Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-10-04
Compulsory Sobriety Instituted by
a Railroad Company.
TWO LAND GRANTS ON PARCHMENT.
The House Of McAllister Threatened With
Divorce Scandal-Trust Of
Safe and Lock Men.

ton IN Cnlcag0 Within rev days.
A trust Of all the safe and lock men in
the United Statcs, involving s6.000, 900,
is on the tapis.
Within the next ninety days all the
telephone wires at Cincinnati will be
laid underground.
Fong Hoy, a Chinaman, is held in st.
Louis for manufacturing opium for
smoking purposes.
There il talk OF formal consolidation
Mississippi railroads.
The brewers Of Cincinnati will fight in
court an additional tax levy Of $500, 600
assessed against them.
Texas has established q quarantine
station on Red river. where the Santa
Fe road enters the State.
General Miles is under orders to throw
troops into Choctaw nation whenever
Indian Agent Bennett calls for them.
The Chicago Inter Ocean has begun a
hot wer on the anthracite combine and
demands both civil and criminal prose-
cution.
The largest artificial stone in the world
forms the base OF the Bartholdi Statue
OF Liberty on Bedloe's Island. New York
Harbor.
The circular OF the Treasury Depart
ment requiring crews Of vessels on the
Great Lakes to be yaccinated has been
revoked.
| The late Father Mollinger's assumed
fortune OF $40, 600, 900 has been dwindled
down to matter-of-fact valuation Of
about 100000.
| A train mile and quarter in length
was lately hauled over the Reading rail
road by single engine. 1t consisted OF
$50 empty freight cars.
Major Harvey, United States Pension
Agent Of Detroit, paid off the $4,000 pen
sions OF Michigan in six days, thus sur
passing all previous records.
Captain Berckman, OF the American
Steel Barge Company. is investigating
the Texas coast, looking to securing a
harbor for the whaleback ships.
Judge Short, the leader OF a notorious
band OF cattle thieves in the Bad Lands,
N. d., has been captured and lynched,
together with several Of his men.
Governor Francis has proclaimed DC.
tober FL next as a public Thanksgiv-
ing day and holiday throughout the
State oil Missouri, calling 1t Columbus
day.
The people of New York are not afraid
OF a cholera epidemic this fall, and are
going about their business just as though
the scourge had not crept past the bar
riers.
Over hundred houses in different
parts OF Memphis have been condemned
as unsanitary by the Board of Health
and the owners have been notified te
raze and burn them.
The State Legislature of Pennsylvania
at the session OF 1878, appropriated
100000 to pay the military and Other
expenses of the labor riots at Pittsbur,
during the preceding year.
A Detroit paper says the confusion il
the administration of the quarantine
regulations In that city has reached such
pass that the customs officers have
thrown up their hands in despair.
The house OF Ward McAllister is men
aced with divorce scandal. The wifi,
OF Haywood, the son OF Ward McAllis
ter, has threatened her husband with
arrest for desertion and non-support.
The New York Central now owns tn,
biggest engine. 1t is No. 9)3. Its driv
ing wheels are seven feet two inches
and man may walk erect beneath tn,
boiler. The monster is for fast trai1
service.
The street pageant which New Yorl
will get up for its Columbian festivities
will be lighted by 10O-candle electri,
torches borne alongside the floats, aut
receiving electricity from storage bat
teries on the floats.
The proceedings at New York in tn,
case of the steamer South Portland
seized by the United States Government
on the allegation that she was laden will
arms for the revolutionists in Venezuela
have been dismissed for lack OF evidence
Acting Secretary Chandler has ordered
the payment of 100000 authorized b,
Congress as an indemnity to the Sioui
Indians for 5000 ponies taken by tn,
Government some years ago, during one
of the Indian outbreaks in the North
west.
The East Tennessee Railroad Com
pany has issued an order requiring alb
stinence from the use of intoxicatin,
drinks on the part of it's employees; alst
hat they shall, while in the company
service, keep away from places where Ia
toxicanis are sold, and lend their influ
: ence to keep others away.
In lot OF scrap and waste paper re
Gently unloaded at the paper mill il
Palmyra, Mich, were found two lane
grants on parchment, bearing the sigma
lures of John Adams and Martin Van
Buren,. The first was drawn in 1910 To-
\ strip OF Virginia soil, and the other il
1910 for section OF Mississippi.
Without any explanation the Nicke
Plate has put into effect a psssenpe
rate of $l2.50 from Chicago to New York
being a cut OF 1850. The Chairman o
the Central Traffic Association is irwin,
to find out what it means and to proven
a decentralization, but rate war seem
likely.
Strangers have appeared at Guthrie
o. T., with box of gold quartz whicl
assays $40, 900 to the ton. They claim
that they found it within easy distanc
of that city and that the quantity is I'm
limited. There is much excitement owe
the matter and further development
are expected.
The Southern Pacific railroad hs
given notice of Its withdrawal from tn
, Western Traffic Association, which i
now practically dead. The Transcon
, tinental Association is also going +
pieces rapidly, and the only association
, west of Chicago which is really of an
! value is the Western Freight Associa
. ton.
Tiffany & Co., jewellers of Uniol
Square, New York, are building a ne,
factory for the manufacture of CUTLERY
: To Mckinley the firm gives credit 70
! tho stan which thav oro tak;r. a. a.