Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-06-23
Illinois Corn Damaged
by Black Bugs.
BAD HARVARD STUDENTS.
New York Company Organized for the
Preservation of the Health and
Comfort of Citizens.


Lexington avenue, New York, is for sale.
A street-car war is looked for in Pitts
burg over a rate of cents for six miles.
Pending the untangling of n legal de
cision, Terre Haute, Ind, has two police
forces.
The Hamilton Rubber Company of
Trenton, n, j ., has gone into the hands
OF receiver.
black bug, apparently of a new va
riety, has damaged much OF the new
corn crop in Illinois.
The Templars' Congress at Edinburg,
Scotland, has decided to meet at Des
Moines, Ia, in 1898.
The world "do move" A colored cav
airy company is to be stationed at Fort
Meyer, opposite Washington and near
Arlington.
Harvard students have been daubing
the bronze statue of the college found
ers. which is situated in the campus,
with red paint.
Representative Cooper announces that
he will, when Congress meets next win
ter, demand a thorough investigation Of
the pension office.
The schooner Thomas Hume is be-
lieved to have gone down in Lake Mich
igan with all on board, involving the
loss of seven lives.
Italian laborers have been taken to
Bismarck, N. d., to take the place of the
strikers on the Northern Pacific, and
trouble is anticipated in consequence.
The New York customs officers have
seized trunk filled with gold cups and
saucers and spoons, which were in the
possession of passenger of the steamer
Lain.
company has recently been organ
lied in New York city which proposes to
make its principal business the preser-
walton OF the health and comfort of cit
liens
In the Illinois Senate bills providing
for the periodical weighing OF grain in
warehouses and for State inspection of
building and loan associations have been
passed.
In Wisconsin municipal court the
other day the sentence of Salvation
Army soldier was doubled because he
said ''amen" to what the Judge first
gave him.
The enumeration of school children
just completed at indianapolis shows a
falling off of $4,000 Z HOOP from the
figures OF two years ago. A new count
is demanded.
A tack trust has been formed at Bos-
ton. Five of the largest manufacturing
concerns of the country, representing
e-eighths OF the entire industry, are
in the combine.
Twenty-one Italian immigrants, who
arrived at New York on board the
steamer Massalia, were debarred from
landing last week on the ground that
they were eX-convicts.
The United States has superseded
Great Britain in the trade with Costa
Rlca. This has surprised the British
Consul, and he thinks his government
should look into the facts.
Eight hundred Danes have bought
large tract of land twenty miles west of
Little Rock, Ark, and will 90 there i'm
mediately and found new town, which
is to be called New Copenhagen.
The organization of the American Uni
versity has been effected at Washington.
An appeal Will shortly be made to the
American people for 100000 for the
early commencement OF the work.
On ST. Paul's Island, settlement half
way between Cape Breton and New
foundland, every man, woman and child
on the island, with the exception OF two
men, are Frustrated with disease re
sembling la grippe.
1t is now asserted that Attorney-(ien- |
eral Miller thinks the appointments of
the new Circuit Judges should be made
without waiting for the meeting of Con
gress, and is urging the President to
make no further delay.
Joseph f. Boyd, father of Governor
James +. Boyd of Nebraska, and whose |
failure to take out naturalization papers
was the cause of the Nebraska guberna-
torial muddle, died at GAINESVILLE. Ohio |
last week, aged 70 years.
st. Johns IN. +, } dispatches state that
the French will allow no selling of bait !
IN st. Georges Bay to American vessels. |
The news is probably exaggerated. Moth
ing official in regard to the report has
been received at Washington.
In the South Presby terian Assembly
at Birmingham, Ala, resolution has
been adopted declaring that church fairs
ana festivals were not the proper means
II raising money; also one calling on
he Worlds Fair to keep the gates closed
IN Sunday.
More homes have been broken up by
he strikes in the coke region of Penn
iylyania that have just closed than hv
I'll the strikes that preceded this gigan-
lie failure. Reports are coming in hourly
NJ the restitution of hundreds of home
ess families.
Postmaster-General Wanamaker saws
ne IL waiting to hear from certain nar
les in California who desire to be heard
the location of the postotiee
nd upon receipt OF this by mail and
liter 1t has been given due consideration {
he postotice matter will be settled.
The will OF the late Charles Pratt If I,
he Standard Oil Company, who died on
lay 1 last, has just been filed in the
office in Brooklyn. The great {
'ulk OF his estate, valued at from S15- {
90 900 to 800, 900 900, by the terms of
he will is resolved into a trust 10 be {
sed for the benefit OF the descendants |
t his family. '
j. q. Werst, a crop expert, estimates
hat the States of Kansas, Missouri H. {
nois, Indiana. Ohio and Michigan will s
reduce, provided favorable conditions i
ontinue until harvest, 202, 1881 900 bush a
Is OF winter wheat against l42 III. 600 a
ccording to government estimates for
$50. Illinois is estimated TO produce
rom 1882, 900 acres 81 ,7l2,000 bushels.
The Board Of Health has closed tbe ;
'maha Medical Institute on the ground \
hat 1t was in an unsanitary condition Y
IL claimed that many deaths have hap y