Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-09-11
MISCELLANEOUS.
r,..,ric Railways Continue 20 MULTIPLY
with Surprising Hapidity.

Tbare we're &, 1888 deaths In Boston this
year up to August j,
The opening OF the new electrician
lines in Boston before snow Mes 10 prom
ised.
Three of the Georgia train robbers
have been captured argi all but VI ,ooo OF
the money recovered.
Prairie fires have been started ny
bomeseekers to drive off cattlemen ana
herds on the Cherokee Strip.
The Patriotic Order OF the Sons oil
America in session at Philadelphia are
wrestling with the color question.
Fully 2o,O0O,OOO feet OF lumber are re-
ported TO have been stolen by Canadians
rom American forests in the last three
years.
Mrs. Jackson, widow of the famous
Confederate leader, asks for a pension
On account of her husbands services in
the Mexican war.
It is announced that President Moffat
nj the Denver and Rio Grande railway
has forwarded his resignation to the
Board of Directors at New York.
British Columbia sealers have sent
protest in the shape OF memorial
against the prohibition OF seal-hunting
in the Behring Sea to the authorities at
Ottawa. -,
Electric railways continue to multiply
with surprising rapidity. An estimate
published in the RaiIcdy Age gives 400
lines now in operation and under con
tract, representing 5000 miles, with
1000 cars.
Queen Victoria has telegraphed her
coincidence to the President on the death
of Mr.. Lowell, and this is said to be the
first time England has so conspicuously
recognized an American man OF letters.
The Kansas State Board of Railroad
Commissioners have addressed letter
to the Manager of the Union Pacific
railroad, informing him that the entire
line of the Kansas Central railroad must
be rebuilt without delay with new
steel track
The cattle disease which broke out in
and around Emmettsburg, Ia, about five
weeks ago still continues undated,
and veterinarians there are at a loss to
find either name, cause or remedy for
the maIady. So far nearly 100 head have
died, and they are still dying at the rate
OF four or five day.
Twenty five locomotives on the Balti-
more and Ohio road have been equipped
with smoke consumers, an invention OF
the superintendent of the motive power
on the Baltimore and Ohio, which is said
to be showing excellent results SO far as
it has been tested.
The Hudson River Tunnel Company
is reported to have notified railway COM
panies having terminals in New York
| that the first track of the tunnel will he
completed within few months, and the
tunnel company is ready to negotiate
with them for bringing trains to New
York.
Although cars have been generally dis
tributed by the railroads in Illinois, but
very little wheat is flowing eastward
| from that State. Alliance leaders at
tribute this to the circular sent out from
Washington advising the farmers to hold
their grain. In the southern part of the
State, where the yield was the greatest.
only enough wheat has been threshed
and sold to pay pressing debts, while the
bulk of it has been put in storehouses to
await higher prices.
At recent session of the National
Brewers Association held at st. Louis
the report OF the committee on griev-
ances was to the effect that the mem bers
of the local unions of the Pacific Coast
should join the National branches of
OF the order in San Francisco and Port
land without initiation fee, but paying
the pro-rata tax from the date of admis-
sion. The President of the, American
Federation of Labor and the Executive
Committee of that body were censured
for failing to carry out the Instructions
given at the meeting in Detroit in De-
cember last to settle the troubles be-
tween the Pacific Slope and the National
organization.
Francis Scott of California and Charles
ID. and Frank l.. Cramp, the ship bnid-
ers, have just returned from Eurone
where they have been inspecting. G. Fl
Cramp said ~ do not think the new
subsidy bill will help American ship
builders to any great extent. 1t is too
narrow IN Its scope. The bill as origi-
nally drawn might have assisted Ameri-
can builders, but the bill as passed does
not mean much to benefit them. Shin
builders in England do not seem to think
the new subsidy bill worth their while
troubling about. Builders are rather
premature in talking about ships which
VIII cross the Atlantic from harbor TO
harbor in five days. do not think that
we can look for over twenty knots an
nour Tor the next ten years. The average
speed now is hardly nineteen. do not
ehlhK That the ocean express service. if
IL ever comes, will mean large boats.
ms means simply question of crowd.
ing all but first class passengers off these
last vessels to make room for bigger en-
glnes and more COAL"