Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-08-25
Trouble Brewing in Railroad
Circles in Nebraska.
AUSTRALIAN BALLOT IN FLORIDA
Suspended Pensioners Given More
Time In Which to Make Proof
Of Their Rights.

= The troops will soon he removed frol
the East Tennessee coal mines.
al The biggest gas well in America wa
70 struck near Pittsburg last week.
j. 1t is said all the members OF the Cal
met will keep house this winter.
u The Mormon Tabernacle choir will g
!, East to sing at the Worlds Fair.
Work will be begun on new Feders
d building at Burlington, Ia, at once.
o Hot weather has given East Tennessee
!. the best cotton crop in twenty years.
The Board OF Trade OF New Orleans i
4 working to secure better mail service
: There was an increase of over $l7 900,
\ 600 in the amount Of currency durin,
July.
= A plague Of grasshoppers is sweepin,
down ON the farmers in the TENNESSEE
Valley.
Aluminium car tickets are In use on {
Michigan-street railway, and are quite
popular.
The United States Watch Company
OF Waltham has resumed work, but cut
down pay.
. Labor day in st. Louis, II is predicted
will furnish the greatest procession ever
seen there.
More hard coal has been mined 30 far
this year than ever before in CORE
spending period.
Girls may legally smoke cigarettes on
the streets. So reads the decision of a
Louisville (ky.) court.
West Virginia has suffered from a
long continued drought, but recent vi
client storm has ended it.
In the Brooklyn elevated railroad sys-
TEN steam as motive power is to be
superseded by electricity.
Secretary Smith says the Cherokee
Strip will probably be thrown open to
settlement on September l.
New York is having no end of trouble
with its cable railroad on Broadway. 1t
breaks down every day or two.
Ex-Governor Campbell of Ohio an
nounces that under no circumstances
| will he be candidate this fall.
Returns from recent school elections
in kansas show that women are fond of
exercising the right OF suffrage.
Advices from Labrador report the cod
fishing excellent and salmon-fshing fair.
There are no reports OF distress.
The property in the county of New
York which was exempt from taxation
last year amounted to 1904 100000.
A Baltimore asphalt company has dis
charged 1000 hands because the banks
would not discount its city warrants.
The new postmaster at Dundee, Mich,
among his other qualifications has a
mustache S234 inches from tip to tip.
There is trouble brewing in railroad |
circles OF Nebraska over the Injunction |
proceedings in the maximum freight law.
A company has applied for incorpora-
ton which proposes to construct a ship
canal from Lake st. Clair to Lake Erie.
The Australian ballot was used for the
hrst time in Florida recently at Jackson
vile, and gave unqualified satisfaction.
New England farmers are reported to
DO unable TO harvest crops that are re-
markably fine because of insufficient
help.
The railroads centering in Boston suf-
Iered depreciation OF more than $lO,-
oo0,O0O in stock valuation during the
month OF July.
There will be no more deaths from
= heart failure" in Philadelphia, for the
Board OF Health has declared that there
Is no such disease.
A colored peoples insurance company.
which had no existence, has been vic. ,
the colored people in New Jer- !,
sey out OF large sums.
taunton, Mass, some years ago decided s
site TO the United States for a Federal /
building and, having lost patience wait 8
ny ior the latter, wants the land back 1
gain. I
1t Is rumored in New York that Will
an. am b. Hornblower will be selected to /
III the vacancy on the United States o
'uPreme Bench caused by the death Of \
Judge Blatchiord. Ii
A plot OF ground. 75xl00 feet, on the !
orner OF Fifth avenue and Eighty-first y
treet In New York has been sold to Au- =
u I. Belmont for $2S5, 900, or at the rate q
s3S square foot.
In Milwaukee an old couple took fright h
nj drew their savings-a few thousand 10
. llars-irom the bank. Since then one =;
them has sat up all of every night a.
harding the money. "'
Judge Lochren, Pension Commissioner
az extended until October 10 the period
iulh whlch pensioners whose pensions
ave been suspended may make proof of
ieir right TO receive them.
A great scheme OF changing many of m
ie important surface railroads in the
ellon oil New York city above Twenty 70
'ifu street into roads operated by ca ",
es instead of by horses is agitated. d"
Wolves and coyotes are increasiny in IA
In oers on the stock ranges in South TO
Alberta rs in the Dakotas and other in,
'fthwestern States, and are causing
rions trouble and loss TO the ranchers' so,
ne lease OF the Chesapeake, Ohio and gu
uthwestern to the Newport News and eie
lssissippi Valley has been cancelled on
count OF the law in Kentucky prohih- jor
az Foreign corporations from operating agl
lroads. tn,
secretary Mohler OF the Kansas State ia
ard OF Agriculture in his montbi,
y report states that the winter AMI ers
ing crop OF the State will not he moro OF
m y ,000,0 600 bushels, as against 70 thf
'ooo last year. Corn has been badly CIT
mayed. o"''s So,
The great reservoir OF the Portland
e. Water Company ON the eastern $40
'inenade burst the other day. LETTING pre-
Sc ITS ~, 900 900 gallons of water in n Dat
zee OF about fifteen minutes. Two rle'
ghboring houses were crushed lilo sey
shells, and four nersons - -. tlAe istr
ed '''e"i were are
,..;, was
resident Fisk of the Pan-American tee,
Metallic Association has written n Iet- 9
10 the Board of Trade and Transpor- tho
on OF New York, in which he saws OK e :
Mess the East stops its senseiess o,c1
nor TO reduce the country tn q ,,rIJ VI