Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-04-28
EASTERN MELANGE.
French Canadians Coming Over
in Great Multitudes.
CHEROKEES RATIFY TREATY
The Amount Paid in Dividends by the
Carnegie Steel Company for
Last Year Reduced.

There is tendency in Virginia to grow
less tobacco.
Three expeditions will put out for the
North Pole this season.
Standard time has gone into effect in
Ohio by act OF Legislature.
Chicago and Buffalo will be but eleven
hours apart by the new fast train.
The Ranger and the Albatress will pa
troll Behring Sea the coming season.
Extensive prairie fires are reported in
Kentucky, owing to the long dry spell.
Three thousand acres are wanted in
Southeast Missouri for a Welsh colony.
A coal company with capital Of 49,
600, 900 has just been formed at Kansas
City.
Allegheny City and Pittsburg may join
hands TO build a big water-supply res
ervoir.
1t Is said that there are 10000 appli-
cants for postmasterships in the State OF
Georgia.
The Ohio river railroad lines have
agreed upon 2-cent-a-mile rate for the
Worlds Fair.
Steps have been taken in Eastern
the gypsy moth.
The necessary amount to free Tai
IMAGES Brooklyn Tabernacle from debt
has been subscribed.
The Cherokees have ratified the treaty
with Uncle Sam, and the strip will be
opened about July l..
The Chicagoice dealers have combined
and increased prices from 80 cents to 90
cents per hundred pounds.
In two years time it is probable that
every Southern State will conduct its
election on the Australian plan.
The Kentucky State crop report makes
the condition OF wheat 80 per cent. A
year ago the condition was 80 per cent.
The body of Jefferson Davis will be re-
moved from New Orleans, La, May %,
and be reinterred at Richmond, Va,
May 81.
The complete statistics show that the
production of beet sugar in the United
States has more than doubled during the
past year.
Reports from fifty towns in South
Dakota give details of the greatly in
creased immigration just now pouring
| into the State.
| 1t il estimated that since Mr.. Morton
started the Arbor day movement AGO.
600 900 trees have been planted in the
| Northwest alone.
| The New York Senate has killed the
bill for the submission to vote of the
people of the question of the consolida-
ton OF Brooklyn and New York.
The Worlds Fair management has de-
cided to maintain a Police Court in the
grounds, where visitors accused of misde.
meanors can be tried without delay.
II has come to light that the late Colo
mel Shepard of New York was unable to
secure life insurance several years age
owing to a suspicion of Bright's disease
The New York Assembly passed, rs to
2S, the bill abolishing capital punish
ment, to take effect, should it become 6
law, on September 1, too late to save
Carlyle Harris.
1t is estimated that $40, 100000 will bt
expended in new buildings in Buffalo
during the year 1893. The prospect o
soon utilizing the great power of Niagara
is booming Buffalo.
Everybody who has pass to get int
the show ut Chicago must have his pho
tograph on his pass. Perhaps Secretary
Carlisle can be persuaded to decide thu
photograph unnecessary.
The Ohio State crop report says whea
has come out of the winter in excellen
condition except along the southern Dor
der of the State. The April condition
last year was II per cent.
New York city has begun in earnes
the work OF purifying its water suppl,
at the source by burning filthy dwellings
barns, pigsties, etc, along the head
waters OF the Croton river.
There is y strong presumption tina
thousands of the most undesirable elias
OF emigrants are evadlng the American
regulations every month by entering tn
United States by way of Canada.
Since work has commenced on tn
Worlds Fair grounds in Chicago, tel
men have been killed outright, eigh
have died from wounds received while il
in service and 6l0 have been injured.
The French Canadians continue com
ing over the border in great multitudes
There are nearly as many of them am
their descendants in this country as Their
are in the French Province of Quebec.
1t is said the amounts aid in dividend
by the Carnegie Steel Conn any for lS9
was reduced from s5,o00,0Oo, paid tn
previous year, To 81 ,000, 900, owing to tn
Homestead strike and other troubles.
During the last eight months the tota
number European immigrants landed il
this country was 2l6,02S, against 500, As
in the corresponding period of the previ
Gus year-a decline of nearly 100000.
General George w. Gordon OF Mem
phis has introduced in the Tennessee
Legislature memorial from the Con
federate Historical Society asking tina
an annuity for life OF $500 be granted T.
the widow of Jefferson Davis.
Some idea OF the vast army of unem
ployed persons in New York may b
CLEANED from the fact that an advertise
mcnt for five walters in a Brooklyn
restaurant was responded to by over 30
applicants.
Experience in the application of cleo
tricity to condemned prisoners in Ney
York has removed all features disagree
able to observers and reduced the re
quired contact TO d single one of exactl
one minute,
A scheme is on foot to unite in syn
dictate the cracker bakeries of Philadel
phia, Baltimore and Washington, wit
the ultimate object, it is believed, TO foru
a trust to control the cracker industry G
the entire country.
Naval officers OF high and low rank ar
on the anxious bench as to details ate
the naval review. 1t is conceded tina
there will he a general change of com