Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-06-30
Our Imports From China Over
top Our Exports.
MOURNING AMONG THE GYPsIEs.
Cholera Raises Havoc Among the
Hogs in Iowa, South Dakota
and Nebraska.

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Virginia Populists are making prepa-
rations for an active campaign this fall.
Twenty-three Illicit distileries were
raided in North Carolina week before
last. te# ~ 4r ssa
Residents OF Lake George are very
anxious to have fish hatchery located
there. tf'
An electric railway, several hundred
miles in length, is to be built in Ten
nessee.
The sentiment against bull fighting is
spreading to nearly all the States Of
Mexico.
Floods in the Tom bigbee and Saxa-
puila rivers have injured the Mississippi
cotton crops.
Moonshiners in Pickens county, Ala,
disguised as whitcaps, murdered wit
ness against them.
Five thousand people in and around
Hope, Ark, We're left homeless and des-
titute by the recent tornado.
A peculiar characteristic OF Washing
toms death rate is the excessive mortal
ity among infants and children. ...,
The last letter written by George
Washington has recently been sold at
auction in Philadelphia for 1850. ..,..
Western roads are paying commissions
OF 10 and ~ each passenger to get the
immigrant traffic from New York.
Fortytwo foreign nations are now
represented at the Worlds Columbian
Exposition by 327 representatives.
The Connecticut Legislature has re-
t,aaln1 i,s, 20 30 !.
to tell where they bought their liquor.
The sherihs of Kansas propose to make
a fight for the commissions on sales of
property cut off by the last Legislature.
Ex-Labor Commissioner Peck OF New
York has fled the country. 1t is said he
feared punishment for burning his office
records. 1e aHt r. .7st
In the last two months fully ope-half
OF the Young hogs in Northern Iowa,
South Dakota and Nebraska have died
OF cholera. .f .......-.
Passenger business over the Pennsyl-
vania lines is now so heavy that the
company declines to furnish cars for pic
MICS or excursions.
Tho merchants tailors of Texas have
formed State organization to fight COM
petition OF agents from abroad who take
orders in that State.
The Massachusetts, Commission on
Highway Improvement finds that half
the towns Of the State cannot afford TO
improve their roads.
Suits for 100000 against the various
branches OF the Standard Oil Company
have grown out Of the big flood and fire
on Oil creek last summer.
Though the entire cotton crop of the
country was under 100000 bales last
year the enterprIsing New York Cotton
Exchange sold 81, 10000 bales.
Senator Sherman has just moved into
his new 100000 house. Much of the
Senator's wealth has been made by in
vestment in Washington real estate.
The exports OF breadstuffs from the
United States the past nine months
have shown loss of nearly 800, o00, 900
in comparison with the preceding year.
According to the Albany Law Journal
women are eligible as delegates under
the law providing for the holding of
constitutional convention in that State.
The Civil Service Commission has been
called upon to decide whether the Post
can remove a clerk in
the classified service for characterization
The cable cars on Broadway, New
York, appear to be great success, tax
ing in, 1t is said, nearly three times as
much money as the horse cars they dis
placed.
There is mourning among the gypsies
because of the death in Illinois OF Mrs. |
| Ilpn b. a IL
coed Mrs. Young as Queen of the Ro-
many folk. -i
Mr., Jewell, the latest of the Kansas
whose first attempts CHANGED |
to be coincident with remarkable rain
falls, finds that he cannot play the trick |
a second time.
Rev. Mr.. McAnney OF Tarrytown, n. |
Y, thinks 100000 of the people OF |
this country will die of cholera before
TALL If the Worlds Fair should be kept
open Sundays.
Leading capitalists in Eastern cities
have been comforting with view of
company TO establish electric
ines on large scale in a number of cities,
East and West.
The New York Five Points, once re-
he most densely populated, has been
and will be converted into a
magnificent park.
Among the West Point graduates are
edward TAYLOR OF Idaho, Frank B. Nc
<enna of California, William r. Smed-
'erg, Jr., OF California, and Verting X.
Tart of Wyoming.
We bought OF China last year mer-
handlse, chiefly tea and raw silk. to the
alue of nearly 1000, 900, while China
fought only 5000, 900 of goods, chiefly
otton 10th and kerosene, from us.
A loft for noming pigeons is to be fit
ed up in the Public Ledger building at
and for the first time this
ir-llne messenger service will become
n established feature OF a newspaper
liant. -
The Italians of New York CITY, who
ow number about loo 900, have never !
ct appeared as a power in politics, and
My small proportion of them have
ven taken the trouble to procure papers
naturalization.
There were l0,ll5 marriages in Kan
rs last ,tar, A notable fact is that &
$50 OF these weddings, more than halt
all, were OF colored people, though the ,
egroes of the State number only some I
1000 in n total population of about /
200, 900.
John j. McFarlane, the former Presi-
emit OF the American Life Insurance :
ompany of Philadelphia, who wrecked !
is company and then made good his es
lpe to Brazil, has returned, pleaded
llltV and hpau sapfanoal tn fn,,r