Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-03-28

Grapes from eur Country Vineyard.
Washington National bank, Broad
way, New York, closed Tuesday. One
by one, and day by day, we learn of
hard times.
Mckinley is to be the Republican
nominee for governor of Ohio.
Ex-Speaker Reed has gone to Europe
for pleasure and rest, and many Amer
leans would not weep were he TO stay
there.
Ex-Governor Robinson, of New
York who has been i'll quite a while
has joined the great majority.
DIR. David Jordan, president Of In
diana State University, has accepted
the presidency of the Stanford Uni
versity at Palo Alto, California, with
a yearly salary of $4,000 and resi-
dence free.
james G.. Blaine is suffering from
touch of the govt, but that will not
hinder him from walking of with the
Republican presidential nomination
next year if he wants 1t.
President Harrison will, unquestion-
ably, be a candidate for reelection in
1892, but it is not so certain that he
will be the choice of Idaho Republi-
cans.
The Malta troubles at New Orleans
ought to satisfy our lawmakers OF
the necessity of law forbidding the
immigration of foreign criminal riff
raft to our shores. Unless an emigrant
can obtain certificate of good char
acter from our consuls abroad he
should be kept at home until he can
redeem himself and give proof Of
making a good citizen. The time has
come to close the gates gently.
A SENATORIAL ROMANCE.
PITTsBURG, Pa, March 23.-United
States Senator Shoup, of Idaho, was
the central figure in rather a romantic
incident here last week that has only
just come to light. 1t seems that dur
ing the late war the Shoup family liv-
ed in the south, and the present sena-
tor at the time the trouble began Join
ed the Union army. The other mem
bers Of the family drifted apart, and
one sister came to Allegheny. She
lost trace of the others, and finally be-
lievlng them all to be dead, she mar
ried Alderman Harrington, OF Ale
ghany, who before many years, com
mitted suicide. Later, she married
Councilman MacAfee of Allegheny.
A few months ago she saw the name
of Senator Shoup in the paper, and
thinking he might be a relative, wrote
him, and was pleasantly surprised to
find he was her brother. He had gone
through the war, been governor of
Idaho territory, and later became sen.
ator He has just finished visit to
his sister here, and not only has told
her of two other surviving brothers,
but assured her Of her title to share
in the family estate, amounting to
many thousand dollars.
Judge Milton Kelley, of Boise City,
is lying in a critical condition from a
stroke of paralysis.
BY vote at the Statesman office
la mode the Australian system. Sen
ator Wells Of north Idaho was declar.
ed the most popular man Of the gen
eral assembly.
Boise City is to have free deliv-
cry Of mail matter LIST Of July.
The appropriations of the 51st con-
gress exceeded those of the 50th con-
gress by $190,900,268.
Mayor Shakspeare's wife was stop.
ped on the streets of New Orleans by
Italians and threatened with the de-
struction of her home and family.
Can the citizens Of that city be wrong
|. 10 wiping out that element Of Mafas?
Will any American say-yes?
Chas. T Chickering, the great piano
builder, died Monday evening at his
home in New York. But the CHECKER.
ing make will still go on and hold its
own as the foremost OF pianos.
Freddie Gebhard, Mrs. Langtry's
lover is dangerously i'll in New York.
The legislature did rapid work in
its closing days and in its hast failed
to elect Mr.. DeLamar 9Th United
States Senator. The oversight is I'M
pardonable, and the people will so ex-
press themselve at the next gen raj
election. No member need seek re
election; cause why: He failed 10 vote
for 9Th Senator