Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-09-29
EASTERN MELANGE.
Foreign Demand for Silver
Rapidly Increasing.
THE DROUGHT IN KENTUCKY.
Railroad Earnings Still Show Dis
appointing Reconsideration
Officials Released.

Alabama convicts will be put to wor
in factories instead of mines.
Secretary Gresham is preparing re
! port on the Hawaiian question.
The promise of immigration to Texa
is considered to be very fattering.
The army worm has made its appear
ance in portions Of Red River county
Tex.
Factories are to be built near the Ala
bama penitentiary to be operated b.
convicts.
Nashville will probsbly issue 800, 00
of city scrip to supply the demand for {
local circulation.
The keeleyites are to have day a
the Worlds Fair, when 20, 900 OF the re
formed are expected.
An Indiana bank which recently sus
pended began business on capital OF y
and failed for $4,000.
The wheel trust, organized less than {
year ago, has dissolved as result OF tn,
action of outside companies.
Five hundred Presbyterians have LEFT
Colorado for the Cherokee Strip, where
they propose to found colony.
An alarming epidemic of typhoid and
intermittent fever is now prevailing al
the military prison, Leavenworth.
The Comptroller of indianapolis ha,
gone East to make one more attempt tC
sell $500, 900 of city refunding bonds.
Rival electrc-light and power compa.
MES at Findlay, o., have consolidated
and consumers expect increased rates.
No bids having been made for convict
labor in Minnesota, the State has 40(
prisoners for whom they have no work
Rev. Robert Mcintyre OF Denver has
requested that his salary be reduced from
$4,000 to 81 600 on account Of hard times
Water has been selling at 10 cents a
cupful and 25 cents for canteen along
the Cherokee Strip near Arkansas City.
Employees of the Nashville, Chatta-
nooga and st. Louis railroad have agreed
to a 10 per cent reduction for ninety
days.
The Pennsylvania Commissioners have
decided to present their State building
to the city of Chicago after the EXPOSE
ton.
The Memphis banks have been notified
from New York that they can have all
the money necessary to move the cotton
crop.
Bank circulation increased Sic, 900 900
in August and $1,000, 900 in July, or $780,
900, 600 since the financial trouble reached
the critical stage.
The recent burning of q Chicago
dwelling house by prairie fire is sig
niticant commentary upon the magni-
tude of that expansive city.
The City Judge of Savannah, Ca.
fined himself SO the other day for being
late, and then RENTED the fine on the
ground that sit was his first offense."
Railroad earnings still show disap-
pointing results. The fal!lng-of is felt
in all sections of the country, 80 per cent
of the roads reporting smaller receipts
than year ago.
Mrs. Frank Rhenhardt, widow of
by the death of her brother-in-law an
estate in India, valued at $25, 900 900, has
been left to her.
New York city's saloonkeepers have
started strong movement to abolish
the free lunch. They assert that the
free lunch is a needless expense, which
brings in no adequate return.
A movement is on foot in New York
to form a trades union including the
young women in sweetstuff shops and
retail stores generally, where the hours
are very long and the girls ill-paid.
The foreign demand for silver is rap
idly increasing. The United States has
exported 100000 more of silver dur
ing the past eight months than during
a like period in 1892.
Estimates are being prepared at the
Nevy Department for the fabrication of
sufficient number of modern guns for
the wooden vessels which can be used
Tor cruisers for five or ten years more.
Ex-senator Thomas w. Palmer has
presented to the city of Detroit for park
purposes farm of 100 acres, which was
entered by his grandfather in 1920 and
has been owned by the family every
since.
The Mexican officials who were ar
rested for having captured lot of sheen
on the Rio Grande owned by Americans |
have been released, and the boundary
limits will be settled by a mixed COM |
w. j. Davidson has just returned to
Cleveland, o., after building and start
ing in Siam the first electric railroad in
Asia. The motormen and conductors
are natives, who were trained by Mr..
Davidson.
As an inducement to put wide tires ON
heir wagons New York taxpayers are
Uttered a yearly rebate of one-half their
assessed road taxes, provided the rebate
shall not exceed the amount of four DAYS
statute labor.
The weekly weather crop bulletin of
he Kentucky State weather service
tates that the present condition of crops
> discouraging, owing to the drought.
No rain of general character has fall
EN- IN Kentucky for nearly three months.
Pawnbrokers in Minneapolis report
hat the average number of watches
'awned every day IN that city has been
lightly. This is higher average than
Usual, and it is suspected discloses n
lnanciai stringency in the Flour City,"
Philip Wentworth, mineralogist of Hi
am, Me-, reports that while prospecting i
or gems recently he discovered a large
lamond. 1t is estimated to be worth ,
everal thousand dollars, but its true
alue cannot be determined until it is ,
ut.
George Vanderbilt's purchase OF the
'aul Cameron estate near Ashville, n. i
:, for $4,000, it is thought, will make I
i'm the largest land owner in the State.
his property is III the immediate vicin- t
y OF his great chateau and hunting pre- t
arves. {
Circulars have been issued by the De- '
artment OF Agriculture making inoui-
es regarding the existence in various I
arts of the United States of broods of t