Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-06-17
BEYOND THE ROCKIES
Remarkable Growth Of the City Of
Roanoke, Virginia.
THE INCREASE OF NATIONAL BANKS
American Dress Reformers Preparing to
Renew Their Crusade-Flood
L0sses-Other News.

The corn and cotton crops Of Tonnes
see are In fine condition.
The food losses between Memphis and
Cairo are estimated az high as 20, 000, 900.
Only 1000 OF the 1850, 900 needed to
build Grants tomb remain yet to be
raised.
The town OF Roanoke, Va, has grown
In ten years from population OF 600 to
one Of $4,000.
The American dress reformers are pre-
pairing to renew their crusade at Chau-
tauqua this year.
Within the past few weeks seals and
Arcti: looms have been caught off the
Connecticut coast.
Prospectors for oil In the petroleum
district of Tennessee and Kentucky are
getting to be numerous.
Within year Southern mobs have
lynched $50 negroes by hanging, burnet
I, fayed and disjointed |.
william Lewis Corrigan, a brother OF
Archbishop Corrigan, is prisoner In
the insane pavilion at Bellevue Hospital.
Governor Flower has signed New
York's new factory law, limiting the
work Of factory girls to ten hours day.
The New York City Water Commits
sion will build an $8,000,n00 dam. 1t
will hold Al. 000, 0UO, 900 gallons OF water.
The probable shortage Of the Western
wheat crop is averaged by various esti-
mates at 40, 00O. 100 to 90, 900 QUO bushels.
The silver service subscribed for the
cruiser Baltimore by the citizens OF Bal
timore has been dispatched to Mare
Island.
So much grain has recently been com
ing down for export from Montreal that
the transportation companies are unable
to handle 1t.
Name is a favoriie State for meetings.
During eighty days this summer 1t is to
have nearly seventy important conven-
tons Of various kinds.
Kansas City is to have another man.
moth packing hou-e, built by the Ar
mours, that will make it the largest
meat-packing city in the world.
France and Germany have notified the
government at Washington that they
will Join the international silver confer
ence. This assures the Assem- bling.
Suit has been brought at st. Paul for
city property worth nearly $4,00l, 900.
The action is instituted in behalf of the
children Of soldier named Heinert.
Governor Hogg of Texas called Charles
I. Bonner, lawyer, in a campaign
speech a professional lawyer" and now
Bonner wants 200 for defamation of
character.
The weather philosopher of the New
York Herald figures out great summer
and autumn tropical storms, with I'M
usual warmth meanwhile over the north
ern continents.
Congressman Dockery estimates that
the receipts of the Columbian Exposi-
ton will be $36,O00,0OO That means
n, 900, 900 admissions and not less than
~, 000,0 visitors.
During the Twelve months ending with
last April 176 new national banks were
added to the number previously in ex
istence, and they increased the total
capital by $l7 100000.
A colored paper in Boston says ne
groes are being taught the art OF making
dynamite bombs to be used in the South
unless the outrages against their race in
that section come to an end.
A special meeting of the stock holders
of the Edison Electric Illuminating Com
pany OF New York was held May 81 to
take action on proposition to increase
the capital stock OF the company from
"a 800, 900 to $4,000
Bob Floyd, one of the four train rot-
bers who killed Messenger Saunders at
Jennings station, Fla, is in Jail at
Gainesville, and has confessed his crime
and given all the facts in the case.
The Mayor of Jackson, Mich, pre-
ing up walk in order to lay track by
calling ont the fire department and
drenching the workmen with water.
A large white circle around the sun
frightened the negroes of Jackson, Miss,
80 badly one day week before last that
they rushed from their houses and de-
clared that the judgment day was COM
ing.
Senator Rutan OF Pittsburgh, Pa, pro.
poses to institute legal proceedings
against Senator Quay, ex-State Treasurer
Boyer and Treasurer Morrison for viola
ton of the law and illegal use of Stste
funds.
Cigarette slot machines are being in
troduced in Ontario in order to evade the
law prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to
boys under IA. A card above the ma
chine warns boys not to drop their
money in.
The New York Herald says that lead
company on the east side of that city
had just added tim plating apparatus to
it's machinery. and adds: 1t was also
asserted that many orders were on hand
for tinplate.
A memorial has been presented to the
Senate asking an investigation into the
system of naturalization in New York.
The object Is to correct gross abuses and
TO punish perjury. In single court in
New York during the first twenty DAYS
OF October there were nearly 1000 nat
publications, of which about 5000 were
by one Judge.
The Hebrew organization of Western
Pennsylvania has learned that Baron
Hirsch's scheme for the care OF Russian
refugees in the Argentine Republic is a
gigantic failure. Letters have been re-
ceived stating that the refugees cannot
stand the climate and cannot farm the
land.
The report of the experts employed to
Investigate the sanitary condition of the
capitol at Washington concludes: "If
the capitol were a private building and
in its present condition as to plumbing.
the Board of Health of the district would
probably order it closed as a dangerous