Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-01-01
EASTERN ITEMS.
Chris Buckley Leaves
Canada for Home.
PHILADELPHIA'S EXPORTS.
A Kentucky City Council Declares the
Lighting Of Street Lamps
on Sunday Illegal.

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Philadelphia's export trade lie growing
fast toward mammoth proportions.
Missouri is competing with Kansas
for the honor Of producing the largest
crops.
Palestine, Texas, impeached her City
Marshal because he would not suppress
gambling.
The question Of separate cars for
whites and blacks il now being agitated
In Virginia.
The Prohibitionists polled but 982
votes In Iowa this year, loss Of about
5000 since 1850.
Ex-City Treasurer Peake Of Kansas
City has been acquitted OF the charge OF
embezxling $2O0;000.
Nine men and boys are under arrest
at Peoria. ILL.,, for breaking open cars and
stealing the contents.
The Western Iowa horticultural So
ciety has opened an exhibit Of Iowa
fruits at Council Bluffs.
a man in Minneapolis has just secured
a divorce from his wife on the ground
that she was . kleptomaniac.
Great destitution is reported at Ok
ford, N. j., the iron manufacturing town.
The pudding mills are shut down.
The Presidents remarks on the New
Orleans lynching affair meet with friend
ly criticisms from the Italian press.
Rock-salt producers of the country,
w IN a rvtntxt IT Ofl0 frv.a la, ha,,<,
formed pool to freshen up business.
The Burlington railroad has resumed
the payment OF commissions on passen.
ger business in direct defiance OF the
boycott.
President Hyde OF Bowdoin College
has started crusade against the obnox
ions cigarette, giving daily lectures on
the subject.
Chicago is crying aloud for hospital
for contagious diseases. A public meet
ing to consider the subject was held a
few days ago.
The people Of Indiana are engaged in
monster rabbit hunt, the animals hav-
ing become 80 numerous as to be a
threatening pest.
Fifteen Chicago packing firms have
united TO establish stock yards on the
west side of the city. A tract OF 600
acres has been secured.
Some talk again Of abolishing the Bos-
ton Council has grown out of Its defeat
OF the order providing 5000, 900 for com.
plotting Commonwealth avenue.
Two Of Raymond \ Whitcomb's pop
nlar California excursions are to leave
Boston by the Fitchburg railroad next
month, and three more in February.
j. ii. Whittemore of Naugatuck, Conn,
has notified the Board OF School Visitors
OF that place that he will build q $35, 600
school building and present 1t to the
town.
New York Court Of Appeals has re-
Gently decided that railroad company
is responsible for an injury to passen-
ger Notwithstanding he was travelling on
q pass.
The new Speaker OF the House will be
the thirty-second man to hold that posi-
tion in. public life. There have been
tifty-one Congresses, but only thirty-one
Speakers.
The Winchester Repeating Arms Com
pany of New Haven, Conn. has made
gun for Browning Bros. of Ogden that
fired 300 shots In one minute through
one barrel.
Chief of Police Freeman of DAYTON.
o., assisted by a detective, has unearthed
most OF the diamonds recently stolen on
a train at Dayton from the agent of a
Cincinnati jewelry house.
Doctors in South Chicago have Joined
issues, and propose to decline to serve
any one who may call upon them unless
the patient makes a practice of settling
his bills for medical attendance.
Secretary Mobiles report on the Mica
ragua canal shows that the work has
been prosecuted with energy during the
past year and much progress made in
the actual work OF construction.
The burning question before the Leg
islature of Iowa in the session that will
soon begin has to do with the repeal of
the prohibitory law and the enactment
OF statute providing for license.
The heirs OF the late Thadeus Stevens.
several of whom reside in Caledonia
county, w., where Mr.. Stevens was born.
are preparing to contest the will of Mr.,
stevens to prevent the estate being de-
voted to charities.
The Olty council of Sharpsburg. XIV.
has issued an order that the lighting OF
street lamps on Sunday night is con-
trary to law in such cases made and pro-
gided, and that hereafter they shall not
% lighted on that night.
Boston Common is threatened. Bos-
lon's Aldermanic vandals threaten to
tbbreviate this breathing place and TO
ay sacrlligious hands upon this historic
'egion to widen Boyston street to accom-
nodate a rapid-transit road.
President Yerkes recently distributed
FsIe In gold, says Chicago paper,
.mong prize gripmen of his cable lines,
Three prizes are annually offered by the
company, OF 500 to $75 and $50 each, TO
sripmen OF the best annual record.
Under the operation OF the homestead
aw the last year la 1850 new homes were
established, that being the number Of
and patents issued. As they represent
'ver lS,000,000 acres of land, there ia
'lenty of yard room for the children.
The Judges OF the Supreme Court of
Sew York have made change in their
'ntire calendar system, which will On
nto effect January /. The new system
t is thought, will expedite business
md avoid delays in getting cases on
rial.
Should the bargain now going on for
he Cherokee Strip be consummated. the
mount Of land acquired of Indians
within the last three years would be in |
reased to upward OF 81 900, 900 acres. |
nd the aggregate price paid would be- |
pward OF $50 .000, 900.
A dispatch from Montreal savs. Chr;
opher A. Buckley OF San Francisco, who
las been resident here since October |,
as left for home. His departure was