Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-06-16
Bank Failures in the West
Brighten Depositors.
MR.. BuSHYHEAD STRICTLY IN 1T.
Mohammedans to be Colonized in
Florida and Georgia by an
American Convert.


ect to build railway by public subscrip-
ton.
Several cases of smallpox have been
found in New York tenement on First
street.
Kansas millers, fearful OF shortage
in the wheat crop, are engaging for fu
tnre delivery.
Paderewsli's total receipts for his
sixty-four concerts in the United States
amounted to $4,000
Eulalia admires american rush, +" and
wonders at the newspapers, whose pict
ures please her greatly.
The Farmers and Mechanics Lumber
Company and the LOOMS Coal Company
at St. Louis have failed.
kentucky has Parliament which
won't adjourn. 1t has been in session
for eight months or more.
The speed of the cruiser New York ac-
cording to the final computations was
twenty-one knots an hour.
The Missouri Railroad Commissioners
have decided that single horse must be
accepted as freight, though unaccompa-
MED by person.
Philadelphia has a gas plant of its own,
and last year it Melted a revenue OF over
81 DOC, 900 in addition to the free use OF
what was needed for public purposes.
New York expects less blockade and
quicker transit on Broadway because of
the cable cars, which have commenced
running on that congested thoroughfare.
1t is now authoritatively stated that
Carlyle w. Harris, the executed wife
posoner, came near cheating justice on
the eve OF OF his execution by taking
poison.
The Michigan Legislature has legalized
the use of the Myers voting machine in
towns, villages and cities. The vote in
the Senate stood 10 to 4 i; in the House
~ to g.
Louisville has offered 81 ,000, 900 for the
removal OF the State capital of Kentucky
from Frankfort to that city. The Legis-
lature, which is now in session, will set
tie the question.
When the dispensary law goes into Ell
feet in South Carolina on July / the State
will realize 81 profit on every gallon of
liquor sold, and is expected to clear $780,
600 the first year.
A Detroit doctor, who undertook to
pull dislocated ankle into place, dislo-
Gated the knee ieint OF his patient. The
latter has entered suit against the doctor
for $1,000 damages.
1t is the opinion of the New York |
World that the revenue bill of the next
Congress will contain clause imposing
a tax upon incomes over q certain
over $4,000.
In Ohio after August l all wholesale |
dealers in cigarettes must pay 1900 and |
and all retailers $500 for license fees, and |
the prospect is that very few OF either
will take out the required license.
The first vessel with green flag flying |
at her top that ever entered Boston har-
Dor has just arrived at that port She
IS the four-masted bark Cave Hill, built |
in Belfast Ireland. Her tonnage is
2, l57.
Philadelphia has never had such a
thorough house-to toulouse sanitary inspec-
ton as that which is now being made by
the Board of Health officials, who during
the past week visited 1886 houses and
discovered S75 nuisances.
The recent failures in the West have
alarmed bank depositors, and many are
their money and renting
space in deposit companies. The Safe
Deposit Association at Chicago announces
hat 100 safes were rented Saturday.
The first time Archbishop Corrigan of
New York had been in Protestant
'hurch during a religious service was at
he recent funeral of Mrs. Ohauncey NJ.
)epew. The presence of the prelate is
aid to have touched Mr.. Depew very
leeply.
a Milwaukee brewer has an option on
IN estate in Mexico, consisting of about
~ square miles, ut 80 cents per acre.
The property is known as the Camotlan ]
state, and it lies in the State OF Jalisco,
iorth and west o. the city of Guadala- I
ara, the second city of Mexico.
Bushyhead, ex-chief of the Cherokees, :
as managed by the insertion of clause
a the Cherokee land bill passed by Con-
ress To select quarter section OF land
elore the tract is thrown open to settle
lent and establish townsite. He has !
cen offered $4,000 for his selection, but
aluses. q
BY ruling of the United States Cir a
nit Court of Appeals at st. Paul, Mimi. .
was held that foreign subject who is
ualiiied TO become citizen of the United :,
tates under the Revised Statutes does 4
Of become such by filing a declaration u
intention to do so. He must comply ~
it'll all the provisions of the Federal !
atutes. -
One OF the Florida phosphate compa- a
les is shipping 800 tons week. There @
c now dozen companies thus engaged, r,
le OF which is formed by French capt. o
lists, who ship phosphate to France. &
urope now annually consumes rs 900
ms of Florida phosphates. The capital
vested in these Florida companies is n
q 800, 600. IT
The Salvation Army in New York ex- Il
cts TO make a remarkable display in c,
at city next fall, when General Booth n
u visit this country. Commander N
Booth and his wife will have lie
arge, and it is their purpose to bring &C
New York at least 100, 600 members of A
c army. and that every State and every in
ovnee in Canada will be represented. II
Mrs. Frank C. Button, alias Mrs. SO
ma f.. Wetmore, alias half dozen 60
her names, who was arrested in Pitts ~
fg recently at the instance of her III
west father-in-l law, Jacob Button. ap- ~
airs to be the most remarkable adven- VI
ress that has ever operated in the ca
lited States. Her scheme was similar pr
that OF Eva Mann, who wrecked and ~
ally drove to suicide Robert Ray W.
th
Russell Webb, the United va
ates Consul, who four years ago en- N
aced the religion OF Mohammed. and in
10 represents the Mohammedans in *