Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-06-23
Total Immigration During Ten
"a Month Ended April 30.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S REPORT.
Reduction of Freight Rates From
New Orleans to Pacific Coast
Points Does Good.

| Inc leXdS SenJTal Is looking over
ground for its proposed extension in
Mexico.
| Philadelphia wants a new mint build
ing. The money is appropriated for a
new site.
Governor Flower OF New York is worth
several million dollars, and he is taxed
| for 10000.
Thousands of acres of land have been
| laid waste in Southern Arkansas by the
recent floods.
Joseph Pulitzer of the World has given
500, 900 to the building fund Of the Co.
lumbia College.
The Railroad Tax Assessors of Kansas
are being urged by popular clamor to in
! crease the taxes.
Dunn, chief OF the weather bureau,
promises one OF the warmest summers
we have ever experienced.
The Bell Telephone Company has &C.
cured an injunction against the Mckees-
port Company at Pittsburg.
A company has been chartered in
Kansas to print and circulate campaign
matter for the Peoples party.
Kansas crops are improved. Wheat is
giving better promise, and the corn acre
age will be larger than usual.
Seventy furniture factories at Cincin-
natl have closed. This is the answer to
the demands OF the workmen for nine
hours and other concessions.
Tammany is in clover. The Governor
OF New Yorl. did not veto the bill that
gives Tammany $10,000,00O dock i'm
provements.
Since Jay Gould's death the "Gould
stocks" heve suffered shrinkage of
more than $4,000, 900, and one-half of
this falls upon his estate.
Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott in Plymouth
Church, Brooklyn, Saturday referred to
DR.. Briggs as modern prophet, fit to
rank with the prophets of the Bible.
Michigan health officers are accused
by Canadian papers of working" Do
minion railways under threats Of inter-
fering with their traffic arrangements.
Hundreds of English sparrows have
built their nests in the Worlds Fair
buildings. and before the show closes
they will have increased to thousands.
Representative w. l.. Wilson of West
Virginia, who is Cleveland's choice for
Chairman of the Congressional Ways
and Means Committee, favors an income
tax.
The Kansas millers are buving wheat
outside OF the State for July and Sep
TENDER delivery for fear that the home
crop will not meet their grinding require
ments.
Late reports from South Dakota and
Nebraska state that cholera has wiped
out whole herds of hogs, and that the
scarcity will be greater than it was
year ago.
The st. Luke's Hospital property on
Fifth avenue, New York, has been sold
Tor $2,400, 900 in cash to an unknown
millionaire; one report says to Coils p.
Huntington.
a call from some of the prominent la
dies of Boston for q fund to provide
rocking chairs for aged women unable to
buy them was responded to by contribu-
tons amounting to over $f00.
General Boynton in letter in the
Washington Post says the demand of the
old soldiers is that the pension roll shall |
he made roll of honor and wedding
out OF the undeserving is necessary.
The total immigration to the United |
States during the ten months ended |
April 30, 1893, was 1884, 1926, decline of |
1913 from the immigration of the cor
responding ten months of the previous |
year.
The annual report of the Southern Pa
cltic Company (the entire system) for
the year ending December 3, 1892, shows
net earnings of s17 ,603, 996, against 49,
2S6 ,2O4 in 1892, being decrease of ST.
602 1908.
1t is reported in Washington that At
Olney and Assistant Sec
rotary of State Quincy will resign at an
early date, and that there is chance for
a Pacific Coast man getting one of the
positions,
The Carnegie Land Company and the
Carnegie Iron Company of johnson
City, Tenn, have made assignments to
]. w. Cure. The liabilities of the two
concerns are due largely to Eastern and
Northern parties.
The Confederate Memorial and Liter
ary Society of Richmond, Va, proposes
10 restore the old Confederate White
House" where Jefferson Davis lived in
hat city, and keep it as memorial hall.
It is now occupied by school.
The Society of the Daughters of the
american Revolution proposes that the ,
Columbian Liberty Bell, which is to be
at the Worlds Fair, shall aft i
'rwad be transported from place to r
place throughout the world as a mission q
ny OF freedom.
Government Inspectors have been
cushing an investigation into the affairs
4 the postotfice at Kansas City. Eight 9
'ostotfice clerks and five carriers have =
lready been discharged for duplicating J
nd hypothecating their salaries with +
noney-lenders.
Senator Sherman was asked concern .
ng rumor that he intended to resign. h
nd he responded: There is no use in 9
iscussing this matter. l have so little
attention to resign that have not given i,
he subject moments consideration. n
indeed, it bad not occurred to me-" a
The Eastern railroads find it difficult }
, maintain rates during the Worlds II
air. The latest scheme for getting
round the agreed schedule is reported a
ON Cincinnati, where one railroad dis ii
-ibuted circulars offering trip to the c
'ir and return and a weeks board for il
Is. Il
DIR. Briggs, who was convicted Of her "
~ by the last General Assembly, saws n
is high time that all broad-minded 81
len should organize and work together is
n their own safety as well as for the IL
onor OF Presbyterianism He calls upon
lie Presbyterians to resist the encroach- ~,
tents upon their rights by the General ii
ssembly. " :,
The reduction of FREIGHT ratas fror, ,c