Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-02-17
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
The Large Amount Of Natural
Gas Wasted in Indiana.
NEW YORK BEGGARs TO BE ARRESTED
A Negro Hanged In Delaware Nineteen
Years Ago for Criminal Assault
Was Innocent.

Northwestern Iowa 10 liable to be In.
volved in meat famine.
Citisens OF Memphis are endeavorinp
TO suppress the gambling evil.
About forty employees in the New Or.
leans Mint HAYS been discharged.
Kansas sends In the best wheat report
OF any OF the wheat-growing States.
An investigation OF the ex-ofiicials OF
the Illinois Penitentiary il asked for.
The Michigan Liquors Dealers Assoc
citation has organised IN insurance order
| Small game 10 reported to be very
abundant throughout Alabama this year.
Extraordinary precautions against the
cholera have been taken ut the city oil
Mexico.
Philadelphia capitalists are figuring
on starting . new bank In Wall street
with II coz, 900 capital.
A Philadelphia syndicate has made
extensive purchases Of coffee lands in
the State OF Oaxaca, Mexico.
The managers Of the Chicago Fair are
counting upon t8.CO0, 900 in receipts for
concessions granted by them.
McAlGV = 0ARuft6 W eIi0 Oultetl 6tAbGt
during the past fiscal year aggregated
$4,949. 6SS more than during the previous
year.
The fifty-cent Columbian stamps, 1t ID
discovered by = st. Louis pussle Aend
contains the picture Of man smoking .
cigar.
The Union Pacific threatens to make
the rate from OGDEN to Missouri river
points s20, and hot rate war Is ex-
pected.
BARRIERS In Ohio are agitating for q Law
which shall make 1t legally possible fol
q white barber to refuse to shave q col
ored man.
Six OF the public schools Of Milwaukee
have been closed by the Health Com.
missioners because OF their unsanitary
condition.
In Louisville man named Manning
selling charms warranted to cure all
sort OF illness.
The Senate has passed the bill to re-
fer to the Court OF Claims the claim oil
Jessie Benton Fremont to certain lands
in San Francisco.
A Chicago lawyer has suggested tina.
ex- Presidents, when they possess the
legal requirements, be named for Su.
preme Court Justices.
Four saloons were erected in the mid
die of the Ohio river, which was entirely
frozen at Louisville, and did thriving
business for many days.
| As the result OF recent order by the
government the immigration commits
sions paid by railroads to steamship
companies will be reduced.
Governor Hogg OF Texas, in his mes
sage to the Legislature OF that State,
advocated the taxation of vendors oil
deadly weapons and cigarettes.
Senator Warner Miller says Hunting.
ton and the Southern Pacific interests
| are in opposition to the Nicaragua Canal
| and their agents are at work in Wash.
ington.
A bill to prohibit prize fighting in In
diana, providing that principals should
be fined 5000 and the newspapers
u, 600 for printing advance notices, was
killed in the House.
The Geologist OF Indiana says that
enough gas has been wasted in Its belt to
supply every family in the State for two
years, and that $22, 600 600 is but a fair
measure OF the loss.
Police Superintendent Byrnes of New
York has issued orders to the police to
arrest all beggars caught plying their
trade. They had made general nuis-
ances Of themselves.
Four Thousand new postnffices were
established during the last year, 557, 846
unavailable letters poured into the boxes,
32,6l2 of them wholly without any out
side sign, symbol or address.
An election contest in Massachusetts
has developed the fact that the success
fnl candidate for Representative in the
Wellington district was naturalized only
the day before he was elected.
The Minnesota Legislature is getting
ready to try new form OF paternalism.
1t is proposed to amend the State Con-
stitution 80 as to enable the State to in
sure all farm buildings at cost.
To the British emigrants who will take
up land in the northwest of British CO.
lumbia the Canadian government is Of
fering through the London Emigrants'
Information Office bonuses of IS to $40 a
head.
Miss Nellie Ahern will be the next
State Librarian at indianapolis. This
was decided at caucus OF the two
Houses in which sixty-four votes were
for Miss Ahern and only eight for the
male candidate.
A Washington dispatch says it has in
formation from a thoroughly reliable
source that M. M. Estee upon the part
OF San Francisco has offered the Santa
Fe $l0,000.00) If the road would build
into the city.
The Chickamauga National Park Com
missioners have offered $17,000,000 for
eight acres OF ground on Orchard Knob,
Tennessee, where Generals Grant and
Thomas stood and watched the battle of
Missionary Ridge.
1t has just been shown that Joseph
negro, hanged In Delaware
years ago for criminal assault,
was an innocent man. A man who as
sisted in the arrest, named Morris, and
was a witness on the trial was the guilty
party.
The Canadian Pacific has secured in
dependent entrance into Jersey City or
J. Il Ramsey has sold
his franchise for the construction OF a
railroad from Jersey City north to the
frontier to the Canadian Pa
citic Road. The new road will run west
Of the West Shore road.
The United States Supreme Court in
the case OF Homer, plaintiff in error, VS..
The United States, has decided that Aus
trian premium bonds constitute true
lottery within the meaning OF the stat