Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-02-12
EASTERN ITEMS.
Quay Wins His Libel Suit
Against the Post"
THE WHITE SQUAW SOCIETY.
Ex-Treasurer Of the Catholic Knights
ofAmerioa Short to the Sum
Of $75,82323.

The question OF free ferries Is bein
avitated In Boston.
One fourth Of tile last grain crop o
North Dakota Is still unthreshed.
The unions Of indianapolis are agitat
ing the closing of all stores on Sunday
West Virginia alone now mines NOR
coal than the whole South did ten year
ago.
A lumber famine 10 feared In the Nes
Brunswick region because OF the lack O
fnow.
A Dakota land company has purchase,
", DOC, 900 worth Of real estate at Hunts
Vile, Ala.
The shortage OF ex-Treasurer M. J
O'Bfien Of the Catholic Knights 0
America is $7b, 1928 20.
Decreased cotton acreage is expected
TO result from the work Of the recen
Memphis convention.
Chicago Worlds Fair people fear Hol
mans economic policy will interfere will
their plans for an appropriation,
Both Houses OF the Virginia Legisla
ture have agreed to a plan proposed TO
the settlement OF the State debt.
Steps have been taken in Bangor 10
the erection OF monument to the lat,
ex-Vice-Y President Hannibal Hamlin.
In the recent voting on the adoption
Of the constitution in New Mexico onl,
1873 votes we're cast in the entire Terri
tory.
The stockholders OF the Hartfort
Conn Bank in the city OF that name
held their Tooth annual meeting recently
There are now about two and one hal
gallons OF whisky on hand for ever,
man, woman and child in the United
States.
A grand jury Of San Antonio, Tex,
served an attachment on the Judge, bu
he, having the - last guess" put then
in Jail.
To block the Michigan Central road
the Canadian Pacific is about to build 6
branch road along the Niagara river al
the Falls.
A New York rural pastor has been
forced to resign, because he would moi
praise unfortunately the dead OF biz
congregation.
Out of 1850 inmates in the Eastern
penitentiary OF Pennsylvania only three
knew trade. Satan still finds mischie
for idle hands.
A bill has been introduced in the New
York Legislature which proposes to tax
the income on the bonded indie btedness
Of corporations.
1t is estimated that 10000 men in ex-
cess OF the present available supply will
be needed to begin the agricultural year
in the Northwest.
Richard Yates OF Illinois remarked in
a recent speech that 6,000,000 men 8
years OF age and under will participate
In the election Of 1892.
I. A monument to the Anarchists hanged
In Chicago several years ago under the
Illinois conspiracy act will be unveiled
during the Worlds Fair.
Massachusetts will probably follow the
lead OF New York in acquiring forest
lands for park purposes, the proposition
meeting with much favor.
Alexander d Anderson, special com
missioner or the Worlds Fair for the
past year, has resigned todevote his time
to business in Washington.
Acting Secretary Spaulding has de-
clded that a Chinese woman who marries
an American citizen is entitled to adj
mission into the United States.
The "White Squaw . is the name Of
u new secret society just formed in Phil
N xU sxI,i =
promote the spirit OF fraternity among
all men.
Reports from forty-four counties in
Kansas showed that during seven and a
half months in 1891 the farm mortgages
had been reduced by sum exceeding
$500, 900.
A report on the mining districts in
Pennsylvania shows the alien laws are
grossly violated, and American miners
are fast being superseded by Hungarians
and Slavs.
The jury in the Quay Post libel case
ut Pittsburg returned verdict for QUAY.
The Post denounees the verdict, and will
take the case to the United States SUI
preme Court.
Twenty new large hotels are being put
ip in Chicago, and the city intends to
spend about S2,00O,0o0 of municipal
nnds to get the streets and parks in or
Ter for the Worlds Fair.
Among the various congresses which
ire being promoted by the Worlds Con
.fess Auxiliary it is proposed to hold in
jhieago during the exposition an inter-
rational congress OF engineers.
ha
resent destructive methods adopted by
he fishermen threaten the extinction in
he near future OF every species OF food
ish on the New England Coast.
A party OF tourists recently discovered
hat an excellent natural telephone
exists between certain points
a two high mountains in the Black
ILLS, s. d., known as the Twin Peaks.
The Immigrant Inspector at FL paso
'ex., reports to the Treasury Depart
aent that he has deperted twenty.one
lexican laborers who had entered this
ountry in violation OF the contract.
abor law.
The owners OF so per cent. of the
along the lines OF street rail.
Jay in Brooklyn, where ii is proposed
0 substitute trolley wires for horse
over, have given written consent 10
he change.
Thomas n. and Frank II. Allison. the
Kissing conveyaneers who disappeared
'om Manayunk, Pa, short time ago.
~ said to have gone 10 Brazil Several
fashionable transactions have come to
ght, and the liabilities OF the firm are
ow estimated at 100000.
The annual meeting OF the American
oeiety OF Civil Engineers, held at New
ork, elected Mendez Cohen OF Brook,