Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-12-06
An Investigation Of the Machinery
of the Miantonomah.
AGGREGATE OF THE PUBLIC DEBT.
All the Cotton Manufacturers Of Rhode
Island Raise the Wages Of Mill
Hands--Etc.


In Kansas they are using the empty
jails for the storing Of surplus wheat.
whiting contests have been inaugu-
rated at church festivals In Sedalia, Mo.
On March 4, 1893, twenty-five seats in
the United States Senate become vacant.
The Democrats will have majority Of
ninety in the next House Of Representa-
tives.
Tammany is already making prepare
tions to attend Cieveland's Inauguration
in large numbers.
The strike At Homestead, Penn, has
been declared off by the leaders Of the
Amalgamated Association.
Several Pennsylvania manufacturing
establishments have closed down on &C.
count OF the scarcity OF water.
The men who are taken back at the
Carnegie works are confronted with
heavy reduction in their wages.
The division OF Kansas into two States
is being agitsted with more or less We
hemence by the newspapers OF that State.
Judge King at San Antonio, Texas,
has decided the Arkansas Pass road must
pay its debts, and the receivers were die
charged.
The City Council Of Columbia, Mo-,
has granted twenty-year electric light
and water works franchise to st. Louis
company.
The first estimate of the amount lost
by Chicago through the Irregularities in
the water Office is $500, 900 for the year
1892 alone.
Secretary Foster OF the Treasury does
not think that q new issue of bonds to
meet the financial complications will be
authorized.
The aggregate of the public debt Of
the United States, including certificates
and Treasury notes, was 81, 564 1897 $40
on October 81.
An appeal for aid has been issued by
the United Hebrew Charities. The sum
OF $50, 900 is needed for the year ending
with next October.
| During the ten months ended with Oc-
tober the gross earnings of 126 railroads
in the Unites States were $422, 49,, $40,
an increase OF $23, S22, 4l5.
In 1890 the production OF WOO in the
United States amounted to 265, 900, 900
pounds, and the imports OF wool for the
same year reached los, 43l ,2Sl pounds.
An investigation OF the Miantonomah' g
machinery develops the fact that much
faulty material is in the heavier parts
and collapse may occur at any time.
Lieutenant Peary has obtained three
years. leave of absence, and will attempt
a journey to Greenland and over the
frozen Polar Sea with but one compan-
ion.
A conspiracy to cheat the city of Phila-
delphia by the use OF bogus coke checks
Mt the Ninth Ward gas works has been
unearthed and ak people are under ar
rest.
ALI the cotton manufacturers in Rhode
Island are increasing the wages Of the
mill hands. The latest is the Manville
Company OF Providence, which employs
800 hands.
President Harrison does not propose
to go into retirement, but he will, &c
long as his present vigorous health con
tinues, labor in his beloved profession o.
the law.
Concrete as a substitute for piling in
foundations has proved disastrous in
New Orleans, La. The new st. Paul's
Church, on which it was tried, ia sink
ing and is being torn down.
Plans of construction OF New York
city's proposed $80,000,00 four. track
underground electric railway have bee 4
| adopted. The route is to be fifteen miles
long. Fare is to be cents for each
passenger.
The tunnel at Niagara Falls is finished
J and the falls are to be harnessed by mex,
March. Forty-fve thousand horse
. power OF electric current will be trans
mitted from there to Buffalo and $1,000
to other ponds.
A gas we'll near Montpelier, Ind.
which for some time past has been sup
plying that community, suddenly began
blowing oil, which percolated through
the pipes and made its appearance in
the houses of patrons.
i Owing to the almost total failure O
the crop West, cabbage is higher and
scarcer in Chicago than it has been fol
twenty-five years. Dealers predict that
there will be rise of 500 per cent. in the
price of the vegetable.
Joseph l.. Monitor, coin clerk in the
United States Sub-Treasury at New Or.
leans, has been arrested, having been
discovered in petty populations. lie was
in the habit OF taking 81 from each 81 ,OOC
package OF silver tied up by him.
Sinclair, cashier of the Armour Pack
ing Company at New York, has been
missing since last week. 1t is estimated
that the company's losses will be not
less than $50, 900, while some believe the
amount will run up to $50, 900 or $50 900.
The Illinois Steel Company's immense
plant at South Chicago, employing
5000 hands, is expected to shut dow
on December l5 for two or three months.
Uncertainty as to the possible changes
in the tariff 10 said to be the primary
cause.
Eleven hundred Sicilian immigrants
were landed ut New Orleans recently.
The Custom House inspectors sickened
while making examination of their ef-
tects. Most Of them were placed aboard
trains or boats and sent to the interior
TO work ON sugar plantations.
Mrs. Mary 4. Lease, speaking of her
candidacy for the United States Senate
in Kansas, says; Zone peculiar fact
connected with the affair is that have
received hundreds of letters of encour-
agements from men since the announce
ment OF my candidacy, hut not one from
a woman. / am the only woman who
has ever been mentioned In connection
with place OF this kind, and naturally
expected some encouragement from my
own sex"
A bill has been introduced into the
Alabama Legislature that will practically
do away with the negro vote in that
State. IL provides that sill persons
whose State and county taxes as as
eesad do NOT amount IN Az will NOT ~,