Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-11-10
EASTERN MELANGE.
Action of a Mayor Commended
by the Grand Jury.
IDAHO MINING EXHIBIT ROBBED
Grand Chief of the Order of Railway
Photographers Indicted by an
Iowa Grand Jury.

: Tobacco has been found growing will
in Bee county, Tex.
" The endowment orders are likely t
be driven out OF Texas.
The State Treasurer of Missouri hold
10000 in cash awaiting distribution
d among unknown heirs.
The establishment of an ostrich farm
i on st. Joseph's Island, near Rockport
Tex, is being agitated.
, A Kansas Judge has decided tina
whisky contracts made in Missouri can
: not be enforced against residents of Kan
sas.
New York State enjoys pretty reve
nue. from its collateral inheritance tax
The sum reported at Albany is 1901,
87S.
1t takes 1000 men all night and late
into the morning to clean up the debris
left behind each day by the Worlds Fail
crowds.
Prof. r. B. Clapp OF the Greek depart
ment OF Yale has accepted call to the
Greek department of the University oil
California.
! a Burlington Kan, woman is going
to start crazy quilt with the ribbons OF
her husbands sheep secured at the
Worlds Fair.
Since August there have been twelve
railroad disasters OF more than ordinary
severity, involving the loss OF 127 lives
and the injuring OF 1888 more.
| Exhibitors at the Worlds Fair are
complaining that the electric light given
them Is not such rs was promised, and
threaten to close their exhibits.
The Arkansas Valley Irrigation Com
pany is sowing wheat in 10000 acres
along its bitches, and will use the result.
If favorable, to boom irrigation.
Mrs. Grant, it is reported intends to
make her home in Washington in the
future. Mrs. Blaine has offered all her
Washington real estate for sale.
The New York State building at the
exposition may be sold to the Chicago
Yacht Club at the conclusion OF the fair
and utilized rs naval academy.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
is to build piazza of glass around its
new Broad street station in PHILADELPHIA.
This unique porch will extend two blocks.
The Union Pacific has declined to take
off its rate Of s65.50 from the Missouri
liver to the Pacific Coast in compliance
with the proposal made by the $500"
line.
The insurance companies doing bust
ness in Omaha have made an advance
IN rates OF ~ per cent. The action is
based on the inadequacy of the fire pro-
lection.
The Idaho mining exhibit at the
worlds Fair at Chicago was robbed Sun
DAY night OF gold nuggets and bar of
silver bullion from the La Mar mine.
The loss is $1,000.
Santa Fe employees have appointed a
grievance committee to wait on the Off
GERS OF the road and ascertain when they
Will be paid their Septembe salaries. a
strike is threatened.
In ballot taken in Boston to decide
upon the most popular names for babies
helen led the list for a girl with 1873 |
votes out OF the $4,000 cast, and Harold |
was first fayorite for boy.
The Union Pacific receivership makes
total OF 1887 miles of railroad track
placed under charge OF the courts thus
tar in 1898, or Is per cent of the whole
railway mileage of the country.
Governor Stone of Mississippi has adj
dressed letter to the editor of the New
York sun, denying in emphatic terms
the reports of the burning OF cotton
gins by whitecaps in Mississippi.
-Four emigrant wagons passed through
benson, Tex, the other day en- route to
Arkansas from Wise county. The emf
grants stated they were forced to leave
Texas ON account of the drought.
Threshing returns show the crop of
to be much less than was gen
orally estimated. The estimate now is
but fourteen bushels per acre, where it
'hortiy since was sixteen to seventeen
bushels.
The old proposition OF taking that part
u Michigan lying west of Lake Michi
ran and the parts Of Wisconsin and Min.
iesota bordering on the lake and making
State OF them, to be called Superior. =
las been revived. S
Christine kroys of Brooklyn week be-
ore last swallowed the contents of two
eidlltz powder papers separately, and ,
PRESENTLY died Of apoplexy, caused by j..
he violent action the gas produced hy =
heir union in her stomach. :.
United States District ATTORNEY Ino- y
am Is about to commence PROCEEDINGS a
4 the United States Circuit Court for -
ne condemnation OF the properties at !,
read and Cherry streets REQUIRED for +
re site of the new Philadelphia mint. "
F. G. Ramsay, Grand Chief of the Or. r.
or oil Railway Telegrapher, has been t
'dlcted at Marion, Ia, by the grand g
ny OF Linn county. He is charged h
TN tampering with the wires of the "
arlington during the strike one wear lo
70. Il
me grand jury at Roanoke, Va, sum
oned TO investigate the riot on Septem- NJ
n 20 and Fl, made report commend. pr
& the action of the Mayor and censur- W
& the police for their laxitv in protect. &c
., the negro, Thomas Smith, from the ce
OBJ. ''' til
A gang OF outlaws has been discovered AT
bracken county, Ky. There are fully ~
OF the gang, and in order to become ~
member one must take an oath to sell VI
cry drop OF whisky furnished them by W.
manager, John Boone, and break nm gu
religious meetings possible. no
Jacob schoefer, dealer in notions at Sc
lillamsburg. n. Y, was held in "a. 600 err
Il on the charge OF having swindled fra
.eph frese out OF 5000, Max Fischer tn,
DUO and Mrs. Catherine Frese SO. 300 pc
selling them brass filing for gold dust. an
$. Frese dropped dead when She found Nj
she had been swindled. att
'uit has begun at Tiffin, O., against See
estate OF Ex-Governor and ex-Secre- "a
OF the Treasury Foster. In the com. COZ
INT 1t Is charged that the Foster firm an
insolvent two years ago, and that OPT
as to property to his wife had been act
de hy Foster at that time al 80 not