Idaho semi-weekly world., 1892-08-19
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
No Overhead Wires at the Chicago
Worlds Fair Grounds.
APPLE CROP LIGHT EVERYWHERE.
Kansas Corn Crop Failure-Field Of
Wheat Floats Down a River
Rev. Sam Small,

There are 900 letter carriers in Chi
cago.
Cyrus W. Fields life was insured for
$3.50, 900.
Thirty sardine canning factories In
Maine are closed.
Rainmaker Melbourne will soon begin
work III Western Nebraska.
Army worms are causing trouble in
De Witt and Mclean counties, Ill.
The New York Central has secured
through line OF it's own to Montreal.
Rumors are current that another war
on the sugar trust will shortly begin.
A company has been formed at Dick
inson, n. d., TO establish stock ranches'
The corn crop in Kansas is almost
total failure, owing to the burning heat.
A waste of pu olic money is reported at
the immigrant station on Ellis Island,
N. Y.
A large colony OF disappointed Okla
homa homeseekers have left ior Central
America.
new insurance schedule is under
consideration by the underwriters OF the
United States.
Farmers in the vicinity OF Holland,
Tex, are complaining OF an insect which
destroys cotton.
The Union Pacific road is preparing
new sidetracks for the expected rush oil
grain at Kansas City.
A field Of wheat is reported to have
aoated down the Missouri river past
Atchson. Kan, lately.
The Lehigh Valley railroad has pur-
chased new terminal property IN But
falo, N. Y, worth $l,0J0,0o0.
Twenty counties in the western hall
/ OF Kansas report an increase OF AZ per
cent. In the acreage OF wheat over last
year.
More than month has elapsed since
| the Homestead lockout began, and it has
already cost upward of Sl,OOJ,Oo0 and
many lives.
Milwaukee feels easy over the Illinois
Steel Company signing the scale OF
wages for the works at Bay View for the
ensuing year.
Ten acres in the heart OF Buffalo's
the Philadelphia and Reading railroad
for freight storage.
Just "a, 922 tons OF granite have been
placed in the Delaware breakwater gap
the past year. The sum required to
complete the work is $320, 900.
A petition has been in circulation at
| New Bedford calling for mass meeting
to formulate plans which will compel the
authorities to enforce the liquor law.
The revolution that electric traction is
working ia shown by the advertised sale
OF $500, 900 worth Of stables by the West
End Street Railway Companyof Boston.
Many prominent clergymen protest
against the proposition to bring the
Oberammergau players to Chicago next
year to reproduce the Passion Play"
sealskin dealers of the United States
have formed trust at Newark, N. j.,
with $l0,000,O00 capital. 1t will be
known as the George Q. Treadwell Com
pany.
A man in Dakota was lately sentenced
to prison for half lifetime, and the su-
preme Court has decided that the time
means nineteen years, seven months ano
four days.
The apple crop this year promises t.
be light everywhere outside OF Califor
mia, Maine and Nova Scotia. A gooc
deal OF green fruit has been knocked OF
the trees by the storms.
1t is believed there will be an exodu
Of non union men from the Cour d Alen
country II the troops are withdrawn
forts are being made to have one o
two companies of United States troop
) remain.
rne last carload OF oranges for tn
season has left Riverside, Cal. Tn
shipments of citrus fruits from that Ct c
on were 4 carloads, small iallin
ii from the previous season.
There are twenty well-built towns il
Kansas hat haven't single inhabtant
; Saratoga has a S3J, 900 opera house and
large blick hotel, yet the place is as de
; 'erted as Il dead rabbits hole.
A Canadian customs officer distir
gus he'd himself few DAYS ago by as
4essrg BuffAl) Sunday school picni
/ parry ~. 20 on ice cream which they too
'ver into Canada as part OF their lunch
The veto put upon the trolley syster
, IT electric traction in both New Yor
L and phiIadelphia has turned the atter
ton OF inventors more than ever to tn
long hoped-tor perfection OF either th
a storage battery or the conduit system.
! The annual report of the State aim;
= house at Tewkshury, Mass, for 1sy
shows that there were 2,9l5 persons ar
> mitted, of whom only 81 were born i
Massachusetts, while ,024 were born i
| Ireland.
l. Nine. Patti has at last decided on he
It final, absolute farewell tour in Americs
e She has signed contract with Marcu
e Mayer for tour of forty operate cor
n certs, beginning in New York on NJ
II vember 10, next year.
Walter d. Stinson, who has been al
l. pointed postmaster at Augusta, Me-,
= dill the vacancy caused by the resigns
n tien Of Hon. j. II. Manley, is nephe
< of Mrs. Blaine. lie has been in th
(. postoilice service for years.
e During the prohibition fight SON
s. months ago in Atlanta, Ca, a salooni,
: named Miner ehastised Rev Sam Sinai
Il and knocked out one OF his teeth. Sma
d sued for s. 900 damages. Last week tn
v jury awarded him 5000. Miner made Il
o defense.
A messenger from the Buena Vista o
> regions, thirty-s,x miles west of Baker
tield, reports that red oil has been struc
s at depth of eighty feet. This is a fir,
l. quality of lubricating oil, AMI runs lik
n water. The black and green oils heret,
e fore discovered have an asphaltum has,
y This new discovery has n parafine has,
e as do all OILS from which kerosene
:, made. This we'll has capacity of twer
o ty-tive barrels daily, but pumps are ne,
n essary.
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