The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-07-11
MISCELLANEOUS.
La Grippe Rages Along the Coast of
Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.

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An English syndicate has purchased
the South Boston iron works.
The Missouri exhibit at the Worlds
Fair has been fayorably located.
Buffalo IN. Y.) schools are closed on
account Of malignant diphtheria.
The supposed coal fields Of Iowa arc
found to be only collection Of pockets.
A syndicate Of New Workers are nego-
tiating for the purchase Of the Boston
Journal
Ex-Governor Foraker Of Ohio has just I
realized $40, 600 rom sale OF lands III
Arkansas.
Women crusaders at Mendoza, Mo-,
destroyed all the liquors III the village
drug store.
Kansas millers are seeking foreign |
markets which are furnished them under
the reciprocity act.
Farmers in Maine and Vermont are
planting their potatoes and corn over
again, the cold, damp weather having
killed the first crop.
After many years OF envious rivalry a
movement has been started to unite
Minneapolis and st, Paul as one munic-
ipality under the name of Federal City.
Davenport, Ia, claims to be the
healthiest place in-the world to live in.
During the last year the proportion Of
deaths to the population was only 1902
to every 1000.
An air-ship company has been char
tered in Burlington, Ia, with a capital
of 1O,000 600, to build air ships and
watt passengers in them between that
city and New York.
Canada is arranging to secure an inde-
pendent determination Of her latitude
and longitude Wishes to find out per-
haps how far she has slipped away from
the mother country.
The grip il raging with great fatality
along the coast OF Nova Scotia and New
! foundland. Whole families and whole
crews Of vessels have been attacked. Al
famine is imminent.
"A fatal disease lis destroying the peach
| trees of Georgia, and the only means
known Of staying IT. progress II 1he
/ burning of the affected trees which is
Bureau OF Agriculture at Washington. (
The Secretary of the Interior has APP
proved the contract for repairing the
great Casa Grande prehistoric ruin near
| the Gila river in Arizona. The sum OF
1000 was appropriated by the last Con
gress.
The total capital invested in timbered
lands and standing timber according to
the reports of the timber establishments
in the respective States is as follows
Michigan, $40, ,5S6, ,47S; Wisconsin, $34,.
003, ,044 Minnesota, $5,7yl ,924.
President Untermeyer of New York
and the Directors of the Honey Peak
Consolidated Tin Company have decided
Immediately to commence the erection
of tin-concentrating plant of $500 in
gots daily capacity at Hill City, S. d.
The ballot-reform passed by the Hi
nois Legislature as signed by the Gov
ernor, shows Section 28. which provides
that no ticket peddler shall be allowed
within 100 feet of the polls on election
, day, is missing entirely from the bill.
The Federal expenditures so far dur
ing the present month have exceeded
the receipts by about $4,000, 900, CORE
spending to the sum paid for pensions
but the balance win now be rapid,
\ tnrned the other way, insuring a reason
p, able surplus at the end of the month.
George Bidwel, the famous Bank o
England forger, lectured in Portland
Me-, the other evening. 1t will be re
membered that he was released fror
Chatham prison, England, about ST
years ago through the efforts of a nun
Der of prominent men, who believe
that he had thoroughly repented.
The sugar-cane planters entitled t
bounties have been heard from. The
number 800. The bounty is a matter {
. great importance in Louisiana. On
large planter in that State has alread
bonded for 5000, 900 pounds to be raise
during the next season. This bounty,
paid to him, will be bonus of $4,000
is The Swiss Minister at Washington hs
= written to the Governor of Virginia fC
information respecting the adaptabilit
of the soil of the State for growing q
} reals, saying that there is a widesprea
disposition on the part OF his countr,
men to immigrate and settle in such
!. State as was best recommended to then
!, One of the railway tunnels under ii
II Hudson connecting New York city wit
G. the Jersey shore at HobOken will be FL
) ished in about six months. From en-
to end it will be $4,000 or $4,000 fe'
d long. The motive power of the traiI
n will probably be electricity.
Rev. DR.. Corradine, pastor of the Cei
Of tenary Methodist Episcopal Church
p st. Louis, preached sermon sever
weeks ago against the wearing Of je'
p elry, and called upon his flock to giveU
o. their costly trinkets; and a large nur
Der of men and women deposited the
Jewels to the value of over 81 900 in
box at the altar to be melted, because
sell them in their present form would
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