Idaho semi-weekly world., 1892-06-10
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
The Assessed Value Of Real Estate
Of New York City.
THE GRANITE CUTTERS STRIKE
The Value Of Breadstuffs Exported From
This Country to Europe Reaches
an Enormous Sum.

A reservoir OF natural gas has been
struck near Butler, Mo.
The Delaware river will be famous
salmon stream in few years. Ma
The granite cutters strike in New
England Is growing in magnitude.
Eastern capital is being largely in
Evestei in railroad enterprises in Mexico.
Il Anew telephone company, with cap
|rital OF 1880, 900, has been organized in
Chicago.
The $4,000 Illinois Central 4 per
cent. Cairo bridge bonds have been over
subscribed.
Poker playing among the women in
Buffalo for money is becoming alarming
ly prevalent.
The Christian Endeavor Society con-
| emplates building hotel at Chicago to
cost 81 600, 900.
The Lingham gold mine at Belleville,
Ont, has been cold to Senator John 2.
Jones OF Nevada.
The Vanderbilts have just bought
5 900 acres OF bituminous coal lands
near Du Bois, Pa.
The city government OF New Haven,
Conn.,, has approved the adoption of a
nine-honr work day.
Indiana has OF all States the largest
percentage oil Germans (55 per cent. )
among its immigrants
| A bill making ten honrs legal days
work for railroad employees has passed
the Massachusetts, House.
Thirty-fve alien contract laborers for
bidden to land at New. York have ap-
pealed to the Treasury Department. = s
Senator Allison says there will be a
surplus OF $2b. .000, 900 or more at the end
OF the fiscal year instead Of deficit.
Four hundred Carnegie mill employees
at Pittsburg are out OF employment ow-
ing to the failure of the natural gas sup.
ply.
A company is being organized in Chi
cago with the ostensible object Of search
ing for lost treasure on the Purgatoire
river.
The collections OF internal revenue for
ten months are $125, ,546, ,061, an Increase
OF IS ,609,84l compared with ten months
last year.
A Judge In Charleston, s. c., has de-
cided that the sale of soap by druggist
ON Sunday Is lawful, because cleanliness
is next to godliness.
The Ericsson submarine gun has been
tested at Brooklyn, and has shown the
best results OF any test ever made in this
or any other country.
Seventy five miles OF the Charleston,
Cincinnati and Chicago railroad, running
through Tennessee, has been sold for
5000 900 TO satisfy debt.
The aggregate assessed value OF the
real estate of New York city is 81 ,506,-
578, ,703, which is an increase of $43, 33l :
SS3 over the preceding year.
The largest log jam ever known in the
Northwest, containing over $4,000, 900
logs, is threatening to turn the st. Croix
river, Wis.,, into new channel.
The Wisconsin Legislature is expected
to meet in extra session early in July to
rectify the gerrymander declared uncon-
stitutional by the Supreme Court.
The Watertown arsenal has just com
pleted brass casting, said to be the
largest ever attempted in any workshops.
1t is intended for Pacific Coast defense
guns.
The great need of Europe for bread is
shown by the TACT that in the last ten
months the exports of breadstuffs from
the United States amounted in value to
$253, ,065 ,629.
A device is said to have been invented
by means OF which locomotive can take
coal without stopping. The Pennsyl-
vania railroad will soon make a test OF
its usefulness.
In the Court OF General Term at WASH
Iington the court held that the order of
the Secretary of the Treasury could not
be annulled or set aside except by judi
dicial authority. ~
At mass meeting of Socialists at Chi
cago a resolution was adopted with a
whoop condemnng the press and the
general public for their stand against
Teed, the new Messiah. -S
A jury in the Superior Court in Chi
cage gave verdict of $780, against a
street railway company of that city, one
of whose cars on st. Patrick's day cut
off both legs OF a boy above the knee.
The papers in different parts OF Kan
sas report that more farm machinery
has been sold in that State this season
than ever before; in fact, twice as much,
and that it is all OF the best and latest
kind.
A new burial reform society is being
organized at New York to do away with
the expensive trappings, which have
grown with custom, and simplify as
much as possible the last rites to the
dead.
The Mississippi river continues to fall
slowly, and business is gradually resum-
ing. The railways are showing signs of
| life, schools are reopened, and the work
OF atfording relief to the sufferers by the
floods is going on rasidly.
President Newton OF the Des Moines
and Kansas City railroad is on trial in
the United States Court in the former
city Tor mailing an enormous quantity
lof old papers during the week when the
mails over his road were being weighed.
The new railroad bridge at Memphis
is located on the spot where Ferdinand
de Soto crossed the Missis sippi in l54l.
and in excsvatlng for the short pier on
the Tennessee side some Spanish hal
herds, supposed to have been used by
him, were found.
There is a fire in the tunnel through
the Coosa Mountains on the line of the
Columbus and Western railroad in Ala
bama. There are large veins OF coal
through which the tunnel passes. and
these are thought to be burning. The
tunnel cost 81 100000.
Immigration Inspector s. G. Osborne
OF New York, who finished an inyestiga
ton among the coal fields of Pennsyl-
vania regarding the alien labor EN-.
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