Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-04-01
EASTERN ITEMS.
Jerry Simpsons Choice
for President.
CHICAGO'S TUNNEL A FAILURE
Postmaster Becomes Tired Of Hearing
Kicks, and Proceeds TO Put
Stop to Kicking.

Expert engineers pronounce Chicago's
big tunnel failure.
A new road Is projected to connect
Lakes Superior and Michigan.
Washington lie passing through an ep-
idemic OF murder and suicide.
The Attorney General is investigating
rumors OF cattle trust in Kansas City.
Ex-Auditor Laville OF Daviess county,
Ind, IL now known to be short $lS,463.
The President has made public the
reciprocity proclamation with Nicaragua.
/ Fred Douglass accepts the position Of
representative from Hayti TO the Worlds
Fair.
| Fourteen indictments in all have been
found against the Louisiana lottery offi.
cials.
Legal proceedings will at once be be-
gun against all the lotteries in Ken
lucky.
Jerry Simpsons choice for the third
party Presidential candidate is lgnatius
DonneIly.
Central Park, New York, is reported
to be invaded by lot Of wild and fero-
cious dogs.
| San Antonio, Tex, is without money.
1t was unable to pay it's officials for the
past month.
According to the recent State enumer-
alton New York would be entitled to
three more Congressman.
DR.. Thomas s. Robertson OF New York
has q new treatment for alcoholism, and
many patients testify to its efficiency.
1t is expected that the long distance
telephone line between Chicago and New
York will be completed within year.
The relief fund in Philadelphia for the
Russian famine sufferers now amounts to
$l0l 1896. 1t ia in charge of Drexel 4 Co.
The Legislature OF Ohio has decreed
that the car stove must 60 by Septem Der
| |, 1898, on all roads over forty miles in
length.
The Standard Oil Company is said to
possess all the gas leases in Indiana,
with the exception OF those OF Peru and
kokomo.
The new Woodbridge gun under con-
struction at Watertown arsenal is ex-
pected to throw a 800 pound projectile
twelve miles.
| George Francis Train modestly de-
clines to talk OF his chances for Presi-
Dental nomination by the third party at
omaha on July 4.
Fifty-eight negroes from Arkansas
sailed last week from New York for Ii
IBERIA. They were sent out by the Amer
lean Colonization Society.
A syndicate at Indianapolis has been
| rx;,, 80 1ouos hn (iti-
zens' Railway Company of Chicago. The
option price is 2,75o,o00.
The widow of Jefferson Davis has
brought suit in the United States Circuit
Court in New York to restrain the Bel
ford Company from selling her book.
The prospects of large yield of fruit
in Southern Indiana were never better
than at present, with the exception Of
the peach crop, which will be very much
smaller.
The well-known economist and finan-
cier, Erastus Wiman, talks seriously of
war between England and the United
States as the outcome of the Behring
Sea complications.
Vice-President Oakman OF the New
Jersey Central says he has been offered
the Presidency of the Richmond Ter
minal, and that the affairs OF the com
pany will be settled at once.
The New York Stock Exchange has
placed in the unlisted department $685.
100000 OF new sugar stock, which was
authorized at the last meeting OF the
stockholders of the sugar trust.
Barrett Scott, Treasurer of Holt coun-
ty, Neb., has been impeached by the
Board OF Supervisors and removed from
office for depositing moneys in his own
name and pocketing the interest.
A deal has been perfected by which
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad secures
control OF all the Richmond Terminal
properties, the Richmond and Danville
system with its leased lines and the East
Tennessee system.
The emigration movement continues
in Arkansas, and from present indica-
tions it is estimated that fully 1000 ne
groes will emigrate within the next two
or three months, some going to Oklaho-
ma and others to Liberia.
A Congressional apportionment bill,
which as nearly as possible divides the
State equally between the two parties.
has been prepared at Albany, and will
speedily he passed by the Legislature
and signed by the Governor of New
York.
A number of lightweight gold pieces
from California have have been received |
at the New York Subtreasury. These
are stamped al" and returned to the |
banks from which they are received. 1t
is thought the Chinese are sweating"
the coin.
Ex-Governor Thayer has made move |
toward contesting the right of Governor
Boyd to hold the office OF Governor OF
Nebraska. He contends that no man,
date from the United States Supreme
Court had yet been issued reversing the
State Courts holding.
An unusual amount OF inventive talent
is now being used to prevent the occur.
renee OF fires. The spur in this line is
caused by the statement OF fire losses in
the United States and Canada during
1891, which aggregated sl35, 900 900, an
increase OF 20 per cent. over 1890.
The House Committee on Naval Al
Iairs has made an elaborate report on
the condition of the navy and the est
mates necessary to continue ship build.
ng, which, the report adds, has been
successful, there having
been but few Insignificant mistakes.
At Cheyenne d. s. Griffin protested to
he postmaster, because his daughter
vas unable to secure his mail unless
With written order. Gillispie, the post.
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