Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-07-24
EASTERN ITEMS.
The Total Coinage Of the
Minis During June.
ILLINOIS MINES SHUT DOWN.
A United States Judge Renders a De-
eision Adverse to the Cherokee
Title to the Strip.
ILLINOIS MINES SHUT DOWN.

All pool rooms have been ordered
closed in New York.
Boston policemen now carry their
clubs in their pockets.
a pearl-button factory has begun ope-
rations at Muscatine, la.
The total coinage of the mints during
June amounted to "a $50, 1850.
Prof. lie Baron Russell Briggs has as
sumed his duties at Harvard College
Illinois has passed law prohibiting
the employment of children under Is.
Chicago talks OF erecting a theater
into which only people in full dress can
go.
Sidewalk distractions promise to be
made the subject OF vigorous fight at
Chicago.
A company to establish labyrinths as
form of amusement is to be formed in
the East.
The constitutionality OF Missouri's
new ti-pool-room law is to be tested at
st. Louis.
A new association in Kansas is ar
ranging to fight foreclosures of farm
mortgages.
Allotment of lands to the Iowa Indi-
ans in Oklahoma Territory has been
completed.
There is no truth in the rumor that
yellow fever has made its appearance at
Brunswick, Ga.
Chicago is to have another electric
railway, and one of its present suburban
lines is to be extended
Railroad building for the first half of
1891 falls slightly short of that for the
corresponding period of 1890.
has taken Pennsylvania place as leader
in the annual output of iron ore.
Hurrah for the new flag with forty
four stars, each star the symbol of peace,
prosperity and liberty among self-gov-
erning people.
The opposition papers in Canada say
chat President Van Horne of the Cana
dian Pacific is practically the ruler OF
the Dominion.
The officials of the Worlds Fair have
given the Illinois Central railroad a mo-
nopoly of carrying people to the Expo
sition grounds.
BY decision of the Supreme Court OF
Texas the State will recover title to over
100000 acres OF land improperly pat
ented to railroad companies.
The gas company OF Cincinnati has
constructed the second largest gas holder
in the United States. 1t has a capacity
OF 1900, 900 cubic feet of gas.
The annual report OF the Eastern Pen
itentiary of Pennsylvania shows that
last year slXty-eight criminals sent to
that institution had relatives there.
The consolidated coal mines in the
Collinsville coal district Of Illinois have
closed down, and between 800 and 400
miners are thrown out of employment
The finding OF a lump Of metal sup
posed to be gold on the farm of John A.
Wright near huntsville, Ind, has caused
considerable excitement in the neigh bor-
hood.
In Difference to the prohihitionists of
Maine the government has ordered that
liquor seized in the State for violation of
the revenue laws shall be taken to Bos-
ton for sale.
1t will cost S9,47S, 517 to run the city
Of Brooklyn during 1892 This is at the
rate OF Sll Tor every man, woman and
child in the city. The rate in San Fran
cisco is over $25.
Extensive deposits of onyx have been
discovered near Marion, Smyth county,
Va. -Four openings are reported to have
been made so far. The stone is said to
be of excellent quality.
United States District Judge Seav has
rendered decision adverse to the Cher
"a ii "a al a min l.,
ally sustained, virtually eXtinguishas all
rights OF the Cherokees to those lands.
Negro exhibitors are to have $4,000
square feet OF space at the Southern Elk
position soon to open at Raleigh, N. c.,
in which to make manifest somewhat OF
the races progress during the last TWEEN
ty-tye years.
Ii is stated upon good authority. and
it is currently believed in naval circles
at WASHINGTON, that Secretary Tracy
will soon apply ciyil-seryice rules also to
the mechanics; in short, to all persons
employed in the navy yards.
The big dam on the Housatonic river
in Connecticut, which was swept away
by freshet in January last, is being re.
placed 10y new structure Csc feet long.
- feet high and slightly curved in plan.
The cost will be about $500, goo.
The Bank of Commerce Of Sheffield.
Ala, has closed its doors, having as
signed. The failure was caused by that
II Moses Bros bank in Montgomery.
the two Institutions being closely allied.
Assets and liabilities are unknown.
The bill passed by Congress provides
that the buildings erected at Chicago
for the Worlds Columbian Exposition
shall be formally dedicated October -. /
1892, and that the exposition itself shall
be opened not later than May |, 1898.
The prohibitionists will be sorry to
learn that in Iowa, notwithstanding the
strict prohibitory law, the sales of beer
for the twelve months ended with April |
80 amounted to los, 945 barrels. gain of |
1867 barrels over the previous twelve
William Lane Booker, the Consul-Gen- 1
eral of Great Britain at the city OF New
FORK, has submitted trade report to
his government. Mr.. Booker is enthusi- |
astic over the general prosperity" of /
in America, and speaks |
of the great benefit" Of the |
influences OF the new and higher duties. !
A New York paper figures out that
the net result OF naturalization in the |
last decade has been to add 1913 900 to
its voting population, made up Of 4. 43 |
Germans and German Poles. -, 266 Irish. |
Ii, 494 Russians and Austrians, 5.6O3
English and Scotch, 4,725 Italians, the
balance being credited to other nations
than those mentioned.