Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-01-29
Amount Of Bounty Paid
on Sugar.
THE EMBEZZLERS' STEALTNGS.
Andrew Carnegie Presents an Iowa
Town With $4,000 for
Public Library.

1 More cider was made in Connecticut
in 1891 than ever before.
A Michigan hatchery is incubating
81 ,000, 900 white fish eggs.
The death rate OF New York was rs. go
In 1891 {; in 1890 it was 24.66.
During 1891 the Treasury Department
paid 1885,, $3.50 bounty on sugar.
Andrew Carnegie has given 1870, 900 for
public library at Fairfield, Ia.
Knights Of Labor want the Chinese
| exclusion act renewed after 1892.
Last year thirteen railway postal
clerks we're killed and 1872 injured.
Distilling companies at st. Louis are
organizing to fight the whisky trust.
The total tax collections in December
in New York amounted to $8, 400, 900.
The Cordell-Dunnica Banking Com
pany OF Marshall, Mo-, has suspended.
The Calhouns are dropped from the
directorate OF the Georgia Central rail-
road.
The city OF Cleveland has turned out
the gas, and now uses oil lamps exclu-
sively.
Enabling acts for Arizona and New
Mexico will likely be passed by this
Congress.
Senator Teller has offered a resolution
providing for an international monetary
conference.
The United States wheat crop in 1891
was the largest per capita ever raised by
any country.
The price for brooms has been ad-
vanced 25 cents per dozen by Eastern
manufacturers.
Action has been taken in the Federal
Court in Pennsylvania against the oleo-
margarine trust.
The total output by Colorado for 1891
OF silver, gold, lead and copper amount
ed in value to $33, 548, 1884.
Giles Otis Pearce Of Keokuk, Ia,
charges the Federal Courts OF Iowa with
maladministration Of justice.
United States cattle, rice, beans, peas,
corn and hay and all kinds OF vegetables
now go into Guatemala duty free.
Chairman Springer OF the Ways and
Means Committee has drafted bill pro-
yiding for the free admission OF woods.
The Worlds Fair ENJOYS to foreign
lands are being called back, sufficient
advertising having been accomplished.
The telephone line which has Just
been completed between Pixies Peak and
Manitou is the highest line in the world.
During the year 1891 there were coined
at the Philadelphia mint over 92 COO, 900
pieces, with valuation of over $13, 0OO,-
900.
Troops to guard Tennessee convicts
have gone into camp, and Notifications
are being thrown up on commanding
hill.
The Ohio River Railroad Company has
made an offer to purchase for $4,000, 900
the Newport News and Mississippi rail-
way.
The will Of George P. Pomeroy was
sustained in Chicago, and his minor son
will get all the 81 .000, 900 estate when he
becomes of age.
Massachusetts and Nebraska are Sec
ending the work of Minnesota in send
ing breadstuffs to the famine stricken
OF Russia.
The embezzlers of 1891 stole about
$2O, 000, 900, more than twice as much az
the embezzlers of 1899. This is bad
record for the country.
Every messenger in the employ of the
Southern Express Company has been
ordered to quit work by the Grand Mas
ter of the Brotherhood.
The Baltimore City Passenger Rail-
way Company will require 300 tons OF
track rails and $50 tons of slot rails for
their proposed cable line
Fourteen or fifteen members of the |
OF the Reformed Church at |
Iiffjn, o., were partly asphyxiated by
natural gas, which escaped from a fiue |
IN the church.
County Treasurer Paul at Hastings.
Neb., is short $4,000. He says he does
not know what became of the money.
except $4,000 lost by the failure of the
City National Bank.
Mrs. Julia L. johnson, handsome
'oung widow Of New York city, has be-
run suit in the Circuit Court at Chi
ago against John w. Temple, wealthy
chicago lumber dealer. for S20, 900 for
preach of promise.
The negroes in Washington are hold
ng mass meetings to protest against
eparate free schools, separate eating
ouses, separate bathing houses and
heir practical exclusion from restau-
ants and barber shops.
Senator Sherman is reported to have
aid that a free-silyer bill would pass
9th Houses of Congress this session.
ut would be vetoed by the President.
tariff bill would pass the House, but
'ould be defeated in the Senate. {
AS to the Northern and Southern ar.
lies the present Congress stands as fol- /
'ws: Union soldiers now Senators, is
confederate soldiers now Senators, r
'nion soldiers now Representatives. 20; {
onfederates now Representatives, Sc.
Portions of Hazelton, Pa, are settling
} fast that people have left their homes :
/ the threatened section. About 500 !,
ouses are affected, and $500 have re- !
ded in them. The parties operating
he colliery contend that the ground can :,
OF sink into the mine.
The various city governments of Mas
lchusetts State were inaugurated last :,
eek. The Auditors report of Boston ),
lows gross liabilities OF 800, 242, 745, an
lcrease of $500, 1854; total redemption :
$50, $50, 1877 net debt, $780, .
3, S5s, a decrease of $3.50, l3S. .
An effort will be made by number of 4
representatives. to have the Appropria- '
ons Committee recommend that the
e system in Federal offices be abolished Q
far as can be done. This is to correct 4
the abuses which exist in u
lie offices of Marshals in the various a
ates. II
The Chicago Herald prints another o
lapter OF its charges that the police de- d
lrtment of Chicago is composed of 2