Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-11-18
BEYOND THE ROCKIES
Wheat Receipts From the Eight
Primary Western Markets.
LUMPY JAW In A HUMAN BEING.
Theatrical Manager Sues Labor Organiza-
tons for Damages for Strikes
and Boycott.

tons for Damages for Strikes
and Boycott.
November "a will be Thanksgiving
day.
There are about 100 Chinese in Phil
adelphia.
Diphtheria In an epidemic form is rag
ing at Columbus Ind.
Sixteen murderers are in the Philadel-
phia jail awaiting trial.
Big mining strikes are reported at the
Greed district in Colorado.
The wholesale grocery trade Of New
York IL said to be demoralised.
The Canadian Pacific 10 arranging to
own line to the Missouri river.
Preliminary work has begun on the
new Croton dam at Croton, N. Y.
A belt line is projected around Read
ing for the use Of coal and freight trains.
The Mutual Life Insurance Company
refuses to pay q 500, 900 policy Of q sui
eide.
A movement is on foot to build rail-
road from Philadelphia to Cape May,
N. j.
A process for making artificial mica
sheets for electrical insulation is late
invention.
Many disasters are reported on the
Great Lakes caused by the heavy gales
OF the past few days.
The Secret Service division has dis
covered q counterfeit of the new issue oil
the new ~ silver certificate.
A scheme for lighting the Pennsyl-
vania Company's railway in Philadel-
phia by electricity Is under way.
Heavy rains are falling in Tennessee.
The section about Memphis has been
suffering, and great good has followed.
Dubuque, Ia, is reported to have the
first case of lumpy-jaw in human being
ever recorded in the State. The victim
is six-year-old girl.
Three arrests of counterfeiters were
made at Boston Saturday. This gang is
said to have foated 5000 in spurious
money in Boston alone.
Cape Gods contemplating season
10 now at its height, and thousands Of
the poorer people have been profiting by
this opportunity to make money.
The schools of Newcastle tow nship on
the outskirts of Pottsville, Penn, have
been closed indefinitely, owing to an cpl
demic of diptheria and scarlet fever.
Captain Healy, commanding the rev.
enue cutter Bear, is q candidate for the
position of Superintendent of the life
saving stations of the Pacific Coast.
The uncompleted ten-story gymnasium
and clubhouse of the Chicago Athletic
Association on Michigan avenue has
been destroyed by fire. Loss, $l95, 900.
The railroad companies whose lines
enter Atlanta have decided to abolish
the free delivery of freight, custom
which has been in vogue Tor some years.
Manager John Havlin, the theatrical
man, sues several labor organizations at
Cincinnati for 100000 damages for
rikes and threatened boycott against
his business.
Six miles Of the Chicago and st. Louis
electric road have been graded at Edin-
burg, and the contractors are pushing
the work on the remaining eighteen
miles of their section.
The chance for contest for the Amer
lea cup at New York has become very
small. Lord Dunraven does not think
under the regulations OF the New York
The Pennsylvania Railroad officials, it
is claimed by members of the Order OF
Railway Photographers, are endeavoring
to crush the organization in the COM
pany's general war against organized
labor.
The receipts OF wheat from the eight
primary Western markets for the first
sixteen weeks of the current crop year
aggregate 119,0O0,00) bushels, against
80, 000,O00 for the corresponding time
last year.
Leland ]. Webb of Topeka, Kan,
formerly national Commander-in-chie
of the Sons OF Veterans, has been de-
clared insane, and was taken to an
asylum. His insanity is said to be the
result OF the morphine habit.
At Wadsworth, Ala, a train on the
logging railroad jumped the track at
water tank, knocking the tank down ON
car containing forty laborers. Fifteen OF
the men were hurt, two of whom have
since died from their injuries.
The Chairman Of the Executive Com
mittee of the National Nicaragua Con-
vention, held at st. Louis last June, has
issued call for convention to meet at
New Orleans November 80, 1892, to fur
ther consider the canal interests.
The Indian Bureau has not received
any further advices in regard to expected
troubles with the White River Utes,
who according to previous reports had
taken advantage of the removal of the
troops from Fort Duchesne, Utah, and
had left their reservation.
The United States Supreme Court adj
vanced and set for argument on the sec
ond Monday in January the cases of the
United States against the California and
Oregon Land Company and the Dalles
Military Road Company. These are
known as the wagon-road land cases.
The Topeka Capital estimates the
value of the wheat crop in Kansas this |
year at $S7, 900 600 and that OF the corn |
crop at $40 100000. 1t figures the profit |
Of the wheat crop to be $l7, 200, 900 alter
the coet of production, and places the
profits of the corn crop at $21 ,00O, 900.
At the annual convention of the |
American Street Railroad Association in
Cleveland few days ago President
Holmes predicted that before the close
Of the century Cleveland, Buffalo and
Pittsburg would be connected by tri-
angular electric railway operated by
power obtained from Niagara falls.
Professor John Harvard Biles, designer
,f the Inman steamers City of Paris and
City OF New York, who came over from