Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-01-03
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
An Advance in Stocks Increases the
Value Of Gould Property.
BOOMERS READY FOR A RUSH.

for an Injunction Restraining
the Commissioners From Closing
the Fair on Sundays.
The tobacco trust has captured the
Lorillards.
The Supreme Court OF Mississippi hao
decided that alcohol is not q beverage.
New York health officers are preparing
to receive the cholera again next sum
mer.
About 1000 men are without employ
ment and on the verge of starvation in
Toronto. '.
Secretary Foster estimates deficiency
Of $6O. 600 in the quarantine estimates
for 1884.
Justices OF the United States Supreme
Court bar cigarette smoking from their
apartments.
The lows corn crop IL reported to be
far short Of the usual average, caused by
the wet weather.
The City Council OF Dubuque, Ia, has
decided to buy the plant Of the Dubuque
Water Company.
General Boynton asks the House APP
preparations Committee for 100000 for
the Chickamauga National Park work.
For the fun OF chasing Cara, tho Mex
lean border bandit, the United States
government has thus far paid 5000, 900.
A New York syndicate is trying to buy
for n, 100000 all the rolling mill and
heat furnaces In and about youngstown,
o.
The Hudson river is to 10 dredged to
uniform depth Of twelve feet from
Troy southwark at an estimated expense
Of 5000 900.
The recent advance in stocks has made
the Gould property worth about $751;
600 600 more than it was on the day oil
Gould's death.
The packing in Chicago since the
opening OF the winter season is 1872 DOC
hogs, or 80 per cent. less than the same
time last year.
Among the Missouri exhibits at Chi.
cago will be twenty-four varieties OF to-
baceo from the experimental farm of the
State University.
Another appropriation for the govern.
ment exhibit at the Worlds Fair o.
500 900 Is asked, making the entire ap
preparation 81 100000.
pital, New York, turned out to be live
man who had been hustled off to the
morgue as dead, but returned.
There is trouble with the Welsh tin
workers at Elwood, Ind. They refuse t.
permit the company to operate patent
machines with unskilled labor.
Boomers are already assem- bling OF
the southern border Of Kansas in antici
patton Of the opening to settlement o
6 900. 600 acres Of land in Cherokee Strip
Telephones have been introduced a
the government rife ranges at Fort Sher
idan, ILL.,, as means of communication
between the firing points and the targets
Elmer Perrin of Long Branch, N. J..
10 reported to have vomited eight greer
peppers, each an inch and half long
that had grown from seed in his stom
ach.
j. F. Lee, the American astronomer
who has been studying at Berlin for foul
years with Prof. Forester, has been APP
pointed to the chair OF astronomy at tn,
Chicago University.
Premier Gladstone will be invited b,
the Worlds Fair authorities, they say
to cross the ocean in order that he MAJ
deliver the address at the formal open
ing OF the exposition on May l.
The Eastern railroads are gettin,
ready for the Chicago Fair. Car builder
are cverrun with orders. One Easter
firm il turning out seventy five cars pc
day, and has orders ahead for 1000 care
Boston is to get gas for cooking, heat
ing and power purposes for 81 per l 90
feet. while that for Illuminating pur
poses is to have a candle power of a
least twenty-five, instead Of sixteen a
now.
Zinc miners at Webb City, Wis. hav
noticed lately that shaft they were dig
ging has been growing hotter. At
depth of 1853 feet the other day they ha,
to stop work, as flames burst through int
the shaft.
A new serpent mound, the largest no,
known, has been discovered by Prof
Putnam near Fort Ancient, o. 1t is 80
feet long and about ten thick, and ia con
sidered one of the most remarkable @
prehistoric works.
The Louisville and Nashville railroa,
has brought suit at Cincinnati to recove
from j. McCourt, late the Cincinnati
freight agent of the road, $50, 900 on at
count Of delinquenciea revealed by tn
investi alton Of his accounts.
One Of the strange revelations OF tn
Massachusetts, election returns is tn
fact that 6S .0I5 voters voted to retain tn
old provision that the Governor of tn
State shall own 81 900 worth of land
They were in a minority, however.
Governor Russell of Massachusetts
has certified that he did not spend cen
to secure his reelection, but Oil me
Russell, his brother, certifies that h
collected $1,000 from the brewers of Bos
ton beside other amounts to help cleo
him.
The French Canadian emigration iron
Quebec to the United States is astonish
ingly large. The emigration fever ha
extern led to Chauteaugay and Beauhar
nois, the two counties of the PROVING
whose people have been supposed to b
the most prosperous and contented.
A couple of Mexicans, heavily armed
were captured by United States troop
on the border, and after examination
they were permitted to depart. Imme
diately aiterward they opened fire on tn
troops. who replied with their Winches
ters and riddled the Mexicans with bul
lets, killing them instantly.
An application for a N Illumination, n, re