Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-11-17
EASTERN MELANGE.
A Kansas Man Convicted on
Thirty-fve Counts.
APPENDICITIS ON THE INCREASE
An Effective Measure Being Taken
to Close Gambling and Pool
Rooms In st. Paul.

= Large beds OF porcelain clay have bee
: discovered in the Cherokee Strip.
A war OF determination against olet
i margarine has begun in Pittsburg.
8 Opposition to the electric railroad a
Gettysburg has apparently died out.
4 Nearly 100000 is paid for pensions t
: bremen in New York city every month
The grand jury of Baxter county, Ark
has indicted sixty persons for sr airing
/ A. G. Burnham of Champaign, III.
has given $4,000 to found hospital il
: the town.
New York Is developing bountifu
harvest OF cranks since the Harrison
murder in Chicago.
Crop failures and the opening OF the
Cherokee Strip have almost depopulatet
Southwestern Kansas.
Survivors of the recent floods In Lou
isiana propose to establish a colony o.
200 families in Colorado.
The tobacco crop in the Housatonit
valley, Conn, has an estimated value Of
$3,oO0,O0O, the highest on record.
The expectation OF coke has recently
become a feature OF Baltmore's trade,
A large supply is dispatched every month
to Mexico.
The United Press has taken up its
abode at Washington, ID. c., in a suite
OF ten OF the handsomest newspaper
rooms in the country.
A society has been formed in Balti-
more, the avowed object of which is to
assist In perpetuating the memory of
Christopher Columbus.
There is talk of transporting the New
Hampshire State building at the Chicago
Exposition to Manchester, N. IT,. and
turning 1t into a public museum.
1t has been suggested that the many
duplicate volumes in the Congressional
Library be made the nucleus of free
circulating library for Washington.
9. Q. Beardsley has been convicted on
thirty live counts Of selling liquor ille-
gally at FL Dorado, Kan. His fine will
be $4,000 and his Jail sentence | $50 days.
After careful investigation the New
Orleans Times Democrat states that the
oyster industry of Louisiana was not Sc
riously injured by the late severe storms
Encouraging results are said to be OBJ
tanned from the exploration of the Pie
dras Negras coal mines of Mexico, which
is being made for the G. P. Huntington
interests,
Within twenty-four hours after the
Battle Creek disaster on the Grand
Trunk railroad fifty lawyers were on the
ground looking for damage suits on the
percentage plan.
The Supreme Court OF Massachusetts
has decided that a man Is justified in
stopping dog fight, and if he gets bit
ten while doing it, the master of the dog
is liable for damages.
The Medical Society of New York has
adopted report calling attention to the
danger OF drinking water from the aver
age water tank, as found in railway cars
and other public places.
Most of Wisconsin's fine fish exhibit
at the lair will be taken to foreign lands
TO further experiments in propagation.
The Chicago public schools win receive
a portion of the display.
In view of tho alarming spread of ap-
pendicitis prominent life insurance
company proposes to insert the oues-
tion; ;" DO you swallow grape seeds?"
In Its application blanks.
Rev. Edward Bagley, pastor of the
Christian Church ut Washington, has
been selected to be Chaplain of the
House by Democrats, to take the place
d Rev. 5. W. Haddaway, deceased.
The exhibits at Chicago of grain and
nee from Mexico, Liberia and Trinidad
ire to be disinfected, with the object of
preventing the introduction in this coun-
'ry oil insect pests not native to our soil.
Toronto capitalist is at Niagara Falls
rylng to organize company to build a
bridge across the river for the exclusive
ise oil trolley cars. He estimates that
he structure could be constructed for s
400, 900.
The Real Estate Congress at the |
y orld's Fair developed the fact that the s
lite OF Chicago was marked as trading s
'ost ON La salle's map, made in in 1890, t
no that it was then designated "She- i
aw-gu." !
Albert Abbink at the st. Louis CMo. 5
lty hospital is suffering from a disease I
allied anchylostomum dodenale, the Of c
act OF which is to render him as white o
marble. Even his tongue, gums and II
niger nails are devoid of all color. P
The Lighthouse Board has demon 7
rated that telephone communication a
lay De established from the shore to :.
esseis near shore. The method will be 4
ut INTO practical operation as soon as ;;
'nds are available for the purpose. u
lbe murderer of the Wrattan family a,
tone, who was before the grand Jury at NJ
sshington, Ind, stated that Charles 81
Mcoatferty, whose wife is heir TO the s;
rattan estate, and Robert Swaneoan OF
ere among his accomplices in the MUIR ey
n. ''"' "
The opinion OF the bankers who were ~
Gently convened at Chicago seems TO -
that the perpetuation and extension w.
The national banking system without &
bond basis is perfectly practicable nv
g application of the safetv-fund co
sthod. ''''' M
Inc resolution authorizing the Com ~ ~
ttee on Agriculture and Forestry To VI
ltinue during recess the investigation ye
state agriculture, authorized bv the TO
oiutions adopted April 10, 1899. and pr
'rch 3, 1898, was agreed to by the Sem W. VIZ
The merchants of st. Paul have taken tn
at promises to be an effective meas to
toward closing the gambling and tn,
d rooms OF that city by resolving 10 col
tch for and instantly discharge such me
heir employees ms may frequent them. az,
v. II. Riley. senior member of the .h'
e dry goods importing house of w as
Riley 4 Co. of New York and Paris IRA
been arrested in the latter CITY and Iol
rged with entering imported goods at i ioS
custom-house by means of false in leu
res, by means OF which the govern an'
Mt has been defrauded. an'
ews from WASHINGTON int;r,., -