Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-01-27
Important Patent Decision Made
by the Supreme Court.
WAR ON SWEATERS IN BOSTON
Toe Number Of Victims That Judge Lynch
Has Executed During the Past
Year-Olher News.

The Carnegie mills at Homestead,
Pa, are running iuli in every depart
meEt.
The New York theater ladies have
taken to removing their hats during the
performance.
The boys In the State Reform School
at Topeka have just finished putting up
$50 tons OF ice.
the Pope, although charged wi}h the &c
clesiastical .fsnse.
A combination of manufacturers OF
wire goods and cut nails 10 being formed
by large Western frms.
George G. Sosron has challenged any
body in the world to q match game OF
billiards Tor 81 ,00O side.
The principal operators OF silver mines
in Colorado have practically agreed to
shut down until silver advances.
New Orleans is finding much difficulty
in enforcing the sunday law, owing to
the apathy OF the police officials.
The Carnegie Company was a great
financial loser by the recent strike, and
1t Is economizing in its management.
Gidon Marsh, the fugitive P esident OF
the wrecked Keystone Bank OF Pnila
delphia, is said to be IN South Africa.
In Boston the bosses and the clothing
cutters have joined hands to compel the
sweaters to grant the demands Of their
workmen.
The Comanche, Kiowa and Apache
agreement Tor the ce-sion Of 2,5UO, 900
acres of land has been sent to the Sen
ate by the President.
The train bearing the old liberty bell
to the WoyAnn's Fair will run only by
day, in order to give people along the
route chance to see it.
The industrial and financial conditions
in South Carolina are reported as graft
| Tying because of the improvement in
the gr,cultural interest.
It Is reported that unless prompt meas
ures OF protection are adopted in the
natural gas district OF Indiana the sup
ply will soon be exhausted.
Chairman Hood OF the New York
Board of Assessment estimates that
ully $500, 900 oil personal property
| in the State escaped taxation.
Philadelphia is entitled to be known
| as the city OF sisterly love. According
10 recent police census the city boasts
oil %, 90 more women than men.
A New York letter to the Philadelphia
| Press int,mates that Baby Ruth is to
have rival, and there will likely be
birth at the White House this spring.
| President Harrison has received cane
made from the wood of house on Porto
>anto, one OF the MADEIRA I,lands, in
which Christopher Columbus once lived.
Congressman Dalzell is going to make
another attempt to get through Congress
the bill provid ng for survey for ship
canal to connect Lake Erie and the Ohio
river.
| 1t is estimated that Judge Lynch has
executed during the past year 236
people-an increase over 1891 o. forty
one. HIS victims were 23l men and five
women.
| The railroad construction in the
United States during 1891 does not reach
high figures, being only 1000 miles.
he total was the smallest since 1873,
except those OF 1884 and 1885.
Major General Schotield does not
think tine msssing of troops at the
| Worlds Fair for display would prove a
good i'd a or that 1T would give any
| beneficial return for the expense in
volved.
| The Cotton Bureau of the National
| Alliance at Memphis, Tenn has issued
an address to plan ers, advising the
planting of less acreage to cotton.
| Tns seasons crop is largely reduced,
and the planters have got better prices.
| Michigan's war Governor, Austin
Blair, received certified check for
"a, l25 as Christmas gilt from prom,-
nent residents OF that State. The ex-
Governor is writing his recollections o
the war, and the money will be used in
getting out the book.
In the case of the DR.. Briggs heresy
case the New York Presbytery, without
expressing approval of the critical or
| theological views embodied in DR..
| Briggs address, or OF the manner in
| which they have been expressed and
| illustrated, pronounces Briggs fully &C
quilted of the offenses alleged against
| him.
The Mutual Life Benefit Insurance
Company of Hartford, Conn.,, has de-
cided to go out of business, and has
msda arrangements with the National
Mutual Insurance Company of New
York to take all its members who apply
for transfer.
The Supreme Court has denied the
motion to advance the case of Merrck
ex rel. va Charles Foster, Secretary OF
the Treasury, popularity known as the
! silver brick case. This is the case
wherein the plaintiff sought to compel
the Secretary to coin into dollars a silver
brick offered at the mint for that pur-
pose.
The United States Supreme Court has
decided that patent is not void be-
cause OF the death of the inventor be-
tween the time OF his application for a
patent and the issuance by the patent
Office. The court holds that the patent
should be granted to the heirs or as
siguee o. the inventor.
A sensational report that there was a
conspiracy to cut off the water supply OF
Chicago by permitting ice to accumulate
about the intake. b the lake has gained
currency, owing to the discharge of the
keeper at the Chicago plumbin station.
The officials of the water department
deny that any such conspiracy existed.
Bishop Ireland has preferred charges
against Bishop Corrigan OF having had
recourse TO methods unbecominy
bishop. and designed to discred,t and
disgrace Archbishop Ireland and Mon
signor Satolli. 1t is we'll known there
has long been almost irreconciable dill
ferencee between the two Catholic pre-
lates.
A grand wolf drive was participated
in by $50 farmers near Virginia, Ill. re.
e.