Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-07-08
The Gambling Spirit Pervades
New Orleans, La.
NUMBER OF DIVORCES GRANTED
The International typographical Union in
Session at Philadelphia Repeats
the 5o.Hour Law.


increasing rapidly.
A mountain OF red paint has been dis
covered near Denver.
Michigan crop reports indicate big
yield OF grain and fruits.
Judge Tourgee predicts . massacre by
negroes in the next ten years.
Newfoundland lie rejoicing over the
catching OF 40O, 900 seals by her fleet this
season.
Arrangements have been made for the
electrical illumination OF Niagara Falls
at night.
One hundred bodies are now known to
have been stolen from the cemetery at
Hamburg, la.
The general deficiency bill. provides no
money for the payment OF bond-aided
Pacific railroads.
1t is said that there are really 1,OO0,-
600 more acres planted in corn In Kansas
this year than last.
A Michigan woman who was cured of
the morphine habit at Kelley institute
became violently insane.
Suit is to be instituted for the land
upon which the cities of Dallas and Fort
Vortu, loA., are iOcateU.
The census returns show that in the
entire State OF Virginia the surplus OF
women is but thirty-nine.
The Cape Cod ship canal bill was de-
feated in the Massachusetts House last
week by vote Of 50 to 90.
Governor Fifer's appeal for aid from
the citizens Of Illinois for food sufferers
has resulted in raising 81 900.
The International Typographical
Union repealed the 60-hour law by a
majority OF one in forty-eight votes.
L. w. Habercorm has resigned as Fifth
Auditor OF the Treasury. He will prac-
tice law and write for the German papers.
OF the 42s,0OO divorces granted in the
United States during the last twenty
years 100000 were granted at the re-
quest Of wives.
In consequence OF the Mckinley bill
Johann Hoff, the famous malt-extract
manufacturer at Berlin, is about to open
factory in New York.
Within three years 5000 people have
lost their lives in Western Pennsylvania
because of weak dams originally con-
structed in slovenly manner.
During May the exports of breadstuffs
from the United States were $40, 4lO, 349,
against $l2, $50, 23l in May, 1891; OF pro.
visions, 0,50l ,592, against 81, 06S, OC6 in
1891.
The lady landlord OF Cincinnati no.
tel has demanded 800 damages on ac-
count OF a Texas banker committing
suicide in one of the rooms of her
house.
The gambling spirit go thoroughly per-
vades New Orleans that even the grand
jury is found recommending the passage
OF law under which gambling shall be
licensed.
A. Nelson and James Taylor, Creek
Indians, have been sentenced to death
for stealing, the statutory laws making
conviction for theft the third time pun
ishable with death.
Edward s. Dunn, Secretary and Treas
urer OF the National Savings Bank of
Buffalo, is defaulter for heavy amount
He was trusted officer and leading
tinancier OF the city.
The New York Board OF Health re-
ports that there are five schoolhouses in
that city in which the only method of
ventilating the rooms is the primitive
one OF opening the windows.
The total number OF regular trains OF
all classes in and out of Chicago daily
via all railroad lines is 1850. TWENTY
eight railroad companies operate nearly
40, 900 miles Of railroad lines that center
there.
A statement is being circulated that
the vast lead and zinc industries OF Mis-
souri,, including several smelters at st.
Louis and in Southwestern Missouri, are
about to pass under control of foreign
capital.
The good people of Philadelphia are
seriously disturbed. The use of soft coal
by the locomotives of the Pennsylvania
railroad is filling the air with SCOT and
shutting the famous purity Of the town
buildings.
Lolita Crabtree was defeated in a suit
In the Superior Court at Boston recently
by May Robinson, who obtained a YER |
dict for 500. The suit was for $4,000
Tor injuries sustained while passing the |
Park fheater, which Lolita owns.
Considerable excitement was occa- |
stoned at Homestead, Pittsburg, by the |
that Manager Potter of |
Carnegie's plant had signed three
years agreement with all skilled labor
except members of the Amalgamated
Association at the present wages.
The run Of shad in the Hudson river
mas been growing less and less for sew.
sral years. The United States Fish Com
fearing an eventful famine, has
ust placed 100000 two-day-old shad fry
n the river at Kingston. 1t usually
axes three years to develop them.
Secretary Rusk is credited with hay-
ng been able to reduce the amount of
ieaths among cattle at sea. resulting
rom cruel treatment, from 16 per cent
o per cent. on the $40, OOO, 900 worth
exported.
An improved traction engine has late
y appeared in Missouri. It is run with
relatively small amount of fuel, carries
heavy load, and is provided with means
or changing its speed without altering
he stroke OF the engine.
The Secretary of the Navy has an
'ointed court of inquiry to ascertain
shich OF the officers at Mare Island navy
ard are responsible for the introduction
I defective machinery for the United
tates steamship Ranger.
The three big fights to take place be-
ore the Olympic Club in New Orleans
ext September viii cost the club in
urses alone 1900. OF this $25. 900
oes to the Sullivan Corbett battle. $40
90 to the Fitzsimmons match, ii ar
anged, and the remaining $4,000 To
lilly Myer and Jack McAuliffe. d
Another battle between the colored {
oldiers and the people OF Suggs, Wyo., 6
I. =. Al \ 4 q.