Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-06-24
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
Minister Enters a Crusade Against
Church Fairs, Etc.
KANSAS WHEAT OUTLOOK GOOD.
Schemes to Defraud Hotels at New York
DiscOvered-New York Board
of Education.

DIsC0vered-New York Board
of Education.
The New York Grant monument fun,
is complete.
Chicago has an elevated road, and i
elated over it.
In Minneapolis 7,s77,947 barrels o
-four were made last year.
The exports OF gold up to date thi
year have been exceptionally light.
The cotton acreage of Tennessee will
be 10 per cent. smaller than last year.
Chicago Board of Trade market qnots
tions will soon be distributed free to tn
public.
A Tilted woman in Chicago hired ,
prizefighter to spoil her former lover
beauty.
The wallpaper trust has been incor
porated in New York with $4,000, O0I
capital.
young Methodist minister has beer
arrested at Atlanta, Ca, for jumpin,
board bills.
Gas is to be manufactured in Ions
Island and piped under the East rive
into New York.
Colonel w. B. Remy, Judge Advocat,
General OF the navy, has been placed OF
the retired list.
Louisiana's Supreme Court decides
that the "Jim Grow" law does not apply
to interstate passengers.
The New York Board OF Education il
preparing to wipe out all saloons in the
vicinity Of schoolhouses.
The Kansas crop report shows whea
acreage equal to last year, with an ex
cess Of corn, but backward.
For three vacant chaplaincies in the
United States army over 1900 applica.
tions have been placed on file.
For killing a negro Section Boss An
derson OF Greenland, Fla. has been
threatened with negro uprising.
United States troops have been sent
to the scene of the trodbles between
stockmen and rustlers in Wyoming.
The city OF Chicago, feeling that its
attractiveness is somewhat at stake, has
organized society for the prevention oil
smoke.
Mississippi planters in the river bot.
tom are moving for permanent reduc-
ton OF tax assessments on account oil
overflows.
The crops in Kansas are in grand
shape. Corn is growing well, and the
wheat is heading out. In Nebraska, to ,,
the crops promise we'll.
An ordinance licensing gambling
houses in Omaha was signed by the
Mayor, and they are running wide open
in violation of State law.
There is talk of submitting the Lou
isiana Senatorship to vote OF the white
people of the State, the Legislature be-
ing unable to agree on candidate.
The descendants of the immortal Davy
Crockett will celebrate the 106th ami
versary Of that deceased hero and states
man at Rutherford, Tenn, August II.
An unknown foreigner has created a
reign Of terror in Cambridge, Mass, by
stabbing number OF women, whom he
accosted on the streets after nightfall.
Owing to the long season of spring
rains, much OF the bottom lands in West
Tennessee, heretofore planted in cotton,
will this season grow corn or some other
crop.
A New York insurance company will
put up building having twelve stories
and high gable, with a street frontage
Of 80 feet 6 inches. 1t resemb les an
Egyptian obelisk.
DR.. Maggie OF the bureau of vital sta
tistics says that so cosmopolitan has New
York become in recent years that more
than 100 languages and dialects are
spoken in the city.
Governor John Young Brown of Ken
lucky has signed the bill compelling all
in the State to provide separ-
ate cars for negroes. The law will 90
into effect in ninety days.
Rev, J. W. Wilson OF indianapolis has
entered upon vigorous crusade against
church fairs grab bags, raffles and ali
other schemes to raise funds for church
purposes in Legitimate ways.
The labor organizations of New York
,ity have begun war upon the Chinese.
Il is their purpose to arouse az INST the
such cyclone OF public ha.
red as will drive him from the town.
A large and finely equipped hospital
las been dedicated in Atlanta, bearing
he name of the late H. w. Grady, ed
tor of the Constitution. This memorial
s the result OF popular subscription.
The Interstate Elevated railway of
Kansas City is to be changed from
team to an electric system at a cost or
30, 900. 1t is expected that the recon
truction will be completed so that the
inc can ee run by July l.
One of the largest and hardest log Jams
yer known in the Northwest has been
orming in the st. Croix river at Eagle |
Stand. 1t is over five miles long. and |
he logs are piled up in all shapes, and
contains over 100000, 900 feet.
The Wjgwam in Chicago, where the
Democratic National Convention will
leet, has frontage of 500 feet on Mich
gan avenue, and is $50 feet in width. Il
J the largest convention hall ever
rected, and its full capacity is 10000.
The first session OF the German Ban
at Conference was held at Cedar Rap.
Is, Ia, recently, with nearly 10000
rethren present. Many important
uestions were settled, The question OF
lowing women to break bread was
rought up, but was not passed.
Schemes to defraud hotels at New
ork with the assistance of the cashier
ave been discovered, and Grin j, OFT.
cad cashier of the Gilsey House, a man
amed Burrows and one Nathaniel Aker-
IAN have been arrested. The scheme
as to tear up checks for dinners and
se substitute for smaller sums.
Prof. II c. Adams, the statistician of
le Interstate Commerce Commission,