Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-05-12
Trunk Lines Boycott the
Chicago and Alton.
NEW Y0RK'S DIVES CLOSED.
Cornell Students Elect Bob Ingersoll t.
Make the Annual Address, But
the Faculty Vetoes 1t.

The New York police have been or
dered to "close the dives"
A big soldiers reunion will be held at
New York July next.
New Hampshire has adopted the Aus
tralian ballot system of voting
A whole family has been arrested at
Topeka for mailing obscene letters.
Many horses have died at Red Bank,
n. j., of disease similar to the grip.
Anna Dickinson has written to George
Francis Train, who sympathizes with
her.
The steamer Olympia from Palermo
has just landed 400 Sicilans at New Or
leans.
At the close of its first year of high
license Baltimore pronounces the system
success.
Mexico will send the finest specimens
of various kinds of woods to the Chicago
Exposition.
New York BOOKSELLER has been SEN
fenced to pay 81 900 fine and spend three
months in jail.
Mayor-elect Rose of Cleveland is said
to be so annoyed by officeseekers that he
has fled the city.
Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia has
forbidden Catholics to bury relatives or
friends on Sunday.
In nearly every instance the women
candidates for School Commissioners
were defeated this spring in Missouri.
A party of 300 impoverished Central
Kansas settlers have left for Topolobam-
pc, the Socialist colony on the west coast
OF Mexico.
The Baltimore and Ohio road has Sc
cured number of new and powerful en-
gines, said to be the finest and swiftest
ever built.
Tennessee is growing little restless
over the thought that her Legislature adj
Journed without appropriating for the
Worlds Fair.
Five hundred immigrants have landed
at Halifax, and are coming into the
United States by rail to avoid the new
immigration law.
Delaware's new tramp labor bill pro-
vldes that all tramps in Delaware NAV
be set to work for sixty days breaking
stones and mending roads.
There is bill still pending in the Leg
lslature at Springfield providing for APP
preparation of $500, 900 for the Illinois
exhibit at the Worlds Fair.
Treasury locks are to be placed on Ca
madam goods in transit through the
United States, and the use of Consular
seals is to be done away with.
President Harrison has appointed Hall
q. Parker (colored) of Missouri to be an
alternate Commissioner at large to the
Worlds Columbian Exposition.
The new Constitution of Kentucky. |
framed by the convention which has lust |
adjourned, forbids members of the Legis- |
lature from accepting railroad passes.
A bill was reported in the Massachu-
setts Senate one day last week authoriz- |
ing the city of Boston to borrow So. 5OO.-
900 outside of debt limit as park loan.
The officers OF the Alton road profess
to be cheerful in the face of the trunk
me boycott, but add that it may not be
long before they will have to slash rates.
Petitions have been filed at Ottawa to
unseat Sir Adolphe Caron, Minister of
Militia, and Sir Hector Langevin, Minis
ter OF Public Works, for corrupt prac-
tees.
The captains of the various fire-engine
houses in Cincinnati have received strict
orders to put stop to the custom fol-
lowed by policemen of sleeping in en-
CINE houses.
4 sensational article in New York
paper says Mrs Leslie Carter and David
Belasco have gone to Europe together.
1t is claimed by others the trip is only
business one.
The Committee on Territories will
probably not visit Alaska, as authorized
to do by Congress. The question of the I,
proper government to give Alaska has
not yet been decided.
The United States District Court at
omaha has decided that the South Omaha
1--we Stock Exchange has the right to
prohibit parties not members of the ex-
'hange from selling stock at the yard.
The life-saving service along the New q
Jersey coast has been crippled by the i'll
less OF many of the men on duty. The
eport along the entire shore front from
ape May to Sandy Hook shows that the
rip and rheumatism are general. I
The great horse Tenny is considered
ut of all danger of breakdown, ami
ls lameness is fast disappearing. There g,
now little doubt that he will be in .
acing condition this summer, and there y
! hope that he will be able to start in Z
ne SUBURBAN.
The first official act of the new Mayor -
Philadelphia, MIR. Stuart, was to give !
olicemen ten days in which to withdraw II
ON all campaign and political commit Z
,es OF which they may be members. e
Hereafter they are to keep out of politics
n pain of instant dismissal. L
The impeachment trial OF Judge The 4
lore Botkin of the Thirty-second Judi f.
al District of Kansas has begun by the "
ansas State Senate. The charges are =.
oppressive and malicious a. !
ouse Of judicial authority, wililul and y
alicious partiality, corruption and mis- 81
,nduct. a
The Mormons OF Utah under the lead
ship OF John w. Young did not pur
lase the 100000 acres of land in the z,
ate OF chihuahua, Mexico Young's +
flowers had an option on the land for a a
lree months, but at the expiration of y
lat time failed to come forward with
Efficient funds. II
The members of the senior class of the W
hoOl of law at Cornell University are -
ghly indignant over the recent action 81
the faculty in vetoing a decision of
e class to invite Colonel Robert G. In ii
rsoll to deliver the annual address be- tt
re the students school of law during Jl
week. st
Cuba seems destined to supplant Rer- ri
uda as the truck garden for the Allan
; Coast OF this country. Her potatoes 10
ID onions have already taEa,, ,,,,.o. ! 20,