Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-03-24
BEYOND THE ROCKIES
Tennessee Murderer Drops Dead
on the Witness Stand.
GENERAL BEAURE ARDS ESTA- E
Cleveland's Cabinet Comp sed Of lawyer
With One Exceptiun--Woman
Suffrage in Wy 'ming.

The Kansas City car famine has about
ended.
Leavenworth, Kan, is to have an cleo
trio railroad.
The Nebraska Legislature is consider
ing an anti PInkerton bill.
A woman-suffrage amendment will be
submitted to Kansas voters.
A big migration Of farmers from ILL
nois to the Northwest is in progress.
Ten carloads of beer were shipped to
Washington for use during the Inaugural
ton.
The West End electric street railroad
OF Boston talks of tunneiing the Com.
mon.
A strike Of oil near Parkersburg, w.
Va Is creating a great deal Of excite-
ment there.
On the Hawaiian annexation question
Cleveland's views, II he has any, are
unknown.
Elk Secretary Foster estimates that
there will be $17, 900, 600 free gold in the
treasury on July next.
Louisville street railway capitalists are
preparing to gobble up the street railway
system OF Springfield, Ill.
Troops have gone to the Cherokee
Strip, and will keep it clear until the
opening OF the land to settlement.
The Cherokee newspapers are kicking
vigorously at the prospect of being
thrown in with Oklahoma as State.
The New York Senate has passed the
bill appropriating 5000, 900 additional for
the State exhibit at the Worlds Fair.
The Brooklyn police authorities have
decided that no more professional boxing
matches will be permitted in that city.
The prospects, of strike of switchmen
on the Michigan Central are favorable.
A demand for an increase OF wages has
been made.
General Beauregard's estate in LOUISE
ana Is said to ba worth nearly ~, 900 900.
This il exclusive OF his realty interests
in st. Louis.
Dolly johnson, Mr.. Harrison's colored
cook, remains in the White House under
Mr.. Cleveland. There is going to be an
other era of civil service.
There Ia prospect OF compromise
in the Arkansas Legislature, by which
an appropriation of $20, 900 will be made
or an exhibit at the Worlds Fair.
The forty-sixth annual report of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company shows
gross earnings main line and branches,
OF s42, 359, $40, and net income of &c.,
794, $50.
The House OF the Indiana Legislature
has passed a bill prohibiting the working
OF the train hands of any railroad in the
State for more than twenty-lour consec-
uttve hours at time.
Itisreported from Chattanooga, Tenn,
that the negroes of the southeast are
preparing Tor a general exodus to the
West and Northwest, where they expect
to SCI ure small farms.
The enormous rates demanded by the
insurance companies for inaur ng hotels
erected for Worlds Fair purposes have
driven proprietors to form mutual fire
insurance company OF their own.
Somebody has called MIR. Cleve-
lands Cabinet a bar association, because
every man in IT except Dan Lamont is a
lawyer. No other Cabinet in recent
tim-s has contained 20 many lawyers
1t is reported rom Oh cago that syn
dictate has been formed, having capital
" FN,oNNfO'ps w tW0uty 6lGDl
Detroit breweries. The com bine will be
able, II is sad, to produce S25, 900 bar
reis OF beer annually.
The Senate of the Minnesota Legisla-
ture has passed bill to amend the con
stitution by providing for tax of not
more than per cent on all inheritances
above such sum as the Legislature in it's
discretion may exempt.
The New York case OF Mrs. Violet
Ward Vanderbilt against her father-in.
law, Captain Jacob Vanderbilt, for
of her husbands affections to
the extent OF 100000 has been settled
out OF court and finally dismissed.
The Wyoming State Legislature has
passed concurrent resolution of conf
dence in woman suffrage and directed
the Governor OF the State to send copies
OF the resolution to every State and
every legislative body in the world.
The Supreme Court has refused the
way Company for reopening OF the
Chicago Lake front case also the case
Of the Southern Pacific, involving title
10 land grants in Southern California.
which was recently decided.
Under the new diplomatic and con-
sular bill just passed the President will
have the power to designate as Ambas-
sailors all ENJOYS Extraordinary and
Ministers Plenipotentiary to foreign
courts, the new title being regarded as
more high sounding than the old.
The cyclone in Georgia, Alabama, Mis-
'issippi and Louisiana did great damage,
md more than 100 people were killed.
Il followed the track of what is known
's the Harris county track, which since
s04 has been visited periodically by de-
tructive cyclones. and they have always
eft trail of death behind.
A Nashville (Tenn.l dispatch states
hat man on trial in that city for muir
'er fell dead while on the witness stand
When asked If he hsd committed the
rme OF which he was charged he said
10 hoped God would strike him dead /,
le had. Hardly had he uttered the
words than he fell to he floor dead.
The Supreme Court OF the United
TIA es has decided that st. Louis has The !
'ght to charge the Western Union Tele- !
raph Company rental for each pole |
'lsced in the streets. THE city has a.
much right to charge such rental "a to |
barge for the use OF room in the city |
sll, )" saws the court.
The Philadelphia Record calmly re-.
orls that pianoiorte makers are work !
ng Tor an amendment to the building
AVIS They want thrteen-lnch watts in |
tead OF nine-inch walls, and their notion |
, that every family in block will be /
nmpelled 70 buy q pianoforte, whereas
nth thin wallis one instrument is enough |