Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-10-02
Skeletons Of Prehistoric
People Found.
SUICIDE MANIA OF AGNOSTICS
Chicago Win Have to Modify the Plans
Made for the Worlds Fair
Buildings, Etc.

date with st. Paul.
Carloads Of diseased Chicago cattle
have been seized at Buffalo.
The Grady monument will be unveiled
at Atlanta, Ga, October 81.
There il something over 80, 900 natives
OF Switzerland in and around New York.
G. +. Huntington is 10 complete the
Middle and East Tennessee railroad
within sixty days.
A company to insure tobacco planters
against loss by hail is one OF the latest
schemes in Connecticut.
The house at Appomattox, Va, in
which General Lee surrendered to Gem
eral Grant has been sold for 1000.
Canada has sent hut 10000 sheep TO
Great Britain during the year Just ended,
as compared with A., 900 for the year be-
fore.
A landlords association has been
formed in Boston for the purpose Of mu-
tual protection against Objectionable ten
ants.
The organ in the music room Of the
residence OF the late Mrs. Hopkins
Searle at Great Darlington, Mass, cost
100000.
So great is the homeward rush of
American tourists that many of them
are unable to find passage on returning
steamers.
1t is said that the smuggling OF Chi
nese into this country has been recently
accelerated by the price having risen to
800 per head.
Cleveland has passed law reducing
the price OF gas to 90 cents per 900 feet
and giving the city All option on the gas
works at any time.
Judgments aggregating $l4, 926 against
Alexander Hermann, the magician, have
Just been entered in the County Clerks
office at New York.
The trade and commerce OF Charles
ton, S. c., last year amounted to $685.
55I, 7is, a net increase OF $17 1886 ,00l over
the preceding year.
Thomas Delany of Albany, aged 10.
thought nothing of smoking five or six
packages OF cigarettes day. His funeral
took place the other day.
Judgments aggregating $l50,000 have
been filed against Adam Backer, the
commercial note broker of New York,
who assigned August last.
Counsel for Joseph A. Davidson of
New York has obtained an attachment
against the Mexican National Railway
Company upon claim for $l05,900.
Oklahoma is hardly year old as a
Territory, and yet we are told that the
question OF admitting it to Statehood
will come before Congress this winter.
Chicago Odd Fellows are to erect a
thirty -four story building. The structure
from ground to dome will be $50 feet,
and ii Is TO be completed by the fall of
1892.
According to statistics gathered by
charitable organizations throughout the
country there are 5000, 900 people wholly
or partly dependent upon charity every
year in the United States.
Two thousand men, mostly French
Canadians, employed in the saw mills at
Ottawa have struck for reduction of
one and half hours work per day and
an increase of so cents in wages per
week.
A mound containing skeletons OF pre-
historic people has been discovered on
farm near Carthage, Ill., The skeletons
lay IN all conceivable positions, and are
supposed to be those of warriors who fell
in battle.
The Texas railway employees have pc
titioned the State Railway Commission
ers against the sweeping reductions in
freight rates, urging that any material
reduction means corresponding reduc-
ton in their wages,
Chief officer Thompson of the Orange
FRINGE has been presented with hand
some gold medal on behalf of the Presi-
dent OF the United States as reward
Tor rescuing the crew of the American
ship Amanda c. Parker in January last.
On the Cheyenne and Arrapahoe In
tlan reservations in the Indian Territory
for nearly one week the Indians have
been holding dances. From the result
Of that and from eating melons, both
green and ripe, fully fifty of them died,
and scores more are very sick.
An order has been issued by Secretary
Tracy which forhcdes the breaking-up of !
the White squadron. 1t was directed to |
The chiefs of the bureaus, and ordered |
hem TO prepare the Yorktown for sery- |
zee on the Pacitic station and the Petrol |
or service on the Asiatic station.
\ suicide mania has taken possession |
u the aged members of an agnostic cir !
lie IN bradford, Pa, which was founded |
~ the late DIR. Stuart, who himself led |
he way by taking his own life. Since /
hen three other members of the circle |
nave tried TO kill themselves, aud two |
nave succeeded
Chicago will have to modify the plans
made Tor the Worlds Fair buildings and
grounds or face serious financial diff.
ulty. The estimated cost of getting the
how ready TO open is SIS, 000, 900. This
$ too much, even though the govern
nent should he induced 10 contribnte
5000, 900 outright.
Congress at its last session authorized
he recoinage OF the uncurrent fractional
DIN now in the treasury abraded below
he unit OF tolerance, and made an an
'ropriation of fl5o.0o0 TO cover the loss
o the coin by the abrasion. This sum.
is estimated, will cover the loss on
bout $1,000, 600 of coin, and this amount
: nov being coined into quarter dollars
md dimes, Tor which there is yer,
reat demand. The recoinage into stand.
nj silver dollars OF the s., 600. 900 trade
oiiars bullion, which the last Congress
uthorized. is also in progress.
Senior Celso Balsar Mareno. a well
nown Italian American residing AZ
Nash,ngton and acting rs an agent in
his country of the National party of Us-
'all, corresponding to the CHILEAN Con
ress'onaiists, has laid before the Presi-
ent letter he recently received from q
in Honolulu, asserting
.nsland is now planning TO take posses ,
ION of the Kingdom. The writer said
aat some action on the part of the