Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-03-11
EASTERN ITEMS.
Race Trouble in an Ohio
Public School.
COFFIN TRUST REoRGANIzED.
Nicaragua Grants the Louisiana Lot
terry Company a Perpetual
Charter--Etc,

Philadelphia has regained her normal
condition Of health.
New York capitalists will build Chi
cago's Laks.street elevated road.
The Indian appropriation bill reported
to the House carries "a, 236, 7S7.
The wheat crop in Tennessee has been
badly injured by the late freeze.
Baltimore IL soon TO have an elevated
railroad costing about 81 100000.
Worcester, Mass, Ia to abolish grade
crossings at total expense OF 5000
600.
South Dakota will probably lose ST.
600, 0O0 OF its school fund in suits now
pending.
A proposition IL pending in the Iowa
Legislature to substitute high license for
prohibition.
Five Of the county officials at San An
tonic, Tex, are under indictment for
embezslement.
The Chicago gas trust admits that its
customers have been paying for more
gas than they consumed. ~
The Illinois State Board OF Agriculture
says the wheat area in Illinois is per
cent larger than last year.
| No more smoking is to be tolerated
even in the hall or janitor's room at Le-
high University, Bethlehem, Pa.
| The coffin trust has been recognized,
and the prices Of burial caskets will be
advanced 20 per cent. within thirty days.
The merits OF The bichloride OF gold
treatment for drunkards will probably
be investigated by the New York Legis-
lature.
The question of rebuilding the State
! University is absorbing more attention
in the Missouri Legislature than any
other subject.
| An active discussion is going on in
army and navy circles relative to the
proper guardians OF the coasts--vessels
OF war or the artillery. A
Every precaution is being taken
against the spread OF typhus fever in
New York, and the prospect is that it
/ will be effectively checked.
| Race trouble in the public schools at
Lebanon, o., is creating excitement.
The opposition to both races attending
the same school is becoming intense.
II has been ascertained that Lane, the
defaulting Treasurer of Appanouse coun-
| ty, Ia, is in Central America. His
bondsmen have made good his pecula-
tons.
The new steam motor which has been
| given partial trial on the street rail-
ways in Chicago is too costly and heavy
for ordinary use. The motor weighs 49,
900 pounds.
! ACoroner's jury in Peoria, H., brought
in the following verdict one day last
week 1--WE find that the deceased
came to her death by being found dead
in her bed"
Many Russian Jews are applying to
the Consul-General in New York for as
sistance to go back to Russia. They say
they can do better there than they can
in this country.
/ Congressman Bingham OF Philadel-
phia will deliver the Grafton at Gettys-
burg June 2 on the occasion of the I'M
yelling of high water-mark monument
on Cemetery Ridge.
The retirement of Generals John NJ
Schofield and o. o. Howard will take
out of the active service, it is said, every
regular army officer who commanded a
corps during the civil war.
The Kansas, Arkansas and New Or
leans railroad has filed at Little Rock a
mortgage for $6,000,000, which money is
to be used in the construction of the line
through the State OF Arkansas.
Reports from all the counties of Geor-
gia show general reduction in the cot
ton acreage of the present year of about
~ per cent. Food crops and tobacco
will fill the gap caused by The reduction.
The report comes from Philadelphia
that an English trust has been formed,
with $4,000, 900 capital, to consolidate all
the tanneries of the United States, with
headquarters in the East and local
branch in each State.
A Panama dispatch says: Nicaragua
has granted the Louisiana lottery per-
petual charter. The principal office of
the company will be at Greytown. 1t
will have branches in all the other Cen
trail American Republics.
Junction City, NO., has Bethany Z"
club that does the cooking for forty four
families. 1t is solution of the "hired
girl question:" and the members are
very enthusiastic Last year So, 800 were
paid out for table supplies.
1t is coincidence that the first arrest
made in Ohio under the Brewer law is
that OF a citizen Of Jefferson named
| Brewer, who, being unable to pay the
| tlne imposed for failure to send his chill
dren to school, has been sent to jail
A cave has been found under the sub.
urb of Highland Park, Chattanooga, and
| twenty-five men are at work blasting out
the passage, which is at first very mar
| row, widening into large underground
rooms, which seem to have been used In
the past.
Immigrants are herded worse than
CATTLE says one OF the New York In
spectors in his report, and :" l doubt very
much whether any person who owns a
log would give 1t such quarters as are at
present assigned human beings by trans.
atlantic steamship companies"
w. A. Brady, manager for Jim Cor
bett, sent Peter Donohue, sporting ed
itor of the New York Recorder, check
Tor $40, with the evident intention of
bribing him. Donohue returned the
check with a vigorous verbal message,
and threatens to make IL warm for MIR.
Brady.
II is again asserted that specimens of
bituminous coal have been discovered
on the Mesaba iron range in Minnesota.
rhe deposit is said 10 be extensive. A
valuable discovery of petroleum has been
made by persons who are keeping its 10.
cation secret until they secure posses