Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-06-02
The Illinois House Passes
an Anti Trust Bill.
GRAIN CROP IN NORTHWEST
The Melting Shows Put Many of the
Streams That Flow Into the
Rio Grande Bank Full.
The Illinois House has passed an anti

been fixed at 81 900, an advance of 500
over the previous year.
A decision OF the Treasury Department
is to the effect that bees are animals for
the purpose OF levying duty.
Reports from all sections in the North
western States show the grain crop to be
in very hattering condition.
Divers are searching for springs in the
bed of the Delaware river in order to
supply Camden with fresh water.
1t is reported that there is Il greater
acreage of wheat in the Northwest Ter
ritory this season than ever before.
A monument is to be erected to the
memory of the victims of the food at
Johnstown, Pa. 1t will cost $4,000
The MAY disbursements in New York
for State, county and municipal and gov
ernment are estimated at 900, 900.
A safe used in the Castle Garden office
of the New York immigration authori-
ties was sold at public auction the other
day, and brought 81.
The Secretary OF the Interior within a
few days will appoint an agent to super
intend experimental irrigation in nri-
IONA, Montana and Nevada.
According to charges made against
certain active workers in the Scranton
City Council $500 is the current quota
ton for vote in that body.
The melting SHOWS have put many of
the streams that flow into the Rio
Grande bank full, and the bordering
lowlands are covered with water.
The Chicago Historical Society has
placed memorial tablet on the house
on De Koven street occupying the site
where the great fire of 1871 started.
The Journal Of Finance says that the
dividends which the sugar trust is prom
Using for July will be per cent. on the
common and 10 per cent. on the pre-
! ferred.
A lighted cigarette carelessly thrown
into a pile of hay caused fire that de-
| stroyed the stables of the Austin Tex
Street Car Company, together with
twenty-five cars and thirty-four mules.
The United States Marshal has sent
deputies to Coomescowie district, Cher
oket' Nation, to make wholesale arrests
of the negroes who obstructed the In
dian officers. Serious difficulty is antic-
ipated.
movement in its incipiency in Vir-
ginia has for its object the removal from
Baltimore to Richmond of the body of
the late General Joseph +. Johnston.
The illustrious Confederate was a Nir-
ginian born.
The Secretary of the Treasury has had
Il careful examination made OF the GUS
tom-houses in the chief seaports, and
thinks that an appreciate saving can be
made by cutting off number of offices
that are not Indispensable
The Prescott National Bank of Lowell,
| Mass, has placed an attachment on the
property of General Butler for $4,000.
The money consideration was given
about four years ago on a personal note,
which the bank discounted.
Ex-Surgeon-Genera Hammond has
begun suit against the New York II0rld'S
Washington correspondent, the said cor
respondent having stated that DR.. Ham
mond had charged Mrs. Stanford So 900
for removing wen from her head.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed in Columbus for long-distance tel
ephole company for the purpose of CON
structing and operating lines from Gin
cinnati to Cleveland, Detroit, Buffalo,
New York and other Eastern cities.
Hon. Thomas l.. Waller. Vice Presi-
dent of the National Worlds Fair Com
mission, has been declared Chief of the
/ Department of Foreign Affairs, head
quarters to be in London, with branch
| bureaus in other European capitals.
The New York Lumber Trade Assoca-
! ton, representing all the big lumber
dealers in the city, decided not to de-
liver lumber to any building in the city
until the boycott which the lumber han
| dIers have put on Charles l.. Bucki 4
/ Co. is raised.
| The FiRGHcier notes that out Of total
of 1867 national banks which reported
to the Controller of the Currency their
condition last October 269 have each a
surplus and undivided profits equal to or
exceeding its capital. That is about p
per cent. of the entire number.
The appointment OF Walter S. Max
well OF California Chief OF the Horti-
cultural Department of the Worlds Fair
has been referred to a special committee
OF the directory to investigate the charges
OF incompetency preferred against him
and to report at the next meeting.
At New Orleans the grand jury replied
to the recent letter of the Italian Consul
Corte, saying: 1--WE find the tenor of
your communication not consistent with
the official dignity OF this body, and we
are therefore constrained to return the
document without further comment"
The suit in the United States Court at
Philadelphia against Patton & Co. to re-
cover additional duties on imported wool
has ended in a verdict in favor OF the
government. The jury held that the
wool in question was broken up in Eng
land for the purp Sc of evading the
higher duty in this country.
The National Express Company, which
has heretofore had no lines west of But
falo, has completed an arrangement bv
which it will secure offices in Chicago
and Milwaukee. 1t has gained this foot
hold through combination with the
Northern Pacific Express Company, and
both companies will have a coast-to-
coast service.
Thomas A. Edison says he has a nov
city in view for the Worlds Fair, al
though the details are yet hazv. His
intention Is to have combination OF
photography and electricity, so that
man can sit III his own parlor and see
depicted on a curtain the forms of play
ers in an opera or drama on distant
stage and hear the voices OF the perform
ers.
The Land Department at Washington
has been informed by batch Of letters
received that the Register ard Receiver
of the Visalia (Cal.) land office had un-
necessarily been delaying action on 800
entries made in that district The charge