Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-02-05
EASTERN ITEMS.
Jack the Slasher Capt
ured in New York.
SELF CONFESSED PATRICIDE.
Missouri State University Building
Destroyed-Disoovery Of a
Wonderful Cave.

st. Joseph, Mo-, has large hotel for
colored people only.
Pontoon bridges across the Missouri
river are said to be failures.
The Whisky Trust is not scared by a
threat at prosecution in Chicago.
The estate OF the late Senator Plumb |
OF Kansas is valued at 100000.
The buildings Of the Worlds Fair will
contain twenty nine acres OF glass.
Just %, 1893 alien immigrants arrived
at the port Of Philadelphia during 1891.
At the annual meeting Of the Sugar
Trust the capital stock was increased by
$26, 0O0 600.
Maine rivers are still open, and the
icemen are afraid they will have no har-
vest this season.
A compilation Of the funds in eight
savings banks Of Baltimore gives total
Of t38, 81S,647.13.
Congressman Brosius proposes to tele-
graph 1900 to st. Petersburg for
Russian sufferers.
An English syndicate, with ~, 100 900,
has purchased twenty-three OF the TWEEN
ty-nine flour mills OF Utah Territory.
Baltimore lie to have new athletic
association called the Maryland, incor-
porated with capital stock Of 1920, 900.
The popular vote was about IL, 900, 90
in 1884, about IL Al 5000 in 1887, and it
will probably reach 13,000,OOO votes in
1890.
DR.. Kelley asks the parties who wish
to start an "institute at Excelsior
Springs 5000, 900 Tor the State OF Mis-
souri,.
Thieves recently held up small fu-
neral procession In Hillsdale county,
Mich, and robbed the minister and I'M
dertaker.
Over s47 bills for the payment OF
Southern war claims have been intro
duced In the present House OF Repre-
sentatives.
Leavenworth is to be the western de-
pot for the Kelley bichloride remedy,
and it is not improbable that DR.. Kelley
will go there to live.
One planter in Louisiana will this year
draw from the United States treasury
bounty OF $S5, 900 upon sugar product
OF 4,26J 900 pounds.
Another outbreak OF looting and blood
shed among the miners Of Tennessee is
almost hourly expected, and the State
troops are preparing for it.
A poor man in st. Louis who some
years ago befriended beggar in distress
| has just received 500, 900 remembrance
| from that individuals estate.
A $4,000 monument is to be erected at
| Waldheim cemetery, Chicago, to mark
the resting place OF Anarchists Parsons,
| Spies, Lingg, Engel and Fischer.
The Kansas Board OF Railroad Com
missioners has ordered the railroads OF
that State to put into effect by February
new and reduced schedule OF rates.
| The ice on the Sangamon river in Cen
trail Illinois is ten inches thick. This is
the first winter in three years that ice
The new Chairmen OF the House Com
mittees are nearly all ex-Confederates.
Only two OF them served in the Federal
army, and majority Of them fought on
the other side.
A bill has finally been introduced in
the Senate OF New York providing for
an appropriation Of 100000 for the
Worlds Fair. This is going one better
than California.
The Carnegie gift for great library in
Pittsburg, which now aggregates 80, 1l0,-
900, provides that $S0, 900 shall be annu-
ally devoted to the purchase of Amer
lean works OF art.
| That the lottery question does not con-
Germ the State of Louisiana merely is
clear from the introduction at Frankfort
of bill to prohibit Kentucky lotteries
under criminal penalty.
| The insurance on the Missouri State
University building, which WAS burned,
was 1888, 800. The number OF volumes
destroyed in the library was about q, 900
books and IS, 900 pamphlets.
Senator PETER of Kansas makes haste
to apologize for his bill to lend $100, 000,-
900 to the farmers of Indiana. He says
he introduced the bill by request, and is
in no wise responsible for it.
The collateral inheritance tax on the
estate of the late Governor Filden will
will be enriched by this amount, and the
County Treasurer's fees will be $1,000.
The Mayor and Council of Philadel-
phia are at odds on appropriations for
pavements of $4,000. The Mayor
wants all the money used to improve
Broad street. The Councilmen want
each ward to have its share.
A wonderful cave is said to have been
| found near Peterborough, Ont. The
| floor is rich in silver ore, twelve pounds
of the rock containing $ll worth OF sill
yer. The sides of the cave are marble,
and the ceilings are covered with huge
| stalactites.
The sub-treasury in New York did
more than q billion-dollar business last
year, the receipts aggregating 81 ,227,.
| 3S4, 52l.Sl. Among the largest transac-
tons were $177 ,40l .00,.S3 received from
customs duties and $52, ola, 442.06 ex-
pended in the purchase OF silver bullion
Under the influence OF religious ex-
element at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich,
William Coulton confessed to the muir
| der OF his father, and gave the particu-
lars Of the crime. He had been tried by
| jury and acquitted, therefore his con
| viction on the charge of murder is i'm
| possible.
An experimental sidewalk is now in
operation in Chicago. 1t consists of two
movable platforms 800 feet long, moving
side by side in the same direction, one
| at the speed of three, the other at six
miles per hour. II has carried $40 per.
sons at one time, and seems to be a sue
cess. 1t will be used at the Worlds
Fair.
"Jack the Slasher," who. suddenly
walking up behind a partially intoxi-
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