Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-08-18
EASTERN MELANGE.
Secretary Hoke Smith Hanged
in Effigy in Ohio.
NEGROES SUPPLANTING WHITES
Trouble Apprehended Between the
Whites and the Seminoles in
Southern Florida.

E Reading (Pa.) Council has voted S.
: 900 to fight the smallpox.
Grasshoppers have destroyed sewers
crops OF corn in the vicinity of Pile
Knob, Tex.
: Canada's total wheat crop this yea
, will be about 100000 bushels large
! than last year.
Baby Ruth is to have Shetland pon
thirty eight inches high, which has bee
sent to the President from Scotland.
Louisiana has large prospective su
gar crop in sight, and she is anxious +
know what Congress is going to do witt
it.
Three negroes by stratagem robbie,
the Pacific Express Company at Witch
ita. Kan, OF about 1880 in currenc,
and silver.
1t is said that fully 81, 900 whites hav,
settled on the Cherokee Strip and threat
en- to make trouble If the government
attempts to eject them.
A radical reorganization of the coas
survey is contemplated by Secretary
Carlisle. Some of the changes may re.
quire Congressional action.
The Pennsylvania railroad system /.
said to have decided to substitute the
long-distance telephone for the telegraph
in the operation of its lines.
The death rate OF children nnder I
years OF age in New York week before
last was SO per cent OF the total number
or 793 out OF total of 1887.
For the first time on record passengers
have recently been able to breakfast in
London on Sunday and dine In New
York on the following Friday.
From present indications the country
| will have fully 400. zoo, 900 bushels more
of corn and 60, 900 900 bushels more OF
oats than were produced last year.
Two hundred and three inmates of the
Kansas Soldiers Home, who have been
treated for alcoholism, have left the
home, able to maintain themselves.
A st. Paul special says it is estimated
that 5000 to 1000 idle men are there
and hundreds more arriving daily. MANY
are from railroads and mining regions.
All fears of trouble from idle working
men at Denver have disappeared. Those
who have not left the city will be given
employment in contemplated public inn
provements.
The new Chinese Minister, who will
arrive in Washington about the middle
OF this month, will replace the present
legation of nine persons with much
more imposing suite.
There is apprehension that trouble
may arise between the whites in South
ern Florida and the Seminole Indians
over the thrashing OF one of the chiefs
sons, who was caught poaching.
The slaughter of the innocents now
going on in Cleveland is something ter
rible. Twenty-Five deaths from cholera
lniantnm and kindred diseases were re-
ported at the health office the other day.
A defalcation of $4,000 has been dis
covered in the cash Of the National Bank
OF Paterson, N. j. Abram Pardon. the
paying teller, was arrested, and CON
tessed. He is 90 years old and unmar-
ried
Because reporter at Denver had crit
icised the conduct of Governor Waite
the latter and his nephew threw the re-
porter out of the Governors Office when
he called to see If there was a news item
to be got.
IL Is reported at Springfield, ILL.,, that
William Whitman, the American FIX
press Company's absconding cashier
from that place, is in Mexico, and reoui-
sition papers will be applied for to cap
ture him.
The reported robbery OF Mrs. Ammon
at Chicago by men who personated de- |
tectiVes Is said to have been simply |
ruse OF the woman to secure present to |
make up for the supposed loss from an |
Old and wealthy friend.
The fight of the miners in Southeast
ern Kansas is still on, but the importa-
tlon OF negro miners from Alabama has
weakened the strikers, for the new ma
terlai are good workmen and fill the
places OF the men who quit work.
The Brooklyn pharmacists are endeay-
BRING to break up the practice of selling
trugs to the big dry goods stores. and
nave asked the District Attorney to
make charge against one of the mer-
'hants in order to make test case.
1t is stated at Providence. r. T. that
15,000,00o worth OF certificates of tba
Northern Pacific Grain Elevator Com
'any OF Minnesota are afloat in tho
ountry and there is but 80 per cent of
heir value in wheat in sight as security,
For the first time since the PASSAGE Of
ne sherman silver law the Treasury in G
NY Jailed to buy the full quota of 4. 5o0.-
w ounces OF silver. The total pur- :
hases Tor the month were 1854. 900 c
uh'es' leaving shortage of 2,ll6, 900
unces.
Secretary Hoke Smith was hanoed In !
fiigv by enraged citizens of Rome a
tile town in Adams county. O.. Satnr-
ny night. A number of pensions had ;
cen suspended there, and the climax a
as reached when the pension of ]. l..
eed; veteran OF the Eleventh Illinois :
avalry' aged So years, was dropped. !, y
The value of the hay cron of tha d
nl'eu rtates this year promises to be o
ieast ten times that of the production q
its SILVER mines. But our cattle eat n
an the hay, and We eat the cattle oil
me the silver is kept in store and per- f
beth not.
Governor Lewelling of Kansas has de- W
ied 10 appoint commission to 90 To &c
licago ana "open negotiations through 10
Q representatives of the Worlds Fair d.
IN the governments of Europe con- OF
rnlng the exchange of commodities IT
tn Kansas by way of the Gulf OF q
exIco." VI II
The navy officials do not admit that \;
g hrag-Iorgensen is a satisfactory ynn ~
ii they believe that American invent, ~,
can supply much better one. The ~
rag Jorgensen gun will have to show w
eit lar superior to all other arms 10 q,
sure MS adoption by the navy, whose al
aru Will soon convene at Newport. r III
70 examine the latest inventions in VIZ
at line. III ca