Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-03-18
EASTERN ITEMS.
Ingersoll Sues a Minister
for Libel.
METEOR FALLS IN ALABAMA.

Bill Reducing the Duty on Barley
Introduced in the House by
Fitch Of New York.
Chicago collects over $1,000, 900 in sa-
loon licenses.
Never before were prices for iron so
low as they are now.
Philadelphia has 1000 fewer licensed
saloons than New York.
Senator Sherman lie to build 500, 900
mansion in Washington.
New York State Senate is investigat- |
ing the Reading coal deal.
Three new lines OF railroad will soon
be built through Ottumwa, la.
Oil has been discovered on Mr.. Blaine's
farm in Washington county, Pa.
An effort will be made in New York to
raise $25, 900 to send the 200 stranded
colonists to Liberia.
The value OF Kansas farm lands is said
to have actually increased "a per cent.
IN the past twelve months.
Relatives OF William Turnbull, one Of
the sailors slain at Valparaiso, will de-
mand large indemnity OF Chill.
Governor Gilpin OF Colorado seriously
adyoc stes the construction of q railroad
from Denver TO Paris via Behring Straits.
Fred Douglass has been appointed to
represent Hayti at the Worlds Fair. An
appropriation Of $4,000 has been made.
Two cases OF typhus fever have been
discovered in St. Louis among Jews who
recently arrived there from ldena, Rus
sia.
Chicago has just adopted the plans for
a new public library building, which &C.
cording to the estimates will cost 81, ESQ.,
600.
The present Federal House of Repre-
sentatives will be asked for more than
| $25, 900 900 for river and harbor improve
ments.
The street cars in Leavenworth, Kan,
are to be run by compressed air. The
citizens have raised the money to raise
the wind.
| The fret consignment OF camel skins
for commercial purposes ever brought to
this country reached New York some
days ago.
New York Central road employees have
received orders to flag any train that is
seen to be following another train within
ten minutes.
Revolutionary societies, having for
their object the freedom OF Cuba and
Porto Rico from Spanish control, are or
ganizing in New York.
President Harrison has dismissed In
ternal Revenue Collector A. 7. Wimber'
ley OF Mississippi because OF utilization
with the lottery people.
Inquiries made throughout the cotton
belt by the st. Louis Globe Democrat
show that planters will raise less cotton
during 1892 than in 1891.
The Health Officer OF Philadelphia has
been directed TO prosecute 100 clergy
men for fine OF $40 for each of 442 mar
riages that they neglected to report.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
! has decided that it is violation OF the
law for road to issue passes to Council
men on account OF their official posi-
ton.
The Schmidt local-option bill was de-
feated in the Iowa Senate by strict
party vote. A new measure similar in
its provisions was at once introduced by
Senator Gobble.
The will of Daniel Hand, the Guilford
i Conn. philanthropist who gave 80 much
money for the education OF freedmen, is
to be contested. 1t disposes of $60U, 900,
and the heirs number twenty-nine.
At a conference of colored people at
Tuskegee, Ala, the other day it was de-
termined that they can become prosper
GUS, intelligent and rich where they are,
and wholesale emigration is discouraged.
The License Commissioners OF Wash
ington, d. O., have prepared new IL
cense bill, which has been sent to Con-
gress. Under this new bill the retail
license will be 5000 per annum and the
wholesale $500.
A meteor which fell in Alabama last
week plowed up furrow about as large
as a flour barrel and three or four feet
deep, then bounded and struck large
pine tree six feet from the ground, shiv-
ering the tree. 1t then exploded.
The New York Central and Hudson
River Railroad Company has signed a
contract for 33 500 steel ties, which are
to be laid on four tracks running out of
New York. Steel rails of 100-pounds
section will be used for this purpose.
Miss Rhoda Broughton has organized
a successful movement in Philadelphia
for a home Of rest for horses. The scheme
is in practical operation, and insures
greater kindness in treatment of the
class OF animals for which it is designed.
Investigation OF Chicagos water sup
ply, prompted by the prevalence of ty-
phoid fever in that city, has shown that
| the water is unfit to drink unless boiled,
and that it will be necessary to go four
miles out into the lake for an uncontam-
mated supply.
A bill reducing the duty on barley
from 80 cents to 10 cents per bushel has
been introduced by Congressman Fitch,
who represents the brewing interests OF
New York city. The brewers want
cheaper barley from California and the
Northwestern States.
Colonel Robert G Ingersoll has brought
suit for libel against Rev. DR.. A. G. Dixon
Of the Handson Place Baptist Church,
Brooklyn. because Dixon in sermon
charged that Ingergoll had been hired by
publishers Of impure literature to ".pol-
lutte the minds OF the young OF this gem
eration."
The annual returns of the organized
militia Of the States, which have recent
| ly been presented to Congress. show a
gratifying increase in numbers over last
| year and still greater advance over
| few years ago. Exclusive OF three lately
admitted States, whose statistics are