Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-07-29
Grain Acreage Throughout the
Southern States.
THE TENNESSEE GRAPES MoLDING.
State Of New York Goes Into the Landlord
Business-Car Manufacturing
Companies Combine.

The new capitol OF Kansas at topeka
is slowly crumbling to pieces.
A great strike OF gold ore lie reported
twenty-five miles from Creede, Col.
Immigrants to the number OF 2,242
arrived in this country during May.
The Burlington threatens to withdraw
from the Western Traffic Association.
Immense beds OF asphalt have recent
ly been discovered in Northern Texas.
The Kansas railroads are putting down
their rates for the benefit OF harvest
hands.
Last year the aggregate loss Of prop
erty from fire in the United States was
$40, COX, 600.
The National Executive Committee OF
the third party is out with an appeal for
campaign funds.
In Middle Tennessee grapes are mold
ing and rotting, and it Is feared the crop
will be short one.
Settlers in the Indian Territory are
alarmed over the Arapahoe ghost dances,
and want them stopped.
New Jersey is failing and cropping her
ballot box suffers and decorating them
with penitentiary uniforms.
The rise in the river at st. Louis is
throwing many helpless people on the
relief committee for support.
General Horace Porter will receive
1875 900 in place OF the $3.50, 900 he asked
for to complete the Grant monument.
A company with 81 600, 900 capital has
been chartered at Trenton to propel
street and other cars by compressed air.
The Indiana oil field has received
boom by three wells just drilled in near
Portland, which produce 500 barrels
day.
Edward O'Kelley, who killed Bob
Ford, the slayer OF Jesse James, has beon
sentenced to the Colorado psnitentiary
for life.
An Atchison (Kan.) bride is not only
supporting her husband, but is paying
something every month on his first wife's
funeral expenses.
Spencer county, KY, is threatened
with natural-gas boom, gas having been
struck at a point about q mile and hall
from Taylorsville.
The car-manufacturing companies OF
Michigan have combined. The capacity
of the trust Is 100 cars day, and the
profits 81 900, 900 per year.
Several hundred negro emigrants have
left Christian county, Ky, in the last
| few days for Kansas and other Western
States to reside permanently.
The Typographical Union of New York
city has just secured rich plum in the
shape of an agreement with the govern
ment to do the pCstofiice printing.
The State of New York has gone into
business as landlord. 1t will rent camp
sites of five acres each in the Adiron-
dack region for from $25 to $3.50 year.
Philadelphia possesses the most re-
markable STRENGTHENING contractor on
record. He sends check to the con-
science fund after every heavy rain
storm.
The total amount of the pension ap-
preparation bill as agreed upon in con-
terence is SAG, 1877 $50, or $l1 ,9l2, 2S4
greater than the amount voted by the
House.
On July for the first time since 1885
the State of Tennessee was able to pay
the interest on the State debt without
borrowing dollar. There is now re-
mainder of $232, 900 in the treasury.
During the last nine months the inn
| DOTls Vi GOutG tuIO WIG OultCd PbatE6
amounted to 465, lS7, 1882 pounds, an in
crease OF upward of 100, 900, 600 pounds
over the imports for the same period last
year.
New York is growing at great rate,
especially in the upper part. The valu-
alton of real estate has increased over
SAC, 600, 900 in one year, chiefly in the
wards that are being built up with new
houses.
The magnitude OF the work now in
progress at Conewago and vicinity along
the line of the Pennsylvania railroad is
very little understood. One thousand
men will work year before the under
taking is completed.
The grain acreage throughout the
Southern States is greatly increased this
year. King Cotton yields large portion
Of his territory to wheat, corn and oat
crops. The farmers are producing grain
fully 25 per cent. cheaper than any year
since emancipation.
The rains continue to break the Tom
bigbee's left banks in Mississippi, de-
stroying thousands of acres of fine cot
ION and corn and sweeping away all
bridges erected since the April floods.
The damage will not fall short of $780,
100, and hundreds of families are on the
verge Of starvation.
Governor Buchanan of Tennessee and
the Prison Inspector have entered suit
against the Tennessee Coal and Iron
Railroad Company for $l47,000 lease,
money due from the time the 500 con-
vcts were not allowed to work by the
East Tennessee miners, and for expenses,
etc, for maintaining guards and militia.
Organ grinders are scarcely tolerated
at Pittsburg. A local Justice has just
ruled that it is not an assault to throw a
pailful of water upon an organ grinder,
when the water is thrown by a house
holder who is on his own premises and
annoyed by the strolling artist.
John McHeron, Philadelphia cart
man, has been somewhat surprised by
the receipt OF draft for $4,000 from a
son who was taken with the gold fever
about fifteen years ago and has finally
turned up as the superintendent of a
rich silver mine in Mexico with an in
come OF ~ $1,000.
The Board of Supervisors of Fairfax
county, Va, at its last meeting made an
order directing the Clerk OF the County
Court, f. w. Richardson, to advertise
for bids for the privilege of Autograph
| ing the last will and testament OF George
Washington, the original copy Of which
is on file in the Clerks office. The will
is in the handwriting of Washington.
A 500 pound projectile fred from the
United States proving ground at Sandy