Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-03-04
EASTERN ITEMS.
Mexican Lottery Shares
Advance.
STATUE OF ROBERT BURNS.
Trades and Labor Unions Of Indian
apolis to Build an Expensive
Labor Temple.

Sioux City is in serious trouble with
her saloons.
Cincinnati is gaining a record for dark,
bloody and mysterious crimes.
Talton Hall, the boosted murderer OF
100 men, will be hanged at Bristol,
Tenn, on March IA.
The trades and labor unions Of Indian
apolis are arranging TO build large labor
temple to cost sl00, 1000.
The fight will go on in Louisiana be-
cause the anti-lotteryites have no conf
dence In Morris sincerity.
Kansas City shows q record OF over
W OK, 900 expended in public improve
ments in the last four years.
White Caps have ordered Elizabeth
town (Ky.) whisky sellers to shut up
shop or be closed up by force.
Nevada, Mo-, is to have an institute"
Tor the cure OF the effects of whisky, as
we'll as opium, morphine and the milder
poisons.
Mexican lottery shares have advanced
50 to s 0 q share In consequence OF the
luuic'1i nuPPtoSSioh " WV Ao"io'oh"
lottery.
Robert Burns is in fair way to be
honored with statue in Philadelphia.
Scotchmen in that city have taken the
scheme in hand.
The supply OF natural gas in Toledo is
failing, and 1t has been decided to resort
to the use OF pumps to force the gas from
the wells to the city.
Negro citizens OF Nashville asked the
Board OF Public Works to allow their
race to be represented on the police
force. They were refused.
Alfred and Edmund Gosling have been
arrested at New York and charged with
swindling through forgeries the Cosnao-
potitan Magazine out OF $4,000.
The Worlds Fair Directors are wran-
Cling as to which body, the National or
Chicago Board, shall control the trans
portation and installation Of exhibits.
A hotelkeeper on the upper shore OF
Lake Michigan proposes to transport his
big hotel over the lake on a raft to Chi
cago in time to open in the spring of
1893.
A number OF certificate holders of the
Knights and Ladies' OF Protection, a ten
year endowment order OF Boston, have
applied for the appointment OF re-
ceiver.
The next criminal New York will kill
by electricity is Noah Richardson, col
ored man, who murdered New York
policeman. He will die in the week be-
ginning March 81.
The ministers at Omaha are making a
moral crusade against the pictures OF
actresses as they appear on the bill
boards. An effort will be made to have
the police tear them down.
One hundred and three alien contract
laborers were deported from the port of
New York during the month OF January
last, being the largest number ever de-
ported in any month at any port.
Mrs. Henrietta Smell, widow OF the
millionaire, A. J. Smell, who was muir
dered by Tascott at Chicago, has been
threatened with dynamite unless she de-
livers $4,000 to some anonymous person.
There ia now talk in New York OF
formally opening the Broadway cable
car system next Fourth OF July. The
contractor says the work will be COM
peted by that time and the road ready
Tor operation.
Henry III. Yard has been indicted at
Philadelphia by the United States grand
jury on the charge of aiding Gideon w.
Marsh, President of the Keystone Ma
tional Bank, in enbezzling the funds OF
that institution.
New York State factory operatives are
agitating for a law to prohibit bosses
from filming employees. A law of this
nature was passed by the Massachusetts
Legislature, but it was tested and de-
clared unconstitutional.
A venerable Indian chief, one of the
last survivors of the Pottawatonies, died
recently at Indian Grove, Ind, at the
age of l06. This tribe, when the old
chief was youth, held sway from the
Wabash to the shores oil Lake Michigan.
After Pickett Nelson, "the tallest man
on EARTH" died at his home in Baltimore
recently, his body became four inches
longer through relaxation than it had
been in life. As an active, able bodied
man "Colone Nelson was feet s
inches tall
The constitutionality OF the Mckinley
act is attacked at Chicago in n motion in
the United States Circuit Court to dis
miss the appeal of Collector Clark from
the decision of the Board OF General
Appraisers assessing certain duties on
dress goods belonging to Locke, Huleatt
4 Co.
The Secretary of the Treasury has APP
pointed George III. Thobe of Covipgton,
Ky, to he Inspector under that depart
ment for duty in connection with the
service. Thobe will be re-
membered as the Union Labor candidate
who contested John q, Carlisle's seat in
the Forty-ninth Congress.
At big cattle sale in Kansas City re-
Gently, said to be the largest in that city
since the boom times OF 1882 and 1888,
the Waddingham Bell Ranch Cattle
Company Of New Mexico sold 1000 two
steers at SIS a head and 5000
steers at $40 head. The
ranch company owns 100000 acres OF
land.
Chicago has just obtained decision
from the courts affirming its right to
open up streets across railroad track
inside the city limits of the city.
The decision will greatly aid the author
tiles in their contes. with the grade
crossing evil, with which Chicago is
more afflicted probably than any city in
the country.
1t is reported that it is the intention
Of the government to establish at the
Exposition grounds complete posto'-
tice, equal in capacity to that required
by city oil 100000 or more inhabitants,
and 10 operate it, not only during the
lair, but for several months previous to