The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-10-03
Skeletons Of Prehistoric
People Found.
SUICIDE MANIA OF AGNOSTICS
Chicago Will Have to Modify the Plans
Made for the Worlds Fair
Buildings, Etc

Minneapolis has no desire to consoli-
date with st. Paul.
Carloads of diseased Chicago cattle
have been seized at Buffalo.
The Grady monument will be unveiled
at Atlanta, Ca, October 81.
There is something over 80, 900 natives
OF Switzerland in and around New York.
9. ?. Huntington is to complete the
Middle and East Tennessee railroad
within sixty days.
A company to insure tobacco planters
against loss by hail is one of the latest
schemes in Connecticut.
The house at Appomattox, Va, in
which General Lee surrendered to GEN
eral Grant has been sold for $4,000.
Canada has sent but 10000 sheep to
Great Britain during the year lust ended.
as compared with $4,000 for the year be-
fore.
landlords ton has been
formed in Boston ,nv purpose Of mu-
tual protection against Objectionable ten
ants.
The organ in the music room of the
residence Of the late Mrs. Hopkins
Searle at Great Darlington, Mass, cost
100000.
So great is the homeward rush of
American tourists that many of them
are unable to find passage on returning
steamers.
1t is said that the smuggling of Chi
nese into this country has been recently
accelerated by the price having risen TO
800 per head.
Cleveland has passed a law reducing
the f1rinn Of oao ~, a.. 4 e.
and giving the city ali option on the gas
works at any time.
Judgments aggregating $14 1926 against
Alexander Hermann, the magician, have
Just been entered in the County Clerks
office at New York.
The trade and commerce of Charles
ton, 5. O., last year amounted to $685.
554, us, a net increase of $17, ,935, ,0O1 over
the preceding year.
Thomas Delany of Albany, aged 49,
thought nothing of smoking five or six
packages of cigarettes day. His funeral
took place the other day.
Judgments aggregating $3.50, 900 have
been filed against Adam Backer. the
commercial note broker of New York.
who assigned August last.
Counsel for Joseph A. Davidson of
New York has obtained an attachment
against the Mexican National Railway
Company upon a claim for $105, 300.
Oklahoma is hardly year old as a
Territory, and yet we are told that the
question of admitting it to Statehood
will come before Congress this winter.
Chicago Odd Fellows are to erect a
thirty four-story building. The structure
from ground to dome will be $50 feet.
and 1t is to be completed by the fall Of
1892.
According to statistics gathered bv
charitable organizations throughout the
country there are 100000 people wholly
or partly dependent upon charity every
year in the United States.
Two thousand men, mostly French
Canadians, employed in the saw mills at
Ottawa have struck for q reduction of
one and half hours work per day and
an increase of so cents in wages per
week.
A mound containing skeletons of pre-
historic people has been discovered on a
farm near Carthage, Ill. The skeletons
lay in all conceivable positions, and are
supposed to be those of warriors who fell
in battle.
Chicago will have to modify the plans
made for the Worlds Fair buildings and
grounds or face serious financial diff
Guilty. The estimated cost of getting the
show ready to open is $4,000 900. This
is too much, even though the govern
ment should be induced to contribute
$5,000,000 outright.
Senior Celso Balsar Mareno, a WELL
known Italian American residing at
Washington and acting as an agent i'm
this country of the National party of Ha-
waii, corresponding to the Chilian Con-
gressionalists, has laid before the Presi-
dent letter he recently received from a
correspondent in Honolulu, asserting
England is now planning to take possess
sion of the kingdom. The writer said
that some action on the part of the
United States is necessary; that the
Queen is favorable to British interests
and is ready to countenance the move
when made. The President was inter
ested by the letter, and asked Senior Ma
reno to communicate with Secretary
Blaine.