Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-06-09
EASTERN NEWS.
Internal Revenue Collections
for Past Ten Months.
FOREST FIRES IN MICHIGAN.
An Underground River, Strongly I'm
pregnated With Iron, Found
In North Carolina.

last week.
The ice dealers OF Boston have formed
an ice trust.
Philadelphia has granted 2, ISL licenses
for the coming year.
Admiral Gherardi 10 to have charge OF
the Brooklyn navy yard.
There IL a hay famine in Maine, owing
to the long and cold winter.
The Manhattan Club building 1T New
York has been sold for $4,000.
A Chicago woman has got divorce in
Minnesota. with $35, 600 alimony.
A society has been formed at New
York to befriend Indians and homeseek-
ers.
Grave robberies In the principal Omaha
cemetery have excited the people Of that
town.
Pennsylvania has spent t441 900 in the
marking and preservation Of Gettysburg
battlefield.
A vigorous fight against the intrusion
OF cholera will be made by the New York
health authorities.
The whisky trust il In state OF dis
solution, several distillers having given
notice Of withdrawal.
The Legislature Of the Wooden Nut
meg State refuses to allow electric rail-
roads to carry freight.
Governor Hogg of Texas has commut-
ed the sentence OF 4 convicted negro
rapist to life imprisonment.
The Fifty-third Congress contains
twenty-seven Representatives and Sena-
tors born in foreign countries.
Tennesseeans have raised fund of
~ 900 to cancel the mortgage on Kirby
Smiths homestead at Sewanee.
The Legislature not having made an
appropriation, Delaware will have no
State militia during the ensuing.
Adhesion handed down in the Kansas
City Court OF Appeals holds that shay
ing on Sunday is not necessity.
Dr. Talmsge announced to his congre-
CATION Sunday that the debt Of the Tab
ernacle had been cleared, whereupon he
was cheered.
Governor Tillman OF South Carolina
is testing the new liquor law in the Su-
preme Court of the State before putting
IL in operation.
The Commercial Club of st. Paul APP
proves trade mark OF that city which
shows star contained within lines rep
reeenting the geographical boundaries of
Minnesota.
Valuable concessions for agricultural,
mining and industrial colonies, granted
by Mexico to Americans, have been for
feited by a failure to make the necessary
cash deposit
Two hundred feet OF land on Michigan
avenue, Chicago sold the other day for
5000, 900, or $500 per front foot. Mr..
Primley, who bought it, has made for
tune in chewing gum.
An underground river. strongly i'm
pregnated with iron, was found recently
near Charlotte, N. G. 1t is reported that
the stream, which is forty-five feet below
the surface, is 700 feet wide and six feet
deep.
1t is apparent from reports received at
Albany from the interior of New York
State that plant lice are almost as abun-
dant on the foliage as they were in 1888.
The situation is especially disquieting to
hop growers.
Hundreds of students of the Illinois
State Normal University are depositors
OF small sums in Schureman's Bank at
Normal, ILL.,, which failed last week, and
many OF the students are now penniless,
temporarily at least.
A number of workmen who were drill
ing an artesian well at Centerville, Ia,
tapped snbterranean cavity at depth
of nearly 900 feet that was completely
hlled with live bats OF the common gray
species and OF extraordinary size.
The Merchants and Manufacturers
Association of Cincinnati has estab-
lished two funds-a working fund, for
the purpose of bringing merchants to
the city, and promotion fund, for the
entertainment of them while there.
For the first ten months OF the present
fiscal year collections from internal rev.
enue sources aggregated 1882, 4S2, 1866, an
increase over the corresponding period of |
last wear of s6,937 .0S0. The receipts for |
April were 1921 ,003 less than in April, |
1892.
Foreign naval commanders dread to
grant shore leave to their sailors when |
ships have lost $50 men in New York.
Dcserters from most Of tho other ships
Of the foreign squadron are also re-
ported.
Frederick Walter, lens grinder, WAS
lound dead in his home in Philadclphis
recently. His neighbors believed he was
poor, and his demented wife said thew
bad no money; but the police discovered
i6l 1868 in cash, bonds and mortgages in
trunk in the old mans workshop.
Forest fires in Michigan are doing i'm
nense damage. Artigo and Bryant have
been nearly wiped out, and quantities of
lumber destroyed and many mills burned.
At Dollar Bay people buried their house,
hold effects, and were forced to fipht
heir way out through suffocating heat
md smoke.
In the case OF discharged letter car
Ter at Washington, ID. c., the Circuit
Judge has ruled that an employe of the
appointed under and subject
o civil-service laws cannot be dismissed
rom the service without Just and suffi-
lent cause, and that the courts have a
light to pass upon the sutficiency of the
ause.
Resolutions were adopted Mt the gem
raj synod of the Reformed PRESBYTERIAN ,
lhurch in session at New York that no .
hureh funds be hereafter invested in
took which cause unnecessary work on ,
sunday, such as railroads and many
thers, and that all members of the ,
hurch represented by the synod with
Iold their patronage from the Worlds
'air il it were opened on Sunday. The :
seary act was also condemned. ii
Governor Hogg of Texas has vetoed
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