Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-02-26
A Peculiar Child Born in
Nebraska.
IMMENSE COAL SYNDICATE.
Undertaking Of Good Quality Made
From Wood Fiber-Negroes
to Go to Africa.

the near future.
The Memphis bridge will be ready for
traffic by May /.
FIorida's orange crop was not injured
by the late frost.
Mississippi's Legislature meets only
once in four years.
Office in Tennessee.
The next river and harbor bill will
carry about $l0,000,0O0.
Philadelphia is to try the pneumatic
tube system for her mails soon.
A movement is on foot for perma-
nent Mexican exposition at New York.
Chinese in the East are very restless.
They shift continually from city to city.
The Inman Steamship Company has
leased new and valuable pier at New
York.
Indian school students have gone from
Carlisle to Utah az United States SOL
diers.
The price for cotton in the South is
lower than it has been for forty seven
years.
A colored man took an oath in Kan
sas court the other day that he was 40
years old.
The European claims agency-E. Ross,
managerial New York is said to be
swindling concern.
Lake Erie is frozen over from the
American to the Canadian shore for the
first time in six years.
Underclothing of good quality made
from wood fiber is being made, it is
aa.l by facforv ~, M;nhiuop
The American bridge manufacturers
combination has been declared illegal by
the Supreme Court OF New Jersey.
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs
has recommended an allotment of lands
in severalty for the Utes in Colorado.
The Court OF Claims has affirmed the
right OF the Postmaster General to annul
contracts made without his approval.
The Commercial Exchange OF Kansas
City objects to the grain inspection by
the Missouri Warehouse Commissioners.
II is said factory will be built at An
derson, Ind, to employ 1000 hands and
to make aluminium for 25 cents pound
Howard Murphy, Missouri Pacific
use by express messengers when at
A decision OF the Pennsylvania Su
preme Court upholds law compelling
citizens of cities to pay for street i'm
provements in front of their property.
The Chairman of the War Claims
Committee of the House reported favor
ably TO the House the Pennsylvania bor-
der raids claim bill appropriating 3d.
447, S45.
Philadelphia's death rate is slowly de-
creasing, but it is still very far above
normal, with diphtheria and influenza
as prominent factors in keeping it as
high as it is.
A woman has brought suit against a
railroad company at Little Rock, Ark,
to recover $4,000 damages for the loss
of her husband, who was killed on the
cars by a maniac.
According to the assertions of the
American Colonization Society 100000
colored people are seriously looking for
ward to change OF residence from the
United States to Africa.
Lebanon, Mo-, is at present the scene
of the trial of a murderer named How
ard, who is said to have committed four
teen homicides, and whose last offense is
the killing OF poor deaf mute.
All the Jewish-American papers speak
of the failure of the appeal recently
made to the people of New York, ire
spective of creed, to contribute to the
fund in aid of the Russian-Jewish immi-
grants.
Senator Proctor has introduced bill
authorizing the enlistment in the regu-
lar army OF 5000 Indians under the same
conditions that govern the enlistment of
other persons, the strength of the army
to be increased to that extent.
The State Treasurer of Georgia has
begun the payment of the Confederate
widows pensions. This tax upon the
State, authorized by the last Georgia
Legislature, entails an annual tax OF
S400,000 There are 1000 widows on the
rolls.
The Ohio Legislature is struggling
with bill providing for two-cent rail-
road fare. For more than twenty-five |
years the legal passenger rate in Ohio |
has remained at cents per mile, while |
freight rates have in the same period de-
clined one-half.
A bill repeating the act requiring life
saving appliances on steamers, 50 far as
1t relates to carrying of line-carrying |
projectiles and the means of propelling !
them on steamers plying exclusively on
any of the lakes, bays or sounds of the |
United Sta 'es, was passed by the Senate
at Washington.
A huge coal syndicate is reported to
have been formed at New York. The
companies are to be
placed under board OF control, which
would establish joint agencies for the
sale OF the output, thus abolishing the
present system of separate State agents
Ind prevailing competition.
The examination of Eenry Rossiter,
,lerk in Major Overman's office, in the
case at Cleveland, 0 has
brought out the fact that Rossiter left
he employ of the Domestic Sewing Ma
'hine Company in Chicago in 1886 a
heavy defaulter. As cashier and book
,eeper of the company's Chicago office
lie sank $4,000 of their money in a
wheat speculation. 1t is stated the mat.
er was kept out of the newspapers
hat not even his most intimate friends
" relatives knew of it until the unwill.
ny admission of Rossiter, and that the
oss had long since been made good.
A child is reported to have been born
o Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Mortimer al
naha that is white TO the mid-waist
inc and coal black from there down.
nth the exception OF his left limb and
Dot from below the knee. That portion
the child that is white is dotted here
nd there with black spots of VARYING
egrees of shade. There are fifteen spots
N the face nearly as many mora an tb. | .