Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-08-05
The Revenue Department Makes
a Peculiar Decision.
GAIN OF LAND FROM OLD MEXICO.
Key to the Hieroglyphlcs That VIII Unlock
the Mysteries In the Hilute In
scriptions Found.

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excess OF the legal requirements.
A Tennessee convict is pronounced by
the penitentiary physicians to be Of both
sexes.
New York business men are greatly
worried over the lack OF warehouse Ia
cilities.
The manufacturers OF Fall River,
Mass, have just increased wages 81
per cent.
There ia quite a rush OF people into
the Southern States who have few
thousand dollars to invest.
General George +. Afford of Dallas,
Tex, Ia about to go to Europe to induce
farmers to settle in that State.
Marshall Field paid 5000, 900 for 800
square feet OF Chicago land recently
the largest price ever paid in that city.
BY cut OF the Rio Grahde river it
was shortened about two miles, and 900
acres of Mexican land are now on the
American side.
Golden, q suburb OF Denver, contain
ing 5000 people, Is In danger Of being
swept away by grand landslide from
Table Mountain.
The railroads are finding it necessary
TO make cheap excursion rates in order
to supply harvest hands to Central and
Western Kansas.
A Buffalo deaf mute has recently been
attacked by st. Vitus' dance In his arms
and fingers. He Is learning to make
signs with his feet.
BY order OF the Commissioners of the
District OF Columbia all the theaters in
Washington must be fitted throughout
with electric lights.
The story OF concessions by the Mexi-
can government to an American COM
pauy to build railroad from FL Paso to
Mazatlan Is again repeated.
The Revenue Department has decided
that the bi-chloride OF gold institutes
which claim to cure inebriety are liable to
the government for the retail liquor tax.
An attempt has been made to burn the
State women's prison and reform school
for girls at Indianapolis. Three fires
were started at the same time, but were
extinguished.
A student OF Johns Hopkins Chiver-
sity is said TO have discovered the key to
the hieroglyphics that will unlock the
mysteries In Hiltite inscriptions, hith-
erto wholly unknown.
The New York, New Haven and Hart
ford road propos Oh to run an electric
train between New York and New Ha'
ven and make the istance--aeventy-fou
miles--in sixty minutes.
For second time since the passage OF
the silver law OF 1890 30 per cent. OF the
customs revenues at New York during
the first ten days of July was paid in the
new treasury notes issued unde. that law.
Over 400 damage suits have been filed
against the Little Rock and Fort Smith
and Missouri Pacific railroads for viola
ton of an Arkansas law fixing passenger
rates, and the court is deciding about
fifteen cases a day against the companies.
A huge bowlder and beside it flag
staff fifty feet high have been erected in
, Franklin, N. H., to mark the spot where
Daniel Webster was born. The birth spot
was originally in the town OF Salisbury,
hut is now included in the territory OF
Franklin.
The father of Alice Mitchell, who
killed Freda Warde last January at Mem
phis, testified that Alice's mother WAS
insane and the girl had manifested sim
liar peculiarities. She speaks of Freda
as il she were living now, and takes no
interest In her own trial.
Father Bay, a Catholic priest In Chi.
cago, shot and killed Barney Moran, a
burglar, who had entered the priests
house one night last week. Moran fred
twice at the priest, missing him. A
Coroner's jury decided that Father Bay
was not to be blamed or censured.
The strangest thing of this generation
in the way OF ill-making liz reported
| from Kentucky. One of the richest men
of the State died few days ago, and cut
his sons of with 800 each because of
| their liking fast horses. His widow and
daughter divide a fortune OF 5,000, 900.
| A Syrian woman, badly afflicted with
leprosy, was allowed to land at New
! York, having passed inspection at quar-
antlne. II is said the inspection is too
| careless, and there is fear that unless 1t
Is made more rigid the danger of i'm
| porting cholera infection will be very
great.
! The Haskell multicharge gun has again
been tested at Reading, Pa, for penetra-
ton into iron plates. The proieetile
penetrated the best range iron six inches,
which is three plates more than any gun
ever penetrated before. The proiectiIe
was found to be rs perfect as when it
came from the lathe.
The minority report In the Raum in.
vestigation asserts that the majority o.
the committee seemed determined to
fasten crime and corruption upon the
Commissioner; but, having utterly tailed
to do SO by the evidence, they as last
resort sought to do it by inference
A 81. Louis man who tapped an cleo
trio light wire surreptitiously for his own
use was set at liberty, the Judge who
tried him declining to pronounce the Of
tense petty larceny, while the grand iury
refused to regard IL as fraud. There
was no dispute as to the fact OF the of
fouse.
BY the will OF Cyrus w. Field the
Metropolitan Museum OF Art at New
York will come into possession of the
medals and insignias received in connec
ton with the laying of the Atlantic ca
bles and letters and documents relating
TO the enterprise from the inception OF
the scheme to its accomplishment.
The American Museum OF Natural
History at New York has secured the
Harry Edwards chronological collection
which 10 well known in San Francisco
The collection includes over 25n, zoo in
sects OF all kinds from all parts Of the
globe, and is very rich in the lepidoptera
OF North America, especially the butter
dies OF the Pacific Coast.
When the deficiency bill was under
consideration in the Senate Perkins o
Kansas asked unanimous consent TO have
stricken from 1t the item of $1,000 for