Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-08-30
An Actor Leaves the Stage and
Becomes a Monk.
MISSOURI WHEAT FALLS BELOW.
The Assessed Value of Illinois Property
for ISo2-Corn Crop in Iowa
and Illinois.

Corbett with ease.
Smallpox threatens to become an cpl
demic in New York.
The total assessed value OF Illinois
property for 1892 is $745, 754, l72.
Chcagoans are to build hotel near
the exposition that will cost $500, UOO.
Missouri wheat is falling far below the
ex pectations both as to weld and quality.
Postmaster Wanamaker has ordered
the frst-class postmasters to visit those
OF the second class.
The smoke nuisance is so bad in Erie,
Pa, that the Common Council has been
called on to devise means OF relief.
Canada will endeavor to have con-
terence with the United States to AMIGA
bly, settle the differences over canal tolls.
Crop reports from all parts OF Illinois
and Iowa indicate yield OF corn equal
to about rs per cent. OF last years crop.
The Boston superintendent Of Streets
is looking into the suggestion about
making the city carts with broader tires.
The Aston heirs have been paid $507,-
$50. rs damages by the city OF New York
for property wrongfully appropriated in
1876.
A Judge in Chicago the other day sem
fenced TO one days imprisonment man
who killed another for having ruined his
home.
The buildings OF the Brooklyn Coop
efage Company at New Orleans with the
entire plant has been destroyed by fire.
Loss, $780, 900.
A ship, supposed to have been lost on
I Al. hafnra 4 tItI y,,h
| touched American shores, has been dis
covered near New York city.
Charlemange Kopler has left the stage
| to enter the Dominican convent in Lou
isvilie, KY, as a monk. kopler was
fairly well known as an actor.
The government crop report is figured
to indicate yield of 1888, 900, 600 bush
els OF corn, 5l5 100000 bushels of wheat
and $500 900 bushels OF oats.
The tobacco warehouse owners OF Gin
cinnati have formed trust with $500,
600 capital. The concern will be char
tered under the laws of New Jersey.
The Navy Department is dsgusted
with the coal which 1t has been com
PEELED to purchase at Tacoma and Seat
tie for ships cruising in northern waters
lONfHDlt ttnlIul III ldfst ttuDuule lito
recently been offered in Chicago at per
cent tor one year, with the privilege OF
paying before the expiration OF that time.
The Scudder family has published a
statement tending to show that DR..
Scudder, the suicide and murderer OF
his mother-in-law at Chicago, was in
sane.
A recent census bulletin shows that
there are in round numbers 7,470, 900
negroes in the United States, of whom
49,, 900 reside north OF the Ohio and Po-
tomac rivers.
Marshall Gushing, private secretary OF
Postmaster General Wanamaker, Is men
toned in Washington for the place oil
First Assistant Postmaster General soon
TO be made vacant.
The bids OF two of the principal con
tractors Tor work on the Hennepin cana
have been rejected by The government
because the estimates were not based OIL
the eight-hour day.
With nearly 900 saloons-375 OF then
on one street--and thirty theaters, al
, open on Sunday, Chicago doesn't care
very much whether the Worlds Fair i
open on Sunday or not.
Kansas City grain men are jubilan
/ over u decision OF the Attorney Genera
of Kansas, which permits grain inspect
ors from other States to inspect ant
grade wheat in the State OF Kansas.
The earth on which the depot of tn
New Orleans, Fort jackson and Gram
Isle railroad at New Orleans was con
structed has caved in, and the building
are total wreck. The loss will reacl
$50, 900.
A new series of postage stamps in com
: memoration of the discovery OF Americ
4 will soon be issued. They will bear vs
rions designs. all, however, representa-
a a historic character or some incident /
!. the life of Christopher Columbus.
j. The total realty valuation in Brookly
or 1892 is 1857 800, 1876, an increase {
q SlS, S0l ,925 from last year. 1t will b
= seen by this that Brooklyn is worth
j uttle more than san Francisco, but il
taxable property increases only abou
n half as last
3 The steamships Aurania and Alask
e VI the Cunard and Guion lines steame
INTO port at New York Saturday. on
: minutes time apart. They had thrill
: ny race from Fastnet Rock, and weT
M within hailing distance of each other til
. whole way across,
Jennie Tabor of Hudson, Mich,
} charged with poisoning her parents an
,s lover, with having committed sever,
" burglaries and with the attempt to bio
IF up her home with dynamite. She
wealthy, and is from an old famil,
|, Phvsic ans saw she has been cunningi
a, Insane for years.
> James +. Gilman. the missing men
/, her OF the bankrupt grain firm OF Iii
A. m4n, Cnensy Il 90. at boston, has mi
II appropriated M less than 5000, O00
Is other peoples money. TIE appe crane,
now ind cate that Gilman led duub
II lie, although standing high in bushes
40 aud social circles.
I'd senator ALISON and Jones and Coz
e. FRESHMAN McCreaty may not participa
~ IN the Internal onal Monetary Congress
l.. the constitntiunaiity OF their appoin
be ment being questioned under Section
Article L., OF the Constitution, white
he prohibits the appointment to an office
Il. emolument OF a member OF either Hou
al of Congress.
tn A suit has been instituted at Bali
,r- more that promises to become sens
H. tional among nava officers. The plain
p IFS charge that Ensign b Dashiell h
an made use of patent OF Lieutenant Sc
p bury, and the chief of the bureau
e ordnance knew that fact, but throus
ok favoritism approved and manuiactur,
n, the design of Dashiell.
se- Two efligies, clad in the uniforms of
w General and Colonel of the Pennsvlvan
M militia and labeled General SnowdeI