Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-09-13
Police and Other Courts of St. Louis
VIGOROUSLY Corrupt.
HUGE SUGAR FRAUDS UNEARTHED.
Homestead Strikers Continue to be Ar
rested at the Instance Of the
Pinkerton Thugs.

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There is grain blockade at Kansas
City.
The paper mills Of New England are
forming trust.
Plttsburg will build 10000 home
for its paupers.
The continued drought has injured
corn in Illinois.
Chicago's school census shows the city
has ABB, 0l0 people.
Philadelphia 10 soon to have a system
Of elevated railways.
Atlanta lie said to have park for col
ored people exclusively.
It is proposed to build railroad from
Washington to Mount Vernon. 1t will
soon be ready.
1t Is planned to construct great yacht
harbor on the north shore, off Lincoln
Park, Chicago.
Russian Jew immigrants at Boston are
washed with solution OF carbolic acid
to kill cholera germs.
Bank Commissioner johnson OF Kan
sss has issued a report. which shows
great prosperity in that business.
1t is reported that Republicans will
institute suit to test the constitutionality
Of the Indiana apportionmentac act of 1891.
Mr.. Wanamaker receives more appeals
from cranks and other beggars for money
and official favor than any other man in
public life.
An agent of the Red Cross Society is
at Brownsville, Tex, investigating the
condition OF destitute people in the Rio
Grande Valley.
Grasshoppers are doing an immense
amount Of damage in Ohio to oats and
other growing crops. Whole fields OF
oats have been destroyed.
Usage Indians in Oklahoma scared a
white man nearly to death by institut-
ing a mock torture OF burning at the
stake and cutting off his hair.
1t lie said in Texas that the Railroad
Commission Is only restrained by the
recent decision from making rates on the
Gould lines and the Santa Fe.
The Legislature OF Louisiana has
placed itself on record as favoring the
election OF Senators OF the United States
by direct vote OF the people.
Arrests are being made at Homestead,
Pa, OF the men who were engaged in
the battle with the Pinkertons, the lat
ter having sworn out warrants.
The government has unearthed extern
sive sugar frauds by systematic under
weighing OF impor atoms. Eight i'm
porters at New York are said to be in
volved.
Anderson 4 Co. of Port Huron, Mich,
vt.srt Il IL =
ural implements, have tiled chattel mort
cages aggregating $230,000 to secure
creditors.
Tbs Transcontinental Railway Asso-
citation has instructed the Chairman to
give the required three months notice
to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company
canceling the existing agreements.
The Highbind-r Society OF New York
cent messenger to Emporia, Kan, to
notify Wuong Lee that he must leave
there or die. Wuong is naturalized, and
the officers have promised protection to
him.
An attachment has been filed at New
York for $3.50, 900 against Bullick & Will
der, railroad contractors, who built the
Monterey and Mexican Gulf railroad.
The CLAIM Is for money advanced to carry
on that work.
There are counterfeit $40 gold pieces
Of date 1852 in circulation at Chicago.
They are lghcr in color and great deal
phter in weight than the good coin.
On all OF them appears the letter 40"
indicative of the New Orleans mintage.
1t Is reported in New York that the
Elkins- Widcner- Yerkes syndicate has
vobbled up the Jay Gould holdings in
the Manhattan E evated Railway Com
pany, and that the triumvirate of street
railway men will demand three seats in
the company's directory.
st. Louis. Mo-, will have an attractive
feature during the fall festivities in the
shape OF large illuminated globe with
the different continents, oceans, ETC.,
painted on its surface. 1t will be 100
!eet In circumference, and will contain
5000 incandescent lamps.
Canadian Pacific railway officials are
charged with being engaged in assisting
snugglers to pass Chinese into this coun-
try, and the Treasury Department has
officially notified the Deputy Collector
OF Customs at Montreal of the fact with
a view to putting an end to such work.
The wheel manufacturers west of the
Allegheny Mountains have organized the
western Wheel Association at Indian
apolis. Dwight Smith of Jackson, Mich.
was elected President and Jay III, Smith
Secretary. The organization controls OK
per cent. OF the factories west of the
Alleghanies.
An aerolite weighing forty four pounds
a fo - Il
near Bath county, S. D., late Monday
The advent OF the stone was
heraided by several sharp explosions,
which We're heard distance of fifteen
miles or more, and in some instances
created considerable alarm.
DR.. Exum, the Third party candidate
or Governor in North Carolina, was ar |
rested at Goldsboro, charged with using
profane language in the posioffice in the |
presence OF ladies'. The postmaster made
The charge. ALTHOUGH Dir. Exum made
, positive denial under oath, the Mayor
lined him, and a warrant for perjury has
been issued against him.
1t is said that the police and other
'ourts oil ST. Louis are notorionsly cor.
'upt and acquit about three-fourths of
he cases brought before them and con-
'ict about half as many as five wears
lgo. The amount of money paid to the
lily for fines has decreased 10 per cent
md officers receive great deal of plum.
Ter. The Push IL said to be a CON.
piracy which has baen exposed by the
rand jury, but the citizens take small
interest in the matter.
President Hill OF the Great Northern
quoted as saying that bis only object
n cutting loose from the transcoutipentai
rganization is based on determination
adopt such rate tariffs as will promote
usiness interests and build up towns
long the line If his road from St Paul
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