Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-10-25
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
Marriages Between Chinese and
Europeans in New York.
OMAHA TO HAVE ANOTHER BRIDGE.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad VIII
Control the Ohio and Missis-
sippi Road-Etc.

Tno orange crop Oh L6Ou COuhey, AA"'t
s larger than for many years past.
Toledo has Doodle scandal. Its Al
iermen have been accepting brides.
Owing to the scarcity of hay, Kansas
farmers are harvesting their corn fodder.
A Chicago man has sued his doctor for !;
$40, 600 for breaking the drum OF his ear.
Now that the cholera scare is over, the
streets OF New York are resuming their
dirty state.
The Canadian government lie to follow
our example In making postal card oil
various sizes.
Negroes are turning bandits in Missis-
al mi. Several murders and one double
lynching have occurred.
At New York marriages between Chin
ese laborers and Europeans OF the poorer
classes are increasingly frequent.
The Baltimore and Ohio party seem to
have carried their point. and will gain
control Of the Ohio and Mississippi road.
Spurious silver dollars are plentiful in
some OF the Eastern States. They are
said to be clever limitations, but light OF
weight.
The net gold fund in the Treas Try is
still growing. Two months ago 1t
amounted to $40, 000,0 900, and now it is
$12j, Oa0. 600.
Pittsburg thinks of damming Indian
creek forty three miles away to get
supply OF water, II needed, OF l5O,O0O,OOO
gallons day.
While driving q we'll at Linwood,
Mich, ga vein OF soft coal, two feet thick.
and one OF hard coal, six and one-half
feet thick, we're struck"
The contractor for the construction OF
the Canadian 500 canal binds himself to
have the canal completed by the open
ing OF navigation in 1894.
The story that the grasshoppers are
eating up the early wheat in Kansas has
been traced to the State Central Com
mittee of the Peoples party.
An Omaha sport in red clothes is
: walking from Omaha to Chicago and re-
turn, begging his food, and to do 1t In
thirty seven days for $4,000.
It ia estimated that the voting lists OF
Boston will contain at least 81, 900 names.
! In 1888 the number OF registered votes at
the national election was 72,ll6.
The Daltons were second cousins to the
: James bows and distantly related to the
: Youngers, who are now in the Minnesota
penitentiary for the Mortified bank rob
berry.
q Mr.. Whitney, President OF the West
r End road OF Boston, and syndicate oil
q capitalists are reported to have pur-
Il chased all the open coal mines OF Nova
II Scotia.
n The County Commissioners OF Carbon
l., county, Pa, week before last sold 10000
Il acres of unredeemed mountain land.
n Some of it was sold for less than cents
x an acre.
1T A Canadian officials has gone to Hud,
,r sons Bay to investigate the truth OF the
3, reports that American whalers are SNUG
D. Cling large quantities OF goods into thai
ID district.
D. The street railway conductors of Gin
st cinnati who used the old punched tick
= cts over and over again and cheated the
u company out of 100000 or thereabout
y. are out OF job.
p Three big law firms in New York ar
n having vast amount OF real estate busl
OF ness, and are inserting clause of thei
mortgages now requiring all future pay
ments to be made IN gold.
1t has been estimated by financiers G
experience that not less than $500, 1000
600 OF American securities held il
-, Europe have been unloaded in this cour
try within the last two years.
The Interstate Bridge and Street Raj
way Company, having capital OF W
SOC, 90, has given out the contracts for
be new bridge over the Missouri to connet
le- Omaha, Neb., with Council Bluffs, la.
1t is stated that the remains of Christi
&c pher Columbus have been offered to tn
OF United States as security for $4,000
go loan at 6 per cent. interest. The OLE
CHI was made by President Henreaux OF Sa
ne Domingo.
The Dubuque Qa.) water compan
,h- wants the city to buy the plant at 1896
ne 600, alleged price offered by outside cal
In italists. The city holds an option
ne buy it at its appraised value, which wi
.Hn not exceed 100000
=" The Indians at Pine Ridge Agency a
sullen, and communication between Il
ne various tribes of a secret and apparent
esr important nature is said to have take
III, place during the summer. They expe
or, the Messiah in 1898.
n mo President Seth Low of Columbia Ok
riy lege used city police to prevent soph
- mores interfering with freshmen whit
Iii assembled for entrance examinatio
~ His purpose is to break up rushing al
all less manly forms OF hazing.
., A diamond mine is reputed to ha
80 been discovered on the farm OF j. Y
~ March banks three miles from Gainsvil
49,. Ga. "a pan full of garnets and d
Al monds weighing nine-tenths OF car
,ra have already been taken out"
on Complete statistics Of the great fire
eat st. Johns, Newfoundland, have j.
ALL been issued. The number Of houses {
for stroyed as $50; the number of fan
40 lies burned out 1874, and the total nu
rec Der OF persons burned out 10, 2S4.
The use OF molasses as fuel is bel
81 seriously considered in the South.
~, ~ lasses is now selling at cents per gallo
M, and 1864 gallons weigh a ton, maxi
~ the price SO. 33 per ton, which is less tn
IN current prices for coal on the plantation
on. NJ. j. O'Brien, formerly one of
the most prominent citizens OF Chattanoo
a to who is under indictment for the emb
en- element of $4,000 from the order
and Catholic Knights of America eighte
we'd months ago, has been arrested in Phi
as delphia.
eat The annual convention of the Natio
llng Woman's Christian Temperance I'm
nta- will be held at Denver, COL, frcm
our tober 2S to November 2 inclusive.
heir National Convention consists of $40 d,
ex- gates, and usually attracts 5000 visitt
oe William T. Stead, late of the Pail u
an Gazeite, and his wife also will come
La America to attend the convention.
ious osgoodby, the young farmer who WI
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