Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-09-27
Grasshoppers Doing Damage to
Both Corn and Cotton.
THE KANSAS WHEAT CROP LARGE.
Builders Of Engines, Dynamos and All
Equipments Intended for Steam
and Electricity Busy.

There are nve state ucketS In sne nciu
in Texas.
The New Jersey State prison contains
936 convictt.
The seasons domestic tobacco crop is
reported exceptionally large.
Connecticut's peach crop amounts this
year to only o5 ,0u0 baskets.
The Chicago Council has approved the
act OF the Mayor in closing Garfield race
track.
Kansas has 1000 miles OF railroad, and
there Is wheat blockade at every
station.
The fire engine manufacturers OF the
United States and Canada have formed
trust.
It is not unlikely that the g. A. r.
Encampment Of 1893 will be held at
Indianapolis.
The United States is the richer by
~, 900, 900 In money orders never pre-
sented for payment.
All the larger cities in Pennsylvania
are being especially cleansed in antici-
patton OF the cholera.
| Indiana is claimed to have but one
surviving soldier OF the war of 1872
There are 252 widows.
| Lebanon, Mo-, is infested with band
OF burslars, who use their pistols with
reckless indifference.
The Kansas wheat crop win amount
TO 10000, eco bushels, or 100000 more
than last years crop.
Four boodling ex-Canadian bank OF
| civil officers are said to be living in one
| block in Detroit, Mich.
The Metropolitan Traction Company
of New York has increased it's capi-
tai stock to $50, 900, 600.
Somebody in Rhode Island is said to
be palmipg off bogus oleomargarine Oh
the New England public.
| In 1880 the money added to prizes by
the racing associations amounted to
$4,000. Now it reaches $4,000
The new Croton dam to he built near
New York, it is said, will be the largest
in the world. Work will soon be begun.
A much-needed rain the latter part Of
last week saved the Missouri corn crop
and guaranteed the wheat acreage Of
next year.
st. Louis takes to the antique. That
city is organizing what is claimed TO be
the first Italian regiment ever formed in
this country.
Roland A. Hewitt. well-known BIZ
cyclist at Atlantic City, N. j., and q
clerk in the postoffice, is charged with
robbing the mails.
meteor about twelve inches in
diameter fell and shattered rock twelve
times as big near Livingston Manor,
Sullivan county, N. Y.
Uncle Sans income is increasing.
fhe governments receipts in August
were about IS, 200, 900 in excess of those
ot the same month in 1891.
A reso ution to assess the capital stock
OF the Pullman Car Company at S43,.
6Ss. 7h0 WAS introduced in the Board Of
Equalization at Springfield, Iii.
} Owing to the cholera scare, it is re-
ported that the city of New York has
been made cleaner than at any time
since the last visitation of cholera.
In Louisiana they are talking Of the
degradation OF the prizering by allowing
the admission therein OF black pugilists
on equal terms with white brulsers.
There is a great demand just now for
electric torchlights, which will be- used
NY some campaign clubs as a substitute
for the time-honored, bad smelling oil
! lights.
The builders OF engines, dynamos and
all equipments intended for steam and
electricity ehave vast amount of WORK
on hand, probably more than at any
former period.
There seems to be an impression that
cho era is incurable. This is a great
Mistake. the large majority of we'll.
conditioned persons are usually saved by
good treatment.
James j. West has been set free by
Judge Tuthill OF Chicago, and the pros
ecutions for alleged acts committed
while in possession Of the Times proper
ty were quashed.
The Niagara Falls tunnel will prob.
ably be finished October l., and the
wheel-pit excavation shortly after.
Power will begin to be furnished toward
the end of March.
An electric road for passengers, freight
and general service between Fonda
Johnstown and Gloversville, N. Y, is tc
be constructed at cost of $500, 900. Ii
will be seventeen miles in length.
Grasshoppers are doing damage to
both corn and cotton in West Tennessee
In some places cotton has been stripped
bare OF its leaves, and it is often the
case that bolls are cut off from the limb.
The river coal operators at Pittsburp
have served notices OF reduction on
the miners and closed the mines until
the new schedule is agreed to. Between
1000 and 5000 men are thrown out oil
work.
The Boston Globe is authority for the
statement that not one member of the
United States Senate was born west OF
the Missouri river, and all but two out
OF thirty three were born east of the
Mississippi.
In Chicago man has been brought
oeiore the United States Commissioner
or selling soda-water drinks called
pilgrims" His offense was that he
nut about 10 per cent. of whisky in them
without having a government license.
sensational dispatch from Ell Paso
says an Indian revolt in Sonora and Chi
huahua, Mexico, has been SO far sue-
cessiul that the regular troops have been
defeated, and Mexican officers are held
as hostages. Fears were expressed that
the dissahsied portion OF the population
would ioin the Indians.
American inventors are protesting
against the action OF the Small Arms
Board in recommending the adoption by
the United States OF the Krsg Jorgensen
rifle. The protest may have it's effect,
and II so, an American inventor, Lieu.
tenant Ii. X. White OF the marine corps.
will probably secure the prize.
A ruling by District Court Judge at
Wichita that County Clerks had no legal
right to issue marriage licenses, the law