Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-10-18
THE AUER INcANDEscENT LIGHT co.
An Attempt Being Made to Reorganize
the Iron Hall Order-Telephone
Girls In Uniform.

Boston 10 to have . statue OF John
Boyle O'Reilly In Copley Square.
The estate OF the late George William
Curtis amounts to about 10000.
The admirers Of Whittier contemplate
the erection OF statue in Central Park.
Hartford Medical Association has just
celebrated It's one hundredth anniver-
sary.
Mississippi engineers recommend only
one years work under existing sppropri-
atoms.
Ex-Private Iams Of Homestead court
martial fame 10 now clerk In Pitts
burg store.
Oil has been struck near Parkersburg,
Ind, at the depth Of 100 feet, while drill
ling for water.
An epidemic OF diphtheria has broken
out among the Indians ct the Wind
River Agency.
The net cash balance in the Treasury
is nearly $3i, 000, 900 or IS, 900 900 greater
than New York.
Philadelphia capitalists are going to
construct an independently street
car system In Boston.
A jury in New York acquitted man
who spat Tobacco juice on ~, 900 picture
in the Metropolitan Museum OF Art.
Rev, Thomas Dixon OF New York in
his Sunday sermon declared the lottery
small evil compared with horse racing.
Reports from the Southern States are
that the cotton crop 10 from 10 to % per
cent short and from one to two weeks
late.
Howard Gould has been elected direc-
| al - frnIa II
Company in place OF his father, Jay
Gould.
The long distance telephone from Chi
cago to Boston 10 nearly completed.
South Bend, Ind, has already talked to
Boston.
| President Young Of the National Base.
ball League says either salaries must be
reduced or professional baseball must go
TO the wall.
Harmony reigns over the disturbed
water corporations OF Denver, Col, aud
Omaha, Neb., and the $40, 000, 900 law
suit is settled.
j Valuable discoveries OF onyx have
been made at Bridgewater, Rockingham
county, Va. 1t is abundant and OF a
superior quality.
1t rained peas at Baltimore the other
day. 1t is believed that they were
scooped up by the wind from truck farms
in an adjoining county.
The Kiowas and Comanches are ready
to take lands in severalty. This will re-
suit in the opening Of more than 2,O00,-
900 acres to settlement.
Walter Sloan OF Burlington, N. j.,
who was supposed TO have been lost in
!, the Johnstown food, has just turned up
, at Mount Holly to receive his share OF a
legacy left him by his aunt.
In the twenty-eight years that the
Brotherhood OF Locomotive Engineers
has had existence Chief Arthur states 1t
has disbursed over 81, 900, 900 to the wild
ows and families of deceased engineers,
At Puebla, Mexico, an undertaken
billed the town with huge posters, say
ing he would reduce his funeral charges
II the cholera became epidemic there,
This melted scare and he was arrested.
At Clarksburg, Miss, the negroes were
reported to be in instruction, and had
sworn to kill the whites. A sheriff's
posse found that two negroes had been
killed and several wounded when they
reached the scene.
DIR. Douglas, the famous throat special
list who abandoned his practice and de-
D voted his whole time to General Grant
for six months during his last illness
died recently at Washington City from
the same disease which carried off the
old commander.
The statistics Of the Kelley institute,
are OF the most significant kind. There
! are now eighty-four branches established
/ in this country for the administering o
the Kelley remedy for dipsomania. Tn,
certificates OF cure each month average
8 between 1900 and 8, 200.
The Southern Pacific, ii is reported
proposes to build railroad from Mon
4 terey, Mexico, to Portland, Tex, where
IT viii connect with the San Antonio ant
3 Arkansas Pass line. Such road will be
: direct seaport route to Monterey and will
shorten the line from New York to tn,
: city Of Mexico by fully 200 miles.
Somerby, who 10 trying to reorganiz,
the Iron Hall order, In q speech at Cleve
: land, declared, with tears in his eyes
! that after he had been served with tn,
injunction In the receivership proceed
/, ings he spent the entire night on hi
knees in prayer, and that during hi
prayers the plan Of new order was re-
vealed TO him by a light from heaven
His speech d!d not take we'll.
Q The theft OF $44o, 900 from the Auer In
g Icandescent Light Company by Tyndal,
Q Palmer, former newspaper man, il
i which he was joined by q hotel keepe
0 named Freitas OF Rio Janeiro, has beer
I brought to light at Philadelphia. Palme
D sold the patent rights In Brazil Tor $50,
. 900 and reported the sale at $4,000.
The chief astronomical event of Octo
. Der will be the eclipse OF the sun, which
e will take place on the Goth. and be visi
. BILE throughout the greater part OF Nortl
] America. ALI the United States ma,
= see it, except the western part OF Oregon
: and California. As it will only be par
!, tial eclipse, the Western Coast will no
!. be jealous OF the Eastern Slope.
The Chicago Telephone Company a
Chicago is going to issue an order tina
all the girls in the operating department
!. must wear black uniforms, to give tn
4 room an artistic appearance. Two hun
a dred and fifty girls in the central offic
= have donned the uniform. and, "a tn
idea meets with success, q general orde
/ affecting all offices will soon be issued.
y Bradstreef's says: During the pas
v nine months the business failures in tn
!. United Stateg--South Dakota excludei
O owing to the State law practically pre-
= hibiting the collection OF statistical il
D formation-which have been strictl
9 mercantile OF industrial In character
q not emitting those OF banking institr
d tions, but eliminating care 'ully those {
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