The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1893-12-16
Edward Parker Deacon Now
in the Social Swim.
THE WHITECAPs IN THE STRIP
Large Number of Idle Miners on the
G0gebic Range-Illicit Stills
DestrOyed-Etc.

will be built near st. Louis.
Texas people demand cut in railway
rates TO attract immigration.
Rhode Island has voted by large ma
jority in favor of plurality elections.
Several theaters at Cincinnati have
sued a local union for damages for boy
colt.
The driveways of Central Park, New
York, are to be lighted by incandescent
lamps.
A concise" report of the Worlds
Fair in twenty-five volumes is to be pub
lished.
The Kansas State Board of Dentistry
is prosecuting the unlicensed dentists Of
that State.
The President hes removed Postmaster
Thomas of Topeka Tor violating the civil
service law.
The next session of the Ohio Legisla-
ture is likely to pass an act providing for
biennial sessions.
There is one child dependent on char
ity for support in every 100 inhabitants
in New York city.
The sale of Columbian postage stamps
was only 1 i 900, 900 instead of 81, 800, 600,
as had been estimated.
A whaling captain says 100 whales
were killed and let go adrift in the Arc
tic seas the past season.
The widow of Jim Fisk is living in
poverty in little wooden house in Sc
cluded part of South Boston.
Kansas City does not pay for her wa
ter, and the water-works company
threatens to cut off the supply.
Whitecaps are making things lively
for sooners and lot jumpers in the
recently opened herokee Strip.
There is a gigantic scheme to connect
New York and Chicago with an electric
railway. The time can be shortened ten
hours.
Pneumatic-tube mail-carrier service,
which Postmaster Coveney favors adopt
ing in Boston, can be made almost self
sustaining.
officers OF the Guarantee Investment
Company at Chicago have been convicted
OF using the mails in the interest of a
lottery scheme.
Cincinnati's Mayor wants that city's
population to be swelled by 1000 by
annexing seventy-fve square miles in
Hamilton county.
Chicago hotel men complain that theil
houses are deserted. A house that had
5000 guests month ago now has but
800; and so it runs.
1t is estimated by the Register OF the
Treasury that only about $1o,S00,000 o.
the registered bonds of the United State:
are now held abroad.
The discussion still goes on at Chicago
about retaining the Worlds Fair struct-
ures in Jackson Park as long as they can
be preserved against decay.
The strike of catchers and hookers
against 10 per cent reduction in wages
throws 500 men out of employment in
the Newport (Ky.) rolling mills.
As a result of alleged boodling the
Mayor OF Omaha has been enjoined from
approving a franchise granted the loca
gas company by the City Council.
The idle miners on the Gogebic Range
in Wisconsin number about 1900. They
are in Q helpless condition, and measures
are being taken to give them relief.
The Boston and Maine road will alb
sofb the Concord and Montreal anC
Maine Central, together with anothe
road yet unnamed, by longtime leases
Prof. Marlowe of the High School O
Terre Haute, Ind, who sent his youn
wife to her parents recently, telling he
he no longer loved her, has been dis
I missed.
! The number of distilleries operate
I during the year was 4,74S, q decrease {
\ l 1872 compared with 1892, but the d,
4 crease was wholly in the class of fru
: distillers.
# Predictions are made at Philadelphia
d that the Knights of Labor as an ordt
v cannot long exist. The way the manag,
n ment has conducted business has bee
X very unsatisfactory.
e According to the last report OF Il
/ State Auditor of Iowa there were l:
lie farmers mutual insurance companies
: the State, which in 1892 carried ov
ID sos, 900 of risks.
y The New York market is perceptib
'e feeling the results of the destructi'
+ methods that have for years been Ell
y ployed in taking fish on the chief groun,
= = ON the Atlantic Coast.
,e Seven hundred and twenty-five lille
m stills were destroyed during the year al
rs eighty-four were removed. The numb
OF persons arrested was 4S7, and thr
- Deputy Collectors were killed.
es a special agent OF the general land {
rs flee, who has been examining the RaiI
no Lake region OF Minnesota, reports tn
m il is invaluable only for minerals al
ri unfit for any other purpose whatever.
e. Edward Parker Deacon, who shot al
g. killed NJ. Abielle in France, has be
nc cordially received in society at Newpo
ed r. l. He has been introduced and w
a coined at the swell clubs on Bellev
al, avenue.
gu The General Assembly of the Farme
y Mutual Benefit Association, the natior
head OF the Farmers Mutual Bene
~ Association OF Illinois, Indiana, Oh
p West Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri a
80 Iowa, is in session in indianapolis.
he The people OF Kansas City have
,r- cided that park system is necessa
Ige adjunct to the prosperity OF the TOW
,er that the city must own its water wor
4 and that the "ring which has cont
ch OF the municipal government must go
ng The persistent ravages of diphthe
p in Philadelphia and the heavy result
lge mortality during the last two We
'ed make il Imperative that no means sho
203 be neglected which will give promise