Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-04-14
EASTERN MELANGE.
Florida Orange Crop Probably
the Largest Known.
THE PENINSULA OF MICHIGAN
Nebraska Will Elect Her Presidential
Electors Hereafter by Congress
siOnal Districts. ,

western Wneat-crOp prospects are not
encouraging. 798
Another epidemic of grip is threatened
in New York.
In 1892 the railroads in Pennsylvania
killed ], 439 persons. s. 2
A case of malignant typhus has APP
peared in Cincinnati.
The Worlds Fair has taken in $780,
600 In admissions already.
"A syndicate, is reported to have pur-
chased the New York Times.
Nearly 400 applications for patents
were made last year by women.
The Treasury Department has plenty
OF gold for all practical purposes.
Arkansas proposes to tax all sleeping
car, express and telephone companies.
The new iron-pipe combine in the
Southwest will have sc, 100000 capital.
Americans can now buy bait in New
toundland without taking out a license.
An artful New York Italian has made
about 5000 by raising 81 bills to IS bills.
A bank, exclusively for the colored
race, has been organized at Admission,
Ala.
Cattle in the Colorado country win
tered exceedingly well during the late
cold spell.
New York's Board of Electric Control
is still laboring to get the wires under
ground.
The Cherokee Strip will not be opened
to settlement in time for the planting Of
spring crops.
", A a.
declaring that Georgia is entitled to 900
Federal offices.
Two ex-Auditors of Illinois are being
sued for the recovery OF interest on State
money placed in banks.
Thomas Helm of Austin, Tex, offer,
$500 to any one who will secure his APP
pointment as Postmaster at that place.
Governor Northern Of Georgia is tiret
OF politics, and has become enamoreC
with the life of q religious missionary.
The right OF saloon-keeper to ejec
female crusaders from his premises is t.
be tested in the Illinois Supreme Court
The trial trip OF the cruiser New Yorl
has been every way successful. Al
cruiser speed records have been sur
passed. l
A Chicago syndicate of capitalists i
contemplating the establishment of al
extensive packing-house plant in tn,
City of Mexico.
1t is learned positively that dispatch
has been received from Oxford by tn,
Yale Boat Club opening negotiations TO
an international race.
! The City Electrician of Nashville
| Tam Statoc that II would ha ,-a,.,- 4 p,
gerous for women wearing crinoline t,
cross the electric car tracks.
4 Rumors of a shortage have led tn,
Randolph County (Mo.) Court to begii
an investigation of the books of Count,
Treasurer Matlock OF that county.
For a long time hitherto New Yorl
city bonds have sold at a premium in al
the markets of the world. Some new
per cents have been selling at par.
A Washington special to the New Yorl
Herald saxs that President Cleveland ha
finally maze up his mind to call an extr;
session of Congress next September.
The Union Club of New York has en-
gagged Captain Charles Perry Smith, lat
of the Palace Hotel, San Francisco a
its Superintendent at a salary of $500
a year.
The Delmonico Restaurant at Ne,
York will have to move from its well
known stand in May. The Wormse
Brothers, bankers, have bought tn
property.
A friend of the Pennsylvania Hospital
Philadelphia, has presented the institu
ton with S50, 900, with which to pay 70
a new building for the Out-patient De
partment.
A bill providing for the election 0
Presidential Electors by Congressional
districts has passed the Nebraska House
and is likely to pass the Senate and be
come law.
The Lower House of the Kentuck
Legislature has declared against tn
marriage of cousins on the ground tina
children OF such marriages are frequentl
weak-minded.
The United Brotherhood of Switchrnei
held a secret meeting at Philadelphia
No definite resolution was formed as L
strike when business is crowded dur
ing the Worlds Fair.
! There are on file in the Postoftice De
partment more than 5000 resignation
of Postmasters. These cases will b.
considered and disposed of before an,
cases OF removals are taken up.
The admission fee to the Worlds Fai
grounds will shortly be raised from 2
cents to 90 cents, to discourage visitor
until the work, which must now b
pushed night and day, is completed.
| John j. Rhodes, General Manager o
the Minnesota Bureau of Coal Statistics
has been arrested on the charge of com
hitting perjury in giving testimony be
fore the Legislative Investigation Com
mittee.
Statistics prepared by the Bureau o
Statistics for the year ending Februar,
Is show balance of trade against tn,
United States of $32, 0O0, 900, against ,
balance of $l7l 100000 in favor of tn,
United States for the previous year.
The Florida orange crop this season
will probably be the largest ever known
The trees are now in blossom, and are S,
full OF bloom that should only half o
them mature the trees would not hole
the fruit without considerable proppin!
and bracing.
The discovery is reported to have beer
made that the peninsula of Michigan
west of the Sault and Mackinac to tn,
Montreal and Menominee rivers anc
from Lake Superior to Lake Michigan
and the straits has never been legal,
coded to the United States.
Millionaire Potter of Chicago ha:
deemed it necessary to publicly DENY un
der his signature the story of the news
boy, Dunnivant, that he Potter rail