Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-01-13
Crusade Against the Habit Of Splitting on
the Floors Of Public Convey
ances In Brooklyn.

GthrVhtiOu 10 IcROItSu huODk OObu btt
tiers and Indians In Oklahoma.
A recent hailstorm In Texas was Of Ice
pellets that weighed two pounds.
A menagerie to cost 81 ,5OO, 600 is being
talked about for the Worlds Fair.
There is report that the Guion line
Of steamers 10 going out Of business.
The Ohio and Mississippi railroad may
be controlled by the Baltimore and Ohio
The numbering OF the people OF Phil
adelphia by the police cost just ~, 25s56.
Columbus (O.) ealoons must close at
midnight by order OF the Chief OF Police.
Cornelius Vanderbilt has given 81, 200
TO the police pension fund OF New York
city.
Commercial travellers, it is said, sup
port two-thirds Of the country hotels in
America.
A public ceLaus OF Philadelphia just
taken shows 1t to have a population Of
l,14.,653.
There never was such rush OF sugar
and molasses into the New Orleans mar
ket rs now.
Secretary OF the Treasury Foster says
there is no occasion for alarm in fnan-
cial circles.
Secretary Fosters efforts to retain gold
in the Treasury are said to be meeting
with success.
Large seizures Of Illicit distilleries
have been made in Wilkes and Cataw ba
counties N. 9.
Great distress is reported in Western
and Northwestern Kansas as result OF
the cold weather.
The packing house business at Chicago
has reached condition OF dullness I'M
paralleed in years.
Congressman Scott proposes to push
his bill increasing the whisky tax from
% cents 10 81. rs per gallon.
| South Cardinals Senate has passed to
it's third reading the bill making the
/ state it's own saloonkeeper.
A most exhaustive trial of the dynam
tie cruiser Vesuvius and her guns is TO
be made by the government.
Frauds in the weighing of sugar for
bounty have been discovered, so govern
ment officials at Atlanta say.
February rs will witness the formal
opening OF the new European steamship
line under the American flag.
| Pierre Lorillard was horsewhipped in
front Of New York hotel by cabman
Oh whom he attempted to impose.
The scope OF the bureau of military
information is being extended and per
lected by Secretary of War Elkins.
Senator Culom proposes amendments
to the interstate commerce law whereby
witnesses can be- protected when giving
evidence.
Dartmouth College at Hanover, N. H.,
has received bequeet oil 800, 900 from
the late Ralph Butteffeld, M. D., OF
Kansas City, Mo.
The Continental block at Douglass and
Fifteenth streets, Omaha, has been
burned. The building and business
losses are nearly 100000.
John ID. Rockefeller has given another
81 ,0C0, 900 to the University of Chicago.
This makes $40 $1,000 which the mill
ionaire has given to the university,
The Yaqui Indians have defeated
Mexican troops sent to subdue them
and driven from the Indian town OF b.
len all the Spanish traders and their
families.
The National Council OF Women, re.
Gently in session at Chicago, sent forth
a fu mination against French heels, cor.
sets, tight sleeves and street dresses with
long trains.
An electrically controlled machine
which will effectively stamp $4,000 let.
nrs in an hour is one of the interesting
inventions that has been adopted in the
Postoffice Department.
The women of Danvile, ILL.,, are arm.
ing themselves with revolvers and prac
ticlng at shooting since the acquittal oi
the man who made an assault upon Mel
lie Henderson in that city.
The Directors Of the Women's Health
| Protective Association of Br oklyn have
inaugurated crusade against the habit
OF splitting on the floors OF public con
vevances and various public waiting sta.
tions.
| Out OF the $50 miles of passenger rail-
way tracks In Boston 100 are equipped
with heavy girder rails and trolley wires,
and the process OF change from horse
power to electric traction goes steadily
| forward.
| The Solicitor OF the Treasury Is OF the
opinion that the use OF the Columbian
half-dollar cnins in the manufacture oil
various art cles as souvenirs, such as
spoons, firks, etc, would be violation
OF the law.
The decision OF the Indiana Supreme
Court declaring constitutional the law
| requiring the posting at stations OF the
time trains arrive and depart will nut
| the railroads OF the State to an add.
tional expense OF $l,00o,0 900.
The business portion OF Minneapolis
has been startled by the announcement,
that L. y. Corser, the veteran insurance.
man and real estate sgent, has become
involved to such an extent that he must
necessarily make an assignment.
John L Woods, a wealthy retired
lumber dealer. gave 1926, 900 to the med.
| zeal college of the Western Reserve Uni
versi,y st Cleveland, O., rs a Christmas
present The university has received
during the past two years gifts aggregat-
ing 81 5000.
Silas w. B. Jones. rs years of age, Is
under arrest at kokomo, Ind, charged
with bigsmy. He was former resident
Of Marion county, Or, where about two
years ago he gained considerable noto-
riety through falling victim to a tin.
box swindle, in which he lost 5000.
The perversion OF the consular seal
system on freight coming over the Cana
dian Pacific has led the President to cal
for facts in connection Herewith with a
view to prevent this marked fraud and
the determination against American rail-
roads. 1t is possible the law will be re-
] psaled.