Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-06-02
MISCELLANEOUS.
Cinctnnatl's MAYOR BeEina "a Campaign
Against sunday Baseball, hte.

Pence has been restored in Honduras.
The rebellion WAS short-lived.
President Palmer of the Worlds Fair,
it is thought, will be sent as Minister to
China.
A large amount Of railroad building in
West Virginia is promised during the
next six months.
A movement to establish a fund for
disabled or retired government employees
is on foot in New York city.
1t is estimated by the health authori-
ties that 100000 persons in New York
suffered from the grip in April.
The Mayor of Cincinnati has begun a
campaign against Sunday ball-playing
and the opening of saloons and theaters
on Sunday.
The new styles OF postal cards have
been printed at the factory at Birming-
ham. Conn. They are considered inn
provements on the old style.
A federation of railroad employees has
been formed in st. Louis, representing
50 900 men. The body is opposed to the
reelection OF Chief Engineer Arthur.
Though she doesn't say much about it,
Philadelphia has Grant monument
fund. and will some day erect an appro-
pirate statue. The sum is now S22 900.
AT a temperance revival which has
lust closed at Linneus, Mo-, over 800
persons signed the total abstinence
pledge, and two clubhouses were closed
There is not worc4of truth in the re-
port that coke operators in Pennsylvania
are keeping some OF their new men in
the mines and not letting them come to
the surface.
There is to be little congress of
Southern writer's the last week IN July,
which, it is hoped, will do not little to
stimulate and help Characterize the liter
AZURE of the South.
Last October nine women were APP
pointed station agents on the elevated
railways of Brooklyn. They have been
so successful that the management will
appoint many more.
A Toronto tea company sends girls to
establishments where numbers of persons
are employed to give them tea at noon;
it also distributes cups OF tea to the au-
dlence at one of the theaters.
General O. o. Howard is busily en-
gagged in mission work on the east side
of New York. He has secured chapel
on Elizabeth street, and has raised SIS,
900 to $2l 900 needed to pay for it.
The twelve-inch gun with a range OF
ten miles, which is now being made at
Waterville, n. Y, will be finished this
summer. The weight of the powder
charge for the monster is 400 pounds.
A. J. Kruse Of Bellefonte, Pa, who
was expelled from the Naval Academy
for refusing to divulge the names of
party whom he found hazing compan-
ion, has been readmitted through APP
pointment by Congressman Kribbs.
Some indignant citizens of Marion
county, Ark, few days ago seized two
Mormon Elders, who were canvassing
for converts, and after giving them Sc
we're foggings rode them two miles to
the county line on rails and drove them
away.
A horse thief who had been captured
by Texas Constable overpowered the
latter while on the way to Jail. hand
cuffed him to a wire fence. robbed him
of $40, traded hats with him, took his
horse, wished him good-day and rode
away serenely.
A memorial has been presented to the
Pope that Catholic Bishops in the United
States nominate priests to look after inn
migrants of the Catholic faith who do
not know the languages spoken by the
immigrants. and thus the church loses
many OF its subjects.
| Attorney General Miller has appointed
Henry Gage of California special Assist
ant United States Attorney for the
southern district of California, to assist
in the prosecution OF the owners, officers
and crew of the schooner Robert and
Minnie, charged with violating the neu-
trality laws.
Charles Mankins and his father, George
Mankins, have been held at Hollister.
Cal, on the charge of arson. Young
Mankins was recently arrested for set
ting fire to the house of William Kelly.
Manklns at the time confessed, and said
he was ordered to do the deed by his
father
The Italian Consul, Corte, at New Or.
leans charged that the cammittee of fifty
appointed by the Mayor Immediately
after the killing of Hennessy was zap
pointed for political purpose, the kill
ing of the prisoners" The committee
will make report in detail, which will
be the grounds for the demand that the
Italian Consul at New Orleans be recalled.
The treaty convention with Spain pro-
yldes for the free entry into the United
states OF sugar, honey, cocoa, coffee and
skins from the Spanish West Indies, to-
bacce and iron ore paying the duty ex-
acted by the United States tariff. In
exchange Spain's colonies in the West
Indies are to receive American coal, ice,
wood, boots, shoes, fresh and sailed
meats and fish, either free or under a
small duty, while butter and drippings
are entirely exempt, and the duty on
flour is reduced from So 80 to so cents
per barrel, with the same reduction on
corn.