Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-02-19
EASTERN ITEMS.
Our Exports are Said to
be Growing.
MICHIGAN'S STATE PRISONS.
Salt Mined Like Coal or Quatz in New
York-Beer Drawn From
Clock in tho Hub.

Ilock IN tho Huu.
A trust has been formed OF the four
teen rice mills Of New Orleans.
Henry Dowd, the New York "slasher,"
has been committed to the State Insane
Asylum.
Everywhere this winter ii is noted
that the mortality among aged people is
phenomenal.
General Raum asks for an appropria-
ton for pensions for the next fiscal year
Of $l44, 1866, 900.
The city OF Galveston, Tex, will soon
have forty miles OF completed electric
street railways.
There are said to be sixty-seven vet
Grams OF the war OF 1912 now alive in
the United States.
The Kentucky Legisla ure is to be
asked to appropriate 100000 for a
Worlds Fair exhibit.
On Chicago lot, b0x92la feet in area,
the Hartford Safe Deposit Company will
erect fourteen-story building.
Amilk trust has developed in Chicago,
anu ttft lntCStOIH udtG UcCH tDln
that the stock has been watered.
Michigan's three State prisons at Jack
son, Ionia and Marquette earned $52, 900
more than their expenses last year.
A st. Louis woman has opened an Of
flee for the cure of afflicted minds,
Cranks, fanatics, bigots and agnostics."
The frontage OF the buildings con-
strueted last year in Chicago is stated to
have been equal to about fifty four miles.
The Maryland Court OF Appeals has
just decided that a memorandum in the
leaf Of family Bible is legal bequest
Railroads cannot handle Ill the grain
and shippers at Baltimore are consignine
cargoes to Philadelphia to insure ship
ment.
A Pennsylvania insane asylum super
intendent reports that eight out of every
ten OF his inmates are add ted to writ
ing verses.
The single item of correspondence b,
telegraph in regard to CHILEAN matters
has entailed very large outlay, amount
ing probably to $4,000.
Twenty South Dakota counties are ex
pected to accept the offer OF Kansas
rain making company TO supply rair
next summer at $500 county.
st. Paul and Minnesota fruit mer
chants have combined, and fruit broker
and other middlemen between the JOB
Der and producer will be shut out.
| A very rich strike in the Jackpot min,
at Creole, COL, has increased the popu
lation from 1000 to $500 in two weeks
The rush for locations ia a mad one.
Mrs. Potter Palmer will go to Mexic,
and work Mrs. Diaz and the other WON
en- Of Mexico up to the proper pitch 0
cooperation in the Worlds Fair work.
Henry ii. Yard, charged with aidinI
and abetting G deon w. Marsh, the III
gitive ex-President OF tie Keyston
Bank at Philadelphia, is under arrest
| Police officers hunting for illegal liquo
sellers in Boston found in house, wher
they had previously been baffled, a bee
faucet in working order within the doc
of tall clock.
1t is thought that the movement t.
make the salary OF the Governor of Mas
sachusetts (who gets 80 900 Year, equa
will be successful.
Clara Barton, President of the Anne,
lean Branch OF the Red Gross Society
has appealed to the American people 70
$75, 000 to pay the expenses of shippin
the grain contributed to Russia.
Exports keep on growing. Each mont
OF the last three or four has beaten al
former records. The total sales of on
merchandise abroad in Decembe
reached the immense sum OF $l20,0O0
900.
Ferdinand Ward, the ex-Napoleon c
finance who wrecked the firm of Gran
X Ward, will be free man in shor
time His term in Sing Sing will 500
expire. Ward has learned the printers
trade in prison.
Salt is mined like coal or quartz q
Retsof, Livingstone county, N. Y. Their
are two shafts in the mine, each l,02
feet deep. The vein of solid salt no,
worked is thirty feet thick, while belo,
it is another vein forty ieet thick.
The suit of the Kaiser Gold Mimi
Company (limited) OF London aeains
ex-senator Tabor, which has been o
trial in the United States District Cour
at Denver during the past week, ha
g ded with a verdict OF $l6, l2o agains
Tabor.
A dam for irrigation purposes is bein
erected at the head OF the Chowchill
river, Col. 1t will be ITO feet high an
800 feet long on top. When completes
the reservoir will cover 200 acres an,
furnish enough water to irrigate owe
40, 200 acres.
The monthly pay roll of the coal CON
| Ia, e a 4,
iamsburg, COL, and of the Florence OF
companies aggregates $S5, 900. This req
resents but a small per cent. OF Cole
radios coal and oil industries, which ar
quite prosperous, owing to the absenc
of strikes.
A quarry of the peculiar limeston
used SO extensively in photographic work
and which at present is obtained onl
in Germany. has recently been discoy
cred in buchanan county, la. As tn
demand is 80 great and the present sup
ply limited, the find will undoubtedl
prove a rich one.
II was stated at the meeting of tn
National Board OF Trade at Washington
that there were unquestionable indica
tions that the United States was fast be
coming the center OF the worlds pap
trade, and claim was made that pape
making had the third place In the man
uiacturing industries.
Frederick W. Vanderbilt has recovere
possession OF his British built steam
yacht Conqueror, seized by Collecto
Fasseit for non-payment of duties. Tn
decision is to the effect the vessel is no
an imported article" subject TO duties
and holds that Vanderbilt is entitled +
a decree for possession of the yacht, witt