Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-09-01
A Nebraska County Treasurer Skips
With the Swag-.DrOught in
New York State.

" At Lancaster, Pa, recently hundre,
& OF acres OF tobacco were ruined by ha
The iron and steel mills in Pennsy
10 vania that were shut down are startir
II up.
The New York Tribune declares tn,
y racing is going downward in public est
u nation.
Nearly $4,000 damage was done .
n Lynn, Mass, by floods following r,
n cent storm.
Representatives of Egypt are studyin
Southern methods of cotton-raising nea
Atlanta, Ga.
: The New York Recorder rep advc
Gates the free coinage OF silver at res
< sonable ratio.
a b. p. Hutchinson, or "Old Hutch,
Y has sold his membership on the Chicag
Board OF Trade.
3 Two of the 5000 horse power turbin
wheels for the great Niagara power plan
are nearly done.
The Rock Island switchmen threaten
to strike If an attempt is made to re
duce their wages.
: Mining experts are actively at worl
inspecting the gold region of the Rock,
. 'AOuhtstlI ptdlcS.
A fine quality of coal in seeming in
exhaustible quantity has been found il
Kerr county, Tex.
The New York banks will soon In.
crease their circulation to the extent Of
$1,000, 600 or sac, 1000, 900.
Philadelphia Italians have been try.
ing to wreck cable cars, because their
children were killed by them.
A company has been formed to intro
duce the sliding railway system exhib-
lied at Chicago into this country.
A movement is in progress to intro
duce improved machinery in the gold
districts of Alabama and Georgia.
One thousand saloons have suspended
business in Chicago this month. They
could not stand 1900 year license.
Galveston is experiencing an excess of
rainfall and New Orleans drought. A
year ago these conditions were reversed.
The Kansas coal miners strike is near
ing an end. The strikers are trying to
return to work on the best terms obtain
able.
There is great apprehension at Omaha
lest the foundation of the new Federal
building Is not on ground stable enough
to support it.
A Chicago statistician figures that
wheat at the price it is now selling-$l9
a ton--ls only 50 a ton more than timo-
thy hay is bringing.
The employees of the bureau of en-
craving and printing at Washington
have been ordered to work till 8 O'Clock
every working day until further notice.
AT Philadelphia Rachel Boyle, rs years
OF age, during a period OF religious ex-
citement cut OFT portion of her lips,
ana then broiled it as an offering to God. |
The State officers of Kansas have de-
clded to send out a commissioner to So
licit seed wheat for farmers of that State,
taking notes from the farmers in pay
ment.
The women of Hiawatha, Kan, are
raising funds to send all of the drunk
ards OF that town to the Kelley cure.
ana they expect to make money by the
operation.
The American Bankers Association
convention, announced to be held in
chicago September and z, will not
axe place because of the present tinan-
'lal situation.
Barrett Scott, Holt county (Neh. \
treasurer, has disappeared, and an in
'estigation OF his accounts shows short
ge OF about 100000. 1t is thought tina.
'cott has gone to Mexico. :
Topolobampo colonists have reached !
Kansas, and have asked Congressman /
frederick to investigate the methods t
\, by the managers of the colony. '
no rpfIInaal 40 ~ ia Z
Only Massachusetts, Virginia, Ohio. !
lsconsin and Iowa will elect Governors !
his fall. Only three Legislatures to be
hosen-ln Virginia, Kentucky and z
owa--will elect United States Senators. +
Local bankers at Mobile, Ala, ridicule @
radstreets report of probable crisis n
the cotton region, owing to want Of o
irrency. When the time comes thew b
" all the necessary funds will be forth. ii
'ming. Il
Chicago has been SO overrun with car al
snters that the unions of that city az
I'VE appealed to sister unions through n
II the country for financial aid to en-
he them to pay the fares of some of in
Q unemployed to other cities. o,
The round-trip fare from st. Louis 10 st
aW Orleans-a distance of 700 miles OF
ring the international Exposition in pa
Crescent City in 1885 was SIS. and -
9 round-trip fare from St. Louis to tn
licago-distance $50 miles-is now $40. Of
There are $500 employees of the Fed re
NJ government in New York city. ex- 81,
lsive OF the letter-carriers in the most. ~
ice department. OF these ]. 500 have ~,
ices covered by the civil-seryice law fa'
900 are removable on demand or ha
cause. IA
reports from all sections of Ulster be-
ange, Sullivan, Delaware and Greene m,
mites, N. V, show that the streams thu
, drying up, and growing crops Ara thu
tering Tor moisture. Wells that we're at
'er known to fail in giving bountifuI am
ply are now useless. the
he commencement of the public mo
TX on the sewers at Denver was :. WI
ne OF unusual excitement. Fullv nm,
~ Idle men were on hand eager To dn,
, employment, and when a team drove dr.,
hauling wagon loaded with tools. a in
was made for picks and slloyels IN
use who were unable to secure tools bar
u TO work pulling up weeds, showing rem ,
II disposition and anxiety to work NV
ty-two men were put to labor In the che
'"Vs "ofheu Win hearty ors
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