Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-07-01
BEYOND THE ROCKIES
The Exports Of Silver This Year
Larger Than Ever Before.
EMIGRATION TO AMERICA THIS YEAR
Carnegie Steel Company Issues a Circular
Calling for a Reduction In All
the Departments.

Springfield has the largest United
States arsenal.
A congress OF beer brewers will be
held next year.
There are II ,OO8 more women than
men in Maryland.
The Chicago postofice makes profit
OF ~, DOC, 900 yearly.
There are !, 1925 patients in the insane
asylum at Norristown.
Army worms are doing great damage
TO hay fields in Bartholomew county,
Ind.
The immigration to America this year
gives promise OF beating all former rec
nrds.
The American dress reformers are pre-
pairing to renew their crusade at Chau-
tauqua this season.
The method OF making tin plate will
soon be taught the colored students OF
Hampton Institute, Va.
The Federal grand jury at Springfield
has been dismissed for lack of funds
with which TO pay them.
The wife OF Secretary Elkins has
founded and endowed home for poor
children at Deer Park, Md.
The, railroads are fighting the Erie
canal by hauling grain 80 low the foot
men cannot afford to handle it.
The dullest times ever known in the
Little Rock (Ark.) country exist now,
and the direct cause is the floods.
Bucks county penn farmers employ
over 200 OF the Indian boys and girls
graduated from the Carlisle school.
Wisconsin Odd Fellows spent 1913, 1856
in relief last year. There are $1,000
members Of the order in the State.
Despite rainy May, Lake Ontario is
said to be several feet lower now than it
ordinarily is at this season OF the year.
The New York grand jury has indicted
a wealthy real-estate owner for renting
house for illegal and immoral purposes.
DR.. Cyrus Edison has reported to the
Board OF Health that five OF the public
schools in New York are badly venti-
lated.
The Kansas Republicans assert that
the mortgage Indebtedness of their State
has been reduced $5,000,O 600 in twelve
months.
All but one OF the forty-two cities of
the UAitsd States with popu lations OF
from $4,000 to 200,0 900 have electric rail-
ways in use.
There is bitter fight in the Kansas
Alliance ranks over the Governorship.
Jerry Simpson is mentioned as q posi-
BILE dark horse.
Professor John b. McMaster of the
University OF Pennsylvania has declined
the offer OF the Presidency of the Uni
versity OF Illinois.
The Carnegie Steel Company Qimited)
has issued circular calling for a reduc-
ton OF from Is to so per cent in nearly
all the departments.
When the new United States ironclad
Texas is afioat and ready for business,
It will represent the biggest State in the
Union and about 100000.
An insurance association is being
formed at Memphis, Tenn, by cotton
merchants to protect themselves from
unjust cotton insurance rates.
Professor Burnham, who has left the
Lick Observatory, is to assume the office
Of Clerk OF the Federal Court OF the Chi
cago circuit, a position he filed before.
The Grand Trunk will hereafter be
permitted to bond all baggage g,ing
from Toronto to the United States, thus
enabling 1t to check direct to American
points.
The list of dead SO far by fire and
flood at Titusville and Oil CITY, Penn, is
sixty five at the former and fifty-four at
thu loftar GaxaroI
missing
The grand jury of Chattanooga, Tenn,
has brought true bills against all who
attempted to lynch Frank Weems, the
negro rapist. Some prominent men were
with the mob.
The pound nets are running the shad
fishing in the Connecticut river. The
decrease last year was fully 20 per cent,
as estimated by the catch during 1899,
and this year it is no better.
The rustlers from Wyoming held a
mass meeting ut Caspar and denounced
the interference of the Federal govern
ment with their affairs. They claim the
State is amply able to meet all trouble.
Financiers in New York are calling
the attention of the promoters of rail-
way building to the probability of in.
creasing absorption by Europeans of
American railway securities in the next
year or two.
The latest New York bank statement
shows the surplus reserve is 1923, GOO, GOO
An amount nearly four times as great
as at this time last year. The ease of
money seems to be assured for several
months at least.
The Mississippi levees, with all the
damage their breaks are alleged to have
done, placed at 49,, 0O0, 600 by Brad,treet's
and $40,0O0,000 by the New Orleans
Times Democrat, have still stood better
than in the pact.
The Lieutenant Governor OF Kewatin
and Manitoba charges that American
whalers are poaching in Hudson's Bay
and violating the revenue laws and init
mates that an international question
may arise therefrom.
There exists in Chicago a society. the
membership OF which is restricted to
colored men with white wives. The OBJ
ject is to benefit class of persons who
Tor their interrscial marriage are ostra-
cized by both blacks and whites.
The exports OF silver this year have
been larger than at any time since the
passage OF the law of July, 1890. The
shipments from New York alone have
amounted to nearly $4,000, 600 net, or
about IS per cent. more than in 1851.
A new linen mill has just been COM
pleted at Sioux City, Iowa. There is
considerable fax raised in the vicinity.
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