Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-03-25
The Total Population of
Brooklyn.
JUDGE VAN BRUNT'S ACTION
Mayor and City Council of Kansas
Town Arrested-The Harlem
Land Claim.

Governor Boyd will not call an extra
session Of the Nebraska Legislature.
A third electric railroad between Min
neapoliH and st. Paul will be built this
year.
The Central Railroad and Banking
Company of Georgia is in the hands Of
receiver.
The naval bill, an completed, appro-
pirates we, 800 for improvements at Mare
Island navy yard.
Over 1b0, 900 bushels of American corn
have been sent into the famine district
OF Durango, Mexico.
A number OF Cinnamon are becoming
citizens Of Mexico to eyade the United
States restriction laws.
Jay Gould is said to be after the Aran-
sas Pass railroad. He is seeking deep
water ports on the Gulf.
The public lands outside the perma-
nent reservation at Hot Springs, Ark,
will be sold at auction April 10.
The estimated cost Of the Chicago Ell
evated Terminal Company's structure is
IS, 10000 The plans are nearly COM
pleted.
The Massachusetts, House has passed
bill absolutely prohibiting the sale of
cigarettes either to minors or to grown
persons.
The jury OF inquiry into the condition
of young Field at New York failed to
agree as to his sanity, and WAS dis
charged.
The great Harlem land claim, which
involves property valued at more than
$l00, 000, 900 in New York city, is to be
pushed TO an end.
Heirs OF ex Senator Joseph T.. Nc
Donald OF Indiana are contesting his will
on the ground that it was made under
undue influence of his wife.
The Chicago University, which will
not open until October next, has already
received over 81 900, 900 in gifts, and has
promise OF another million.
Nebraska prohibitionists in their plat
form favor woman's suffrage and the
ownership OF railroads, telegraphs and
telephones by the government.
A company lately formed in New York
is making money by furnishing sentries,
whose province 1t is to keep unwelcome
visitors from the portals of milionaires'
dwellers.
bration on the occasion of the opening
of the new bridge across the Mississippi,
which gives that city closer connection
with the West.
Representatives Cutting and Loud are
urging the establishment of an addi-
tlonal life station on the beach at San
Francisco. The proposed location is
three miles south OF the present station
The census returns for the city of New
York are all in, with the exception OF
two election districts. The total popula-
tion of twenty-four Assembly districts
according to the enumeration is /, 795, 29S.
Roughs at Corning, Ia, are determined
to break up revival of Free Methodists
which Is in progress in that town. The
minister has asked for the militia, but
the local authorities claim to be able to
keep order.
The forty fifth annual report of the
Pennsy lvania Railroad Company shows
the total gross earnings on the lines east
and west OF Pittsburg for 1891 were $l34,-
254 ,6l2, slight increase over the earn
ings of 1890.
The st. Louis Merchants Exchange
has had call for $4,000 bushels of corn
for shipment to Mexico This is the first
of the kind known to have
been made. Mexico in former years rails |
ing ample crops.
The lynching of Ed Coy, a negro. in |
the southern part of Arkansas, has in
creased the desire of many negroes in
that section to emigrate, and large bod |
es are reported to be organizing to 90 to
the Cherokee Strip.
In the Cook County (Ill.) Circuit Court
: hled writ against George Jacob I
the self-styled Christ.
The suit is for $50, 1000 damages for alien
lting from the complainant, George
1oudrey, the affections of his wife.
The next cruiser to be launched will
De the Raleigh. She is being built by
he government at the Norfolk yard. Ii
will be a fine addition to the navy, hay
ng speed OF nineteen or twenty knots
md fine battery OF rapid-fire guns.
The people of Brooklyn have built
wenty five miles of elevated RAILWAYS
managed by two separate corporations.
he city government has lately author
sed the introduction of the trolley sys-
EN- on the surface street-car railways.
The Inter Ocean OF Chicago reiterates
he charge that the National Union Com.
any OF New York is tool of the Ma :
onal Cordage Company, notwithstand-
~ the newspaper has been sued for !
POI, 900 damages for the original charge, :
1t is estimated that the fifty long-dis /
,nce lines which the American Bell Tel
phone Company is putting up between ,
ew York and Chicago will consume )
526 tons OF copper, while the total 4
myth OF the wire will be $4,000 miles, ;
TIE Mayor and City Council of Paola. t
an, have been arrested under the L
tate law providing that old soldiers l.
lall be given the preference in all State
nd municipal appointments, they hay
x refused to appoint an old-soldier ap. b
'icant to the office OF City Assessor. p
The total population of Brooklyn ac- .
lding to the census returns so far q
snded in, with the exception of one "
strict, is 953, 1888. The missing district e
i'll probably bring it up to 900, 900. The /
ederal census for 1890 was S06 $40. and II
lie police census four months later was P
3, a45. q
There is strong and growing feeling =
nong the Senators and Representatives y
Congress that the navy should be add a
to for several years to come, and al :,
ough the appropriation bill provides :,
r the building of but one large vessel. !,
is likely to be so amended that at least =;
rec will be provided for. :.
Judge Van Brunt in the Field INSANITY e,
sc at New York astonished counsel in Fl
Q case by discharging the jury. He q
id counsel promised the case would e,
nsume but five days, and he had sat q,
r eight DAYS and the prospects, for An n,