Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-09-15
EASTERN MELANGE.
Huge Hailst0nes Fall in the
State of New York.
RADICAL METHOD FOR RELIEF.
Amount and Mileage Of Railroads
i'm the Hands of Receivers
at the Present Time.

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Q to crops in Iowa.
A conference OF Anarchists is to b,
held in Chicago September Is.
A Kansas editor boasts of being
graduate OF the Kelley Institute.
The rate Of taxation just fixed in New
York is the lowest in thirty years.
Active measures are being taken te
enforce the health laws of Kansas.
Another gas well with powerful flow
has been struck at Stronghurst, Ill.
. Governor Turney OF Tennessee is out
in proclamation denouncing lynching.
About 1900 men who were idle in
Pittsburg two weeks ago are at work
again.
. During this year 714,6S6 silver Treas
ury notes have been redeemed in silver
dollars.
: Senator John Sherman has decided to
say very little at present upon the money
question.
A sea turtle, weighing 1000 pounds,
was captured near Portland, Me-, the
other day.
Prick, the Carnegie manager at Pitts
burg. has had his salary of $50, 900 year
reduced to s35, 200.
4 Senator PETER has asked that the sal
aries of all government officers above
1900 year be reduced.
+ Atlanta is about to celebrate her fif-
tieth anniversary. Her population is in
close neighborhood OF 10000.
! Much dissatisfaction is found with the
registration requirement by intending
settlers in the Cherokee Strip.
/ The counties OF Western New York
report a plague OF grasshoppers that is
doing much harm to the crops.
Last year the total valuation of the
! railroads of Kansas was $50. 000, 900.
This year it is increased si0,000,0 600.
X. d. Kathrens, Secretary of large
oil company, SAYS that the supply of Pc
trolenm in Wyoming is inexhaustible.
| Railroad Commissioners OF Kansas
have not yet been able to secure seed
/ wheat for the western part of the State.
| Francis Murphy, the well-known tenn
peranee advocate, claims that the excess
sive use OF intoxicants is on the decrease.
| But | 600 men are now employed in
the Santa Fe shops at Topeka, Kan.
Last year at this time 1000 men were at
work.
There is an organized kick all over
Kansas about the celebrity with which
the State Board of Pardons is letting out
criminals.
Secretary Hoke Smith has declined to
execute asphaltum mining leases on the
Indian reservation in Utah. He says it
is illegal.
Railroads with mileage of over 49,
600 miles and capital of 81 900, 000, 900
have gone into receivers hands in this
country this year.
The Jayanese village in Midway Plat
sance at the Chicago Fair is unable to
meet the exactions of the management
OF the fair, and will close.
The city of Cleveland has filed claim
to land on the lake front occupied by the
Pennsylvania, Lake Shore and Big Four
railroads and worth 100000.
Rome, N. Y, reports fall of hail
stones weighing one quarter OF a pound. |
Every exposed window was broken and
roofs damaged. Rain fell in torrents.
The New York sun has been making
study OF the debts OF the various States. I
and finds that in the last ten years there
has been total decrease of 100000 900. |
W. w. Ogilvie, the milling king of
Manitoba and Northwest Canada this
year at about twenty bushels per acre,
or total yield OF about 10, 000, 900 BUSH
els.
The recent hunger riots" in New
York had their comical side. One of the
loudest clamorers for bread, who was
taken into custody by the police, was
searched, and was found to have $35 in
his pockets.
New Iork's Dock Commissioners have
built on several different piers peoples
paviions. In these structures iron pill
lars support the roof, the building being
open ON each side to let the breeze enter.
The pavilions cost $500 each, and are
to serve as public promenades.
DR.. Warmers corset factory at Bridge
port, Conn.,, employs l 800 women. 1t I
now is running only part of the time. {
but for all of the workwomen who do
not make enough to pay their living ex-
penses DR.. Warner furnishes the meals ,
until the factory shall be running full :
time again. ,
movement is on foot in South Caro-
Ina to have John G. Calhoun's BODY,
with the sarcophagus erected over it by J
NE State Legislature some years ago,
from st. Philips neglected l
graveyard in Charleston to Fort Hill.
where was his home and where the col a
eye he wished for has lately been estab- r
ished. I
Typographical Union No. I6 OF Chi :
ago, including all the large English pa I
'ers OF that city, adopted radical n
method for the relief of the UNEMPLOYED !
n the shape of a rule, TO hold good for :
I've weeks, that none of the regularly n
mployed shall work more than four /,
lays each week, putting on subs F" the /,
ther three.
The Cherokee Strip will be opened for II
ettlers at II N. on Saturday, September a
.. There are altogether 5000. 600 acres e
land TO be opened. 0ne-third, or
10000 acres, is arid land, unfit for set 4
cement, leaving 1905, 600 available for Z
omestead purposes. There will be land I,
nough for about q, 600 persons to make .,
elections, and with the town lot souat- NJ
FRS, altogether not exceeding 5000. k
The man r. W. Parker. or Wilbur OF
resco,t hoockogey. who committed SUI d
'ide at the Grand Hotel, San Francisco. HI
pcording TO a Philadelphia dispatch flo, &C
red in many scandals in the East. He W
as convicted OF bigamy and sent To the pl
for the ofIense. His mother I'll
wealthy, but was forced TO 90 to France ca
} live, owing 30 her sons misconduct st
& was we'll known in Philadelphia as -
The Count" ci
Horace johnson, the Middletown o.
jonn-l weather prophet, who predicted ~
a ant D SO a