Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-10-14
Letter-Box Robbers Decoyed Into
Prison and Captured.
MAINE HAS A CHINESE CITIZEN
New York State Factory Inspectors Pre-
pairing for Roundup Of the
Law Transgressors.

are Dtink run Jul Vi Tile City uy iaW.
The corn crop lie pronounced free from
frost by the Agricultural Department.
Stations Mt which boiled water is dis
pensed have been established In New
York.
A test case OF the Chinese exclusion
act 10 being prepared by Texas Federal
authorities.
An attack on the Cordage Trust has
been made before Chancellor McGill oil
New Jersey.
Report OF mortality in Boston for Au-
gust shows a death rate OF $50 per | 900
Inhabitants.
An attempt will be made to establish
distillery In Chicago that 10 not in the
Whisky Trust.
The watch OF the blind poet, Milton,
10 said to have drifted to Chicago from q
st. Louis pawnshop.
snbterranean floods and eruptions Of
gas are reported to be frightening the
people Of Jerome, Ind.
The officers OF the Salvation Army at
Maeomb, ILL.,, are in limbo for failing to
pay fine for parading.
Uncle Sam pays as high as $500 per
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stations In Philadelphia.
/ On account OF cholera the Mayor OF
Clarksburg, Tenn, has forbidden the
people to eat watermelons.
The city liquor agency Of Portland,
Me-, last year sold $50, 900 worth of liq-
uor for medicinal purposes.
/ In the course OF couple OF months
the last veetige OF the horse-car lines
will have disappeared from st. Louis.
The lower part OF the Hudson river is
Swallowing because OF brick dust and
broken brick thrown from canal boats.
| Maine lays claims to Chinese citizen.
His name is Wah Ngock Lee, who mar
ried Maine school teacher some time
ago.
Mrs. Mary McGrath OF Louisville, KY,
has brought suit against saloonkeeper
for selling whisky TO her husband against
her wishes.
The projected oil-pipe line from the
Pennsylvania oil fields to the Atlantic
Coast will become an active competitor
OF the Standard.
The "Judge" Short gang Of cattle
thieves in North Dakota is reported
cleaned out by the settlers and the
Judge" lynched.
The fisheries on the st. Lawrence have
been failures this season, and many OF
the people have sold out and are coming
to the United States.
The Olympic Club at New Orleans
: cleared 100000 by the prize fighting
carnival" and when all expenses were
paid 900 remained.
The type founders in the East have
formed trust. The fierce competition
Of the last ten years is to end, the rates
OF discount will be reduced and prices
go up.
United States Marshal Joe Rankin oil
Wyoming, who has national reputa-
ton for bravery, has bsen removed for
not making arrests of desperadoes when
ordered.
The jury in the case of Burton G.
! Webster, charged with numbering Book
maker Charles Goodwin at New York,
brought in verdict of manslaughter in
the first degree.
The crop report for Missouri shows
that there was general but light frost
! on two nights and numerous grasshop-
! pers, the latter necessitating the late
sowing OF wheat.
1 aVFCtnOI bO1u Vi NcDIdbhd HAS ull-
conditionally pardoned ex-Treasurer
Charles Ii. Paul of Adams county, Neb.,
convicted OF having embezzled $54, 00u
OF county money.
W. r. Crosett, cashier and proprietor
| OF the Peoples Bank of Hope, Ark, has
, decamped with the deposits and school
funds to the amount of number oil
thousands of dollars.
J Prof. Charles Eliot Norton of Harvard,
the literary executor OF Emerson, Low
ell and Carlyle, is said to be constituted
, literary executor OF John Ruskin by a
clause in the latter's will.
, The corn cutters in the vicinity oil
: Springfield, o., have formed an associa-
ton to fight the patent corn-c cutting
sleds, and refuse to work for farmers
using the obnoxious sleds.
In st. Louis all granite, wood and as
J phaltum streets have been cleaned. The
work of polishing up the macadamized
streets is to begin at once, and it is esti-
mated that 1t will cost 100000.
A bottle was picked up on Scorton
Beach, Mass, the other day, inclosing a
paper on which was written: sc. f..
Reed, l.. A. Reed, l.. b. Reed, w. 4.
CLING, lost August IA, 1892, at sea-"
Two members OF the Stratton gang of
letter-box robbers went to the Colorado
State penitentiary to effect the escape OF
their leader, Stratton, but instead were
decoyed into the prison and captured.
The Department of Agriculture, it is
expected, will issue a proclamation raj s.
ing the quarantine which had been es-
tablished against cattle afflicted with
pneumonia in New York and New Jer-
sey.
AT Nashville, Tenn, the Southern Ex-
press Company had an "old-hoss" sale,
and in trunk for which ~. 60 was paid
there was found the body OF an infant.
Ii Is not known where the trunk came
from.
The New York State factory inspectors
are preparing for general round up of
the clothing employers in the sweating
districts who have violated the new fac
tory law. Several warrants for those
VINO have violated the law are out.
An industrial council at Kansas CITY.
composed OF delegates from all the trades
unions in that city, has declared a bow
colt against four out Of the five theaters
there under the control OF Melville Hud-
son, because Hudson employed nom
union men to take the places OF the
scene shutters who struck for an advance
in wages.
! Lieutenant Peary, the Arctic explorer.
who has just returned to Philadelphia.
made verbal report TO the Philadelphia
| Academy OF Natural Sciences, during
which he said; 81 have had excep-