Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-10-13
EASTERN MELANGE.
A Firebug Conspiracy Discov
cred in Chicago.
HE LOVED A CoLoRED WIDOW,
Destitute Farmers Of Western Kan
sas Appealing to Governor
Lewelling for Aid.

OF ffty-six Indian agencies twenty ar
now in charge Of army officers.
Massachusetts is credited with havn
100000 cyclists, including both sexes.
The water supply is limited in Ne,
York, and the price Of milk has gone up
Goldmining in Colorado has bee
much stimulated by the decline in silver
The town Of Perry in the Cherokee
strip is rapidly assuming city proper
tons.
There are said to be about five contest
ants for every claim in the Cherokee,
Strip.
There are about $50 hotels in Chicago
which have accommodations for l50,00t
guests.
Three billion cigarettes were smoked
in this country during the fiscal year
just ended.
II is said good moonshine whisky car
be bought in Eastern Tennessee for 5l
cents n gallon.
The clergymen OF Kings county. N. Y,
are denouncing the proposed Corbett-
Mitchell fight.
A syndicate of Populists, headed by
State officials, is buying up newspapers
in close counties in Kansas.
Floods have done immense damage to
crops in Virginia and washed away four
large mills on the Rapidan.
The Federal grand jury at Birming-
ham, Ala, has indicted six Federal Off
GERS for corruption in office.
Deer are more plentiful in the Adiron-
dacks this fall than during any previous
open season for score of years.
An organization of Spir:tualists re-
Gently met at Liberal, No., and raised
800, 600 for Spiritualistic college.
Captain II. d. Spore OF Hudson is or
ganizing bicycle corps for the First
Regiment of the Texas Volunteer Guard.
A movement has been started among
the A. 0. U. w. OF Kansas to secure seed
wheat for the destitute western farmers
The big dynamite guns for the defense
OF New York harbor are TO be trained,
elevated and depressed by electric mo-
tors.
The consolidation of electric railroads
with the establishment of truck sys-
tenn in New England is one of the latest
schemes.
The Columbian Celebration Compa-
ny's building at the Worlds Fair cost
s4o0, 900, and it was sold by the receiver
for 81, $50.
A Chinaman at Ottawa will test the
imposes duty of $50 each on all Chi
nese immigrants.
The Amalgamated Association OF Iron
and Steel Workers in Pennsylvania has |
agreed to concede 10 per cent reduction !
in the finishers' department.
In Cincinnati there has recently been !
organized rent guarantee company,
the business OF which is to insure land
lords against loss by bad tenants.
There have been recent developments
tending to show that the Louisville and
Nashville railroad will soon absorb the
Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern.
A Chattanooga electrician proposes to
perfect an arrangement by means of
which train robbers will be electrocuted
As soon as they touch the express COM
pany's safe.
Two interesting reports on the manner
IT living and of saving by the working
people will be transmitted to Congress
,y Commissioner of Labor Wright within
! few months.
The Texas Penitentiary Board is con-
dering the purchase of the Rogers su-
ar plantation in Brazoria county. Con-
lets have been working it on the shares {
or several years.
Governor Lewelling of Kansas has re-
eived hundreds OF letters with appeal
Or aid from destitute farmers of Western |
Kansas. They say they must have help I
r starvation will follow. G
The Citizens League of New Jersey l
inns at the defeat OF those members of !
he Legislature who voted for the nfa- l
nous racetrack bills last winter, in case
hey are made candidates again.
Louis Simmons, a white resident OF 4
lascoutah, Ill.,, Al years old, was ducked h
pond the other day for presuming i
} want TO marry Mrs. Emma jackson .,
who weighs 400 pounds. /,
The announcement that the Pennsyl- c,
ania Railroad Company will arm all it's t,
ainmen and that the express compa- e.
les will supply their messengers with IS
'rnchesters and shotguns is timely. n
A Zulu fraud, who has been operating a.
the West, was arrested in the Zion NJ. I'll
Church at New Haven, Conn.,, while nj
sermon and placed in Jail
| a charge of swindling Chicago people. ps
Already s5,00o,000 have been spent be
ION the scheme to carry electric power tn
Illuminating and manufacturing pur- co
ses from Niagara Falls over the State to
New York. The first wires will prob re
ly be strung along the Erie canal. OF
The statistics of the shipping of the s le'
rid, just published by Lloyds, show Ut Ut
At there is no nation which has made si e
rapid an increase in the tonnage of ~ ~.
aners registered during the past ~
elve months as the United States. W
Two hundred and one women availed h,
'mseives OF the privilege of voting for az
lool officials at an election held in New adj
ven, Conn, on September Is. The ma
ket they supported was elected by an
loriiy of LOO out of vote Of 1897. cts
The reports OF railroad earnings con- tn,
ne 10 show decrease as compared vie
h the earnings last year. There has me
N decrease every week for come ito
Ie, but the weekly decrease has been an,
wing smaller since the middle OF Au- fol
4. rer
water famine prevails in parts of rat
cinal and Duval counties. fey. In leg
town OF Aquliares there is much suf- ito
ng. Mexican women await the COM mo
OF the trains. and with cans and ess
Is catch the drippings under the ten en'
and engine. OF
he House Committee on Banking has a ~
lded 10 report favorably on Mr.. ~
myers bill providing that before ~
can be made by national bank to H.
oil It's officers consent must be grant III
Dy yea and nay vote OF the directors. ~.