Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-05-19
Crusade Begun Against
Tights at New York.
EXPORTS OF MERCHANDISE.
The Havemeyer Sugar Company to be
Prosecuted by Census Bureau
for Refusal of information.


est tunnel.
The New York State Farmers Allianc,
has been organized.
A yellow-fever-infected steamer ha
arrived at New York from Rio Janeiro
Senator Brice will be required to pay
back taxes and penalty on his Ohio prop
erty valued at 100000.
Land Commissioner Carter has ap
pointed as his private secretary George
o. Freeman of Montana.
Representatives of Texas cities recent
| ly met at Waco to discuss ways ant
means for inducing immigration.
The Northern Pacific has ordered $3.50,
COG worth of new rolling stock to meet
the increasing business of that road.
| The Supreme Court of the United
States has postponed the hearing in the
Sayward and lottery cases until October
! 10.
1t is stated Il gigantic financial deal is
in progress at Chicago, which involves q
large expenditure OF money near Salt
Lake.
The Governor of Texas has appointed
Mr.. Chiffon, a brilliant orator, United
States Senator in place of Senator Reagan
resigned.
Week before last more people died in
Washington City than during any former
week of the capitals history. La grippe
is blamed.
The Wisconsin House of Representa-
tives has indefinitely postponed bill re-
ducing passenger rates on railroads to
cents per mile.
1t is announced that the Haytian gov
eminent has refused to grant the United
States lease for the proposed coaling
station at the Mole st. Nicholas.
The Havemeyer Sugar Company OF
New York will be prosecuted by the Cen
sus Bureau for refusal of information.
Other prosecutions are contemplated.
1t seems that Jose p. Macheca, the
leading spirit of the Italians who were
Iynched at New Orleans, was the Consul
for Bolivia at the time OF his death.
To reduce expenses the PENNSYLVANIA
Company is doing away with all unnec-
essary telephones. In this direction a
saving OF $4,000 per annum is expected.
The International Convention of the
Young Women's Christian Association
in session at Scranton, Pa, has elected
Mrs. j. V. Farwell of Chicago President.
A track OF 1000 acres of land on the
road leading from Millvlle to Dividing
creek, Cumberland county, Pa, has been
purchased for another Hebrew settle
ment.
The mysterious disappearance of Miss
Lena Owen, a beautiful sixteen-year-old
orphan girl from the home of her aunt
at Des Arc, Ark, has caused sensation
in that section.
Anthony Comstock has begun cru
SADIE at New York against tights. His
aim is to prohibit the sale of pictures Of
scattily attired actresses. He is seeking
legislative action.
Fourteen thousand dollars have been
contributed and pledged toward the Sal
walton Army memorial building to be
erected in New York city in honor of the
late Mrs. General Booth.
A mammoth building, probably the
largest piece of warehouse property in
the country, is being erected by the Ter
minal Improvement Company in New
York. Twenty-six elevators will be used.
1t is understood at Ottawa the SNUG
Cling of Chinese from Canadian to Amer
lean territory is at present subject of
diplomatic correspondence between the
imperial and United States governments.
A Union Pacific authority states that
there will be no more periodical dis
charges like those in vogue during the
Adams regime, but that all departments
would be increased and so maintained.
A Chicago paper says that as result
# a in hot 4 10
millers OF Q country have formed n
combination to take the place of the oat
meal trust, which went to pieces a wear
ago.
The Treasury Department has awarded
the contract for the public carriage of du-
table merchandise at the port of San
Francisco to Max Pepper, the lowest bid
der. Mr.. Pepper is the present con
tractor.
The neutrality-suspicious. officials of
New York appear to be perfectly salts
fed with the sanitary condition of the
city despite the fact that the newspapers
there print from three to five columns OF
death notices daily.
The decoration of an officer of the Or
der OF Bolivar has just been conferred
upon Frank Vincent, traveller and inyes-
tigator, by the Republic of Venezuela in
of his varied and valuable
services to the literature of travel
The Ohio Farmers Alliance declares
Tor a uniform system of school books |
the Australian system of ballot, reduc- |
ion of railroad rates to 2 cents a mile
md the taxation of real estate at its as.
'essed value, less mortgage Indebtedness
Mrs. J. G. Blaine, Jr., is at Sioux Falls
She has gone to South Dakota to secure n |
livorce from her husband, J. G. Blaine |
~ who is at present in Spain. Seventy
lays residence and siXty-eight DAYS of |
are required in South Da-
tota.
The exports of merchandise from the
United States for the twelve months
'nded March 81 were 1872, Ol0, 377; i'm
'orts, 1928, 63l, APO. During March, the
,old exports exceeded the imports bv
a, 54l ,566, and the silver exports ex.
'eeded the imports by 81, 02l ,572.
The Michigan Senate in committee of
he whole has agreed to the bill provid
ng for the election of Presidential Elect
rs by Congressional districts. Under
his bill it will be possible for the Pa
rons of Industry to have two or three
representatives in the next Electoral Col
eye.
The reports to the Treasury Depart
nent show that the number of immi
rants arriving at the port of San Fran
isco is steadily on the increase. During
he month OF March there were 52172,
gainst 35, $50 during the corresponding
Month of last year; S6,04S during the