Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-05-12
EASTERN MELANGE.
Strike on the Union Pacific
Satisfactorily Settled.
A CONSCIENTIOUS HoRsETHIEF
Pennsylvania Iron Trade Expects
Much Trouble This Year in
Strikes-C. w. Harris.


Strikes-C. w. Harris.
Albany is to have an electric trunk
line.
Kansas is filling up this spring with
Germans.
"Gum-chewers' lockjaw" has made
its appearance.
The new directory Of St. Louis con-
taiDs l9l 1928 names.
A s2,000,0OO postoffice is to adorn the
city OF Buffalo, NJ. Y.
Boston is planning to build an elevated
railroad to cost s25, 100000.
Nut culture is attracting attention
on the Delaware peninsula.
George Gould says the Union Pacific,s
floating debt is only $4,000,000.
The New York Legislature has dried
up the pool rooms in that State.
Missouri crop prospects are most dis
couraging, owing to heavy losses.
1t is said the railroads will ignore the
Nebraska maximum freight rate law.
Eastern capitalists are said to be try
ing to buy the st. Louis street railroads.
The water is very low in the South
Pass at the mouth of the Mississippi
river.
There are seventy-seven branches of
the Theosophical Society in the United
States.
The strike on the Union Pacific is at
a end Tho &c
not been made public.
Pittsburg capital, controlling 10000
acres of gas territory, will build great
iron mills ut Munice, Ind.
Governor Flower OF New York will
commute the sentence of Carlyle w.
Harris, the wife murderer.
The 1,027 electric-light lamps of
Chicago are maintained at the expense
to that city of sl02 each per year.
Louisville will offer $1,OOO,0O0 in
bonds and a building site, if the State
will move its capitol from Frankfort.
The Populist women of Kansas have
begun organizing women suffrage clubs.
The first was organized at Topeka last
week.
The Pennsylvania iron trade expects
much trouble during this year in strikes.
Manufacturers will attempt to reduce
wages.
General Harrison has been invited to
make the chief speech at the unwilling
of the new soldiers monument at Ath-
ems, O.
Cargoes of horse meat, it is said, are
being shipped from New York to Bel
GUM as food for the poor people OF that
country.
The Goodland Rain-making Company
Is said to be contracting with farmers in
western Kansas counties at an average
Of Il 900 per county.
Kansas woman, who held man up
at a revolver point and went through
his pockets, has been sent to the peni-
Tertiary for two years.
Governor Nelson of Minnesota has
signed the anti-scalper bill, which be-
comes law April Is next. Scalpers
say they will contestit.
According to a recent decision it is an
offense against the laws OF the United
States to send a dunning or scurrilous
message on postal card.
Electric roads in Ohio are SO numer-
GUS that there is a prospect OF 30 many
being damned together as to form a
line across the State.
As a result OF the immense crops of
grain harvested the last two seasons in
south Dakota, that State is this spring
having the heaviest immigration in ten
years.
The first grain fleet of the season has
feared from Chicago with l1,0O0,0 900
bushels. Notwithstanding the severe
winter, navigation has opened earlier
han usual.
The wonderful influence of the sun on
,arth is shown by the fact that during /
ess than three minutes while the last /
eclipse was total the temperature fell
hree degrees.
The receipts from water rates in Chi
ago during the last fiscal year aggre-
sated s2,669, 1862, and the operating ex-
lenses were only 81, l70,09S. This leaves
! profit of 81 ,S99,s54.
Steel Baskets for the bodies of those
Who die suddenly on shipboard are
icing carried on many of the transatlan-
&c liners. The remains are placed in
hem and Theoretically sealed.
The Supreme Court of the United States
las had occasion to declare itself on the
question whether singular or plural pro-
louns ought to be used in speaking of
he United States. The Court sustains
he constitutional form, "The United
tates are"
John Railey, a Tennessee farmer in
ard luck, has just been made happy by
he receipt of 1885 from Frank X. Wall
ran OF Reading, Pa, being in full pay
lent with 6 per cent interest for horse
-hich Walldran, then a soldier, appro-
rated from Railey's stable in 1864.
In the effort to keep New York's
treets clean four hundred red barrels
ave been placed at the corners of Union
quare for passers by to throw their
anana skins and papers into. If the
Experiment. prove useful, barrels will be
laced at street corners all over the
ty.
In a suit in Washington State against
,yeral saloonkeepers the Northern Pa
tic complains that the employees OF
re company, who must necessarily use
ynamite and steam in the construction
the company's railroad line through
ittitas county, We're induced by the
resence OF the defendants saloons
ong the line of work to become un- g
tied Tor the safe use of these instru- c
entalities, and prayed that the sale of q
luor be stopped. The State Supreme
ourt decided against the road, and the d
lpreme Court OF the United States has !
stained the decision. ID