Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-11-22
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
Huntington Buys an Iron Mine and
Steel Works in Mexico.
THE MILLER RAINY-DAY DRESS
Total Insurance on Milwaukee Properly
Lately Destroyed by Fire
Sh0rt.Ribs Corner.

failed.
Recent storms damaged lake shipping
$450, 600.
Philadelphia will organize naval re-
serve battalion.
Quarantine precautions at Boston are
to continue during the winter.
Heavy shipments OF iron ore continue
to be the feature in that trade.
Navigation above Cincinnati lie practi-
cally suspended, owing to low water.
General Miles says the Cheyennes and
Arapahoes are threatened with starva-
ton.
There are only forty-five free patients
at the Pennsylvania Hospital for the
Insane.
A Chicago syndicate has coraered
600 pounds.
The American tin-plate factories
turned out nearly II 100000 pounds o.
plate last quarter.
Negotiations are In progress in St.
Louis for the consolidation Of the four
street car factories.
Hereafter any railroad in Massachu-
setts which uses the car stove Is liable
to penalty Of $500.
Alarmed at the prevalence OF crime,
citizens at Sedalia, Mo-, have organized
a vigilance committee.
The drouth in Maryland compels farm
ers in many sections to haul water from
q distance for their stock.
Dun's RecieD notes more active bust
ness conditions than for any previous
ante presidential election.
The Supreme Court of Missouri has
decided that official notices published in
Sunday papers are not legal.
There is a severe drouth in some SEC
tions OF New York State. Water is very
scarce In half dozen counties.
i The postmaster OF Georgia town has
resigned because there was 80 much
blackmail connected with the business
i A bridge that spans Cattaraugus creek
near Springville, Western New York,
touches four different towns and two
counties.
/ negro digging on his farm in Liberty
: county, Ga, recently found an iron pot
containing $4,000 in old French and
, Spanish silver coins.
Sang Kee, Chinese government Of
fetal, has arrived in Ottawa to make an
investigation into the character and
i. scope OF the Dominion laws regarding
the Chinese.
Complete statistics of the great fire at
St. Johns. N. f., have just been issued.
The number OF houses destroyed was
1874 and the total numbers of persons
burned out 1924.
|, A company has been incorporated in
: Chicago with 50 ,000, 900 capital to manu-
facture a new long-distance telephone
which, it ia claimed, will be effective on
I 3,0O0-mile circuits.
: Although the total insurance on Mil
r waukee property lately destroyed by fire
D was over $4,000, 900, only two companies
, so far as reported, will have to bear a
loss of over 100000.
During the past rainy spell at Anr
Arbor, Mich, the girls appeared on the
4 street in Jenness Miller's rainy-day ,
+ dress. The skirt reaches halfway from
u the knee to the ankle.
2 The executors OF John Roach, the
: ship builder, will receive from his as
), signees, George w. Quintard and George
+. Weed, about $2,0O0,000, the surplus
OF his assigned estate.
The Plant Improvement Company a
a Port Tampa, Fla, has commenced the
gigantic undertaking of dredging large
! basin where twenty large ships can b.
n loaded at once from elevated tracks.
r New York will have to raise by taxa
i ton for the expenses OF the coming yea
/ 1913, III ,00S. The various department.
a asked for total of $39, 062, 5l7, but thil
v was cut down by the Board of Estimate
i Whittier's homestead is now owned BY
II a retired merchant of Haverhill, who il
: willing to sell the estate on condition
= that it shall be property and perma
o nently cared for as memorial of tn,
r poet.
n The Pennsylvania road will expert
i ment with lighting it's tracks by cleo
r tricity from Philadelphia to Bryn Mawr
n Ii success, the tracks will be lighted tt
J. New York and locomotive headlights
dispensed with.
The suits for $20,0 900 each against Gov
ernor Francis and others, filed by tire,
of the men arrested at Forsythe, Mo.
a for participation in the murder OF Deput,
Sheriff Williams in fancy county, hav,
been dismissed.
The United States Supreme Court hal
advanced to the second Monday in Jan
4. uary the date for hearing the case o
4 Prosser VS.. the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company, involving the title to a largt
tract of water front in the State OF Wash
. ington.
The trust distilleries of Peoria, Ill.
: have been buying corn in enormous
quantities lately, and many of then
have largely increased their output
. The trust has also started up some of til
: Cincinnati distilleries which have loni
been idle.
The latest thing in Boston is the TWEEN
tieth Century Club, which has just beer
chartered and has secured quarters il
! Boy Place, the haven of associated
: high thinkers. The object of the club
: as expressed by it's founders, Ia 9Th,
promotion of the liberal arts and al
earnest, unseltish purposes"
According to Dun's Weekly Repiew tn,
car famine extends from Pittsburg to tn,
. Rocky Mountains. All the rolling stool
with which the numerous East and Yves
, trunk lines of the country are equipped
: is inadequate to the transportation o
the vast output OF wheat and corn which
: is seeking market.
II is reported at San Antonio, Tex.
] that @. p. Huntington. President of tn,
Southern Pacific, has completed the pur
chase OF an iron mine and extensiv,
steel works at Durango, Mexico. Thi
n will be the largest iron works on tn,
) American continent, controlling no
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