Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-07-19

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tional organization at Chicago.
Because OF the enactment of the sepa-
rate coach law, the negroes of Kentucky
propose to boycott the railways.
About 1000 negroes in and around
Nashville, Tenn, are making ready to
emigrate to Oklahoma in the fall.
Immigrants to the number of 90, PAP
arrived in this country during May; in
May, 1891, the number was 85,94l.
The Missouri crop bulletin reports q
very good condition and yield in har-
vested grain, but with light acreage.
The great drought in Northern Mexico
and portions of Texas still continues,
and there is much suffering in conse-
quence.
The defalcation OF Treasurer Dahn of
the Buffalo National Savings Bank will
probably reach between 100000 and
$500, 900.
The English party composing the syn
dictate which owns the Black Hills tin
mines near Rapid City are to visit the
property.
The Sugar Trust has agreed to give the
wholesale grocers who maintain fixed
prices rebate OF one-eighth of cent
per pound.
1t has been estimated by high au-
thority that the country will have as
much wheat to export this year as it
had last year.
Iron has been discovered at Mulhall,
KAN. by a man digging well, who,
when down some seventy feet, struck
iron. A shaft is being sunk.
The elevator men at Chicago have
wired to their country correspondents to
stop shipping corn there till after July
10Th, as it is coming in such bad condi-
ton it will not grade.
Senator Gallinger is at the head of a
movement to establish government san
itariums in the South. When these are
established his plan is to assist con-
sumptives to emigrate thither.
The New York State census shows
that there are about A 200 Indians living
on the several reservations in that State
who still maintain their tribal systems,
subject to State jurisdiction.
A clergyman OF indianapolis, Ind. has
entered upon vigorous crusade against
church fairs, grab bags, raffles and all
other schemes to raise funds for church
purposes in illegitimate ways.
An eight-foot tunnel, extending four
miles out into Lake Michigan, has lust
been completed at Chicago. Ii will sup
ply to the city 130, 1000, 900 gallons OF wa
ter per day, and has cost over 81 ,OOO, 900.
The Broadway cable line in New York
City will be operated in October. Nearly
5000 horses are to be displaced. The
total cost of the new road is $4,000, 900.
Cotton drive rope is used to prevent
noise.
The Chicago river is swollen to such
an extent that nearly 1000 houses in
Ravenswood, suburb OF Chicago, were
surrounded by water. The main severe
in Chicago are clogged and easements
flooded.
Following are the newly elected di-
rectors OF the Nicaraguan Mail, Steam
and Navigation Company: Albert o,
Cheney, Samuel @. Miller, Louis Chable.
Warner Miller and George w. Davis, all
Of New York.
There is law on the Kansas statute
book which provides for the delivery of
all letters for girls under Is and boys
under Fl years of age to their parents
and guardians, but it would take the
militia to enforce it.
The Lighthouse Board has arranged
for series of experiments on Staten
Island, N. Y. of new magnesium
light, which is reported to have devel-
oped wonderful illuminating powers at
recent observations in Germany.
Owing largely to the pollution of its
from typhoid fever in Chicago last wear
that being the highest known rate for a
great city and more than five times as
many as in New York.
In order to keep sea porgies through
the summer, the fishermen of Rhode
Island have nets 80 arranged that the
passing schools are led up into salt wa
ter ponds and the channels connecting
with the ocean are closed.
New York and Brooklyn merchants
have received requests fer subscriptions
to the fund for the building, in Rich
mond, of monument to the private
soldiers and sailors who lost their lives
IN the Confederate army and navy.
Newfoundland will hold an Industrial
exhibition in October, and it begs the
United States to send such articles
fishing, agricultural, mining, etc.-as are
sulteu 10 the uste OI tndt lSlanu people.
st. Johns will be the seat OF the show.
1t appears that there are now in the
State OF Louisiana $50 lepers, thirty OF
whom are in the city OF New Orleans;
that most OF them have inherited the
dreadful disease, and that but few of
them are isolated from the rest of the
The Mississippi river at Davenport.
Iowa, Is five inches higher than during
the floods OF 1888. Along the low land
vt the south OF Rock Island hundreds OF
antilles have been driven from their
Railroads are flooded oat OF
own, and factories along the river front
nave been forced to suspend.
In the Senate the other day Stewart
,ffered as a substitute for his free coin.
.ge bill one providing that the owner of
ilver bullion may deposit the same at
my mint OF the United States, to be |
:oined for his benefit, the coins to be |
egal tender for all debts and dues. |
Foreign silver, coin or bullion, is ex-
,luded, and the silver act OF 1890 re-
,ealed.