Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-04-08
EASTERN ITEMS.
John Browns Fort Taken
to Chicago.
A SUBTERRANEAN RIVER.
The New York Legislature Defeats the
Bill to Annex Brooklyn to
New York City.

A scheme has been formulated for min
ing beneath the city Of Aspen, Col.
A subterranean river Of vast extent
has been tapped in Plainfield, NJ.
Ford county, KAN, looks for 800 fami-
lies Of Danes to settle there this year.
A new cable to connect the Central
American States with Cuba is soon to be
laid.
James Calhoun, postmaster at Big
Pine, Wyo., Is dofaulter to the govern
ment.
Franklin, Pa, is in the throes Of re-
ligious revival, business even being neg
lected.
A Kansas man applied for a divorce
because his wife would no longer sup
port him.
The Minnesota license law has been
declared void, and saloons may run all
the time.
Chicago has given up its war against
the English sparrows. The sparrows
hold the field.
Another vessel loaded with food for the
starving Russians will leave Philadel
phia on April ID.
Minnie johnson confesses to having
fred the female reformatory at Indian
apols on March 1.
Railroad officials estimate that only
one-third of the Western crops OF 1891
have thus far been moved.
| Secretary Tracy expresses fear that the
House will be parsimoniOus in the mat
ter of naval appropriations.
The Massachusetts House has decided
to make the salary OF the Governor 49,
600, the present figure being $4,000.
| The bottom and 5000, 200 gallons of
water one day last week dropped out OF
the new reservoir at Leavenworth, Kan
The Commissioners report in favor Of
the entrance OF the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad into Washington City by an ele
waited road.
Reports to the Philadelphia Board oil
| Health OF contagious diseases and deaths
| therefrom indicate death rate far above
| the normal.
The Congressional Committee on Pub
lie Lands has reported favorably on the
projected Mariposa wagon road into the
Yosemite Valley.
Ex-Auditor Lavelle, indicted for at
tempting to burn the Daviess county
counts over $4,000.
Alleged Doodle transactions are re-
ported to have existed among the Brook
lyn Aldermen in giving the elevated
railway franchise of 1886.
The Senate bill to change the name of
the customs collection district and port
OF Wilmington, CAL, to that of Los An
geles has passed the Senate.
Two rain companies in Kansas are
making contracts with the counties of
that State at 5000 county to produce
from one to two inches of rain.
According to the new count of the pop
ulation OF Buffalo by the State enumer-
ators the total will be 2S4 900. The CEN
sus figures in 1890 were 255, 1854.
A bill has been introduced in the Ohio
Legislature to enlarge and extend the
Ohio canal so that boats can be lowed
from Lake Erie to the Ohio river.
The State Department officials say that
there is no truth in the report that the
United States has established an alliance
with the Argentine confederation.
The Legislature at Albany has defeated
the bill to annex Brooklyn to New York
city. Tammany rule in the latter place
is the chief impeachment to the CONSOLE
dation.
AT present 2 691 students are attending
the University of Michigan at Ann Ar.
Dor, which is the largest number ever
attending an American institution oil
learning.
David Wenger, who struck rich vein
OF silver bearing ore while digging a
has purchased machinery, and will de-
velop the lead.
Testimony is being taken at Chicago
in the disputed heirship to the estate OF
Samuel Sankey OF San Francisco regard
ing the title to $50, 900 worth of property
situated in Chicago.
The old Harper's Ferry engine-house
fort, which John Brown stormed and
captured, and behind whose brick wal 5
he bid defiance to a powerful force, has
been removed to Chicago.
The recent heavy disbursements have
reduced the treasury balance to 500 ,65l,
325, of which ST., 81 ,20l is on deposit
with national banks and SIS, 225 900 is in
subsidiary and minor coin.
The Nicaraguan government is max
ing the most liberal offers to intending
man 240 acres and to a single man 10
acres OF good coffee ground.
Governor Flower declined to sign bill
fixing the salaries of the Brooklyn Alder
men at $1,000 on the ground that the
Legislature should only grant PERM ssion
to local authorities to fix salaries.
General Miles believes the great need
of this country is coast-delens;ve works.
tIe thinks too much dependence is placed
on the navy. Fortiications are necessi-
ties, and they may save the country from
great losses.
1t is openly charged in New York that
corruption fund of at least SO, U0O, 900
was raised by interested capitalists and
stock jobbers for the passage OF the bill
in the New Jersey Legislature legalizing
the coal combination OF the Reading
railroad.
| At De kalb, Mo-, open hostilities be-
tween the temperance and saloon inter
ests have created reign of terror. The
saloonmen at last reports had possession
of the business part OF the town, and
the temperance people were afraid to
leave their homes.
1t is believed in New York that the
Drayton- Barrowe scandal will force Mrs.
Viii lam Astor to refrain from social
functions this season. Mrs. Drayton's
other sisters--Mrs. Orme Wilson and
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