Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-06-09
Delaware is to Have a
Local Option Law.
COTTON CROP IN MISSISSIPPI.
Supreme Court of the United States
to Decide if Governor Boyd is
an American Citizen.

cleveland munlclpal salaries are DelH8
reduced.
Ohio has adopted the Australian bal
lot reform.
The prospects are bright for big cot
ton crop in Mississippi.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
ers are coming to the Pacific Coast.
A congress of engineers is proposed
during the Worlds Fair at Chicago in
1898.
Kansas expects a crop OF wheat any
where between 40, 900, 900 and so 900 900
bushels.
Delaware is to have local-option law,
and ii will not discriminate in favor of
peach brandy.
The Massachusetts House has passed
bill to limit to 1875 feet the height OF
buildings in cities.
The master builders OF Pittsburg have
discovered the existence OF a national
organization of bosses.
The pay roll OF the judges and clerks
of the recent municipal election in Chi
cago amounted to S25 ,8lS.
| St Louis health authorities are becom-
ing alarmed over the rapidly increasing
number of smallpox patients.
An international conference of chart
/ ties and corrections is to be held at Chi
cago during the Worlds Fair.
Premier Macdonald OF Canada is said
to be in failing health, and his retire
ment at an early day will be necessitated.
The strike begun thirteen months ago
/ by 5000 miners OF the Pennsylvania and
/ Westmoreland Pa Gas and Coal Conn
panies has been declared off.
Three hundred specimens of various
kinds of animals captured in Death Val
ley, Cal, by the Agricultural Department
party have been received at Washington.
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.
The Women's National Industrial
League at a special meeting has Endorsed
ex-senator Blair as Minister to China.
They want no representative unless it is
Mr.. Blair.
There are at present under construc-
ton at private ship yards for the United
States sixteen vessels, including three
tugs for the navy, and at navy yards
three more.
The commission on location OF the
General Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church for 1892 has unani-
mously voted That Omaha be selected as
the seat OF the next general conference.
Work has been resumed at Pittsburg
at the National Tube Works. The strike
was on the part of the machinists for
my ilo'is IL mas taSVe' lilteti "fehs'
anu WIG i''oi ""Ne Ooiiie o"' Nioeoi louS.
The Indians abroad with Buffalo Bill
are saving their money, while some are
sending nome thelr earnings. Others
pioposq ~ S"te ei'eiI anu p1ll.i ioll4gS
- ~ ''''y i0'"'ii' "iioi VIC! wiz 'o'''e
uom H.
The Legislature OF Alabama DID not
make an appropriation Tor a World $
FAR exhibit, alleging as reason that
the state was too poor. state lreasurers
tl" ',' sto'eli ABOUT Nl'ooo'Voo "l'hlh "
lew 9e"i9'
4. A special to the New York Heratd from
Cape May says President Harrison is no
longer property owner there, having
disposed OF his cottage at the seaside.
The President paid $4,000 for the cot
tage, and 1t IS understood sold 1t tor the
same price.
At Winnipeg it is stated that the Ca
madam Pacific has purchased the North
ern Pacific lines in Manitoba. The Ca
madam Pacific takes these lines and ter
mlnals OF the Northern Pacific almost
Immediately.
Councillors of the Alton road have