Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
An Epitome of the Happenings of
Two Hemisphere.
What is Transporting at the Capital of
the United States-0ther Very
Interesting News.
Indiana's Prohibition League has dis

Indiana's Prohibition League has dis
banded.
United States Senator Vest has been
renominated by the Democrats of the
Missouri Legislature.
Talmages new tabernacle still has
some financial straits. A contractor
lien of $76,G45 is the cause of the trou-
BILE.
A strong flow of sulphur water, said
to be of great medicinal value has been
struck at Paoli, Ind, at depth of 225
feet.
Government land in nearly all but the
newest States is getting pretty scarce,
but there is still nearly 5,000,000 acres of
it in Arkansas.
Some owners OF property in Topeka
are glad to get people to live in their
houses without paying rent, so that they
may keep the property insured.
James =. Scott, son OF Thomas A.
Scott, late President of the Pennsylvania
railroad, proposes by way of experiment
to plant ,000 acres of rice near Kissimee,
Fla.
The number of deaths reported in
New York during the year 1890 aggre-
gate 40,230. This makes the death rate
24.06 for every 1000 of the estimated
population.
Philadelphia gains member OF Con-
gress under the new apportionment, and
the old Randall district will be eimi-
mated from the town map iii the reap
portionment.
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white population of the South has in
creased over 26 per cent. in the last ten
years, while the colored population has
increased only 10 per cent.
The Chicago City Counsel was in
structed by vote of the Aldermen to take
steps toward quo warranto proceedings
against the several gas companies that
have gone into the gas trust.
The Northwestern Masonic Aid Asso-
citation, whose headquarters are at Chi
cago, has been notified to cease doing
business in Canada unless it puts up the
1000, 900 required by the statutes.
The wages of the agents and telegraph
operators on the Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul road were recently reduced
about Is per cent. The men threaten to
obiihN uhiOoS tiio N"BNo hie iSStoicu
A pair of moose are to be broken to
harness in South Sioux Falls, S. ID. 1t
is expected to drive them in Sioux Falls
until the opening of the Worlds Fair,
when they will be taken to Chicago
A 100000 900 mortgage given by the
M lwaukee Street Railway Company to
the Central Trust Company in New York
has been recorded in Milwaukee. 1t
covers all the Willard interests in the
latter city.
General Miles has probably the largest
force operating against the Indians that
has been brought together in one cam
paign since the war-twelve regiments
of infantry, five of cavalry and about
half a regiment of artillery.
The government has decided to re-
move the distractions to navigation in
the Niagara river, so as to make n chan
mel eighteen feet deep between the
mouth of the river and Tonawanda, n.
Y, instead of twelve and oue-half feet
as ii is now. The contract has been let
and work will be begun this week.
The accep ed belief among physicians
that consumption is contagious ratl err
than hereditary has caused the New
York State Board of Health to discuss
seriously the ACCESSIBILITY of putting con-
sumptive patients into strict quarantine,
or, at least, OF enacting and enforcing
health laws relating to the disease.
In the Mayors Court at Anthony, Fla,
a few days ago lad for violation of an
ordinance was fined So The Court
granted the boys mother the privilege
of paving the fine or whining the lad
in open court. She accepted the latter,
and the Mayor had to check her to pre-
vent an unmerciful whipping.
A bill has been introduced in Congress
for the extension of the Executive Man
sion in accordance with plan proposed
by Mrs Harrison. 1t is to embrace the
present mansion as the private residence
of the Executive, enlarged by the addi-
ton of an executive office or official wing
on the west, and public wing, or gal
lery of pictures historic relics and art
treasures on the east, both to he counter
parts of the original structure