Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-04-29
Negroes in Virginia Establish an
Industrial School.
FLOODS IN THE ToMBIGBEE RIVER.
The Louisiana Lottery Will Dissolve and
Go Out Of Business at the Expi-
ration of Its Charter.

murderers in her jail.
Wholesale grocers in the East are or
ganixing against sugar trust.
The street lighting companies of Kan
sns City have reduced their rates.
Typhus fever has broken out in the
New York almshouse and workhouse.
The Texas House OF Representatives
has passed the railroad bond limitation
bill.
The separate coach law for whites and
blacks will be enforced throughout Ken
lucky.
The farmers OF Missouri have united
for war OF determination against
wolves.
A Brooklyn inventor proposes to tap
the earth's interior for heat and thus
save fuel.
Tiresome tariff talk in the House is
what the country may anticipate Tor the
next two months.
The litigation fees In connection with
the settlement OF the Tilden estate in
New York amounted to $500, 900.
Physicians in New York and Brooklyn
are using electric street currents in Civ
| ing galvanic treatment to patients.
Quebec wants to be made a free port
In order to secure from the United
States a remission of tonnage dues.
The Senate has passed the bill appro.
| priating 500, 600 toward paying for the
q. A. K. encampment at Washington.
The next conference OF the Reformed
I.atter-day Saints VIII he held at La
mont, Iowa, the home Of Joseph Smith.
May 8 is arbor day in New York, and
already the schools throughout the State
are making preparations for its observ-
ance.
Ohio farmers who have commenced
blowing report finding myriads OF grass.
hoppers just below the surface, and all
predict scourge.
The overflow Of the Red river OF the
North indicates repetition of the dis
astrous floods of 1880. st. Vincent,
Mimi, is flooded
The $4,000 candle power with which
Liberty enlightens the world in New
York harbor is to be replaced by one of
100, 00J-candle power.
An unofficial report of the Illinois
wheat crop gives conditions good in 40
per cent. Of counties, fair in 80 per cent.
and poor in 10 per cent.
The losses by the floods in the Tom
bigbee river, in Mississippi and Ala
bama, are very great. AT least 100 ne
groes have been drowned.
The citizens OF Terre Haute, Ind, have
instituted social boycott against the
suspected Aldermen of that city by re-
fusing to shake hands with them.
The present high prices of Goldfish will
encourage New England fishing firms to
send a fleet larger tLan usual to the
Grand Banks, and vessels are fitting out.
The section OF the new code putting
tax OF $50 on each person selling cigar
cites or cigarette papers has gone into
full force and effect throughout Missis-
sippi.
The village OF Towanda, recently swept
away by a Kansas twister, will be rebuilt
made in her behalf by her generous sister
towns.
John A. Morris OF the Louisiana State
Lottery Company says that the lottery
company would dissolve and go out Of
business at the expiration OF its charter
in 1895.
The Minnesota Supreme Court has de-
cided that municipal corporations can
not legally grant exclusive franchises.
This affects water and street-railway
franchises.
At Creede, COL, a prospector has found
u petritied man. The head has the APP
pearance of being scalped. The toes are
gone, but otherwise the body is said to
be perfect.
Robert j. Walker, grandson of ex-Sec-
rotary Walker, who was recently re-
moved from his position in the Treasury
Department by Secretary Foster, has
been reinstated.
Washington is DESTROYS OF making the
approaching Grand Army encampment
the most enjoyable, as it certainly will
be the largest, in which the veterans
have participated.
The public debt WAS reduced 81 1893 ,04l
during March, and now stands at $685.
l27 ga without including the balance OF
1872, S9S, 1884 and the $l00, 200, 900 gold re-
serve in the treasury.
A Lumberman's Trust, embracing all
the saw mills in the state, has been
formed in Georgia, under the name OF
the Lumbermen's Exchange, with
capital OF $40, 100000.
The colored people OF Prince William
county, Va, have undertaken to estab-
fish what 10 said to be the first indus
trial school in the land for colored
youths under colored auspices.
1t is believed at Santa Fe that Jay
Gould is contemplating the purchase of
the Pecos Valley railroad and the Texas
Pacific and the extension OF that prop
erty north throughout New Mexico.
A resolution was presented in the
meeting of the ex-Confederates at New
Orleans, declaring it was the sense of
that body that the late Confederate
States should grant an annual pension
to Mrs. Jefferson Davis.
The past week has shown the largest
arrival of immigrants at New York for
years. Twenty-one steamships arrived,
which carried ,466 cabin and 1904
steerage passengers. OF these latter
l,2lS are detained at quarantine.
The Congregational ministers of Bos-
ton and vicinity adopted resolutions con
demning the Chinese exclusion act and
requesting Massachusetts Senators to
use all lawful means to prevent its
adoption by the United States Senate.
Fred Wittrock, alias "Jim Cum
mings," the famous express robber, was
discharged recently from the Missouri
State Prison. Most Of the time spent
there by Wittrock was spent in the hos
pital ward. A paralytic stroke nearly
ended his life, and he now energies from
the barred gate cripple.
From the most accurate data obtain
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