Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-05-26
EASTERN MELANGE.
Secretary Hoke Smith Trying
to Correct Evils.
AN AUTOMATIC VOTE RECORDER,
Heavy Rains Disclose Some Valuable
Relics on the Historical Mas
sic Farm in Ohio.

Drought will cut Kansas wheat crop
down one-half.
A postal computation gives Detroit
2s3, 900 population.
A "Colored Tariff reform Club" has
been organized in Atlanta.
The Michigan Legislature has Endorsed
an automatic vote recorder.
The licenses for 8, 900 dogs are annually
taken out in New York city.
Cold and frost has rendered necessary
much replanting Of the cotton crop.
Carter Harrison has forbidden smok
ing in the Chicago Council chamber.
A new law precludes the possibility OF
an absolute divorce in Massachusetts.
The population Of Johnstown, Penn,
has increased over 5000 since the flood
OF 1880.
The coal and coke business OF Colorado
is now in the hands OF four great com
Panies.
The Duke de Veragua is SO much
taken with America that he proposes to
stay indefinitely.
Milwaukee has been taking a little
census of its own, and is satisfied that
its population is 245, 0l9.
The Ohio Legislature has again re-
jected measure looking to the granting
of the veto power to the Governor.
st. Louis banks have turned over
81, DOC, 900 in gold to the United States in
exchange for Treasury and bank notes.
Alabama reports an increase OF 81
per cent in the acreage in cotton, ~
per cent in corn and per cent in
wheat.
Last year there were $500 arrests for
violations of the excise law i'll New
York, but the convictions numbered
only thirty-iive.
The consumption OF domestic beer in
the United States last year was about
one-hali Darrell per capita, or some
thing like barrel, barring teetotalers.
According to official report the prohi-
bition town OF Portland in Maine uses
$40 900 worth OF liquor year for
medicinal and mechanical purposes"
Deaths from exposed electric wires,
very frequent in New York before Mayor
Grants crusade against the dangerous
and unsightly poles in 1891, are now a
thing unknown.
The great tunnel which is to drain the
| Valley of Mexico is nearly finished, and
will be completed in fifteen months.
II is exnected to transform Mexico into
a very healthy city.
GU, Nv Nv ,,iiA,,,od Il, 200 sn,,,ths ~
10 ,;'.it ~, ,oIas i, that 1.;t,,
ene ny '.Iod IT,, 80 % H., ,soo oiIs,
poles with cast-iron bases.
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ns,;ratad 100 car losdS vii be 81 ;nnad
80 ~ .,,I.I;' - ~, ol,rso u r. y
, co. ~; e tho pdrtr ia not restorad '
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wv 40 ,,i'u;.,9 g. ~ ato 80, oo,,,
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'ns.u'
Wail-street brokers nave adopted a
new gahpilhS aeVlce III inc shape Vi
iii iIgi a." - "i''er d.; wv 80. :"
eo'''l"i ,'.'ia,oa Iuo'' H an ra.a
l ~, N' 90 a,i'l {. 80;
p0,'e 'oOo0.' :" @ 'i''
secretary Oh the interior omith Is Try
ing to correct the evlls that nave been
constantly growing III 1eiio" STONE rarK
III the way OF mohopoiies anu cohse-
| lueht excessive cnarSes ior everything
the tourist Is required TO use.
A question which agitates fashionable
men is as to where they can be scientifi-
cally tattooed. 1t is currently reported
that celebrated tattooer from Ioko-
hama VIII be at the exposition at CHI
cage during the coming summer.
The chances now are that the present
Illinois Legislature will not pass Con-
gressional apportionment bill. There
is apparently too serious difference OF
opinion in the Democratic majority as
10 now the state should be sliced up
Senator Faulkner, Chairman of the
Committee ON Territories, has selected,
in addition to himself, Senators Hill,
Platt, Bate and Davis, as sub-com-
mittee to investigate the condition of
the Territories now seeking admis-
SION TO the Uhion' Inc committee
starts June III.
| Heavy rains near Chillicothe, Ohio,
| have washed the earth away and dis