Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-11-01
BEYOND THE ROCKIES
Large Amount Of Gold Consumed
in Filling Teeth.
SCRANTON ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
Board Of Directors Of the Union The0l0g.
ical Seminary Vote to Stand
BY DR.. Briggs.

The Virginia peanut crop ID small.
The census OF Oklahoma Territory
shows population Of 1888, 100.
There has been big registration all
through the State OF New York.
Atlantic City has voted to purchase
the present water works there for $780,
600.
Indian Commissioner Morgan favors
compulsory education among the In
disns.
General Miles IL worried about the
restlessness OF the Indians in his de-
partment.
There 10 to b. . determined fight to
make Massachusetts railroads provide
mileage tickets.
New Jersey has begun proceedings
against several railroads that have en-
tered the coal combine.
| The Treasury Department has shipped
$40, 000, 900 In small notes South and
West to aid In moving crops.
Chow Tai and Hip Lung. Chicago Chi
nese merchants. are In the East looking
after the contest Of the registry law.
A large extent Of territory in the
Nueces country In Texas has been sub
merged by the severest rains ever known
In that section.
| Francis H. Hewitt, City Weigher al
the New York custom house, is charged
with bribing his assistant to make false
returns on sugar.
Omaha, Neb., is flooded with counter
felt silver dollars dated 1892 and bearing
the New Orleans mint mark. The coini
are light and greasy.
The total Presidential vote in 1884 wal
10, 048, 46l, and In 1888, II 3 8,03S. 1t Ii
estimated that this year the vote will &c
a. high a. 100000.
A certificate OF organization has beer
, filed ut Trenton, N. j., incorporating thu
Melbourne Rubber Company, with {
capital Of $15, 1000, 600.
Millions OF grasshoppeis have mad,
their appearance in Western Missouri
and the wheat crop threatens to be q to
) tai failure in consequence.
The assessed valuation OF Dallas, Tex.
has fallen off nearly $4.000,00 in ont
year. Dallas is one of the many over
doomed towns of the South.
A big deal has just been consummatet
In which the Pennsylvania Southwes
, system has absorbed the Terre Haut,
and Peoria road and it's branches.
. A record Is kept at Ellis Island Of al
the Jewish immigrants who arrive a
the port Of New York. Since Angus
last this record has not been large.
The Postmaster General has signe,
mail contracts with the Internationa
8 Navigation Company, the terms OF whicl
D require the construction OF five new ships
Never before in the history Of Chicag
with one exception was building 30 act
q i've as this year. The exception was il
the twelve months succeeding the grea
I fire.
4 Oral arguments in the Indiana appor
tionment case have been postponed unit
a November II. This decision remove
: the case as factor in the coming cleo
ton.
4 The Presidents proclamation openin,
the Grow reservation to settlement il
> causing brisk rush. The land can cas-
lily be made very productive by irriga
: ton.
, The Michigan insane asylym is 8,
Y badly crowded that 1t has been fount
necessary to refuse to admit any NOR,
9 patients. Every hall and room Is crowd
4 ed with cots.
Ho Chen Shing, the interpreter OF tn,
Chinese Minister at Washington, is il
Q disgrace. He has been selling informa
ton, and will be summarily dismissed
7 from his position.
The surface Of the ground over tn,
. Central mine at Scranton, Pa, has be
! gun to sink, and the $10O,0O0 Roman
Catholic Church OF st. Patrick is in dan
. ger OF being engulfed.
The University OF Notre Dame, Ind.
, has just celebrated the fiftieth anniver
, sary OF its esta blishment. The founder
Rev. Edward Soran, still hale anc
! hearty, though 80 years old, participated
In the ceremonies.
D The increase in silk manufacture since
1880 in the United Sta es is ll2.77 pei
cent. In value Of its products. The cot
ton manufacture ranks second, bein,
, 1851 per cent, and the wool manufact
ure third, being 20. so per cent.
/. In fight at Wyandotte, Mich, be
tween the Salvationists and party o
toughs Carrie Lowe, one of the Saliva
ton Army Lieutenants, was fatally in
| jured and three others OF the army in.
| jured. Two bystanders were hit.
A New York dentist says that the fill
|, ing OF teeth with gold has grown to such
proportions that about $4,0U0, 900 of gold
is consumed in this way every year, and
that this consumption should enter into
all calculations as to the supply OF the
precious metal.
Almost every operator and station
agent on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa
Fe system has struck. The company had
refused to comply with the demand for
$50 as the monthly minimum pay in.
stead Of $50, with twelve hours consti-
tuting days work.
The Navy Department IL very much
displeased with the inadequate deliver
les of structural armor and gun steel nv
the two corporations holding the con-
tracts to supply the metal for the con
struction OF the new vessels, and will
bring the contractors to time.
The United States Court of Appeals at
st. Paul in suit for the recovery OF al
legged overcharges on grain shipped by
rail to Chicago decides that through
lines are not local lines, nor is through
tariff a local tariff within the provisions
of the interstate commerce law.
President Benjamin Andrews oil
Browns University, Providence, has
been appointed rs a delegate from the
United States to the International Mon
etsry Conference in place of +. A.
Walker, who was compelled to decline.
Andrews is recognised authority on
economic and kindred questions. He is
a Democrat.
The Roar,i Of Directors of tha Irn;,,,