the World.

The Customs Collector at New York
has been ordered to cut down expenses
I $50, 450.
/ There were "a 900 watermelons re-
ee;yed in Chicago from Georgia one day
last week.
Boston Nationalsts have issued an
address calling Oh the city to run the
street cars.
! The President has nominated Henry
I f.. Nichols to be- a Commander in the
| United States navy.
| Prominent Haytians at New York say
a revolution against Hyppolte is bound
TO come at an early day.
! The official investigation at Ottawa is
bringing TO light an astounding amount
OF rascality in the public offices.
Chicago's postal receip pts last year were
~, 5o4, 10 .68 and expenses 81 ,2S5 ,02S34
leaving an income OF s2,2l9, 702.32.
Mrs. Samuel Mather of Cleveland has
given S75, 900 to the Woman's College OF
Western Reserve University at that city
Cleveland says he has not the slightest
intention to take the stump in Ohio this
fall, and he has never intimated he
would do so.
Princeton College intends sending an
expedition this month to "a region in
Montana never before explored - to
search for fossil remains.
+ BY decision in the United States Cir
emit Court at New York the Brush Elec-
trio Company has secured monopoly Of
the storage battery industry.
The testimony before the Privileges
and Elections Committee at Ottawa CON
tinues to show fraud and bribery in Sc
curing government contracts.
It is gravely declared at Buzzard's Bay.
Mass, where Edwin Booth has been
lately, that the great actor is dying from
the effects of too much smoking.
Kentucky whiskymen are again wor-
ried over the big surplus OF their com
modify now on hand, on which $3,00O,-
001 taxes will come due next fall.
The striking plush weavers at Dob
sons mills in Philadelphia after ten
weeks of idleness have agreed to return
to work. There are about 400 of them.
Bank Examiner Drew is endeavoring
to convince the Secretary of the Treas
ury that he did not neglect his duty in
the case OF the Keystone bank at Phia-
delphia.
Senator Chandler OF New Hampshire
in "A siX-column article in Concord
Journal makes bitter attack upon Sem
ator Galinger, whom he charges with
having sold himself to the railroads.
DR.. Henry 7. Hembold, the famous
buchu man, who was credited with hav.
ing piled up fortune of $l0,000,0 900 by
the sale OF his patent medicines, is once
more in madhouse, chained at the
wrists and with shackles on his ankles.
There has just been cast at the armor-
plate mill OF Carnegie, Phillips 4 Co at
Homestead, Pa, an armor ngot eighty
inches wide and twenty-three inches
thick, weighing - 900 pounds-the larg.
est armor-plate ingot rolled in this
country.
According to a new law in Texas for.
elgners are not permitted to own land in
fee simple; but il has been estimated
that the Texas farmers have borrowed
IN foreign countries not less than Sl5.-
W0,00o, which is repre- ented in mort
cages upon their lands.
The Bureau Of American Republics is
informed that an association called the
American Colored Mems Mexican Colo
nization Company is preparing to estab-
iished colony of negro farmers, coming
chiefly from Mississippi and Tennessee,
In the State OF Sonora, Mexico.
During a trial at Findlay, O., it was
brought out in evidence that Peter
Williams, widely known throughout
Northwestern Ohio as big lumber
dealer, was leading dual life, and that
he was keeping up two Establishments
one in Findlay and the other in Fostoria
only fifteen miles away.
The Forest heavy ordnance twelve- |
inch rifle gun, designed for coast defense
and made in New York, was fired for the
hrst Tune the other day at Sandy Hook |
with satisfactory results. With 25n
pounds OF powder it hurled a 1000 .
pound shot five miles. The gun willuse
40 pounds OF powder and throw n . onO- /
pound shot twelve miles.
In New York city the EXPERT female
4hopIitter wears trick skirt under her
gown, and can draw it up by means Of a
string SO rs to make n sack large enouyL
g hold half bushel of small articles
II fearful OF being caught in the art or
'pprehensive OF a search, she can stem
nto dark corner, drop the string and
Unload her plumber safely.
The Missouri river is cutting its banks
It point known rs Belmont Bend and
mere are fears that the town of Elm.
WOOD, opposite st. Joseph, and terri
DRY OF about six square miles of farmin.
oentfy VIII be submerged and the
ridge and railroad tracks rendered use.
ess. "''-
There seems TO be much doubt anon,
llllanee leaders of the feasibility of the
Han to hold wheat for the purpose Of
alslng prices. The general manager Of
he Alliance and Reform Press Associa'
ION at New York says he d es not be.
Ieve intelligent farmers can be cauybt
NTH such chat.
ne East street reaper works al Spring
ED, o., the largest agricultural imnIe.
lent works in the world, covering fortv
TX acres and ranking next in size In tba
Afupp gun works ia Prussia. has haer ,
Old to syndicate of prominent canitai. e
'ts OF Cleveland, Chicago and New Yorh I
, he used Ton the manufacture nj rail t
'ay cars and supplies Of all kinds Tn q
orks cost 81 ,500,0 900, and we're mr.
hased by the syndicate for $500 900 I
lhe eensus-otlice report shows tb,. ;
United States to be the largest producer i
copper in the world, its product for &
ne year 1880 being PIG, 055, g62 ponnds il
llS,o2s short tons. The total expend /
urss involved in this production were
I, 062, $50; total capital invested, S62
- 22s, and employees. s,72l. The five 4
aiding States in the production of con \
er are Montana, 9s, 222 4ii pounds i
Ilchigan. s,45o,675 pounds; Arizona i
,osS, lsh pounds; New Mexico. 4 6s9 h
" pounds; Colorado, / no 05S pounds h