Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-03-31
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
Pittsburg Organizes a Municipal
Ownership League.
THE WHITE CAPS OF KENTUCKY.
A Solid Block Of Cold, Weighing 1900
Pounds, to be Exhibited at the
Chicago Exposition.

A legislative investigation has dis
closed shocking cruslties practiced on
convicts in the Nebraska State prison.
The Vassar girls have recently been
engaged In dressing dolls for children |
among the poorest classes in New York
rity.
The statement OF the Recalling Coal
and Iron Company shows the excess OF
liabilities over assists TO be 81
603, COS.
White Caps have notified the vendors
OF whieky at Providence, Webster coun.
ty, KY, to quit the business or take the
The Black Hills Of South Dakota will
send az q part OF their mineral exhibit
sold block OF gold. weighing 500 pounds
AT d worth 100000.
Mrs. James Corbett has been sued for
money due for newspaper clippings
which che had ordered Henry Romerke
at New YORK. to gather for her.
II is said the shoe manufacturers Of
New England are proposing to conduct
their own tanneries and to fight the pro.
posed 500, 000, 900 leather trust.
Lionel Sartoris, a cousin OF the late
husband OF Nellie Grant, proposes to
colonixe with English farmers u tract OF
about $4,000 scres In Central Wyoming.
General Buckner Is said to be asaidu-
ously studying German in anticipation
OF being sent to Austria TO represent the
dignity OF the United States at Vienna.
The VIII sky trust will pass lite dividend.
1t has manufactured more whisky than
the trade demands, AMI 1t takrs lots OF
money to carry the EXCESS until 1t is
disposed OF.
The Lexington (Ky.) grand jury has
indicted sixty saloonkeepers for selling
iauor unlawfuily, and has returned fifty
three indictments for the sale Of cigar
cites to boys.
Congress not having appropriated the
necessary expenses for the OWL Service
Com mission to hold the examination
they had scheduled in several States,
the dates have been Cancelled.
| In the Minnesota Senate bill has
| been introduced to prohibit the prefer
ence Of one precious metal over another
IN the making of contracts, the inten-
ton teing I, abolish gold mortgages.
In sDtci patton OF heavy movement
OF Southern cattle to Montana a d Wy
oming Governor Osborne OF the latter
state has publicly announced the reg la
tions under which the shipments will be
admitted.
The Postmaster. General has decided
10 lease 80, $50 square feet in the Indus
trial building, adjoining the Forty-sec-
ond street railroad station, in New York
city, for use as the uptown branch oil
the New York city postoifice.
Toe Alabam, National Bank at Mobile
Examiner Campbell. The depositors
viii be pa d in fnll, but the capital stock
OF the bank Ia impaired TO the amount oil
$4,000 or about AZ per cent.
Texas people have finally undertaken
to prevent lynching by the formation o.
anti-lynching leagues at Rio Grande
City. 1t is expected that the movement
will spread throughout the state and
eventually throughout the South.
Frederick Douglass is the President o.
a company just organized for the pur-
pose OF establishing large manufacture
ing enterprise near Newport News, Va.
building town and giving employment
to young colored men and women.
The electric lighting question is again
being agitated in Kansas City, owing tc
the inefficient service and extortionate
rates OF the private company. Another
company has offered to light the city
hall ior about onethird Of present prices
Ballington Booth proposes to try in
this country the plan of farm colonies
for the regeneration of social outcas,s
which his father introduced successfully
in darkest England" and the first
colony will probably settle in New Jer'
sey.
The Russian Jews who formed the
Chesterfield colony near New Londor
srs beginning to leave. 1t ID said thai
the physical sutierings Of the colonists
during the past winter have been acute
and the outlook for the future has dis
heartened htem.
The gross earnings of all the railroad
lines in the Pennsylvania system lol
1892 were Sl3S, s74 ,520.65. The expenses
were $9S, 352 1888 20. The gross tonnage
moved WAS l4l, 37l ,s46 tons. The mum.
Der OF passengers carried was 1896, Sal
These are bewildering aggregates.
The disinterested in Milwaukee emile
over bill introduced at Madison tc
make the salary of the Sheriff OF Mil.
waukee county $500 year. The Gov
ernor, Secretary of State and Treasurer
get but IS, 90 each. Judge jenkins gets
SS, 200, but will get but $4,000 when he
takes Judge Gresham's chair at Chicago
Eugene Dunnivant, the ex-newspaper
carrier, who sspired to the hand OF the
tiauyhter OF q. w Potter the multi. mi I
ionalre steel manufacturer and has a
suit Tor 100000 pending against Mr..
Potter for false imprisonment, is again
under arrest at Chicago. This time be
is charged with having stolen woman's
| watch.
General Frank Wheaton, Commander
OF the Military Department at San An
tonic, has received dispatch from Fort
Ringold stating that six more mem hers
of the so-called Mexican revolutionary
army OF Catarino Garza have gone into
that garrison voluntarily and surren-
dered.
Acting under the terms OF resolu ton
adopted by the Legislature of Maine,
Governor Cleeves OF Maine has written
Mrs. James q. Blaine requesting per,
mission for the State officials TO remove
the remains of her late husband from
the Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington
TO Augusta, Me.
Pittsburg has organized municipal
ownership eague. lie purpose is to have
the municipality own and operate gas
NO k, water works, electric plant, street
ALWAYS, telephones and all other pub
ic utilities that are in their nature q
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