Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-09-22
MISCELLANEOUS.
An Alliance Paper ON senator stanford
Presidential Chances.


Amysterious and fatal disease prevails
among Connecticut COWS.
A new Presbyterian hospital has been
built in New York for $500, 900.
General Miles is talking up parade
of Indians for the Worlds Fair.
The press OF New York still complains
of that city's detestable dirty streets.
A movement is on foot in Texas to
raise monument to General Sam Hous-
ton.
The shipments Of grain from New York
are now averaging 100000 bushels
day.
RailroadeYs OF Nebraska have formed
political organization, and claim 4O,-
900 votes.
The New York navy yard is to have a
new dry dock to cost 100000. twill be
800 feet long.
Many young Englishmen and Ameri-
cans hold commissions in the insurgent
army in Chill.
Neal Dow believes in whipping. He
would apply the Delaware remedy to
Maine rumsellers.
A tar we'll, flowing at rate estimated
at 400 barrels day, has been opened
near Glasgow, KY.
M. Eiffel, the famous tower builder,
denies that he had submitted plans for
tower at the Chicago Worlds Fair.
A Kansas company has been conceded
1000, 900 acres of land in Nicaragua. 1t
will colonize 5000 families and raise cof-
fee.
The engines OF the armored cruiser
Maine, the largest OF the kind ever built
in this country, work well on their first
trial.
1t is the intention OF the Chicago, Bur
lington and Quincy management to push
their lines of steel to Helena and Butte,
Mont.
The Toxic society for the encourage
ment OF Japanese colonization in Amer
lea has decided to establish colony in
California or Canada.
In the last ten years the railroad sys-
tenn in Mexico has increased from 800 to
5000 miles, and fully 1000 additional
miles are contracted for.
Chancellor McGill of New Jersey has
decided that legal advertisements and
other documents in that State published
in any other than the English language
are invalid.
The City Council of Cleveland has
passed an ordinance reducing the price
OF gas from 81 to 60 cents per 900 cubic
feet. The gas companies will fight the
matter in the courts.
Prof. Pickering of Harvard University
does not put faith in the government
rain-making experiments. The leading
meteorologists OF the country, he says
, are not in sympathy with the movement
The harbor of Brunswick, Ca, which
river and harbor bill estimates set down
as in need of s., DOC, 900, has been cleared
. by private contract at ~ comfortable dis
count from those figures. The bill was
$4,000.
The special bicycle service by the
corps of the First Regiment of the Con-
necticut National Guard has received a
complimentary report, and the feature
has been commended to the considera-
: ton OF the war office.
Miss Helen Cloak, a full-biooded In
dian OF the Blackfoot tribe, has been ap-
pointed by Secretary Noble special allot-
ting agent, and has begun her work in
allotting lands to the Tonkawas on the
Nez Perces reservation.
The National Economist on behalf OF
the Farmers Alliance SAYS Senator Stan
ford can never receive the farmers votes
for President or anything else. The only
) thing the two are agreed upon is an in
crease OF currency among the people.
Constantine Ashorgan, young man
in New York who has been millionaire
twice and is now clerking for $40 week
: is in luck again. An uncle in Alexan-
!, dria has died and left him third of his
fortune. Constantine says he will take
care of this one.
The United States Supreme Court.
which will hold term in Washington
) in October, will have many important
questions before it. 1t will pass upon
the legality of the Mckinley law and
also upon the legality OF Speaker Reeds
quorum-counting process.
Numbers of Chinese are arriving in
TINS country, says Rochester dispatch.
by way OF Canada. The plan of their
entrance. is peculiar. They reach the
towns lying along the Canadian border.
ana there ls permanent offer of 800 to
any one who will land them ON United
States soil.