Idaho semi-weekly world., 1893-12-15
EASTERN MELANGE
Edward Parker Deacon Now
in the Social Swim.
THE WHITECAPs IN THE STRIP.
Large Number of Idle Miners on the
GOgebic Range-Illicit Stills
DestrOyed-Etc.

will be built near st. Louis.
Texas people demand cut in railwa,
rates to attract immigration.
Rhode Island has voted by large ma
jority in favor Of plurality elections.
Several theaters at Cincinnati have
sued 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
ished.
The Kansas State Board OF Dentistry
is prosecuting the unlicensed dentists OF
that State.
The President has removed Postmaster
Thomas OF Topeka for violating the civil
'ervice law.
The next session of the Ohio LegisIa-
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 VI, 900, 600 instead of ", SOC, 900,
as had been estimated.
A whaling captain says 100 whales
were killed and let go adrift in the Arc
tic seas the past season.
Phe widow of Jim Fisk is living in
poverty in little wooden house in se-
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
Tor "sooners" and lot jumpers in the
recently opened herokee Strip.
There is 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.
Cincinnat's Mayor wants that city,s
population to be swelled by q, 900 by
annexing seventy-five square miles in
Hamilton county.
Chicago hotel men complain that their
houses are deserted. A house that had
8 100 guests a month ago now has but
800; and SO it runs.
1t is estimated by the Register of the
Treasury that only about SIS, 800, 900 of
the registered bonds of the United States
are now held abroad.
Tho I;.,,.a:a.. a..n -,
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 l0 per cent reduction in wages |
throws 900 men out of employment in |
the Newport (ky) rolling mills.
AS result of alleged boodling the
Mayor OF Omaha has been enjoined from
approving franchise granted the local
gas company by the City Council.
The idle miners on the Gogebic Range
N wisconsin number about 5000. They
are in helpless condition, and measures
are being taken to give them relief.
The Boston and Maine road will alb
.orb the Concord and Montreal and
Maine Central, together with another
'oad yet unnamed, by longtime leases
!, Prot. Marlowe of the High School of
lerre Haute, Ind, who sent his young
we 10 hef parents recently, telling her
ie no longer loved her, has been dis
missed.
The number OF distilleries onerated
turing the year was 4,74S, a decrease of
.,lSz compared with 1892, but the de-
rease was wholly in the class of fruit
listillers.
Predictions are made at PHILADELPHIA
hat the Knights of Labor as an order
annot long exist. The way the manage
nent has conducted business has been
cry unsatisfactory.
According to the last report of the
tate Auditor of Iowa there were ia
armers' mutual insurance companies in
ne State, which in 1892 carried over
1900, 900 of risks. {
The New York market ia percentihl,
'ellng the results of the destri,ctive
iethods that have for years been em.
loyed in taking fish on the chief grounds $
the Atlantic Coast.
Seven hundred and TWENTY-FIVE Illicit V
ais were destroyed during the year and c
ghty-four were removed. The number
persons arrested was 4S7, and three Ii
equity Collectors were killed. o
A special agent OF the general land of.
'e' VINO mas been examining the Rainy .
AXE region of Minnesota. reports ,hn, b
is invaluable only for minerals ,nJ
nit for any other purpose whatever =.
Edward Parker Deacon, who shot and o
lled Nj. Ablelle in France, has been
'rdlaily received in society at Newport, II
: l. lie has been introduced and wei. O,
med at the swell clubs on Bellevue
'enue.
The General Assembly of the Farmers, nj
utnai Benefit Association, the national
'ad OF the Farmers Mutual Benefit ~
'sociation OF illinois, Indiana, Ohio \.
est Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri and u
wa is III session in indianapolis.
ihe people OF Kansas CITY have de- w
led that park system is a necessarv h'
lunct to the prosperity of the town
at the city must own its water works IN
q that the ring which has controi gr
the municipal government must 20,
Inc persistent ravages of diphtheria IN
Philadelphia and the heavy resultinv on
'rmiity during the last two wears
IKE u Imperative that no means should hs
neglected which will give promise oi m
,ciencv in the effort to stamp il ont.
IN each day OF the Chicago Fair the at
receipts averaged S67 ,096. The total n
eipts from all sources were s2S. ISL.
I; total expenditures, s25, ,5lO. az. -,
ance, s2,6l0,6S1. From this are de, vi ",
ted obligations 10 the amount Of "
s,l47, leaving net assets, 81 So. asa, -
ioyernor hllman of South Carolina 20
SITS the Supreme Court. using su OF
,ressions as "the tail wans thS l. en-