Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-05-20
Post Graduate School Of Medicine
Draws the Color Line.
ST. LAWRENCE RAPIDS TO BE USED.
Chewing Tobacco Prohibited In the Ken
lucky Senate Chamber-0ther
Matters of Interest.
The State of Iowa is out of debt.

to the Grant monument fund.
After-dinner speeches by women are
becoming very popular in Boston.
The Cheyenne Indians in the Indian
Territory threaten to give trouble.
The third party leaders claim they will
cast $50, 900 votes in Texas this year.
Forty-one per cent. OF last years Kan
sas corn crop is still in the granaries.
The Kansas wheat acreage is reported
to be the largest in the history OF the
State.
Boilermakers at Chicago are on a
strike for nine hours and ~. 70 minimum
wages.
The pneumatic tube system for con-
veyng the mails Is TO be given trial in
st. Louis.
One of the finest and most costly rail-
road terminals in the world is proposed
for Duluth.
The court at Chicago sustains the Moi
fatt patent for making candy by the vac
uum process. :,
An effort is being made by the rail-
roads in Chicago to close up the ticket
brokers' offices.
| The lake lines are securing very
large proportion OF the East bound bust
ness from Chicago.
A resolution has been adopted in Ken
lucky prohibiting chewing tobacco in
the Senate chamber.
Several OF the most prominent citizens
OF Springfield, Mo-, are under indict-
ment for various offenses.
Commissioner Carter of the General
Land Office will probably resign about
the end OF the fiscal year.
New York city's pay roll this year is
$40, 1913, 1857, Tammany being the con-
tracing and disbursing agent.
In Philadelphia an agitation is going
on In favor OF the city furnishing gas to
consumers at 81 per 1000 feet.
The greatest stone ever quarried in
America left indianapolis the other day
for Philadelphia. 1t weighs 100000
pounds.
Montreal Ia about to attempt the ntili-
cation OF the force of the rapids in the
| st. Lawrence river in the generation of
electricity.
five hundred Kansas farmers certify
that 1900, 900 worth OF crops have been
saved by Prof. Shows mode of dealing
with the chinch bugs.
Those organizations in Chicago from
which red flags We're taken on May day
propose to go to law to make the police
authorities give them up.
An appeal has been issued to the col
ored people and their friends advocating
the setting aside of May 81 as a day of
fasting, humiliation and prayer.
The will of the late William Aston
leaves Mrs. Drayton ~ 900, 900 in her
own right, sum sufficient to wipe out
many stains OF the Borrowe kind.
There is a sudden but concentrated
movement in favor OF l-cent letter
postage, and petitions are pouring in on
Congressman, especially from the West.
The Turner's societies OF Kansas will
have grand funniest at Bismarck
Grove on June to 6. The railroads
have granted one and onethird rate.
Governor Flower has signed the bill
concerning the appointment OF inspect
ora of election for New York city and
also the eapportionment and excise
bills.
North Dakota's Supreme Court has de-
cided legal the public warehouse law,
having reference to the power OF the
State to fix storage rates for wheat in
elevators.
One OF the features of the Indian
question that causes the administration
no little trouble and perplexity is the
care OF the red men who get stranded in
Washington.
The city OF Detroit will hereafter save
money by burning crude petroleum in
stead OF coal to run the steam engines
which do the pumping at the municipal
water works.
Captain Farquhar OF the steamer Har
law, from Newfoundland to Halifax, re-
ports the prevalence of restitution north
of Flowers Cove, Newfoundland, with
two cases OF actual starvation.
Rico in the San Juan country, Col, is
the new-found gold field that is at
tracing pros pectors and investors. A
rush has also begun for Copper Rock,
about fifty miles from Denver.
A company has been formed to con-
struct a tunnel on the Canadian eide of
Niagara Falls for similar use of the
water power to that proposed by the
tunnel builders on the American side
1t seems that the land-hungry crowds
that have suddenly inundated Oklahoma
do not want farms TO cultivate, but town
lots with which to speculate. At least
n hundred towns are set up within their
borders.
The Post Graduate School OF Medicine
at New York has drawn the color line in
the case of DR.. William T. Merchant of
Eagle, a West Virginia mining town,
who is colored man. He was refused
adlnittanee into the school.
The Quebec government is going
ahead with the prosecution Of the lottery
proprietors in Montreal. The keepers
OF the Peoples and the Montreal lot
teries. have been placed under arrest and
the arrests OF the ticket-sellers through
out the city will follow shortly.
A bill has been introduced in the SEN
ate entitled "A bill for the protection of
the silver mining industry" providing
that the Secretary OF the Treasury shall
purchase such silver bullion only as is
produced from the mines within the
| United States or from ores melted within
the United States.
The new town OF Cheyenne in the
recently opened reservation in Indian
Territory is built on the site of the
burial grounds OF the Indians killed in
battle with General Custer in 1858
The Indians regard the building of
town there as a sacriiege, and threaten
to burn the place and massacre the in
habitants.
Ii transpires that the establishment
OF 'St. Andrews Coffee Houses" of New
York, where the poor could buy meal