Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-05-17
Product of Silver From American
Mines Last Year.
FARMERS OF IOWA ARE ALARMED.
The Women Of Chicago Take an Interest
In Clean Street Cars and Clean
Streets-Etc.


Wool rates have been reduced from
8lM cents to 81 cents, Mississippi river
to Boston.
Farmers of Iowa are alarmed over the
unfavorable season, which is delaying
all planting.
1t is thought that fair crop can yet
be made throughout the flooded districts
OF Mississippi.
A great deal OF valuable land is being
washed down the Missouri river above
Atchison, Kan.
II ia estimated that about 30, 900 horses
were ousted from the street-car service
last year by electricity.
The jury in the case of the Ulster
County IN. " Savings Bank wrecker,
Matthew J. Trump, has failed to agree.
San Antonio citizens have organized
force to assist the police In patrollng
the city and stamping out the rampant
firebugs.
The cost for carrying out the Behring
Sea arbitration treaty with Great Brit
ain is estimated by Secretary Blaine at
$50 600.
The women OF Chicago have taken an
interest in clean street cars and clean
streets, and the improvement is marked
everywhere.
The Standard Oil Company is said to
be trying to form natural-gas trust,
The object ia to prevent waste and get
more money.
President Harrison has designs upon
purchasing the old Harrison homestead,
which is part of the Berkeley estate on
the James river.
The Thomas Houston Company is
building at its shops in Lynn an electric
locomotive, which is designed to develop
50o-h power.
Charlie Wing, the Japanese leper, who
| for over two months has been an inmate
OF the Philadelphia Municipal Hospital,
is said to be recovering.
At Topeka, Kan, indictments against
several Union Pacific railway officials
are looked for on charge OF violating the
nterstate-commerce law.
DR.. julius Goebel OF New York city
has been appointed associate professor
Of German literature in the Leland
Stanford (Jr.) University.
Mrs. ]. Coleman Drayton will not live
in Europe. She will live with her
|
take her old place in society. Mr.. Dray-
ton will reside abroad.
The farmers of the United States sent
abroad in March of this year breadstuffs
valued at $2S,00o,000, whereas the
amount OF such exports in March of laet
year was only $l2,000,00o.
Senator Teller says there is no founda-
ton for the report that the silver men
would form a new party. A league to
promote silver interests is to be organ
lied, but not as political party.
Mrs. Porter Stocks has filed a petition
for divorce from her husband, a nephew
of the noted revivalist, Sam P. Jones.
They have been married for some years.
Cruelty is alleged.
Clark OF Wyoming has introduced in
the House bill to extend the right OF
franchise to every woman in the country
over q years OF age to vote for Repre-
sentatives in Congress.
The connection between the two sec
tons OF the intermediate spans of the
great bridge at Memphis has been finally
made, and the completion of the struct-
ure will be a matter OF a very short time.
Charles E. Stone, land commissioner
OF the Louisville and Nashville railroad,
a club man and society leader, is under
arrest at Birmingham, Ala, for embez-
cling $4,000. He Is said to have gam
bled heavily.
The Mississippi river is still rising
rapidly, and there is every indication
that it will pass the high-water mark OF
last year. 1t has been raining most OF
the time the past week, and at some
points the levees are caving.
+. 0. Leech, Director of the Mint at
Washington, states that the product OF
silver from American mines last year
was 81, $3.50, 900 ounces of the commercial
value of $57 $3.50, 040, or coinage value
in silver dollars of S75,4l6,565.
The Lower House of the New York
Legislature has passed woman's sui
frage bill, which will be defeated in the
Senate. Last year the Senate passed it,
and the Assembly defeated it. This game
of passing the measure in one branch
aud then defeating it iii the other has
been played again and again.
Another imposing structure will soon
rise beside the divinity building of the
Catholic University OF America at Wash
ington ON the grounds of that institu-
ton. Cardinal Gibbon laid the corner
stone recently with impressive ceremo-
MES.
General Foster, who assisted in the
Brazil reciprocity treaty says the United
States never promised not to make a
similar agreement with any European
country. Reports that such an agree
ment WAS reached have been circul ated
by enemies OF the Brazilian government
for political purposes.
| A quadroon named Charles Mcmillan,
just convicted for burglary and theft at
Houston, Tex, has been identified as
the man wanted in Sedalia, NO., for as.
saulting Mrs. Taylor some time ago.
Mrs, Taylor went to Houston, and at the
sight OF the man tainted and had to be
removed. 1t will be remembered that
the whole country about Sedalis was ont
in search of the villain shortly after the
crime was committed.
In the Superior Court at Boston iur,
brought in verdict of $4,000 in favor
OF Rev. w. w. Downs against DIR. R. X.
Moves, Mrs. Abbie Campbell and Alice
Nepton in the suit brought to recover
damages for an alleged conspiracy to
J accuse the plaintiff of adultery. For the
other defendants, Joseph Storey, Sidney
i. A. Wilbor, DIR. George Stackpole and
Fred ]. Tabor, the court ordered a pro
forma verdict. The suit has caused
! much talk in that city. Rev. w. w
Downs was accused by Alice Nepton
with being the father of her child, and
scandal followed which resulted in his
: being expelled from the pulpit of the
. Bowdoin Square Church, where he had